Published March, 2009
By William E. Reichman and Paul R. Katz
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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Published March, 2009
By Peter A. Boling
Publisher: Elsevier (W B Saunders Co Ltd)
Series: The Clinics: Internal Medicine
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Focuses on the home health care, a subspecialty of Geriatric Medicine. This title describes the population in need (age range, numbers, projected growth), range of service needs, social verses medical models of care, international and state-to-state comparisons to show the wide range of strategies that have been tried.

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Published March, 2009
By Thomas T. Yoshikawa, Dean Norman, Dean C. Norman and Thomas Yoshikawa
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Infectious Disease
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In this updated handbook, a panel of well known and highly experienced geriatric physicians and infectious disease experts review the most important common infections affecting the elderly and delineate their well-proven techniques.

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Published February, 2009
By Julie Gammack and Julie K. Gammack
Publisher: Elsevier (W B Saunders Co Ltd)
Series: The Clinics: Internal Medicine
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Discusses the spectrum of sleep-related changes and disease states. This book summarizes the evaluation of insomnia in the context of the elderly individual. It reviews sleep disturbances in various care settings and disease states. It also discusses both pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic management of sleep disorders.

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Published February, 2009
By Graham Pawelec, Tamas Fulop, Claudio Franceschi and Katsuiki Hirokawa
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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This authoritative handbook covers all aspects of immunosenescence, with contributions from experts in the research and clinical areas. clinical relevance in disease states including infections, autoimmunity, cancer, metabolic syndrome, neurodegenerative diseases, frailty and osteoporosis;

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Published February, 2009
By Serge Gauthier, Lars-Olof Wahlund and Timo Erkinjuntti
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Vascular cognitive impairment is the second most common cause of dementia after Alzheimer's disease and is expected to grow in prevalence with the aging global population. The purpose of this authoritative book is to give a broad clinical perspective on vascular cognitive impairment and create a foundation for the implementation of good dementia care.

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Published January, 2009
By Graham Mulley, Kirsty Forrest, Nicola Cooper, Graham P. Mulley and N Cooper
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd (Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd))
Series: ABC Series
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Demographic trends confirm what clinicians already know - they are spending increasing amounts of time dealing with older people. This new ABC provides an introduction to the new and increasing challenges of treating older patients in a variety of settings. ABC of Geriatric Medicine provides an overview of geriatric medicine in practice.

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Published January, 2009
By Yi Zeng, Danan Gu, Dudley L. Poston, Denese Ashbaugh Vlosky and Dudley L. Poston, Jr.
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis
Rating: 1.00
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Key research in the world's largest aging population - in China - has fed into this important new work, which aims to answer questions critical to older people worldwide. These include: is the period of disability compressing or expanding with increasing life expectancy and what factors are associated with these trends in the recent decades?

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Published January, 2009
By Susan Rodiek
Publisher: Eurospan (Health Professions Press,U.S.)
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The first DVD in this educational video series demonstrates the importance of having people, policies, and programs that support outdoor usage by residents in senior housing settings.

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Published December, 2008
By Marie A Bernard and Harvey L. Sterns
Publisher: Springer (Springer Publishing Co Inc)
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Addresses the need to educate personnel at various levels in gerontology and geriatric medicine and in the design and delivery of health and social services. This title considers the historical development of gerontology and geriatric medicine and education issues with recommendations for curriculum design.

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