Published December, 2010
By F. Michael Gloth and F. Michael Gloth, III
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Aging Medicine
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Expanding on the first edition with a number of timely new features, this practical handbook includes the revised recommendations from the American Geriatrics Society on prescribing as well as covering concepts such as prescription synergy in more detail.

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Published December, 2010
By Jennifer L. Hillman
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Issues in the Practice of Psychology
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I can vividly remember my own internal reaction on hearing one of my elderly female patients tell me that she was date raped a few years after the death of her elderly husband-when she was 68 years old.

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Published December, 2010
By Lucio Buratto
Publisher: Springer (Springer Verlag)
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L'opera descrive in maniera semplice e chiara l'occhio, il suo sviluppo, i suoi difetti e le sue malattie. Il volume offre anche un panorama degli interventi laser e chirurgici di maggior diffusione, che consentira al paziente che si deve fare operare di capire meglio l'atto operatorio e il decorso postoperatorio.

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Published December, 2010
By Dan Silverman
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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Among all the clinical indications for which radiologists, nuclear medicine phy- cians, neurologists, neurosurgeons, psychiatrists (and others examining disorders of the brain) order and read brain PET scans, demand is greatest for those pertaining to dementia and related disorders.

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Published December, 2010
By M.S. Frings
Publisher: Springer
Series: Phaenomenologica
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Using posthumous manuscripts, the author shows that Scheler conceived the origin of time in the self-activating center of individual and universal life as threefold 'absolute' time of a four-dimensional expanse.

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Published December, 2010
By Gordon Lynch and Gordon S. Lynch
Publisher: Springer
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This book provides the latest information on sarcopenia from leading international researchers studying the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying age-related changes in skeletal muscle and identifies strategies to combat sarcopenia and related muscle wasting conditions and neuromuscular disorders.

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Published December, 2010
By Dolores Pushkar, William M. Bukowski, Alex E. Schwartzman, Dale M. Stack and Donna R. White
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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Proceedings of a Conference held in Montreal, Canada, November 15-17, 1996

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Published November, 2010
By Laurence Z. Rubenstein and David Ganz
Publisher: Elsevier (W B Saunders Co Ltd)
Series: The Clinics: Internal Medicine
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Features topics such as: Epidemiology of Falls in Older Adults; Exercise for Fall Prevention; Cardiac Causes of Falls and their Treatment; Medications and Falls; Vision and Fall Prevention; Preventing Falls in the Hospital; and, Public Health Approach to Falls on a State and National Level.

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Published November, 2010
By Graham Pawelec
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Medical Intelligence Unit
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Understanding the reasons for age-associated alterations to protective immunity in the elderly would ultimately improve and extend healthspan. The majority of the papers collected in this remarkable and timely volume address the mechanisms responsible for immune ageing in humans.

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Published November, 2010
By Heidrun Mollenkopf and Alan Walker
Publisher: Springer
Series: Social Indicators Research Series
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This volume brings together leading researchers on quality of life in old age to focus on one of the most important issues in both gerontology and quality of life studies. For these reasons and the high quality of the authors we have assembled, this will be a seminal text for both gerontology and quality of life researchers.

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