Published July, 2012
By Paula E. Hartman-Stein, Asenath LaRue and PAULA HARTMAN-STEIN
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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Approximately 10 million of the 78 million baby boomers who were alive in 2008 can expect to develop Alzheimer's disease. The direct costs to Medicare and Medicaid for care of people with Alzheimer's disease amount to more than $148 billion annually (from Alzheimer's Association, 2008 Alzheimer's Disease Facts and Figures).

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Published July, 2012
By Margot Gosney, Adam Harper and Simon Conroy
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Series: Oxford Desk Reference Series
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This book provides an evidence-based guide for both trainees and consultants in geriatric medicine and those interested in geriatric medicine. Designed in line with the core Royal College curriculum, it provides a comprehensive and relevant guide to the issues seen in everyday geriatric medicine practice across the world.

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Published June, 2012
By Ronda C. Talley and John E. Crews
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Caregiving: Research • Practice • Policy
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Caring for the disabled is often an all-consuming responsibility for one or more family members, demanding skills such as financial acumen and emotional sensitivity. This book addresses the complexities of care giving and includes valuable personal testimony.

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Published June, 2012
By V. Cristofalo
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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They are sub mitted with the expectations that a greater understanding of the role of each of these separate approaches will help clarify, not only the interrelationships between our fields of research, but more importantly, the biology of aging itself.

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Published June, 2012
By C. E. Finch
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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These Proceedings emanate from the Second Tarbox Parkinson's Disease Symposium held February 2-4, 1978, at the SouthPark Inn in Lubbock, Texas. The Second Tarbox Parkinson's Disease Symposium boldly brought together investigators at the cutting edge of aging and neuroendo crine research and attempted to relate them to Parkinson's disease.

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Published June, 2012
By Claire G. Nicholl, K. Jane Wilson, Jane Wilson and C Nicholl
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd (John Wiley & Sons Inc)
Series: Lecture Notes
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Elderly Care Medicine Lecture Notes provides all the necessary information, within one short volume, for a sound introduction to the particular characteristics and needs of elderly patients.

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Published June, 2012
By Kunio Oota
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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Published May, 2012
By Suzanne Craft
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Research and Perspectives in Alzheimer's Disease
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This text provides a broad survey of the role of insulin in the brain. And it discusses the mechanisms through which insulin dysregulation contributes to the development of cognitive impairment and late-life neurodegenerative disease.

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Published May, 2012
By Holly Holmes
Publisher: Elsevier (W B Saunders Co Ltd)
Series: The Clinics: Internal Medicine
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With the use of multiple medications in the elderly patient comes the risk of drug-related problems. This issue covers polypharmacy in the elderly patient with topics that include: The Interplay between Polypharmacy, Geriatric Conditions, and Adverse Drug Reactions, Factors Leading to Excessive Polypharmacy, and Tools to Decrease Polypharmacy.

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Published April, 2012
By Ingrid Emerit and Chance
Publisher: Springer (Birkhauser Verlag AG)
Series: Experientia Supplementum
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Among the various theories proposed to account for the process of aging, the free radical theory is of practical interest since it includes the possibility of retarding this process by administrating natural or synthetic antioxidants and free radical scavengers.

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