The Essentials of health care in old age

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The Essentials of health care in old age

Gerald C. J. Bennett and Shah Ebrahim

Edward Arnold, c1995

2nd ed

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Health care in old age

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内容説明

This pocket-sized text provides a wide-ranging introductory section on biological gerontology, and also intregrates the medical, sociological, psychological and rehabilitational aspects of caring for elderly people. This updated and revised second edition has four new chapters covering care in the community, ethnic elders, chronic wounds and the High ESR (measurement using red cells to establish the severity of illness).

目次

  • Ageing - populations, organisms and cells
  • ageing skin
  • the ageing eye
  • the ageing ear
  • the ageing kidney
  • ageing bone, muscles and joints
  • the ageing brain
  • the ageing cardiovascular system
  • the ageing respiratory system
  • the ageing endocrine system
  • the ageing alimentary system
  • ageing immune system
  • the ageing psyche
  • the history of geriatric medicine
  • the elderly in society
  • the elderly and their social networks
  • presentation of disease
  • helping your elderly patient to help you - history and examination
  • immobility
  • falls
  • confusion
  • management and confusional states
  • incontinence
  • chronic wounds - pressure sores and leg ulcers
  • accidental hypothermia
  • joint contractions
  • depression
  • psychotic and other disorders
  • psychological aspects of physical disease
  • terminal care
  • better prescribing
  • elder abuse/inadequate care
  • ethnic migration
  • ageing in developing countries
  • legal aspects
  • stroke
  • diagnosis not to be missed
  • the multi-disciplinary team
  • comprehensive health care
  • care in the community
  • the day hospital
  • severe chronic disability
  • prevention in old age
  • seeing patients at home
  • the elderly patient in accident and emergency
  • discharging the elderly patient from hospital
  • the role of the team members.

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