This investigation into the experience of aging in a retirement metropolis translates research into useful information for people living and working within retirement communities, those looking to move in, and scholars of gerontology, aging studies,...Loe edasi...
Geriatric Rehabilitation: A Textbook for the Physical Therapist Assistant, recognizes the growing role of the PTA in a variety of heath care settings from acute to home to long-term care settings. Geriatr...Loe edasi...
Geriatric Rehabilitation for the Physical Therapist Assistant recognizes the growing role of the PTA in a variety of heath care settings from acute to home to long-term care settings.Geriatric Rehabilitation for the Physical T...Loe edasi...
This important book examines how nursing homes experienced the COVID-19 pandemic, the impacts on its residents and staff, and how the industry can be reformed to better meet the demands of a similar health crisis in the future....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009504652)
This book proposes an integrative view of human development in older age, demonstrating through case studies how a rich landscape of care fosters life-course development. It offers students and researchers a cross-disciplinary overview of ageing acr...Loe edasi...
This book proposes an integrative view of human development in older age, demonstrating through case studies how a rich landscape of care fosters life-course development. It offers students and researchers a cross-disciplinary overview of ageing acr...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 29-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9781032969442)
This book offers a comprehensive and scientifically grounded exploration of major clinical disorders, dominant models, rehabilitation approaches, and ethical considerations shaping the landscape of mental health and mental illness among older adul...Loe edasi...
This book is a practical guide for clinicians and other healthcare providers on a holistic approach to understanding and managing Clostridioides difficile infection. It covers pathophysiology, the role of the microbiome, diagnostic testing,...Loe edasi...
This book is a practical guide for clinicians and other healthcare providers on a holistic approach to understanding and managing Clostridioides difficile infection. It covers pathophysiology, the role of the microbiome, diagnostic testing,...Loe edasi...
Dementia and Graphic Medicine explores how graphic medicine—through memoirs by caregivers and families—offers nuanced understandings and humane representations of individuals with dementia that restore their personhood, dignity, and agency....Loe edasi...
This book describes how assistive technology can help disabled, elderly, and temporarily sick people manage their daily lives better and stay safe in the home. It discusses safety from technical, social, and ethical perspectives, providing examples...Loe edasi...
Encourage students to view gerontological nursing with a wellness-centered, proactive lens to older adult care. Nursing for Wellness in Older Adults, 10th Edition, is known for Carol Millers evidence-based Functional Consequences Theory. This unique...Loe edasi...
This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the lived experiences of stroke patients, interwoven with healthcare professional expertise to provide evidence-based guidance for nurses and other healthcare professionals. It aims to enhance clinic...Loe edasi...
This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the lived experiences of stroke patients, interwoven with healthcare professional expertise to provide evidence-based guidance for healthcare professionals. It aims to enhance clinical practice and p...Loe edasi...
The purpose of this book is to create a dialogue among health providers, especially those in long-term care, and those who work with family caregivers to older adults regarding the tension between safety, quality of life and autonomy when it comes t...Loe edasi...
This thought-provoking book exposes the values, judgements, and hierarchies that underlie ageism in care settings. Destabilizing the assumption that biases like ageism are always bad, Buetow suggests that ageism is normatively neutral and that tru...Loe edasi...
This innovative text introduces and illustrates case study methodology for nursing research by exploring how it can be used to uncover the varied and complex life experiences of persons with chronic illness and post-traumatic stress conditions. ...Loe edasi...
Geriatric medicine is challenging – people present with multiple problems at the same time, and case studies provide a good way to discuss this complexity. This book describes 30 cases of older people with frailty presenting to acute medical servi...Loe edasi...
Geriatric medicine is challenging – people present with multiple problems at the same time, and case studies provide a good way to discuss this complexity. This book describes 30 cases of older people with frailty presenting to acute medical servi...Loe edasi...
This book proposes a way of understanding human movement and its forms of deterioration and preservation in older people. The author presents a method to diagnose motor problems, to implement effective both preventive and therapeutic measures, and t...Loe edasi...
This accessible guide offers a roadmap to not only managing the symptoms but also thriving with Parkinsons, allowing individuals and their care partners to develop a comprehensive approach to living well with Parkinson’s, emphasising proactive en...Loe edasi...
This accessible guide provides evidence-based approaches to support those with Parkinsons. It offers a roadmap to not only managing the symptoms but also thriving with the condition, allowing individuals and their care partners to develop a compr...Loe edasi...
Healthcare systems today are facing an impending crisis due to increasing numbers of aging and high-risk patients, rising costs, and the challenge of achieving meaningful, lasting patient outcomes. This book provides a fresh perspective on managin...Loe edasi...
Healthcare systems today are facing an impending crisis due to increasing numbers of aging and high-risk patients, rising costs, and the challenge of achieving meaningful, lasting patient outcomes. This book provides a fresh perspective on managin...Loe edasi...
In the 1980s the need for long-term care for elderly people in Western societies was quite obvious and countries had responded in a number of different ways. First published in 1985, the central theme of this book is to explore these ways and to p...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1984, Domiciliary Services for the Elderly looks at the field of elderly care and particularly domiciliary work from the perspective of social services. Starting with the early influences that helped shape the develo...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1989, Day Brought Back My Night explores the lives of people who have lost sight in late life as a result of age-related visual disorders. As life-expectancy in western society has increased, the number of people who fall into...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1982, in this book experts describe the geriatric services in Britain at the time, a country which had pioneered developments in this field over the previous thirty years. Much of the practical knowledge required to establi...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1966, this was the first full-length study by a sociologist of isolation in old age. Although the majority of old people were in no sense a problem group at the time, a substantial minority of the elderly were ‘alone’ in on...Loe edasi...
Gerontology has all the credits in this digital era as the outcome of health, morbidity, and mortality gains. With changes in the socioeconomic and development arena, structures, utilities, and systems change to accommodate needs, demands, and expec...Loe edasi...
This book presents a variety of perspectives on this topic, ranging from policies enabling caregivers to remain in the workforce to the impact of caregiving support on the utilization of healthcare and other services. How can p...Loe edasi...
This book uniquely operationalizes sustainable ageing as a concept for reimagining ways by which: (1) social and health threats (i.e., climate change events, extreme industrialization, infectious disease outbreak, and war) can constrain the implem...Loe edasi...
A two-time AJN Book of the Year finalist and a Doodys Star Ratings® 4 Star title, Gerontological Nursing, 11th Edition delivers evidence-based coverage of the aging process, factors contributing to healthy aging, and the specialized aspects of dise...Loe edasi...
This new updated edition draws on the theory of person-centred care to challenge the perceptions, beliefs, and attitudes of professionals working in dementia care settings. It shows the importance of interacting with and caring for people with dem...Loe edasi...
The Oxford Handbook of Diabetes Nursing has been fully reviewed and updated for its second edition. This practical pocket-sized guide serves as an update to support knowledge for contemporaneous, holistic and gold standards of care in diabet...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 27-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783031977831)
Cases of elder abuse and neglect are challenging, complex and dangerous. Health care practitioners are regularly faced with these cases but are unable and untrained to adequately respond. Practitioners are often working in silos without the suppor...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009608855)
This investigation into the experience of aging in a retirement metropolis translates research into useful information for people living and working within retirement communities, those looking to move in, and scholars of gerontology, aging studies,...Loe edasi...
This investigation into the experience of aging in a retirement metropolis translates research into useful information for people living and working within retirement communities, those looking to move in, and scholars of gerontology, aging studies,...Loe edasi...
This book is a creative and critical exploration of the memory loss experience. Drawing on in-depth case studies based on primary research, interviews, approaches from music therapy, and theory from Derrida, Malabou and Royle, it explores how we m...Loe edasi...
