This book focuses on the research and practice of arts and everyday aesthetics through the lens of positive psychology. This is essential reading for academics and practitioners in positive psychology, arts and culture, health and mental health, soc...Loe edasi...
Frailty, a geriatric syndrome with a defined phenotype, which was introduced by Linda Fried and Jeremy Walston; it is widely cited. The importance of this syndrome cannot be overstated: Frailty has an enormous relevance in clinical settings, and the...Loe edasi...
This collection examines representations of Spanish queer aging through investigations of literary and cinematic representations of this demographic, offering a showcase for research on communities often made invisible due to age and sexual identity...Loe edasi...
This innovative work is suitable for practitioners and academics with an interest in womens health, womens and gender studies, aging and health care, menopause transition and family systems research, as well as women themselves....Loe edasi...
The first book fully devoted to the impact of climate change the elderly, focusing on issues of critical importance: aging in place; health and age in a warming world; responsibility for the climate crisis; climate-conscious consumption; planning fo...Loe edasi...
This accessible book offers a unique, evidence-based perspective on the art and science of giving. It combines concepts from psychology, neuroscience and social science theory with stories from interviewees on their experiences as a giver and receiv...Loe edasi...
This book discusses the global milk and dairy-food production trends, opportunities, and challenges along with the chemistry and microbiology of milk. The book also includes in-depth discussions of the immunomodulation potential of dairy foods parti...Loe edasi...
First published in 1989, this title 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 this group has gro...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1977, Old Age in European Society provides an historical perspective on aging. Starting from the premise that the elderly can and should be active, participant members of their society the book examines the ways in which old...Loe edasi...
First published in 1981, this book provides an in-depth study of how old age was experienced in contemporary Australian society at the time. It was the first major piece of original research on aging to be published in Australia and in several impor...Loe edasi...
During the 1970s and 1980s prescription and over-the-counter drugs had come to play a major role in the health care of older people. Originally published in 1986, this book reviews the historical background to this development and explores its socia...Loe edasi...
First published in 1984, the title looks at the field of elderly care and domiciliary work from the perspective of social services. Starting with early influences that helped shape the development of Domiciliary Services, the author goes on to look...Loe edasi...
This eleventh of 15 short atlases reimagines the classic 5 volume Atlas of Human Central Nervous System Development. A handy paperback edition focuses on the third trimester of human brain development....Loe edasi...
This second of 15 short atlases reimagines the classic 5-volume Atlas of Human Central Nervous System Development. This volume presents serial sections from specimens between 6.3 mm and 10.5 mm with detailed annotations, together with 3D reconstruct...Loe edasi...
Social Work Practice with People with Dementia critically discusses the cultural and discursive contexts in which social work with dementia takes place....Loe edasi...
This book places emphasis on tests necessary to evaluate fetal well-being and to detect those fetuses at risk of hypoxia and acidosis in utero. It is useful for obstetricians, pediatricians, pathologists, geneticists, and hospital and scientific per...Loe edasi...
Research studies involving antioxidants, free radicals, and human health are increasingly important global concerns. Free radicals and oxidative stress are responsible for various diseases including cancer, cardiovascular diseases, obesity, and pulm...Loe edasi...
In this book, originally published in 1987, two research disciplines social gerontology and sleep research are brought together with the aim of providing a straightforward account of how sleep is changed and disrupted by the biological and social...Loe edasi...
Karen W. Gripp, Anne Slavotinek, Judith G. Hall, Judith E. Allanson
(Ilmumisaeg: 27-Apr-2014, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199935710)
Thoroughly updated and revised, this new edition of the classic clinical text provides a comprehensive review of physical measurements used in the clinical evaluation of neonates, children, and adults presenting with dysmorphic features, structural...Loe edasi...
Yoav Ben-Shlomo, Diana Kuh, Rachel Cooper, Rebecca Hardy, Marcus Richards
Sari: Life Course Approach to Adult Health
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Dec-2013, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199656516)
A Life Course Approach to Healthy Age investigates the lifetime determinants of healthy ageing and their implications for policy and practice, bringing together authorities in ageing research and knowledge transfer from across the world in one wide-...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Feb-2013, Kirjastus: John Wiley & Sons Inc, ISBN-13: 9781118493038)
As the lifespan of humans increases, research into aging and its related pathological conditions is gaining momentum. This book is the first to explain protein oxidation and the aging process, focusing on the connection between protein disturbances...Loe edasi...
One of the problems geriatricians are confronted with in everyday clinical practice is differentiating disease from the process of old age. The challenges of ageing require a better understanding of the essential biology of ageing in order to separa...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Feb-2012, Kirjastus: John Wiley & Sons Inc, ISBN-13: 9781118156155)
Working with principles from the fields of evolutionary and developmental biology (evo-devo), this fascinating work offers a new approach to analyzing child growth and development, examining each stage and transition in detail, from fetal developmen...Loe edasi...
John A. H. Wass, Paul Stewart, Stephanie A. Amiel, Melanie J. Davies
Sari: Oxford Textbook
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Jul-2011, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199235292)
Now in its second edition, the Oxford Textbook of Endocrinology and Diabetes is a fully comprehensive, evidence-based, and highly-valued reference work combining basic science with clinical guidance, and providing first rate advice on diagnosis and...Loe edasi...
In the twentieth century, all developed nations began to undergo unprecedented demographic changes, as their birth rates declined, and life expectancies increased significantly --an average of thirty years in less than a century...Loe edasi...
This text offers a readable and friendly presentation of the important methods, findings, and theories of human aging, while actively involving the reader in meaningful exercises and critical thinking....Loe edasi...
This revised and updated edition, with new sections on basic sciences and sexual dysfunction, unpicks normal physiologic aging in men from pathologic processes, in order to maintain a uniquely male perspective....Loe edasi...
Cognitive aging is a flourishing area of research. A significant amount of new data, theoretical notions, and new research issues have been generated in the past 10 years. This new edition reviews new findings and theories....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Jan-2007, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198569237)
Aging has long since been ascribed to the gradual accumulation of DNA mutations in the genome of somatic cells. This book reviews the concept of genomic instability. It provides underlying biology of aging, driven by continuing demographic change....Loe edasi...
Offers an account of the process of aging that provides answers and dispels once and for many of the myths surrounding the close to 20 million Americans who are over sixty-five. This is a volume of social inquiry and interpretation, which marks a ma...Loe edasi...
This second edition of the Handbook of Communication and Aging Research captures the ever-changing and expanding domain of aging research. Much like the first edition, this handbook sets out to demonstrate that aging is not only an individual proc...Loe edasi...
Sari: Int. Assoc. for the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disabilities
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-Mar-2003, Kirjastus: Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd), ISBN-13: 9780470776179)
Mental Health, Intellectual Disabilities, and the Aging Process Edited by Philip W. Davidson, Vee P. Prasher and Matthew P. Janicki This book is the third in a series with the International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual Di...Loe edasi...
Examines the relationship between DNA damage and repair, cellular senescence, genomic instability, and aging. This text provides discussions of various types of DNA damage, the DNA repair network, and cellular responses to genetic damage to assess t...Loe edasi...
This book provides a broad map for the clinician dealing with neuropsychiatric disorders of old age, and the future researcher of brain ageing....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Sep-2002, Kirjastus: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, ISBN-13: 9789812775733)
This two-volume reference examines the translational research field of oxidative stress and ageing. It focuses on understanding the molecular basis of oxidative stress and its associated age-related diseases, with the goal of developing new methods...Loe edasi...
Christopher W. Tyler, Christopher W. Tyler, Christopher W. Tyler
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jun-2002, DRM-Free, Kirjastus: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc, ISBN-13: 9781410606600)
This comprehensive collection offers a wide range of approaches to the study of how we see symmetries, from evolutionary through empirical to extended theoretical treatments. The book is a resource for those concerned with the methods and analytic a...Loe edasi...
This handbook provides a state-of-the-art overview of research and theory about infant development. The volume is organized into four main sections: perception and cognition; social, emotional and communicative development; risk factors in developme...Loe edasi...
This volume brings together both senior and more junior researchers involved in the study of dynamical systems. Their chapters, revealing both mathematical rigor and scientific synthesis, will interest developmentalists and methodologists....Loe edasi...
Presents important topics in craniofacial growth. This book covers topics such as: principles of skeletal growth; osteogenesis and its control; formation of the cranial base and craniofacial joints; prenatal development of the facial skeleton; and,...Loe edasi...
Reflects on the social, cultural, philosophical and ethical issues raised by the menopause and the way it has been handled by medicine. Contributors are from a broad range of disciplines as well as including the voices of menopausal women....Loe edasi...
Reflects the explosion of information and technological breakthroughs that have facilitated investigations into the development of the lung-including recombinant DNA technology, molecular genetics, transgenics, and advances in lung cell and mo-lecul...Loe edasi...
Francois Vital-Durand, Jan Atkinson, O.J. Braddick
Sari: European Brain & Behaviour Society Publications S.
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Feb-1996, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198523161)
This book provides an up-to-date overview of infants visual development, spanning basic and clinical sciences. It covers the development of retinal receptors; infant sensitivity to detail, colour, contrast, and movement; binocularity, eye movements...Loe edasi...
This volume features presentations made at a Touch In Infancy symposium which focussed on infant development. Designed to conduct basic research on touch and on the skin, topics include massage therapy and other kinds of touch therapies to facilit...Loe edasi...
Based on presentations given at a multidisciplinary conference of developmental psychobiologists, obstetricians and physiologists, this text synthesizes scientific knowledge on foetal behaviour. Utilizing a psychobiological analytic approach it prov...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 27-Mar-1991, Kirjastus: John Wiley & Sons Ltd, ISBN-13: 9780470514047)
The proceedings of a symposium on the childhood environment and adult disease held at the Ciba Foundation in May 1990. The topic was proposed by Professor David Barker, and the contributions include essays on foetal response to intra-uterine stress...Loe edasi...
