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Geriatric Nutrition, Third Edition: The Health Professional's Handbook (25 May 2006)

Geriatric Nutrition, Third Edition
This book offers a comprehensive review of nutritional assessment, intervention programs for the elderly, and health promotion activities.

By (author) Ronni Chernoff

ISBN-13: 9780763731816 ; ISBN-10: 0763731811

Price: £48.99 £39.79 UK delivery 2 to 3 days

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Falls in Older People: Risk Factors and Strategies for Prevention (Paperback - 1 Mar 2007)

Falls in Older People
This new edition covers all the new studies of risk factors and prevention strategies for falls in older people. Since the first edition of this very successful book was written to synthesise and review the enormous body of work covering falls in older people, there has been an even greater wealth of informative and promising studies designed to increase our understanding of risk factors and prevention strategies....

By (author) Stephen R. Lord; Catherine Sherrington; Hylton B. Menz; Jacqueline C. T. Close

ISBN-13: 9780521680998 ; ISBN-10: 0521680999

Price: £44.00 £34.98 UK delivery 2 to 3 days

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Crossing Over: Narratives of Palliative Care (Paperback - 23 Mar 2000)

Crossing Over
This volume presents a series of case narratives, following individual patients and families throughout the course of illness and death in the context of hospice and palliative care. Using a variety of qualitative research methods, including participant-observation, interviews, and journal-keeping, the experiences, perceptions, and feelings of the patient, the family and a range of caregivers are recorded, providing...

By (author) David Barnard; Anna M. Towers; Patricia Boston; Yanna Lambrinidou

ISBN-13: 9780195123432 ; ISBN-10: 0195123433

Price: £45.22 UK delivery 3 to 5 days

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Aging and Disability: Crossing Network Lines (Hardback - 28 Feb 2007)

Aging and Disability

By (author) Ph.D. (EDT) Putnam, Michelle

ISBN-13: 9780826155658 ; ISBN-10: 0826155650

Price: £51.95 £40.57 UK delivery 2 to 3 days

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Geriatric Oncology (Paperback / softback - 7 Aug 2009)

Geriatric Oncology
The management of the older person with cancer is based on the estimate of life expectancy, tolerance of treatment, patient preference, and socio-economic barriers to treatment. The thrust of this book is to make medical oncologists and other health professionals managing older patients with cancer aware of recent developments in geriatric assessment and in cancer management for the older adult. After consulting...

Edited by Arti Hurria; Lodovico Balducci

ISBN-13: 9780387890692 ; ISBN-10: 0387890696

Price: £47.97 UK delivery 3 to 5 days

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Oxidative Stress, Exercise And Aging (Hardback - 30 Jun 2006)

Oxidative Stress, Exercise And Aging

By (author) Helaine M. (EDT) Alessio; Ann E. (EDT) Hagerman

ISBN-13: 9781860946196 ; ISBN-10: 1860946194

Price: £68.00 £53.60 UK delivery 2 to 3 days

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Home or Nursing Home: Making the Right Choices (Hardback - 1 Nov 2003)

Home or Nursing Home

By (author) Ph.D. Salamon, Michael J.; Gloria Rosenthal

ISBN-13: 9780826166814 ; ISBN-10: 0826166814

Price: £42.95 £34.49 UK delivery 2 to 3 days

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Senior Living Communities: Operations Management and Marketing for Assisted Living, Congregate, and Continuing Care Retirement Communities (Paperback / softback - 14 Nov 2007)

Senior Living Communities
The demand for residential communities for seniors rises as the U.S. population continues to age. This growth means that new administrators and staff members often are learning by trial and error the complicated task of delivering high-quality and consistent services to elderly persons. While many new facilities have been successful, others have been plagued by a variety of administrative and financial...

By (author) Benjamin W. Pearce

ISBN-13: 9780801887185 ; ISBN-10: 0801887186

Price: £50.00 £40.50 UK delivery 2 to 3 days

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Communication Disability in Aging: From Prevention to Intervention (Paperback - 1 Mar 2003)

Communication Disability in Aging
This manual presents state-of-the-art theory and practical information on the management of communication disability in older adults. The role of speech-language pathologists and audiologists in prevention and intervention is covered in detail with a realistic view of multidisciplinary care settings. Readers receive a strong foundation for understanding the impact of the environment, social and medical, as well...

By (author) Linda Worrall; Louise Hickson

ISBN-13: 9780769300153 ; ISBN-10: 0769300154

Price: £48.99 £42.24 Not Available

Senior Living Communities: Operations Management and Marketing for Assisted Living, Congregate, and Continuing-Care Retirement Communities (Paperback - 27 Oct 1998)

Senior Living Communities
"A complete guide for senior living communities. Any organization contemplating entering the senior living market should read this book to fully understand all the specifics and issues of delivering senior housing." -- Health Progress The American Association of Retired Persons estimates that the number of communities for seniors has doubled in the past ten years and will more than double again before the turn of...

By (author) Mr. Benjamin W. Pearce

ISBN-13: 9780801859618 ; ISBN-10: 0801859611

Price: £46.50 £40.37 Not Available

Drugs for the Geriatric Patient: Text with BONUS PocketConsult Handheld Software (Mixed media product - 11 Apr 2007)

Drugs for the Geriatric Patient
This user-friendly, comprehensive drug reference - available in print and electronically for handheld, point-of-care usage -provides clinical information on more than 1000 drugs and their use in geriatric patients. In addition to dosage information and clinical indications, this reference also addresses the challenging issues of drug-drug and drug-disease interactions, polypharmacy, toxicity, compromised renal and...

By (author) Ronald I. Shorr

ISBN-13: 9781416002086 ; ISBN-10: 1416002081

Price: £69.85 UK delivery 3 to 5 days

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Successful Administration of Senior Housing: Working with Elderly Residents (Paperback / softback - 14 Sep 1992)

Successful Administration of Senior Housing
This book provides concrete help on how to address the support needs of elderly residents of sheltered housing. Sheehan offers specific strategies to housing managers, social service providers and health care professionals working with elderly tenants. The book includes discussions of appropriate responses to increasing frailty of residents, and of how to judge when independent housing is no longer appropriate....

By (author) Nancy W. Sheehan

ISBN-13: 9780803945258 ; ISBN-10: 0803945256

Price: £35.99 £30.19 UK delivery 2 to 3 days

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Elder Abuse and Neglect, An Issue of Clinics in Geriatric Medicine (Hardback - 17 Jun 2005)

Elder Abuse and Neglect, An Issue of Clinics in Geriatric Medicine
Elder Abuse and Neglect remains an important topic in Geriatric Medicine not only because of our nation's large number of nursing homes (approx. 17,000), but also because of basic short term care that may fall into the defined categories of physical abuse, verbal/emotional abuse, and physical, medical and emotional neglect. This issue, guest edited by Martin Gorbien of Rush University Medical Center, serves to...

By (author) Martin Gorbien

ISBN-13: 9781416026471 ; ISBN-10: 1416026479

Price: £52.99 £47.89 Not Available

Geriatric Nutrition: The Health Professional's Handbook (Hardback - 1 May 1999)

Geriatric Nutrition

By (author) Ronni Chernoff

ISBN-13: 9780763731625 ; ISBN-10: 0763731625

Price: £53.99 £43.29 UK delivery 2 to 3 days

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Productive Aging: Concepts and Challenges (Hardback - 22 Mar 2001)

Productive Aging
"Will 69 million baby boomers suddenly drop out of the workforce when they turn 65? It is difficult to imagine this generation, with its talent, education, and experience, idling away the last thirty years of life." -- From the Foreword, by Robert N. Butler, M.D., The Mount Sinai Medical CenterOld age has been historically thought of as a period of frailty and dependence, yet studies show that with the help of...

Edited by Nancy Morrow-Howell; James Hinterlong; Michael Sherraden

ISBN-13: 9780801865572 ; ISBN-10: 0801865573

Price: £40.00 £33.00 UK delivery 4 to 7 days

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Geriatric Medicine for Old Age Psychiatrists (Hardback - 30 Dec 2005)

Geriatric Medicine for Old Age Psychiatrists

By (author) Alistair S. Burns; Michael A. Horan; John E. Clague; Gillian McLean

ISBN-13: 9781841843933 ; ISBN-10: 1841843938

Price: £49.99 £42.99 Not Available

Crossing Frontiers: Gerontology Emerges as a Science (Hardback - 25 Aug 1995)

Crossing Frontiers
This is the first book-length study of the history of gerontology. It shows how old age became a ‘problem’ worth investigating and how a mulitidisciplinary orientation took shape. Although philosophers, physicians, and others have long pondered the meanings and experiences of growing older, gerontology did not emerge as a scientific field of inquiry in the United States until the twentieth century. The study of...

By (author) W. Andrew Achenbaum

ISBN-13: 9780521481946 ; ISBN-10: 0521481945

Price: £50.00 £45.50 UK delivery 4 to 7 days

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DEPRESSION IN PHYSICAL ILLNESS IN THE ELDERLY (Paperback - 17 Feb 1998)

DEPRESSION IN PHYSICAL ILLNESS IN THE ELDERLY
This little pocketbook considers the various aspects of depression in older people.

By (author) C.L.E. KATONA; GILL LIVINGSTONE

ISBN-13: 9781853175718 ; ISBN-10: 1853175714

Price: £15.75 Not Available

DRUG TREATMENT IN OLD AGE PSYCHIATRY: A CONCISE CLINICAL GUIDE TO PRESCRIBING (Paperback - 5 Dec 2002)

DRUG TREATMENT IN OLD AGE PSYCHIATRY
Covering all major psychiatric disorders, "Drug Treatment in Old Age Psychiatry" is an easy-to-use, concise guide, providing clinicians with advice on prescribing psychotropic drugs in their day-to-day management of older patients.

By (author) C.L.E. KATONA; GILL LIVINGSTON

ISBN-13: 9781841842257 ; ISBN-10: 1841842257

Price: £30.00 £27.00 Not Available

Assessment Scales in Old Age Psychiatry (Paperback - 1 Mar 2004)

Assessment Scales in Old Age Psychiatry

By (author) Alistair Burns; Brian A. Lawlor; Sarah Craig; Ph.D. Coen, Robert

ISBN-13: 9781841841687 ; ISBN-10: 1841841684

Price: £35.00 £33.50 Not Available

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