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Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Geriatric medicine
Elderly Care: Options, Challenges and Trends examines the
demographic shifts Lebanon has experienced over the last few
decades, indicating that it is a rapidly aging country. Such an
aging population may need various levels of support including
access to nursing care in nursing homes, either for short-term
rehabilitation or for extended periods of time, when individual
dependency outstrips family-based resources. Next, a review is
provided on the latest studies and evidences regarding the
influence of indoor environment on elderly health. A set of
recommendations to improve elderly environmental health are
presented, considering the most recent state-of-the-art on this
field. Following this, the authors share their real-world
experiences from an ongoing large-scale project on IoT-enabled
community eldercare. Technology-centric challenges that need to be
addressed are identified so that such systems can be sustainably
implemented and adopted by key stakeholders. In a separate chapter,
the book analyzes hospice care in China, which is still far from
meeting its needs caused by the profound aging of Chinas
population. The analysis indicates that the Chinese Government
should formulate a development plan for hospice care and include
hospice care services in the National Healthcare Insurance System.
Additionally, NGOs should continue to play their part in hospice
care development. The perspectives of aging and frailty syndrome
are explored later, focusing on the role of biomarkers and
environmental exposure in its development. Currently, there are
several gaps in the scientific literature regarding frailty
syndrome, namely in their definition, models, causal-effects and
prevention or treatments. Afterwards, rib fractures in the elderly
are addressed. Although plain radiographic films are diagnostic, a
large number of patients will need CAT scans for more precise
locations of rib fractures. The management of complications as a
direct result of rib fractures; mostly hemopneumothorax or visceral
injury, will be dealt with accordingly. In an additional study, the
factors for hospital admissions associated with adverse drug events
are studied. Drug related hospital admissions in the elderly are
commonly influenced by polypharmacy and inappropriate prescribing.
Over the past two decades there has been a marked change in global
age demographics, with the number of over-60s increasing by 82% and
the number of centenarians by 715%. This new-found longevity is
testament to the success of recent advances in medicine, but poses
significant challenges to multiple areas of health care concerning
older patients. Building upon its predecessor's reputation as the
definitive resource on the subject, this new edition of the Oxford
Textbook of Geriatric Medicine offers a comprehensive and
multinational examination of the field. Fully revised to reflect
the current state of geriatric medicine, it examines the medical
and scientific basis of clinical issues, as well as the ethical,
legal, and socio-economic concerns for healthcare policy and
systems. Over 170 chapters are broken up into 16 key sections,
covering topics ranging from policy and key concepts through to
infection, cancer, palliative medicine, and healthy ageing. New
material includes focus on the evolving concepts of malnutrition,
sarcopenia, frailty, and related geriatric syndromes and
integration of geriatric principles from public health, primary and
specialized care, and transitional stages from home to emergency,
medicine and surgery, rehabilitation, and long term care. The
Oxford Textbook of Geriatric Medicine brings together specialists
from across the globe to provide every physician involved in the
care of older patients with a comprehensive resource on all the
clinical problems they are likely to encounter, as well as on
related psychological, philosophical, and social issues.
The third edition of the best-selling Cognitive Assessment for
Clinicians provides readers with an up-to-date, practical guide to
cognitive function and its assessment to ensure readers have a
conceptual knowledge of normal psychological function and how to
interpret their findings. Organized into 8 chapters, this resource
offers a framework in which various aspects of cognition are
considered. This includes the representation of cognition in the
brain (such as attention and memory), focal representation (such as
language, praxis and spatial abilities), detailed descriptions of
the major syndromes encountered in clinical practice, and
discussions on taking a patient's history and performing cognitive
testing. To ensure readers are aware of the latest developments in
patient assessment and neuropsychological practice all content has
been carefully revised by John R. Hodges to include essential
updates on areas such as the pathology and genetics of
frontotemporal dementia, and social cognition and major syndromes
encountered in clinical practice such as delirium. This useful
resource offers a theoretical basis for cognitive assessment at the
bedside or in the clinic, and a practical guide to taking an
appropriate history and examining patients presenting with
cognitive disorders. This edition also includes the latest version
of Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination III (ACE-III), and 16 case
histories on a variety of cognitive disorders illustrating the
method of assessment and how to use the ACE-III in clinical
practice. In addition, the appendix outlines the range of formal
tests commonly used in neuropsychological practice.
Elderly patients are often afflicted with the onset of a convergent
strabismus as a sign of aging, without any other neurologic
disorder. Unfortunately, physicians and even ophthalmologists are
generally unaware of this fact. Consequently, such patients fail to
find timely help for their double vision. In addition, there are
other geriatric alterations (such as cataracts, glaucoma and
age-related maculopathy), which are connected with binocularity
disorders but do not always result in double vision. These masked
diplopia are only perceptible as the closing of one eye and the
patients complaint of seeing clouds. Erroneous diagnoses have a
dramatic outcome for many elderly people whose ability to read is
vitally important for their quality of life. Studies on this topic
and suggestions for improving the patients situation are contained
in this book. The book also covers intractable diplopia, or "horror
fusionis", which is particularly difficult to understand.
Examinations of the micromotility of the eyes could explain some of
the puzzling observations. Although eye muscle palsies are
generally outside the scope of this books focus, connections
between neuro-ophthalmology (e.g. in Parkinson's disease) and
reading problems due to convergence insufficiency are discussed.
Finally, this book examines what happens in adulthood to the
numerous patients whose squints were operated on during childhood.
Many of these patients later suffer problems such as double vision,
which may be misinterpreted as eye muscle palsy. This book is not a
textbook of orthoptics. It seeks to provide advanced training for
ophthalmologists based on the authors personal experiences
collected over fifty years of practice as an ophthalmologist and
specialist for strabismology at the Medical University of Viennas
eye clinic and in her own office. As far as the author is aware, it
is the first book to be published exclusively on this topic. The
previously unpublished research and experiences it contains should
provoke the interest of colleagues and orthoptists whose elderly
patients present with binocularity, a condition which sadly remains
underestimated.
Medical Implications of Basic Research in Aging provides a sampling
of the most important discoveries of the past several years
relevant to aging research in the context of enhancing life- and
healthspan. Have you ever wondered if there is anything that you
can do to slow aging or prevent diseases associated with aging? Are
you interested in enhancing your health based on the latest
scientific discoveries? Are you a biohacker experimenting on your
own body in an attempt to live longer? Assembled in this volume are
a number of the commentaries that previously appeared in the
scientific journal Rejuvenation Research. The presentations are
clearly written and accessible to those with a general background
in biology and medical science. An overview summarizes the articles
for the informed layman. Thorough referencing provides an
opportunity for further in-depth reading.
The Key Facts on Alzheimer's Disease provides readers with
essential, easy-to-read information on Alzheimer's Disease.
Compiled in a simplified manner, this guide helps patients navigate
this painful and debilitating diseases without enduring the
complicated nature of medical terminology. By making a
patient-friendly manual to the causes, symptoms, treatment, and
ongoing research of Alzheimer's Disease, one can easily determine
what they are facing and how to live their life to the fullest.
Current projections indicate that by 2050 the number of people aged
over 80 years old will rise to 395 million and that by this date
25-30% of people over the age of 85 will show some degree of
cognitive decline. Palliative care for older people: A public
health perspective provides a comprehensive account of the current
state of palliative care for older people worldwide and illustrates
the range of concomitant issues that, as the global population
ages, will ever more acutely shape the decisions of policy-makers
and care-givers. The book begins by outlining the range of policies
towards palliative care for older people that are found worldwide.
It follows this by examining an array of socio-cultural issues and
palliative care initiatives, from the care implications of health
trajectories of older people to the spiritual requirements of
palliative care patients, and from the need to encourage compassion
towards end-of-life care within communities to the development of
care pathways for older people. Palliative care for older people: A
public health perspective is a valuable resource for professionals
and academics in a range of healthcare and public health fields to
understand the current state of policy work from around the world.
The book also highlights the social-cultural considerations that
influence the difficult decisions that those involved in palliative
care face, not least patients themselves, and offers examples of
good practice and recommendations to inspire, support, and direct
healthcare policy and decision-making at organisational, regional,
national and international levels.
Strukturwandel landlicher Raume und demographischer Wandel schlagen
sich in regionalen Wanderungen, wirtschaftlichen Schrumpfungs- und
Konzentrationsprozessen sowie Problemen bei der kunftigen
Versorgung alterer Menschen nieder. Daraus ergeben sich neue
Herausforderungen fur die familialen Generationenbeziehungen und
regionalen Versorgungsstrukturen, die politische Gestaltung sowie
Finanzierung dieser Veranderungen. Betroffen sind grundsatzlich die
Lebenslagen aller Generationen in den jeweiligen Regionen. Es
ergeben sich aber zugleich neue Chancen und Potentiale, die ein
steigender Anteil alterer Menschen mit zunehmend besserer
Gesundheit, durchschnittlich hoeherer Bildung und - im Vergleich zu
fruheren Zeitpunkten - materiell weitgehend gesicherten Lebenslagen
mit sich bringt.
Die Biografie Johann Sebastian Bachs wird unter dem Gesichtspunkt
der Resilienz betrachtet: Wie ist es dem grossen Komponisten
gelungen, trotz zahlreicher Verluste, Ruckschlage und
Grenzsituationen sein ausserordentliches schoepferisches Potenzial
zu entfalten? Inwieweit sind Bezuge zwischen der Entwicklung in
verschiedenen Lebensabschnitten und einzelnen Werken erkennbar?
Lasst sich das Leben Bachs selbst als "Werk" interpretieren? Nach
einem UEberblick uber psychologische Resilienzforschung werden der
fruhe Verlust seiner Eltern, der Tod seiner ersten Frau und die von
gesundheitlichen Einschrankungen und dem Verlust der Sehfahigkeit
gepragte letzte Lebensphase Johann Sebastian Bachs untersucht.
Dabei wird deutlich, dass es ihm bis ans Ende seines Lebens
gelungen ist, sein schoepferisches Potenzial in seinem Werk wie
auch in seiner Lebensfuhrung zu verwirklichen, wobei seiner
religioesen Bindung besondere Bedeutung zukommt.
The focus of this book is on the aging male, though I suspect the
significant other will be most interested as well. It is a
collection of anecdotes, advice and reminisences gathered over 50
years of medical care. You will not find any astounding revelations
here. The content, though known, wasn't appreciated as much til the
author entered the hallowed halls of old farthood himself. He is an
avuncular storyteller and had a lot of fun in the writing of these
very readable pages.
Most social studies of older people in the United States have
focused upon problems and conditions encountered in urban centers.
In Older Rural Americans sixteen social scientists representing
various regions examine in depth the circumstances of older people
in rural America. The authors first consider older people in the
contexts of work, the family, and the community, discussing their
social outlook, their place in these contexts, and the profound
changes they face as they move away from an active part in these
areas of life. Later chapters analyze the distribution of the rural
aged population and their economic, housing, and health status. Of
particular interest are essays treating the place and condition of
older rural people in three major subcultures of the United States
-- the American Indian, the Spanish-speaking people of the
Southwest, and African Americans. Finally, the authors trace the
development of local, state, and federal programs designed to
assist the aged. The authors argue that an understanding of rural
life some sixty years ago is of the utmost importance, for it is
the values of that time that have largely formed the attitudes and
outlooks of today's rural aged.
People are living longer and the population over the age of 60 is
burgeoning, with repercussions for health services and healthcare
expenditure in developed countries. Crucially, disease aetiology,
diagnosis, and treatment in older people differ from the general
adult population. Older people often have complicated
co-morbidities and respond to treatment in different ways compared
to younger people. Evidence of efficacy of different treatments is
often lacking because older people are under-represented in
clinical trials, and the specific needs of older people are rarely
discussed specifically in more general texts. Geriatric medicine:
an evidence based approach is a clinical reference for health care
professionals who manage older patients, and summarizes up-to-date
research literature in a style that can be directly applied by busy
healthcare professionals and provide a useful resource for
reference.
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 they age. This seismic demographic shift will
force us all to rethink how we live and deal with our aging
population. Susan H. McFadden and John T. McFadden propose a
radical reconstruction of our societal understanding of old age.
Rather than categorizing elders based on their cognitive
consciousness, the McFaddens contend that the only humanistic,
supportive, and realistic approach is to find new ways to honor and
recognize the dignity, worth, and personhood of those journeying
into dementia. Doing so, they argue, counters the common view of
dementia as a personal tragedy shared only by close family members
and replaces it with the understanding that we are all living with
dementia as the baby boomers age, particularly as early screening
becomes more common and as a cure remains elusive. The McFaddens'
inclusive vision calls for social institutions, especially faith
communities, to build supportive, ongoing friendships that offer
hospitality to all persons, regardless of cognitive status. Drawing
on medicine, social science, philosophy, and religion to provide a
broad perspective on aging, Aging Together offers a vision of
relationships filled with love, joy, and hope in the face of a
condition that all too often elicits anxiety, hopelessness, and
despair.
The growing geriatric population in the United States has created
an increasing need for palliative medicine services across the
range of medical and surgical specialties. Yet, palliative medicine
lacks the resources to carry such a workload itself. Geriatric
Palliative Care addresses this need by encouraging individual
specialties to "own" the management of elderly with the same vigor
as they "own" other key management competencies within their
specialty. This clinically focused and highly practical handbook,
which compliments the more comprehensive text Geriatric Palliative
Care by Sean Morrison and Diane Meier (Oxford University Press,
2003), encourages this process of learning and ownership across
many medical specialties. Designed to be readable and easily
accessible to a range of health care providers, Geriatric
Palliative Care outlines specific strategies for caring for
specific palliative care issues common in elderly patients. The
handbook also provides evidence based advice for helping patients,
relatives, and staff cope with such issues as polypharmacy,
dementia and consent, multiple pathologies, home care, elderly
caregivers, and supporting the elderly in the place where they
would like to be.
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