Geriatrisk vård

Äldres läkemedelsbehandling är ett viktigt globalt förbättringsområde enligt WHO. Senare tids uppföljning av svensk äldrevård, inklusive läkemedelsbehandling, har visat på tydliga brister och risker. Förutsättningarna för vård av äldre patienter h...

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De äldsta och de svårast sjuka faller ansvarsmässigt lätt mellan stolarna när det handlar om tillstånd med psykiska symtom och många får i dag inte den hjälp de behöver. Det finns ett stort behov såväl av ökad kunskap om äldrepsykiatri i all sjukv...

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Med stigande ålder ökar risken för sjukdom och därmed sjukdomsrelaterad undernäring. Mat- och näringsproblem är därför vanliga bland äldre och strategier för att förbättra nutritionsomhändertagande av dessa kräver kunskap. Denna bok har ambitionen...

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Är fallolyckor en naturlig följd av åldrandet? Vilka möjligheter finns det för trygg rörelse och aktivitet även i hög ålder? Går det att förebygga fall och fallskador genom specifik och målinriktad träning? Denna bok har som ambition att täcka såv...

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Focusing on the content that students need to know for effective practice, this text offers evidence-based coverage of the aging process, factors contributing to healthy aging, and unique aspects of disease presentation and management in older adu...

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Gerontological nursing remains a critical specialty area for the profession of nursing, especially as the older adult population grows. The Fifth Edition of Gerontological Nursing: Competencies for Care takes a holistic approach and teaches studen...

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Validation is a successful way of communicating with older adults with Alzheimer's-type dementia and responding to their challenging behaviors. The Validation method helps reduce stress, enhance dignity, and increase happiness for both the elder a...

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This edited volume is a compilation of 30 articles discussing what constitutes food for health and longevity. The aim is to provide up-to-date information, insights, and future tendencies in the ongoing scientific research about nutritional compon...

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Under de senaste åren har den kommunala hälso- och sjukvården förändrats. Kortare vårdtider och snabbare utskrivning från sjukhusen gör att äldres behov av hälso- och sjukvård i allt större utsträckning tillgod...

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Dementia is increasingly being recognised as a public health priority and poses one of the largest challenges we face as a society. At the same time, there is a growing awareness that the quest for a cure for Alzheimer's disease and other causes o...

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Working with older people in care can be challenging and frustrating, especially when they behave in ways that seem irrational, aggressive, or unreasonably repetitive, and nothing you can do seems to help. The authors of this useful and practical ...

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The fourth edition of this highly successful text is an ideal resource for practitioners from all disciplines working in a wide range of care settings for older people. It conveys the depth of knowledge needed to develop the complex and sometimes ...

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Christine Bryden was 46 years old when she was diagnosed with dementia, and in this book she describes her remarkable emotional, physical and spiritual journey in the three years immediately following. Offering rare first-hand insights into how it...

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Cultivate confident, wellness-oriented care for older adults across a changing healthcare environment with the latest evidence-based coverage of gerontological nursing. Nursing for Wellness in Older Adults, 9th Edition, fosters students' understan...

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Provide compassionate, professional nursing care for older adults! Designed for LPN/LVNs, Basic Geriatric Nursing, 8th Edition offers a practical introduction to concepts of aging and the physiologic and psychosocial changes that affect the elderl...

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Binder-Ready Edition: This loose-leaf copy of the full text is a convenient, accessible, and customizable alternative to the bound book. With this binder-ready edition, students can personalize the text to match their unique needs! Gain the nursin...

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A Doody's Core Title ESSENTIAL PURCHASE for 2011! written by an author team from a top-ranked nursing program, this ground-breaking new text, presents state of the art guidelines for geriatric care for the advance practice nursing student. practic...

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The Key to Successfor the Adult-Gerontology and Family Nurse Practitioner Certification exams!Adult-Gerontology and Family Nurse Practitioner Self-Assessment and Exam Review is the perfect way to prepare for the Adult-Gerontology and Family Nurse ...

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For courses in gerontology and gerontological nursing. A holistic guide to nursing care for older adults, across settings Gerontological Nursing is a comprehensive, research-based guide to the nursing care of older adults. It addresses normal and ...

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In their twilight years, people begin to rely more and more on their friends and family to get through their day. In Indian homes, it is not unusual to see adult children sandwiched between parenting and caregiving obligations, with both young chi...

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Provides a detailed examination of research-supported psychosocial interventions for use with older adults. The interventions address the diversity of mental health and late-life challenges that older adults' experience. Comprehensive treatment an...

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Evidence Based Treatment with Older Adults: Theory, Practice, and Research provides a detailed examination of five research-supported psychosocial interventions for use with older adults: cognitive behavioral therapy, motivational interviewing, li...

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First published in 1976, You and Your Aging Parent is a classic--the first book to shed light on the challenging relationship between adult children and their aging parents, illuminating the emotional, health, and financial difficulties that elder...

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Healthy Ageing and Aged Care takes an inter-disciplinary approach to supporting older people within the community and in care. It represents current Australian policies and practices and takes a holistic view of the older person, and emphasises th...

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Integrative Geriatric Medicine summarizes a patient-centered, wholistic approaches to medical care of the elderly. Deeply rooted in life style interventions such as nutrition, movement therapies, and mind-body and spirituality approaches integrati...

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Integrative geriatrics is a new field of medicine that advocates for a whole-person, patient-centered, primarily non-pharmacological approach to medical care of the elderly. Most current geriatric practices overprescribe medications and procedures...

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Integrative geriatrics is a new field of medicine that advocates for a whole-person, patient-centered, primarily non-pharmacological approach to medical care of the elderly. Most current geriatric practices overprescribe medications and procedures...

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Evidence Based Treatment with Older Adults: Theory, Practice, and Research provides a detailed examination of five research-supported psychosocial interventions for use with older adults: cognitive behavioral therapy, motivational interviewing, li...

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This book forces readers to radically rethink the idea of memory as an archive of the past. Examining the notion of remembering in the neurosciences, humanities, social studies, and in key works of autobiographical literature, these far-ranging st...

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