The Essentials of health care in old age
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Bibliographic Information
The Essentials of health care in old age
Edward Arnold, c1995
2nd ed
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Health care in old age
Available at 25 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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).
Table of Contents
- 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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