Geriatric Medicine

When aging adults struggle with social isolation, financial instability, or the difficult work of caring for a spouse with a chronic illness, their...

Understanding Osteoporosis is a beautifully illustrated chart that is easy to understand and perfect for patient education. This chart helps you to...

Understanding Osteoporosis is a beautifully illustrated chart that is easy to understand and perfect for patient education. This chart helps you to...

This third edition of a trusted resource brings together the latest literature across multiple fields to facilitate the understanding and preventio...

Societies around the world are concerned about dementia and the other forms of cognitive impairment that affect many older adults. We now know that...

Many different groups of people are subject to stereotypes. Positive stereotypes (e.g., older and wiser) may provide a benefit to the relevant grou...

Social isolation and loneliness are serious yet underappreciated public health risks that affect a significant portion of the older adult populatio...

The latest addition to the Evidence-Based Book series, Evidence-Based Geriatric Medicine provides non-geriatrician clinicians an overview of key to...

The rapidity of scientific progress over the last few years guarantees the utility of this new collection of state-of-the-art reviews on the immuno...

This essential illustrates to psychotherapists and counselors the importance of spirituality for strengthening personal resilience. We live in ofte...

Geriatric Medicine at a Glance logically presents the core principles of geriatric medicine, including mechanisms of ageing, changes in physiology ...

     Designed to provide a highly visual reference for surgeons and other members of the patient management team, Atlas of Intestinal Stomas is bas...

Durch die gute klinische Versorgung ist ein Leben nach einem Unfall mit schwerer Hirnschädigung heute für viele Patienten lange möglich. Menschen m...

Embracing Age: How Catholic Nuns Became Models of Aging Well examines a community of individuals whose aging trajectories contrast mainstream Ameri...

The central nervous system controls vital functions by ef?ciently coordinating peripheral and central cascades of signals and networks in an orches...

Existing systems are not prepared to provide the mental health care services needed by the growing population of older adults. The National Academi...

This text focuses on the under-recognized and undertreated problem of addiction in later life. The widespread lack of clinical knowledge about this...

Palliative care has evolved rapidly in recent years. Not only is the field dealing with an increasingly elderly and multi-morbid population, it is ...

When youth shake off their rural roots and middle-aged people migrate for economic opportunities, what happens to the grandparents left at home? Li...

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