Aging: The Health-Care Challenge
F.A. Davis Company (Verlag)
978-0-8036-0834-4 (ISBN)
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This textbook provides practitioners and students working in geriatric rehabilitation with an interdisciplinary approach to the assessment and rehabilitative management of older people. Clinically focused, the 4th edition reviews crucial information about the elderly and suggests strategies for implementing practical rehabilitation goals in a variety of care settings. The two chapters new to this edition are "Frail and Institutionalized Elderly Clients" and "Home Care". All clinical chapters in the book contain a case study and all chapters feature extensive evidence-based medical updating with clinical interpretation of contemporary research.
Part 1 Theories and psychological aspects of ageing: theories of ageing; psychosocial aspects of ageing. Part 2 Physical aspects of ageing: activities of daily living; the effects of ageing on communication; leisure skills; the changing realm of the senses; musculoskeletal changes with age - clinical implications; clinical implications of neurologic changes during the ageing process; cardiopulmonary rehabilitation of the geriatric patient and client; implications of oncology in elderly adults; health promotion for elderly clients. Part 3 External aspects of ageing - the current status: stress and ageing; nutritional rehabilitation and elderly individuals; medication management and appropriate substance use for elderly individuals; sexuality and elderly individuals; working with the dying older patient; clinical research in geriatrics; medicare documentation - the paperwork challenge; frail and institutionalized elderly clients; home care.
| Zusatzinfo | illustrations, glossary, index |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Pennsylvania |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege ► Altenpflege |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Physiotherapie / Ergotherapie ► Rehabilitation | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8036-0834-9 / 0803608349 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8036-0834-4 / 9780803608344 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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