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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. Presented in a user-friendly format, combining readability with high-quality...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2012-04-23
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Lecture Notes
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This new edition of the comprehensive and renowned textbook Principles and Practice of Geriatric Medicine offers a fully revised and updated review of geriatric medicine. It covers the full spectrum of the subject, features 41 new chapters, and provides up-to-date,...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-03-13
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The latest addition to the Evidence-Based Book series, Evidence-Based Geriatric Medicine provides non-geriatrician clinicians an overview of key topics central to the care of the older patient. This guide focuses on the management of common problems in the elderly...
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BMJ Books
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2012-02-28
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Evidence-Based Medicine
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Mit Unterstützung der Robert Bosch Stiftung behandelte die Heidelberger Akademie das Thema „Alter und Altern“ in einer Reihe von drei wissenschaftlichen Kolloquien. Das erste zur umfassenden Frage „Was ist Alter?“ fand 2006 statt, das zweite, das den Naturwissenschaften...
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Springer
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2012-02-03
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Schriften der Mathematisch-naturwissenschaftlichen Klasse
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Does Aging Stop? reveals the most paradoxical finding of recent aging research: the cessation of demographic aging. The authors show that aging stops at the level of the individual organism, and explain why evolution allows this. The implications of this...
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Oxford University Press
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2011-07-22
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Sinds het verschijnen van de Richtlijn diagnostiek en farmacologische behandeling van dementie in 2005 zijn er veel ontwikkelingen gaande op het gebied van onderzoek, diagnostiek en behandeling van dementie. Het accent is meer komen te liggen op een benadering vanuit de...
Editeur :
Bohn Stafleu van Loghum
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2010-02-24
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A guide for doctors to quickly choose the right drugs in the right dose for the most important clinical problems in the elderly Prescribing medications for elderly patients is complex - this book gives clear advice on treatment regimes, drug interactions, adverse...
Editeur :
Wiley
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2009-04-22
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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...
Editeur :
BMJ Books
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2009-04-15
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ABC Series
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Heart failure is effectively a disease of older people. Eighty percent of patients are over 65 years old, and the majority of these are over 75. This figure is likely to increase significantly in the next two decades. The prognosis is worse than that of most cancers and...
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Wiley
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2009-03-23
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This book is the British Medical Association’s statement on the ethics related to care of the elderly, written and reviewed by a panel of renowned medical ethicists. As such it is an authoritative and considered reference, written in an accessible, non jargon so as to...
Editeur :
BMJ Books
Parution :
2009-02-23
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This timely book reviews the current status of drug treatments in dementia, both in practice and in research. It commences with a brief overview of the dementia syndrome and provides guidance in making a diagnosis. It then focuses on treatment of the cognitive function,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-30
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The era of therapeutic nihilism in dementia has ended, with the emergence of agents for symptomatic treatment, those that delay the course of the disease or prevent the onset of dementia, and new methods to manage symptoms. With the expansion of therapies, there is a...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
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Pain in later life is both quite common and disabling, and it differs significantly in terms of its aetiology, diagnosis and treatment from pain in the general adult population. Older people often have complicated co-morbidities, have a high prevalence of mental health...
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OUP Oxford
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2007-11-15
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Prior to the evolution of modern medicine, with its superabundance of diagnostic and therapeutic medical technology and the rise of the litigious society, the value of clinical skills was evident in both history taking and the physical examination. Even today,...
Editeur :
Springer
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2007-05-26
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A wide variety of ambitions and measures to slow, stop, and reverse phenomena associated with aging have been part of human culture since early civilization. From alchemy to cell injections to dietary supplements, the list of techniques aimed at altering the processes...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2004-04-08
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