Geriatric Medicine

This eighth edition of Dr Reichel's formative text remains the go-to guide for practicing physicians and allied health staff confronted with the un...

In this enlightening (Jane Brody, New York Times) book, Harvard Medical School physician Angelo E. Volandes offers a solution to traumatic end-of...

A leading expert answers your questions about how to live to your fullest with COPD.Significant lung damage from smoking, exposure in some jobs, or...

A leading expert answers your questions about how to live to your fullest with COPD.Significant lung damage from smoking, exposure in some jobs, or...

Problem Solving in Older Cancer Patients provides an evidence-based guidebook to current thinking and clinical practice in this field. By referring...

This is the second edition of the Oxford Specialist Handbook in Parkinson's Disease and Other Movement Disorders aiming to provide its readership w...

An indispensable, comprehensive reference for family caregivers.Caregivers hold the key to the health, well-being, and happiness of their aging rel...

Seven in ten Americans over the age of age of sixty who require medical decisions in the final days of their life lack the capacity to make them. F...

A quick yet comprehensive guide for anyone considering hip replacement surgery.Each year, more than 300,000 adults in the United States undergo hip...

An indispensable, comprehensive reference for family caregivers.Caregivers hold the key to the health, well-being, and happiness of their aging rel...

A collection of easy-to-follow activities, organized by seasons of the year, to help family members and caregivers engage with memory-challenged ad...

THE COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO PARKINSON''S DISEASE, which is fully referenced throughout, is by far the most comprehensive and extensive book concerni...

Winner of the MLA Prize for Independent Scholars and the APA's Florence L. Denmark Award for Contributions to Women and Aging When the term ageism ...

The risk of cancer increases with age, and the number of older adults seeking treatment is increasing dramatically in line with the aging populatio...

Go beyond aging theories and examine the physiological and physical impacts of aging. Exercise and Physical Activity for Older Adults takes a close...

Skills in caring for people with dementia are increasingly demanded of all health care practitioners as the numbers of diagnosed increase. Caring f...

Never in human history have there been so many people entering old age-roughly one-third of whom will experience some form of neurodegeneration as ...