Geriatria e gerontologia
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Case Studies in Geriatric Medicine
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Ahronheim, J. C. , Bo Huang, Z. , Yen, V. , Davitt, C. M. , Barile
editore: Cambridge
pagine: 300
This case-based approach to geriatric medicine is suitable for all health professionals and trainees who provide care for the elderly.
Geriatric Secrets
Donna Brady Raziano
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Edna P. Schwab
e altri
editore: Hanley & Belfus Inc.
pagine: 344
This best-seller in geriatrics is even better in an updated and completely revised new edition. Geriatric Secrets provides a substantial knowledge base in geriatric medicine and provides a wealth of insights into the art and practice of geriatrics, featuring all the most important "need to know" questions and answers in the proven format of the Secrets Series(R).
La memoria degli anziani. Una guida per mantenerla in efficienza
Ornella Andreani Dentici
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Guido Amoretti
e altri
editore: Centro Studi Erickson
pagine: 195
Il libro presenta prima una parte teorica sul funzionamento della memoria, sulle sue basi biologiche, sulle caratteristiche dell'invecchiamento e sui vari metodi usati per migliorarne le potenzialità; quindi propone una serie di esercizi e di attività, interessanti e dotate di significato personale, che possono aiutare a conservare l'efficienza mnestica o a recuperarla in parte, dopo una perdita dovuta a eventi patologici, incidenti, ecc. Con esempi tratti dalla vita quotidiana mira a stimolare la consapevolezza e il controllo delle funzioni cognitive da parte del soggetto.
Optimizing Exercise and Physical Activity in Older People
Adrian Schoo , Meg Morris
editore: Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd
pagine: 346
This book brings together evidence-based knowledge from different fields and offers the health professional practical and evidenced-based strategies to facilitate adherence to prescribed physical activity or therapeutic exercise needed to achieve durable results in the preventative and therapeutic health care of ageing populations.
Sociologia della condizione anziana. Survey sociale in un contesto lombardo
a cura di L. Breveglieri
editore: Franco Angeli
pagine: 112
Questo lavoro, svolto nell'ambito delle attività dell'Osservatorio della Provincia di Cremona sulla condizione anziana rappres
I ricordi che curano. Pratiche di reminescenza nella malattia di Alzheimer
Errollyn Bruce
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Sarah Hodgson
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editore: Raffaello Cortina Editore
pagine: 185
Come aiutare gli operatori socio-sanitari e i familiari a migliorare la relazione di cura con le persone anziane colpite da de
La persona anziana. L'intervento medico e psicologico. I problemi delle demenze
Louis Ploton
editore: Raffaello Cortina Editore
pagine: 260
Risultato di molti anni di lavoro nel campo dell'assistenza medica, psicologica e sociale dell'anziano in stato di grave dipen
Geriatric Medicine
An Evidence-based Approach
Christine K. Cassel
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Eric B. Larson
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editore: Springer Verlag New York Inc.
pagine: 1368
Since the publication of the third edition of Geriatric Medicine,extraordinary advances have occurred in the science of aging and the potential for biomedical research to give us answers to many, if not most, of the age-related disorders that threaten the quality of life in older years. At the most basic level, the successful mapping of the human genome was declared complete in the fall of 2000. Understanding the map of the human genome is as important as understanding the map of genomes of important laboratory species, ranging from the microscopic worms and fruit?ies used in most classic genetic studies to rodents such as laboratory mice, and eventually to primates, on which much of the research on the aging human brain is done. The genetic maps of all of these species,including our own,does not answer clinical questions,but it does open the door to dramatic, rapid, and ef?cient answers to questions about the genetic polymorphisms related to diseases in humans. The telomerase story also unfolded since the third edition.
Telomerase is an enzyme responsible for maintaining the telomeres-the redundant DNA portions at the end of chromosomes-whose shortening seems to be linked directly to cell senescence,ap- tosis,and the control over cell death,which,at the level of the individual cell,seems to be linked to the decline of organ function and eventually aging and death within the org- ism.
Curare l'uomo, non solo il cancro. Indagine sulla condizione del paziente oncologico anziano
a cura di N. Delai , D. Minerva
editore: Franco Angeli
pagine: 128
Il cancro è prevalentemente una malattia che colpisce l'età matura: e lo si vede bene negli ambulatori e nelle corsie dei reparti che seguono pazienti con tumore. Ma, diversamente che in passato, l'età avanzata non è più una barriera al trattamento chirurgico ed alla radioterapia, e persino alla somministrazione della chemioterapia, anche se in questo caso l'atteggiamento terapeutico deve tenere in maggiore considerazione le altre malattie di accompagnamento e lo stato generale e funzionale del paziente. E i grandi studi epidemiologici Itacare e Eurocare mostrano un aumento dei tassi di sopravvivenza degli anziani neoplastici nell'ultimo decennio. Ma di fronte alla nuova emergenza il rischio è quello di non avere strumenti adeguati.
Invecchiare: un'occasione per crescere. Attività culturali, partecipazione sociale e benessere. Rapporto 2002 Spi CGIL-Cadef
a cura di C. Facchini
editore: Franco Angeli
pagine: 240
Volunteers in Hospice and Palliative Care
A Handbook for Volunteer Service Managers
Cicely Saunders
editore: Oxford University Press
pagine: 240
This book provides comprehensive, practical guidelines on the responsibilities of those who lead, co-ordinate and manage volunteers in small hospices, large specialist palliative care units, and in general hospitals with palliative care teams. Volunteers are key workers, who often perform difficult and always important work. In the United Kingdom alone, there are thousands of volunteers in hospice work, a small proportion doing work with patients, and the vast majority doing equally valuable work such as driving, sitting with relatives, manning charity shops and telephones. As a result, Europe, Australia, the United States and Canada are very interested in the United Kingdom's use of volunteers. Aimed primarily at Volunteer Service Managers in small hospices, large specialist palliative care units, and in general hospitals with palliative care teams, this book covers volunteer selection, training, supervision and support, and legal and ethical considerations. Information is presented in an easily accessible way, using key points, summary panels and checklists.
Contributors, who are all Volunteer Service Managers themselves, have included small, clinical vignettes to bring the text to life. This book will also appeal to the volunteers themselves.
Diet - Brain Connections
Impact on Memory, Mood, Aging and Disease
Mark P. Mattson
editore: Kluwer Academic Publishers
pagine: 284
Diet-Brain Connections fills a void between the fields of nutrition, behavior and cellular and molecular neurosciences by providing an integrated collection of articles that critically dissect the link between what we eat and how the brain develops and functions in health and disease. Key topics covered in depth include: -caloric restriction benefit the brain and retard aging; -effects of dietary antioxidants on brain function and aging; -developmental and function consequences of different dietary fatty acids; -biochemical links between dietary folic acid and psychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders; -effects of nutritional deficit during early development and behavior disorders later in life; -neurochemical basis of the benefits of widely used dietary supplements including creatine and Gingko biloba; -contribution of dietary toxins such as metals and pesticides to neurological disorders.
Textbook of Diagnostic Imaging in the Elderly
David Allison
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Mario G. Impallomeni
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editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd
pagine: 432
Geriatric imaging is now a recognised specialty. Textbook of Diagnostic Imaging in the Elderly is the first authoritative textbook on the subject, which lets the physician maximize the unique and essential contribution that imaging can bring to clinical diagnosis of disease in the elderly patient. Each chapter is short, practical and comprehensive, beginning with a clinical introduction and providing an abundance of clinical photographs. This highly illustrated reference text has been written in close collaboration with practising clinicians and radiologists well known for their expertise in the field.
Educazione telematica all'anziano diabetico. Realtà e prospettive
a cura di G. Crepaldi , S. Maggi
editore: Il Poligrafo
pagine: 260
Anziani, pluralità e mutamenti. Rapporto 2000 su condizioni sociali e demografiche, pensioni, salute e servizi in Lombardia
a cura di C. Facchini
editore: Franco Angeli
pagine: 288
Rimettere in ordine e rileggere con un approccio multidisciplinare la condizione anziana conferma come, anche nel caso della L
Cardiac Disease in the Elderly
Interventions, Ethics, Economics
C. Conti
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H-.R. Zerkowski
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editore: Steinkopff Darmstadt
pagine: 110
CARLO CONTI You are today confronting sensitive questions on the subject of "Cardiac surgery and heart diseases in old age" and I congratulate you on this. It is a brave and important step to discuss this multifaceted question which demands an answer and an explanation from many perspectives: From a medical perspective, there is the question of the medical feasibility and durability of treatment. From an economic angle we ask ourselves whether we can pay for everything that is medically feasible. From the patient's perspective there is the legitimate de- sire and the justified need not to leave anything untried that might serve to sustain or improve the quality of life. The ethical perspective: is what is feasible really desirable? Should everything be done simply because it can be done? Is it ethically acceptable to set an age limit on an opera- tion that in all probability will produce an improvement in the quality of life? And if so, where does this limit lie? Below it surgery is "worthwhile" but above it is not? No- one in all seriousness and with a clean conscience will want to draw this line randomly or arbitrarily. That ap- pears to us - quite rightly - morally unacceptable.
The doctors' perspective: they are obliged by the Hippo- cratic oath in principle to carry out all the treatments that are indicated and comply with the rules of the art of med- ICIne.
L'anziano nella rete dei servizi. Misura degli esiti assistenziali e rilevazione dei costi
a cura di
P. Spolaore
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S. Maggi
M. Trabucchi
e altri
editore: Il Poligrafo
pagine: 269
L'assistenza agli anziani. Il processo di programmazione e gli strumenti manageriali a supporto
Serena Cascioli
editore: Franco Angeli
pagine: 112
