Essential facts in geriatric medicine

著者

    • Bracewell, Catherine
    • Gray, Rosaire
    • Rai, Gurcharan S

書誌事項

Essential facts in geriatric medicine

Catherine Bracewell, Rosaire Gray, Gurcharan S Rai

Radcliffe Pub., c2005

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Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Healthcare of Young People provides essential practical and useful information to help meet the health needs of adolescents and ties in with the government's teenage pregnancy strategy and initiatives from the Royal College of General Practitioners and the Royal College of Nursing. It covers all the relevant topics including an outline of the major health problems that young people suffer how to manage the common illnesses of adolescence getting it right for teenagers in your practice the role of the primary care nurse and essential issues regarding confidentiality consent and refusal. This book ensures that all members of the practice team can be adequately trained to understand the health needs of adolescents with an emphasis on how to make the practice a friendlier place for them. It contains resources that can be photocopied or used as templates and also includes useful statistics case studies and examples of protocols and guidelines. It is an essential manual for general practitioners nurses practice managers receptionists and all members of the primary healthcare team.

目次

  • Part 1: Demographic and social factors
  • Demography of the ageing population of the United Kingdom
  • Social processes in ageing
  • Part 2: Clinical aspects of old age
  • Age associated physiological changes
  • Prevention of disease and disability
  • Specific features of disease presentation
  • Pharmacology and therapeutics
  • Principles of rehabilitation
  • Domiciliary care for disabled older people
  • Legal aspects
  • Ethical issues
  • Palliative care
  • Part 3: Clinical problems encountered in old age
  • Falls
  • Osteoporosis
  • Mental health problems
  • Pressure sores
  • Hypothermia
  • Hearing impairment/Tinnitus
  • Visual impairment
  • Hypertension
  • Heart failure
  • Atrial fibrillation
  • Stroke
  • Parkinson
  • s disease
  • Bowel and bladder management
  • Gastro-oesophageal reflux disease
  • Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
  • Community-acquired pneumonia
  • Diabetes mellitus
  • Part 4: Administrative aspects of services
  • Health and social services
  • Income maintenance
  • Audit principles

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