Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 245 p. — ISBN: 978-1-316-61389-4. The proportion of the population of octogenarians and elderly patients presenting for intensive care is rapidly increasing thus exacerbating the need to modify our critical care management to cater for this patient group. This book will provide practical guidance on all issues related to the critical care of...
Springer, 2019. — 200 p. — ISBN: 978-3-030-30331-0 As the Baby Boomers age, concerns over healthcare systems abilities to accommodate geriatric patients grow increasingly challenging. The increased life expectancy of the population since the early 1900s had been built on the improvement of living conditions, diet, public health and advancement in medical care. With this we have...
3rd edition. — Springer Publishing Company, 2018. — 431 p. Uniquely bridging a gap in the gerontology literature between the biological and psychosocial aspects of aging, this interdisciplinary text provides key updates on an abundance of cutting-edge research; expands information on diversity issues in aging; and examines in great depth the physiology of aging, theories of...
Duke University Press, 2023. — 263 р. — ISBN 978-147-801-9848 In a stream of new enterprises catering to death, this one washes and pulverizes human remains. Called a “bone busi-ness” (hone- ya-san), the com pany is small and sits quietly in a residential neighborhood in Tokyo. But things are active in-side. Boxes of cremains from all over the country stand high in the main...
Springer, 2021. — 98 p. — ISBN 978-3-030-57533-5. This book is addressed to physicians and other health professionals involved in the assessment and care planning of patients at the end of life. It brings a unique and humanistic view on the challenges of good practice in palliative care. Concepts and definitions, resources and therapeutic alternatives, as well as symptoms of...
Bloomsbury Sigma, 2019. — 272 р. — ISBN: 978-1472936066. The question of how and why organisms age has teased scientists for centuries. There are myriad competing theories, from the idea that aging is a simple wear and tear process, like the rusting of a car, to the belief that aging and death are genetically programmed and controlled. In fact, there is no clearly defined limit...
InTech, 2012. — 246 p.
The decline in physical and mental functionality with aging has been attributed to the endocrine dyscrasia, associated with the loss of the reproductive function with aging (Bowen and Atwood, 2004; 2011). These biomolecular changes result in the dysfunction and/or death of cells, and ultimately the loss of tissue function, that presents clinically as...
Springer, 2018. — 582 p. — (International Perspectives on Aging 19). — ISBN 978-3-319-73819-2. This book provides a comprehensive perspective on the concept of ageism, its origins, the manifestation and consequences of ageism, as well as ways to respond to and research ageism. The book represents a collaborative effort of researchers from over 20 countries and a variety of...
Springer, 2018. — 1821 p. — (International Perspectives on Aging 19). — ISBN 978-3-319-73820-8. This book provides a comprehensive perspective on the concept of ageism, its origins, the manifestation and consequences of ageism, as well as ways to respond to and research ageism. The book represents a collaborative effort of researchers from over 20 countries and a variety of...
Health Communications, 2025. — 729 р. — ISBN-13: 978-07573-2514-4 Described as a "tour de force in anti-aging," bestselling author Dr. Michael Aziz unlocks the secrets to longevity and disease prevention with a straightforward, doable plan focusing on the ten hallmarks of aging to target your cells and turn back the clock. The passage of time is inevitable, but getting sick as...
Policy Press, 2013. — 215 p. The book advances the critical discourse on gerontology, offering new understandings of key social and ethical dilemmas facing aging societies. Connecting approaches that have been relatively isolated from one another, it integrates two major streams of thought within critical gerontology: analyses of structural issues in the context of political...
Springer, 2007. — 148 p. Anemia in the elderly has been properly defined as the silent epidemic, representing 3 million people in the United States aged 65 years and older. Incidence and prevalence of this condition increase with age. It differs in its etiology, pathogenesis and treatment from anemia in children and younger adults. Anemia is associated with reduced survival,...
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2016. — 274 p. — ISBN10: 1442255277, ISBN13: 978-1442255272. Preview ebook Long, productive lives are the destiny of most of us, not just the privilege of our great-grandchildren. The story of aging is not one of steady decline and decay; we need a new narrative based on solid research, not scare stories. Today Americans enjoy a new, healthy...
Springer, 2013. — 444 p.
The Manual of Geriatric Anesthesia is a practical guide for physicians, residents, and students interested in the care of the elderly patient undergoing surgery. Although primarily written for anesthesiologists, other perioperative physicians and nurses will also find the information highly valuable. Highlights of the text include concise and clear...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 281 p. Older patients carry some of the highest risks of suffering an adverse event or death following anesthesia and surgery. They are inherently vulnerable, presenting with numerous comorbidities and reduced physiological reserve, requiring 'gero-centric' perioperative care for everything from routine eye surgery to major cardiac surgeries....
Humana Press Inc., Totowa, NJ. Methods in Molecular Medicine, Vol. 38. (2000) With rapidly rising life expectancies and a general lack of understanding about the aging process, the need to treat geriatric diseases is becoming an ever more significant private and public health issue. In Aging Methods and Protocols, Yvonne and Christopher Barnett and a team of recognized...
Elsevier, 2015. — 266 p.
Psychology and Geriatrics demonstrates the value of integrating psychological knowledge and insight with medical training and geriatric care. Leading physician and geropsychologist contributors come together to share their collective wisdom about topics that are as emotionally uncomfortable as they are universally relevant. As the world struggles to...
John Wiley & Sons, 2015. — 96 p. — (At a Glance). Geriatric Medicine at a Glance logically presents the core principles of geriatric medicine, including mechanisms of ageing, changes in physiology commonly seen in older adults, and the clinical management and treatment of the key medical presentations affecting older patients. It provides a thorough overview of the essential...
Springer, 2019. — 471 p. — ISBN: 978-3-030-29989-7 This book explores the meaning of quality of life in care for older persons and introduces the reader to their main concerns when receiving care. Based on qualitative research, it pays particular attention to the needs and requirements of older people, considering their individual family situations, social circumstances, values...
Springer, 2012. — 740 p.
Fourth Edition
One of the premier reference books for geriatric nurses in hospital, long-term, and community settings, this 4th edition has been thoroughly updated to provide the most current, evidence-based protocols for care of common clinical conditions and issues in elderly patients. Designed to improve the quality, outcomes, and cost-effectiveness...
6th edition. — Springer Publishing Company, 2021. — 916 p. — ISBN 978-0-8261-8814-4. AJN Book of the Year 2016 First-Place Winner in Gerontological Nursing! “The evidence-based protocols are designed as a primary reference and are useful, substantive, and timely...The broader contributions of useful format and succinct review of the evidence make it likely that this text will...
6th edition. — Springer Publishing Company, 2021. — 916 p. — ISBN 978-0-8261-8814-4. AJN Book of the Year 2016 First-Place Winner in Gerontological Nursing! “The evidence-based protocols are designed as a primary reference and are useful, substantive, and timely...The broader contributions of useful format and succinct review of the evidence make it likely that this text will...
Humana Press, 2010. — 469 p. — (Oxidative Stress in Applied Basic Research and Clinical Practice) — ISBN: 978-1-60761-601-6 Features that characterize the aging process include the gradual accumulation of cell damage after prolonged exposure to oxidative and inflammatory events over a lifetime. In addition to the accretion of lesions, the intrinsic levels of pro-oxidant and...
Springer, 2015. — 310 p. This is a timely and vital resource for new and seasoned gerontology nurses responsible for coordinating care and advocacy for their patients as health care shifts from hospital-based to community-based care. Comprehensive and organized for quick access to information, this clinical guide encompasses the broad network of community health resources...
SLACK Incorporated, 2017. — 345 p. The role of measurement and the benefits of outcome measures are defined as important tools used to document change in one or more constructs over time, help to describe a client’s condition, formulate a prognosis, as well as to evaluate the effects of occupational therapy intervention.Occupational Therapy Assessments for Older Adults: 100...
3rd edition. — Oxford University Press, 2018. — 1037 p. The Oxford Handbook of Geriatric Medicine includes all the information required to deliver effective geriatric care. It covers a range of key treatment areas, indicating where practice differs from that of younger adults or is ill informed by evidence and where dangers lurk for the inexperienced clinician, and the many...
3rd edition. — Oxford University Press, 2018. — 1451 p. The Oxford Handbook of Geriatric Medicine includes all the information required to deliver effective geriatric care. It covers a range of key treatment areas, indicating where practice differs from that of younger adults or is ill informed by evidence and where dangers lurk for the inexperienced clinician, and the many...
2nd edition. — Oxford University Press, 2012. — 728 p. In an ageing population, geriatric medicine has become central to general practice, and to emergency and general internal medicine in the hospital setting. Diseases are more common in the older person, and can be particularly difficult to assess and to treat effectively in a field that has limited evidence, yet makes up a...
Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2010. — 257 p. Already established in its first edition as a key text in elderly care, this comprehensively revised second edition of Essential Facts in Geriatric Medicine is a vital reference for health professionals involved in providing comprehensive care to the older population. The book thoroughly explores clinical aspects, as well as demographic,...
Springer, 2021. — 207 p. — ISBN 978-3-030-59057-4. The number of Americans 65 years of age or older is projected to more than double to over 98 million by 2060, making them 24% of the overall population. Women constitute more than 50% of this group. Most clinicians who provide primary care for older women receive minimal training about their unique health issues and needs...
Springer, 2021. — 471 p. — ISBN 978-3-030-59058-1. The number of Americans 65 years of age or older is projected to more than double to over 98 million by 2060, making them 24% of the overall population. Women constitute more than 50% of this group. Most clinicians who provide primary care for older women receive minimal training about their unique health issues and needs...
2nd edition. — Oxford University Press, 2023. — 377 p. — ISBN 9780197632420. FDA's approval of aducanumab has radically changed the world of Alzheimer's disease and you're going to need guidance regarding whether they should take it or not. This book conveys all the insight.As you age, you may find yourself worrying about your memory. Where did I put those car keys? What time...
Springer, 2021. — 450 p. — ISBN 978-3-030-65942-4. This volume focuses on the huge advances in the last 25 years on the use of this animal model for biomedical research (cancer, heart disease and neurodegeneration), fundamental neuroscience and basic subterranean biology. In 2013, Science magazine named the naked mole-rat as the Vertebrate of the Year. This was partly due to...
Springer, 2021. — 450 p. — ISBN 978-3-030-65942-4. This volume focuses on the huge advances in the last 25 years on the use of this animal model for biomedical research (cancer, heart disease and neurodegeneration), fundamental neuroscience and basic subterranean biology. In 2013, Science magazine named the naked mole-rat as the Vertebrate of the Year. This was partly due to...
Springer, 2017. — 352 p. This book focuses on the circumstances that lead to the marked increased vulnerability of seniors and are most challenging to clinicians including the presence of multiple chronic medical conditions, variable losses of physiological function, and heterogeneity among individuals. Written by the experts who lead the initiative to deliver high quality...
8th edition. — Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 841 p. — ISBN 978-1-108-83776-7. This eighth edition of Dr Reichel's formative text remains the go-to guide for practicing physicians and allied health staff confronted with the unique problems of an increasing elderly population. Fully updated and revised, it provides a practical guide for all health specialists, emphasizing...
New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. — 663 p. This second edition of the popular Cognitive Neuroscience of Aging provides up-to-date coverage of the most fundamental topics in this discipline. Like the first edition, this volume accessibly and comprehensively reviews the neural mechanisms of cognitive aging appropriate to both professionals and students in a variety of...
IP Communications, 2014. — 461 p. Geriatric medicine is one of the youngest medical specialities in Australia but is also one of the fastest growing. Geriatric medicine offers a more holistic approach to patient care than organ-based internal-medicine sub-specialities. Patient-centred interventions aim to allow the patient to function optimally. This textbook has been designed to...
Springer, 2018. — 445 p. — (Practical Issues in Geriatrics) — ISBN: 978-3-319-78083-2 This book illustrates the role of Mediterranean diet in connection with well-being and particularly its impact on health and elderly care, as well as on the mechanisms of aging. Aging is a natural process of human life. The knowledge that a healthy dietary regimen like the Mediterranean diet...
Princeton University Press, 2021. — 304 p. Despite our deep interest in mortality, little is known about why some individuals live to middle age and others to extreme old age. Life span, mortality, and aging present some of the most profound mysteries in biology. In Longevity, James Carey draws on unprecedented data to develop a biological and demographic framework for...
Springer, 2011. — 286 p. The "third age" is described as the period in the life course that occurs after retirement but prior to the onset of disability, revealing a period in which individuals have the capacity to remain actively engaged. This book serves as a comprehensive discussion about how the emergence of the third age has changed the way we think about and examine...
Academic Press, 2021. — 384 p. — ISBN 978-0-12-822569-1. Human Aging: From Cellular Mechanisms to Therapeutic Strategies offers an exhaustive picture of all the biological aspects of human aging by describing the key mechanisms associated with human aging and covering events that could disrupt the normal course of aging. Each chapter includes a summary of the salient points...
Academic Press, 2021. — 384 p. — ISBN 978-0-12-822569-1. Human Aging: From Cellular Mechanisms to Therapeutic Strategies offers an exhaustive picture of all the biological aspects of human aging by describing the key mechanisms associated with human aging and covering events that could disrupt the normal course of aging. Each chapter includes a summary of the salient points...
Springer Publishing Company, 2024. — 1109 p. The first book to encompass adult-gerontology practice guidelines for primary care, this comprehensive resource is designed as a text and reference for health care practitioners specializing as adult-gerontology nurse practitioners (A-GNP). It provides current national practice guidelines for delivering high-quality primary health...
2nd edition. — Springer Publishing Company, 2019. — 1129 p. — ISBN: 9780826195180 The first book to encompass adult-gerontology practice guidelines for primary care, this comprehensive resource is useful as both a clinical reference and as a text for health care practitioners working with this population. Concise and up-to-date, the book is distinguished by its easy-to-read...
4th ed. — Springer, 2003. — 1320 p. This new edition of a critically-acclaimed text, completely revised and updated, offers practical and comprehensive coverage of the diseases, common problems, and medical care of older persons. Building on the third edition, this revision will present a new approach focusing on Evidence-Based Medicine, with new chapters including: Physiology...
Springer, 2017. — 208 p. This book presents a comprehensive and state-of the-art approach to vascular disease for the geriatric patient, focusing on vascular pathology and interventions but also on perioperative care, anesthetic care, functional outcomes and quality of life, as well as ethical considerations that impact decision making. The book addresses open and endovascular...
Springer Publishing Company, 2018. — 337 p. — (Critical Topics in an Aging Society) — ISBN: 978-0-8261-4242-9 Grounded in a unique team-based geriatrics perspective, this book delivers a broad range of current, evidence-based knowledge about innovative technology that has the potential to advance the care and well-being of older adults. It provides key information about the...
Springer, 2023. — 439 p. This book summarizes the broad and rapidly evolving field of geriatric pharmacotherapy, which is becoming increasingly relevant for practicing physicians who care and prescribe medications for older patients. Around the globe, ageing populations are associated with an increased prevalence of chronic diseases. Older adults are often affected by...
Springer, 2023. — 439 p. — (Practical Issues in Geriatrics). — ISBN 978-3-031-28061-0. This book summarizes the broad and rapidly evolving field of geriatric pharmacotherapy, which is becoming increasingly relevant for practicing physicians who care and prescribe medications for older patients. Around the globe, ageing populations are associated with an increased prevalence of...
Clinical Trials in Older Adults is the first book to consider the methodological issues underlying the evaluation of new treatments in older people. Provides information on the methodology, monitoring and regulations for those planning to conduct a clinical trials involving older adults Contains examples of ongoing trials involving older adults, and presents the main...
Springer, 2020. — 558 p. — ISBN: 978-3-030-19624-0. This book serves as a comprehensive reference for the basic principles of caring for older adults, directly corresponding to the key competencies for medical student and residents. These competencies are covered in 10 sections, each with chapters that target the skills and knowledge necessary for achieving competency. Each of...
Springer Publishing Company, 2002. — 401 p. — ISBN 978-0826170132. This empirically-based study of older adults ranging in age from 70-90 years examines the influence of family relations, religious beliefs, age-related health changes, culture, and more on personal meanings of death, fears of death, and views of the dying process. Gerontologists will gain a more realistic...
Elsevier, 2018. — 227 p. — ISBN: 978-0-323-54454-2. Rehabilitation of the geriatric patient poses a unique set of challenges and conditions often not seen in younger patients, but which are common among older adults. This quick, practical resource helps physiatrists and other members of the rehabilitation team overcome these challenges, covering the wide range of topics...
Oxford University Press, 2002. — 256 р. Why do we age? Is aging inevitable? Will advances in medical knowledge allow us to extend the human lifespan beyond its present limits? Because growing old has long been the one irreducible reality of human existence, these intriguing questions arise more often in the context of science fiction than science fact. But recent discoveries in...
Springer, 2019. — 145 p — ISBN: 978-3-030-23482-9 As the population of older adults in the U.S. continues to grow, medical house calls are increasingly part of a system of comprehensive home-based care for patients who have difficulty accessing office-.based care. Clinicians who have been trained mostly in office and hospital settings must adapt their usual approaches to...
Springer, 2019. — 401 p. — ISBN: 978-3-030-06199-9 This book weaves all of these factors together to engage in and promote medical, biomedical and psychosocial interventions, including lifestyle changes, for healthier aging outcomes. The text begins with an introduction to age-related changes that increase in disease and disability commonly associated with old age. Written by...
BMJ Books, 2009. — 89 p. 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 Geriatric Medicine provides an overview of geriatric medicine in practice. Chapters are...
Springer, 2019. — 201 p. This clinically focused book provides the essential modalities for managing pain in older patients. Chapters cover a variety of topics important for clinicians, including effective approaches, evaluation, acute and chronic pain, interventional strategies, and addiction issues. Complexities in assessing and treating pain when presented with multiple...
RosettaBooks, 2013. — 706 p. — ISBN 9780795336331. Take charge of the future and achieve the best health possible. Discover how to avoid major illness and to reduce the chance of disease. Plus get better sleep, maintain optimal vision, boost immunity and more. With motivation, energy and knowledge, one can craft a future that's fulfilling, invigorating and best of all —...
Cambridge University Press, 2003. – 292 p. (Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology 36).
Much current research on the biology of senescence is on cell lines, nematodes, or fruit flies, which may be only of peripheral relevance to the problems encountered in human senescence. Human Senescence reviews the evolutionary biology of human senescence and life...
2nd edition. — Wiley-Blackwell, 2021. — 447 p. — ISBN 978-1-119-59787-2. Sarcopenia is common in older men and women, and yet awareness of its clinical relevance is still relatively low. Only formally included in the International Classification of Diseases in 2016, the condition may impact societies with serious health-related and financial consequences unless consistent,...
Springer US, 2020. — 278 p. — ISBN: 978-1-0716-0592-9. This volume details the impact of aging on biological system and to understand the basis of this diversity with the goal of elucidating mechanisms to optimize health. Chapters guide readers through different animal models and methodologies to examine aging at the organism, tissue, cellular, and molecular levels across the...
Springer, 2020. — 462 p. — ISBN: 978-3-030-24134-6 This timely volume provides an up-to-date and comprehensive summary about what is known about aging and work and addresses the challenges and opportunities confronting older workers and organizations. The authors describe current and emerging topics related to work and aging adults such as working in teams, the increasing...
Danford N., Greisberg J.K., Jobin C.M., Rosenwasser M.P., Walker M.D. — Springer, 2021. — 257 p. — ISBN 978-3-030-78968-8. The global burden of geriatric hip fractures is enormous. From both the patient's and physician’s perspective, the injury is complex. A hip fracture often changes a patient’s life and/or the life of the patient’s family permanently. From the physician’s...
Danford N., Greisberg J.K., Jobin C.M., Rosenwasser M.P., Walker M.D. — Springer, 2021. — 257 p. — ISBN 978-3-030-78968-8. The global burden of geriatric hip fractures is enormous. From both the patient's and physician’s perspective, the injury is complex. A hip fracture often changes a patient’s life and/or the life of the patient’s family permanently. From the physician’s...
Springer Publishing Company, 2018. — 399 p. — ISBN: 9780826140821 This authoritative resource provides nurses and other health care professionals with a comprehensive overview and analysis of self-neglect in older adults. With an aging global population, self-neglect is emerging as a complex problem that crosses multiple disciplines of health and social care. Characterized by a...
Oxford University Press, 2010. — 828 p. — (Oxford American Handbooks of Medicine). — ISBN10: 0195373189; ISBN13: 978-0195373189. Written by leading American practitioners, the Oxford American Handbooks of Medicine each offer a pocket-sized overview of an entire specialty, featuring instant access to guidance on the conditions that are most likely to be encountered. Precise and...
Nova Science Publishers, 2020. — 228 p. — (Health Care in Transition). — ISBN 978-1-53616-889-1. A caregiver (usually also known as informal caregiver) is an often unpaid and without formal training (in the related disease) member of a person's social network who helps them with activities of daily living. Caregiving is most commonly used to address impairments related to old...
Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer, 2018. — 1386 p. Focusing on the content that students need to know for effective practice, this text offers engaging, evidence-based coverage of the aging process, factors contributing to healthy aging, and unique aspects of disease presentation and management in older adults. Updated to help students meet the challenges of this increasingly diverse...
3rd edition. — Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. — 384 p. The third edition of this essential text has been updated and expanded with new material that reflects the most recent developments in the field, and explores our current understanding of a broad range of topics related to aging and older adulthood. Introduction to Aging and Older Adulthood. Theory and Method in Studying Aging and...
2nd edition. — Springer, 2021. — 355 p. — (Practical Issues in Geriatrics). — ISBN: 978-3-030-48125-4 This new edition supported by the Fragility Fracture Network aims at giving the widest possible dissemination on fragility fracture (especially hip fracture) management and notably in countries where this expertise is sorely needed. It has been extensively revised and updated...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 659 p. — ISBN 978-1-107-16225-9. Recent studies show that more people than ever before are reaching old age in better health and enjoying that health for a longer time. This Handbook outlines the latest discoveries in the study of aging from bio-medicine, psychology, and socio-demography. It treats the study of aging as a multidisciplinary...
Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2016. — 1499 p. The leading reference in the field of geriatric care, Brocklehurst’s Textbook of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, 8th Edition, by Drs. Howard M. Fillit, Kenneth Rockwood, and John B. Young, provides a contemporary, global perspective on topics of importance to today’s gerontologists, internal medicine physicians, and family doctors. An...
7th edition. — Saunders, 2010. — 1160 p. — ISBN: 9781416062318 Popular with generations of practitioners, Brocklehurst's Textbook of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology has been the definitive reference of choice in the field of geriatric care. The new 7th Edition, by Howard M. Fillit, MD, Kenneth Rockwood, MD, and Kenneth Woodhouse, carries on this tradition with an increased...
Oxford University Press. 2014. — 296 p. Best of Five MCQs for the Geriatric Medicine SCE is the first revision guide designed specifically for this new high-stakes exam. It contains 300 best of five questions with explanatory answers, each accurately reflecting the layout of questions in the exam. The book is divided into three exams for trainees to test themselves on,...
Harvard University Press, 2007. — 340 p. — ISBN 978-0-674-02543-1. You’ve argued politics with your aunt since high school, but failing eyesight now prevents her from keeping current with the newspaper. Your mother fractured her hip last year and is confined to a wheelchair. Your father has Alzheimer’s and only occasionally recognizes you. Someday, as Muriel Gillick points out...
2nd edition. — Humana Press, 2011. — 221 p. — (Aging Medicine) — ISBN: 978-1-60761-617-7 The second edition of the Handbook of Pain Relief in Older Adults: An Evidence-Based Approach expands on the first edition by providing a number of timely new features. Most important of these are the revised recommendations from the American Geriatrics Society on prescribing that reflect...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 624 p. With an ageing population, there is little doubt that the majority of hospital-based consultants and their teams will care for older patients and the many complications this presents. This book provides an evidence-based guide for both trainees and consultants in geriatric medicine and those interested in geriatric medicine. Designed in...
Plattsburgh: Bentham Science Publishers, 2017. — 162 p. According to the National Institute of Aging there are more than half a billion people over the age of 65 across the globe. This has lead to a need for medical and psychiatric care on a scale unprecedented in history. In light of this increase in the global elderly population, the field of geriatric medicine has expanded and...
Springer, 2014. — 554 p.
Geriatric Urology outlines important topics in the care of elderly urology patients. The first section covers the biology of aging, the genitourinary system and disease screening including urologic conditions serving as warning signs of other disorders. Section two covers geriatric syndromes and urology including frailty, polypharmacy, dementia, wound...
Elsevier, 2012. — 618 p.
Geriatric Physical Therapy offers a comprehensive presentation of geriatric physical therapy science and practice. Thoroughly revised and updated, editors Andrew Guccione, Rita Wong, and Dale Avers and their contributors provide current information on aging-related changes in function, the impact of these changes on patient examination and evaluation, and...
2nd edition. — Mosby, 2000. — 534 p. — ISBN: 978-0323001724 This valued resource for physical therapists provides a comprehensive overview of geriatric physical therapy for physical therapy students as well as practitioners. Thoroughly revised and updated, it provides the latest information on geriatric health care, such as managed care/Medicare/Medicaid, reimbursement issues,...
Springer, 2020. — 343 p. — (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology: Proteomics, Metabolomics, Interactomics and Systems Biology 1260). — ISBN: 978-3-030-42666-8. Aging is an inevitable part of life and is becoming a worldwide social, economic and health problem. This is mainly due to the fact that the increasing proportion of individuals in the advanced age category have...
Springer, 2013. — 1109 p.
In the elderly, the coexistence of various diseases, the presence of involutional and degenerative changes, and the occurrence of both physical and cognitive problems represent “the norm.” It is therefore important to know how to distinguish the healthy elderly from those in need of treatment as a sound basis for avoiding overdiagnosis and overtreatment....
Springer, 2023. — 460 p. — (Practical Issues in Geriatrics). — ISBN 978-3-031-14876-7. This book addresses in a structured and multidisciplinary way the medical issues related to aging, paying particular attention to the role of diagnostic imaging in the field of cardiovascular, musculoskeletal, respiratory, neurological, urogenital and gastrointestinal diseases.This book...
Cambridge University Press, 2024. — 243 p. Cognitive and Social Neuroscience of Aging is an introduction to how aging affects the brain, intended for audiences with some knowledge of psychology, aging, or neuroscience. The book includes figures illustrating brain regions so that extensive familiarity with neuroanatomy is not a pre-requisite. The depth of coverage also makes...
Springer, 2013. — 212 p.
Primer of Geriatric Urology provides a review of the demographics of our aging urologic population and their unique needs. Chapters review alterations that must be considered in the initial evaluation of the aging patient, and follow with practical suggestions for development of the management plan, whether by counseling, medication, invasive procedure or...
5th edition. — Springer Publishing Company, 2010. — 664 p. This fifth edition of "Health Promotion and Aging" has been substantially revised and updated with multiple new sub-sections, topics, and terms in each chapter. This book presents a wide scope of cutting-edge topics including gay aging, Jewish aging, social networking, brain games, the Obama administration's health care...
McGraw-Hill Professional, 2009 - 1760 pages , ISBN: 0071488723 6th Edition The undisputed leader on the subject of geriatrics, this comprehensive guide combines gerontology principles with clinical geriatrics offering unmatched coverage of this area of medicine. Written by some of the world's most respected geriatricians, Hazzard's Principles of Geriatric Medicine and...
7th edition. — McGraw-Hill Education / Medical, 2017. — 2520 p. — ISBN: 978-0-07-183345-5 The definitive treatise on the subject of geriatrics, this comprehensive text combines gerontology principles with clinical geriatrics, offering a uniquely holistic approach to this ever-expanding area of medicine. Written by some of the world’s most respected geriatricians, Hazzard’s...
8th edition. — McGraw-Hill Education / Medical, 2022. — 3952 p. — ISBN 978-1-26-046445-0. The leading text on the subject of geriatrics, this comprehensive guide combines gerontology principles with clinical geriatrics, offering unmatched coverage of this area of medicine. Anchored in evidence-based medicine and patient-centered practice, Hazzard's Geriatric Medicine and...
5th edition. — Mosby, 2007. — 656 p. — ISBN: 9780323039307. Designed for anyone involved in treating geriatric patients, this New Edition continues to be the best comprehensive source for clinical solutions for the challenging geriatric population. Inside, you'll find a wealth of information on the principles of geriatric primary care...detailed, case-based approaches to major...
6th edition. — Elsevier, 2014. — 767 p. — ISBN 978-0-323-08936-4. Employing a unique case-based approach, Ham's Primary Care Geriatrics continues to be your comprehensive source of clinical solutions for this challenging population. This gerontology medical reference book features an interdisciplinary perspective that empowers you with team-oriented knowledge on the best...
Springer, 2019. — 247 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-95030-3 This text addresses the specific lack of clinical educational support for transgender and gender nonconforming (TGNC) individuals as they age. Chapters are written by multidisciplinary healthcare experts who present topical discussions in five critical areas: essential foundational information needed to understand the life...
Springer, 2019. — 759 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-95031-0 This text addresses the specific lack of clinical educational support for transgender and gender nonconforming (TGNC) individuals as they age. Chapters are written by multidisciplinary healthcare experts who present topical discussions in five critical areas: essential foundational information needed to understand the life...
Springer Publishing Company, 2020. — 536 p. — ISBN 978-0-8261-7004-0. The first book of its kind, this evidence-based resource provides nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and other advanced practice providers with the clinical knowledge they need to effectively practice adult-gerontology acute care. In quick-reference format, this system-based text describes more than...
Springer, 2011. — 522 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4419-0635-9. One of the major milestones of aging research is the concept that dementia is not a one-cause, one-effect disorder. From this realization, scores of research-based cognitive wellness programs have been established alongside traditional medical interventions to help older adults deal with memory decline, cognitive deficits,and...
Springer, 2016. — 299 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-23364-2 This book is a practical reference for any clinician who has struggled to care for an older adult in a home setting. The volume is written by experts in the field who describe fundamental principles and clinical approaches of geriatric home-based care and their application to specific diseases and conditions, including...
Springer, 2016. — 736 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-23365-9 This book is a practical reference for any clinician who has struggled to care for an older adult in a home setting. The volume is written by experts in the field who describe fundamental principles and clinical approaches of geriatric home-based care and their application to specific diseases and conditions, including...
ITexLi, 2022. — 108 p. — ISBN 1839690518 9781839690518 183969050X 9781839690501 1839690526 9781839690525. Senescence represents a complex universal phenomenon that can be impacted by several factors. It is emerging as a therapeutic target for several diseases. This book presents an overview of the current mechanisms and management of senescence in humans. It also provides...
Springer New York, 2011. — 184 p. Age-Related Macular Degeneration: Diagnosis and Treatment is written by two leading experts from Wills Eye Hospital. Covering the latest therapies and treatments developed in the last few years, this is a concise yet highly illustrated and practical text that guides the clinician through diagnosis and treatment of the leading cause of blindness in...
3rd edition. — Springer, 2019. — 100 p. — ISBN: 978-3-030-20478-5 This new updated edition challenges the perceptions, beliefs and attitudes of professionals working in dementia care settings by drawing on the theory of person-centred care. It demonstrates the importance of this theory for interacting with and caring for people with dementia. It also provides an overview of the...
Springer, 2007. – 132 p Acknowledgements Author’s Note Longevity Body Architecture Maintenance of the Body Multiple Causes The Ancient Origins of Ageing Mice and Men How Many Genes? The Evolution of Human Longevity Myths of Life Extension Doctors’ Dilemma The Modulation of Longevity Ageing and the Angels Longevity, Population Pressure and Warfare Dialogue between Life and Death...
Wiley, 2012. — 202 p.
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 taking into account their life situations as well as treatment of specific conditions. Leading...
ADIS, 2016. — 255 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-32302-2. Comprising a single repository of knowledge and scientific evidence in the field, this book provides strategies to mitigate fall risk by providing information on the complex interactions between aging processes, co-morbid conditions and prescribed medications in older patients.Geriatric health is becoming a more prominent issue as...
Springer Publishing Company, 2006. — 352 p. Older people are entering nursing homes later and sicker than ever before, thus presenting as more physically fragile and complex residents and requiring more advanced care and treatment. To this end, Hyer and Intrieri have gathered together a group of health care professionals who are genuinely dedicated to the care and research of...
Springer, 2018. — 136 p. This book provides a comprehensive, scholarly, and practical account of delirium that will be of value for all doctors and nurses involved in the care of the elderly. It not only offers a state of the art update on delirium, covering its history, epidemiology, pathophysiology, assessment, diagnosis, causes, prevention, and management, but also presents...
2nd edition. — Springer, 2021. — 146 p. — ISBN 978-3-030-62492-7. This book provides a comprehensive and practical guide to orthostatic hypotension (OH) for doctors and nurses involved in the care of older adults, together with a state-of-the-art update on OH, covering its epidemiology, pathophysiology, assessment, diagnosis, causes, prevention, management, and relevance for...
Nova Science Publishers, 2015. — 295 p. The interaction between mind and skin diseases is the focus in psychodermatology. This important subspecialty is the result of the merging of two major medical specialties: psychiatry and dermatology. Research and existing publications in this field are mainly focused on the general population. The increase in life expectation and the...
Editors: Malcolm L. Johnson, Vern L. Bengtson, Peter G. Coleman, Thomas B. L. Kirkwood. — Cambridge Univrsity Press, 2006. — xxvi, 744 p. — ISBN 0521826322, 9780521826327, 9780511137013. Containing almost 80 original chapters, commissioned and written by the world's leading gerontologists from 16 countries and 5 continents, the broad focus of this handbook is on the behavioral...
8th Edition. — Academic Press, 2016. — 560 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-411596-5. Handbook provides readers with an update on the rapid progress in the research of aging. It is a comprehensive synthesis and review of the latest and most important advances and themes in modern biogerontology, and focuses on the trend of ‘big data’ approaches in the biological sciences, presenting new...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 384 p. — ISBN: 978-1107677647 As the global geriatric population continues to grow, an increasing proportion of people reporting to emergency departments are elderly. The work-up of these patients uses more time and resources than that of younger patients, and is complicated by the fact that acute disease often presents more subtly, without...
7th edition. — McGraw-Hill Education / Medical, 2013. — 525 p. For nearly three decades, the goal of Essentials of Clinical Geriatrics has remained unchanged: to help clinicians do a better job of caring for their older patients. You will find thorough and authoritative coverage of all the important issues in geriatrics, along with concise, practical guidance on the diagnosis...
Springer, 2020. — 245 p. — ISBN: 978-981-15-2364-9 This book highlights recent advances in our understanding of sarcopenia and frailty in CKD. The prevalence of sarcopenia and frailty increases substantially as CKD progresses, and experimental studies have demonstrated the pivotal role of accumulated uremic toxin in the development of muscle wasting. Further, sarcopenia and...
Elsevier, 2014. — 586 p.
Now in its third edition, this trusted clinical guide enables both the busy practitioner and student to review or to learn about a range of pathologies, conditions, examinations, diagnostic procedures, and interventions that can be effectively used in the physical rehabilitation of older people. It presents a broad overview of age-related physiological...
2nd edition. — Churchill Livingstone, 2007. — 508 p. — ISBN: 978-0-443-10233-2 This well-established, practical manual gives step-by-step guidance on the evaluation and treatment of geriatric diseases and disorders. This book covers incidence of disorders, diagnostic tests, associated diagnoses, clinical implications for mobility, and rehabilitation techniques. A broad overview...
Wiley, 2012. — 426 p. As the fastest growing population sector worldwide, older adults are seen in almost every care setting in which clinicians practice. Developed as a resource for advanced practice nurses in any setting, the book presents readers with a range of both typical and atypical cases from real clinical scenarios. The book is organized into six units covering cases...
Wolters Kluwer, 2017. — 328 p. The book provides a high-yield review of geriatric medicine for students taking a geriatric clerkship. Clinical pearls, clinical vignettes, full-color illustrations, and “Quick Hits” provide essential information in an efficient, easy-to-remember manner. Step-Up to Geriatrics delivers exactly what you need to know for exam prep and for practical...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 657 p. — ISBN: 9780190466268 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 and underutilize non-pharmacological, low-cost, high-touch methods....
Springer, 2013. — 148 p. Europe currently is the oldest continent in the world and its population is still ageing. This demographic shift affects society, economy, and welfare states. Scholars from various disciplines and the public noted this development and wonder what effects it may have, but lack adequate information. They call for explanations that are concise and easily...
Springer, 2020. — 190 p. — (Practical Issues in Geriatrics). — ISBN: 978-3-030-41467-2. This book provides basic knowledge and skills for non-dental healthcare practitioners, helping them recognize the importance of oral health, perform initial oral health assessments, consult dentists when necessary, and offer preventive advice and counseling. As people age, they tend to...
Ciando, 2004. — 137 p. With the remarkable increase in life expectancy in recent years, overall numbers of older individuals living with disability and functional dependence are likely to increase. Age-related changes and diseases involving the peripheral nervous system, particularly its autonomic elements, frequently play determining roles in late life health and functional...
Academic Press, 2019. — 189 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-816485-3. This book provides tactics on how to facilitate planning and research in interventive biogerontology. The book helps create clearer directions for the translation of existing advances in delivery technologies, from lab to practice. It is ideal as a starting point for scientists, clinicians and those interested in the...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 237 p.
People are living longer and the population over the age of 60 is burgeoning, with repercussions for health services and healthcare expenditure in developed countries. Crucially, disease aetiology, diagnosis, and treatment in older people differ from the general adult population. Older people often have complicated co-morbidities and...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 221 p. People are living longer and the population over the age of 60 is burgeoning, with repercussions for health services and healthcare expenditure in developed countries. Crucially, disease aetiology, diagnosis, and treatment in older people differ from the general adult population. Older people often have complicated co-morbidities and...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 549 p. — ISBN: 9780199689644 People are living longer and the population over the age of 60 is burgeoning, with repercussions for health services and healthcare expenditure in developed countries. Crucially, disease aetiology, diagnosis, and treatment in older people differ from the general adult population. Older people often have complicated...
McGraw-Hill Medic, 2004. - 600 p. Current Geriatric Diagnosis and Treatment addresses the medical problems that are most common, most serious, or most troublesome to older adults. With the explosion in the number of older adults, especially those age 85 years or older, this information is especially important because most physicians and nurses will spend most of their...
2nd edition. — Springer, 2021. — 2037 p. — ISBN 978-3-030-76271-1. This book aims to be a single point of reference for advances in the care of geriatric populations across medical and surgical specialties. The aging population is a unique demographic with its own health challenges. Geriatricians are specifically trained to address these challenges but few medical students or...
2nd edition. — Springer, 2021. — 399 p. — ISBN 978-3-030-76270-4. This book aims to be a single point of reference for advances in the care of geriatric populations across medical and surgical specialties. The aging population is a unique demographic with its own health challenges. Geriatricians are specifically trained to address these challenges but few medical students or...
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022. — 1358 р. — ISBN 9781421444697 Your indispensable guide to taking charge of the second half of your life. From Dr. Rosanne M. Leipzig, a top doctor with more than 35 years of experience caring for older people, Honest Aging is an indispensable guide to the second half of life, describing what to expect physically,...
Springer, 2021. — 426 p. — ISBN 978-3-030-73773-3. This book provides concrete scientific basis that we can conceive the possibility of modifying or even completely canceling aging process, despite the fact that aging is commonly regarded as the result of the overall effects of many uncontrollable degenerative phenomena. The authors illustrate in detail the mechanisms by which...
Academic Press, 2010. — 732 p. New trends in mental healthcare practice and a rapid increase in the aged population are causing an explosion in the fields of clinical gerontology and geropsychology today. This comprehensive second edition handbook offers clinicians and graduate students clear guidelines and reliable tools for assessing general mental health, cognitive functioning,...
Springer, 2019. — 218 p. — ISBN: 978-3-030-12413-7. Northwestern has pioneered the Geriatric Emergency Department through the creation of the Geriatric Emergency Department Innovation model (GEDI), with goals to prevent admissions for older adults by assessing and meeting their geriatric-specific, non-acute care needs in the ED. The GEDI model at Northwestern centers on a...
Springer Netherlands, 2010. — 479 p. Some of the most serious consequences of aging are its effects on skeletal muscle. ‘Sarcopenia’, the progressive age-related loss of muscle mass and associated muscle weakness, renders frail elders susceptible to serious injury from sudden falls and fractures and at risk for losing their functional independence. Not surprisingly, sarcopenia is...
Springer, 2011. — 494 p. — ISBN: 978-90-481-9712-5 Some of the most serious consequences of aging are its effects on skeletal muscle. ‘Sarcopenia’, the progressive age-related loss of muscle mass and associated muscle weakness, renders frail elders susceptible to serious injury from sudden falls and fractures and at risk for losing their functional independence. Not...
Springer, 2015. — 321 p.
This book describes geriatrics practice models that are used to guide the care of older adults, allowing seniors to remain at home, prevent functional disability and preserve quality of life. The models include specific interventions which are performed by health care workers to address the needs of older persons and their caregivers. These models respect...
New York: Academic Press, 2021. — 688 p. Assessments, Treatments and Modeling in Aging and Neurological Disease: The Neuroscience of Aging is a comprehensive reference on the diagnosis and management of neurological aging and associated disorders. This book discusses the mechanisms underlying neurological aging and provides readers with a detailed introduction to the aging of...
Academic Press, Elsevier, 2002. — 196 p. Preface Calcium and evolutionary aspects of aging Calcium homeostasis and signaling in aging Cellular calcium dynamics Impact of aging on calcium channels and pumps Calcium homeostasis and learning deficits in aging Calcium and the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative disorders Altered T-lymphocyte calcium signaling and age-related disease...
John Wiley & Sons, 2016. — 447 p. — ISBN: 9781118753347. The elderly represent the fastest growing segment of the population in developed countries, reflected in the patient population presenting to EDs and hospitals. These patients more often than not have greater co-morbidities, more complicated workups and utilize more laboratory and radiologic services. This text is...
CRC Press, 2006. — 309 p. — ISBN: 9780789026200 Providing effective treatment for pain-especially to elderly clients-can be a vexing problem for even the most knowledgeable clinician. In Clinical Management of the Elderly Patient in Pain, some of the world's leading authorities describe the unique difficulties that arise when trying to provide pain relief to elderly patients....
Nova Science Publishers, 2012. — 176 p. In this book, the authors discuss topical issues relating to veterans including transfusion therapy for veteran patients; low serum vitamin D and its association with metabolic syndrome in African American and Caucasian American male veterans; eye care issues in veterans; substandard and lack of affordable housing in the veteran...
Blackwell Publishing, 2005. — 249 p. This book locates older people as major clients of occupational therapy services. It provides a comprehensive resource for students and a basic working reference for clinicians. The book encompasses current theories, debates and challenges which occupational therapists need to engage in if they are to provide pro-active and promotional...
Springer, 2022. — 262 p. — ISBN 978-3-031-05136-4. This unique guide provides readers with a concise yet informative base of understanding of PACE as well as a “deep dive” into the components and job roles that will serve as a reference for existing PACE providers and will inform those who are considering the possibility of developing a new PACE program. Chapters are organized...
McGraw-Hill Education / Medical, 2010. — 642 p. From one of the world’s leading medical journals comes the definitive evidence-based, full-color guide to end-of-life and palliative care. A new addition to the JAMAevidence series, Care at the Close of Life: Evidence and Experience offers evidence-based and clinical expert guidance on caring for patients with life-limiting...
New York: Springer, 2020. — 205 p. This volume is a practical resource for all those responsible for caring for older people across health and social care. It provides a comprehensive and holistic approach helping nurses, therapists and social care professionals to better understand the impact of ageing upon the person and wider society. A unique feature of this text is the...
Springer, 2019. — 199 p. — (Practical Issues in Geriatrics) — ISBN: 978-3-319-96528-4 This book explains how to promote and prolong “healthy ageing,” which constitutes maintaining daily functioning and well-being until the end of life.In this context, the editor of the book and the international team of authors, all of whom are experts on the various aspects of ageing,...
Springer, 2020. — 444 p. — ISBN: 978-3-030-24232-9. Despite of the enormous efforts of researchers and clinicians to understand the pathophysiology of falls in older adults and establish preventive treatments, there is still a significant gap in our understanding and treating of this challenging syndrome, particularly when we focus in cognitively impaired older adults. Falls in...
Springer, 2020. — 1312 p. — ISBN: 978-3-030-24233-6. Despite of the enormous efforts of researchers and clinicians to understand the pathophysiology of falls in older adults and establish preventive treatments, there is still a significant gap in our understanding and treating of this challenging syndrome, particularly when we focus in cognitively impaired older adults. Falls...
9th Ed. — SAGE Publications, Inc, 2017. — 773 p. — ISBN10: 1506328008, 13 978-1506328003. Presenting current research in an innovative text-reader format, Aging: Concepts and Controversies, Ninth Edition encourages students to become involved and take an informed stand on the major aging issues we face as a society. Not simply a summary of research literature, Harry R. Moody...
Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2007. — 236 p.
Chronic Disorders in an Aging Population: Epidemiology
Elders and Health Care Utilization and Costs
Chronic Disease and Quality of Life in Older Adults
Psychological Problems in the Elderly
Cognitive Changes in Older Adults
Seniors with Diabetes Mellitus
Rheumatoid Arthritis, Osteoarthritis, Osteoporosis, Fibromyalgia,...
Springer, 2022. — 429 p. — ISBN 978-981-16-7976-6. This book describes the recent advancement of basic research on the biology of aging and longevity studies in various organisms, as well as the neurobiology of aging and neurodegeneration mechanisms. Chapters present new findings and conceptual developments concerning the basic mechanisms of aging and longevity determination....
Springer, 2020. — 226 p. — (Healthy Ageing and Longevity 11). — ISBN: 978-3-030-44902-5. This book offers comprehensive information on the new and rapidly evolving science of identifying and targeting senescent cells, and on the exciting prospect of new diagnostic and therapeutic opportunities for stopping, and even reversing, the progression of disease and the deterioration of...
Springer, 2020. — 661 p. — (Healthy Ageing and Longevity 11). — ISBN: 978-3-030-44903-2. This book offers comprehensive information on the new and rapidly evolving science of identifying and targeting senescent cells, and on the exciting prospect of new diagnostic and therapeutic opportunities for stopping, and even reversing, the progression of disease and the deterioration of...
Princeton University Press, 2023. — 464 p. How recent breakthroughs in longevity research offer clues about human aging. All of us would like to live longer, or to slow the debilitating effects of age. In How We Age , Coleen Murphy shows how recent research on longevity and aging may be bringing us closer to this goal. Murphy, a leading scholar of aging, explains that the study...
Springer International Publishing AG, 2018. — 795 p. — ISBN: 3319334336. This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the unique clinical entities of diseases in older patients. The book arranges the organ systems in 21 sections, which include over 100 collective chapters on various age-related diseases in these organ systems. The text is specifically designed for...
Springer International Publishing AG, 2018. — 795 p. — ISBN: 3319334336. This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the unique clinical entities of diseases in older patients. The book arranges the organ systems in 21 sections, which include over 100 collective chapters on various age-related diseases in these organ systems. The text is specifically designed for...
Wiley, 2014. — 762 p.
As society grows older, so do the neurological problems associated with aging. These can be new neurological deficits due to the aging process itself, or the effect of aging on already existing neurological conditions. Neurologists will spend increasing amounts of time managing patients with age-related neurological complications.
Geriatric Neurology brings...
Springer, 2018. - 317 p. - ISBN: 978-981-10-3252-3 We live in a triumphant era of increasing numbers of older people around the globe, thanks to major advances in medicine and public health. Older adults comprise a population of heterogeneous people who need medical care that is tailored to each individual and supported by scientific knowledge. Healthcare providers all over the...
Springer, 2011. — 315 p.
The first book dedicated explicitly to the care of elderly patients with rheumatic diseases, this comprehensive resource is a practical guide for navigating the medical concerns of these complex patients. While patients over 65 years of age comprise roughly 15% of the population, they consume about 50% of rheumatology resources. This book presents current...
Nova Biomedical, 2016. — 310 p. Changing demographics have resulted in the elderly constituting a more significant proportion of the population. Many older people will develop functional impairment and disability, necessitating either support at home or admission to long-term care facilities, rehabilitation centers, psychiatric institutions and hospices. Guidance in the...
Wiley, 2015. — 427 p. Ageing is a complex, time-related biological phenomenon that is genetically determined and environmentally modulated. According to even the most pessimistic projections, average lifespan is expected to increase around the world during the next 20 years, significantly raising the number of aged individuals. But increasing life expectancy presents new problems,...
Springer, 2013. — 151 p.
This concise practical guide is designed to facilitate the clinical decision-making process by reviewing a number of cases and defining the various diagnostic and management decisions open to clinicians. It is richly illustrated and diverse in scope, enabling the reader to obtain relevant information regarding both standard and unusual cases in a rapid,...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 472 p.
Sleep disorders cause considerable morbidity and distress in the aging population. By highlighting the clinical diagnosis and management of sleep disorders, this volume provides a valuable resource for all those involved in health care of older individuals. The changes in sleep patterns that occur during normal aging are described,...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 472 p. — ISBN 978-0-521-89670-2. Sleep disorders cause considerable morbidity and distress in the aging population. By highlighting the clinical diagnosis and management of sleep disorders, this volume provides a valuable resource for all those involved in health care of older individuals. The changes in sleep patterns that occur during...
Berlin: Springer, 2012. — 360 p. This volume discusses the current state of research findings related to healthy brain aging by integrating human clinical studies and translational research in animal models. Several chapters offer a unique overview of successful aging, age-related cognitive decline and its associated structural and functional brain changes, as well as how these...
4th edition. — Wiley, 2006. — 2105 p. — ISBN: 978-0470090558. The fourth edition of the highly acclaimed Principles and Practice of Geriatric Medicine provides an account of the fundamental changes associated with ageing, which are essential to our understanding and management of the elderly sick population. The title has been extensively revised and updates to reflect the...
SAGE, 2010. — 249 p. Social gerontology is a new and dynamic field reflecting the increasing interest in aging across the world. This book provides a readily accessible guide to well established and contested issues, as well as new concepts emerging through cutting edge research in the discipline. The entries give concise, lucid knowledge on what constitutes the 'building blocks'...
Humana Press, 2008. — 175 p. — ISBN: 978-1-58829-998-7 The field of geriatrics foundations is rooted in the classic papers of early descriptions of aging and age-related diseases. In Classic Papers in Geriatric Medicine with Current Commentaries, the authors chose the "classic" papers, providing a combination of expert opinion and objective assessment. The 15 areas in this volume...
Springer, 2018. — 182 p. This book offers an up-to-date review on the principles and practice of multidimensional assessment and management of the older individual, which represents the cornerstone of modern clinical practice in the elderly. The early chapters cover the main elements and scope of the comprehensive geriatric approach and explain the pathways of care from screening...
Springer, 2023. — 217 p. — (Practical Issues in Geriatrics). — ISBN 978-3-031-32245-7. This book aims at disseminating information and knowledge in Gerontechnology, a topic that is still considered a specific area of interest for techno-experts (i.e. informatics, engineers, bio-engineers, bio-statistics, etc.) while there is a relatively low diffusion of technological expertise...
Springer, 2012. — 659 p.
As aging trends in the United States and Europe in particular are strongly suggestive of increasingly older society, it would be prudent for health care providers to better prepare for such changes. By including physiology, disease, nutrition, pharmacology, pathology, radiology and other relevant associated topics, Geriatric Gastroenterology fills the...
Springer, 2018. — 160 p. Geriatric patients consume a disproportionate share of healthcare resources, so CMS directs Medicare and drives geriatric healthcare models. All other insurers generally model CMS/Medicare guidelines. Innovative geriatric care models which demonstrate improved outcomes and cost moderation are scaled and lessons learned used to create new healthcare models....
Springer, 2020. — 169 p. — ISBN: 978-3-030-35730-6 This book focuses on evidence-based occupational therapy in the care of older adults in different clinical settings, from home to acute hospital, from intensive care unit to rehabilitation centers and nursing homes. Occupational therapy has progressively developed as a new discipline aiming to improve the daily life of...
2nd Edition. — Academic Press, 2020. — 370 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-818698-5. This book, Second Edition, bridges the trans-disciplinary divide and covers the science of oxidative stress in aging and the therapeutic use of natural antioxidants in the food matrix in a single volume. The second edition covers new trials and investigations used to determine the comprehensive properties...
7th edition. — McGraw-Hill Education, 2018. — 481 p. — ISBN 978-1-259-87044-6. Quadagno’s groundbreaking text, Aging and the Life Course: An Introduction to Social Gerontology, examines the relationship between quality of life in old age and its experiential catalysts. Throughout the text an emphasis is placed on the intersectionality of race, class, gender, and culture, and...
CRC Press, 2022. — 216 p. — ISBN 978-0-367-56400-1. This book is an authoritative and well-structured text which is both topic and curriculum oriented, aimed to appeal to a wider multi-professional audience in line with the current NHS workforce training needs in the UK. It is based on the ‘specialist certificate examination’ (SCE), awarded for the completion of higher...
Cavendish Publishing Limited, 2000. — 250 p. — (Medico-Legal Practitioners) — ISBN: 9781859415290 The elderly as a proportion of the population has increased dramatically over the last 100 years. The health care needs of the elderly differ substantially from those of younger patients. This book will provide lawyers with readily available information on common clinical problems...
2nd Edition. — Academic Press, 2018. — 1171 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-811353-0. This Handbook, Second Edition, presents key aspects of biology, nutrition, factors affecting lifespan, methods of age determination, use in research and the disadvantages/advantages of use. Using a multidisciplinary approach, this updated edition is designed as the only comprehensive, current work that...
William Morrow, 2024. — 627 р. — ISBN: 978-0-06-311327-5 A groundbreaking exploration of the science of aging and mortality—from Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist Venki Ramakrishnan The knowledge of death is so terrifying that we live most of our lives in denial of it. One of the most difficult moments of childhood must be when each of us first realizes that not only we...
Singapore: Springer, 2019. — 434 p. About the Editor. Alterations in Nervous System, Genes, Hormones and Immunity During Aging. Neurological Problems of the Elderly. Stroke. Parkinson’s Disease (PD). Chronic Subdural Haematoma (CSDH). Hyponatraemia. Spondylosis. Molecular Marker and Therapeutic Regimen for Neurodegenerative Diseases. Alzheimer’s Disease. Aβ. Total Tau and...
Springer, 2017. — 358 p. — ISBN: 978-981-10-2154-1. This book presents a collection of articles on various aspects of current research on aging. These include model systems, cellular, biochemical and molecular aspects of experimental aging research, as well as selected intervention studies on age-related diseases.Aging is a global challenge to human society. Children are always...
Springer, 2016. — 358 p. This book covers the origins and subsequent history of research results in which attempts have been made to clarify issues related to cellular ageing, senescence, and age-related pathologies including cancer. Cellular Ageing and Replicative Senescence revisits more than fifty-five years of research based on the discovery that cultured normal cells are...
Springer, 2019. — 763 p. This comprehensive update offers practical advice for professionals working in neuropsychology with older adults. Focusing on fundamentals, common issues, special considerations, and late-life cognitive disorders, respected names in this critical specialty address a wide range of presenting problems and assessment, diagnostic, and treatment concerns....
Springer, 2013. — 525 p. With the aging of the baby boomers and medical advances that promote longevity, older adults are rapidly becoming the fastest growing segment of the population. As the population ages, so does the incidence of age related disorders. Many predict that 15% - 20% of the baby-boomer generation will develop some form of cognitive decline over the course of...
Da Capo Lifelong Books, 2019. — 695 р. Discover the keys to a long life and optimal health at any age in this practical wellness guide and cookbook-with simple 7-ingredient recipes. Experts in food and medicine have been looking to a plant-based diet as the most holistic, effective, and universal path to health, especially when it comes to aging. This guide provides a...
Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2007. — 414 p. Recognition that aging is not the accumulation of disease, but rather comprises fundamental biological processes that are amenable to experimental study, is the basis for the recent growth of experimental biogerontology. As increasingly sophisticated studies provide greater understanding of what occurs in the aging brain and how these...
4th edition. — Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2020. — 424 p. — ISBN: 9781284140569 Gerontology for the Health Care Professional, Fourth Edition is a comprehensive, practical text covering the evolving field of gerontology, developed for healthcare students and professionals. Written by experts across many health disciplines, this text presents an up-to-date and realistic assessment...
Wiley, 2014. - 231 p. Molecular Aspects of Aging: Understanding Lung Aging covers recent research in the mechanisms that contribute to cellular senescence. Covering universal themes in aging, such as the exhaustion of stem cells and subsequent loss of the regenerative refueling of organs as well as immunosenescence, this text illuminates new directions for research not yet...
Springer, 2018. — 365 p. This textbook presents hands-on training material for medical students. The style reflects the need for practice-based teaching with a modern edge in daily clinical routine; accordingly, it also employs online material and pocket cards. Each chapter begins with specific learning objectives, which are cross-referenced with the European curriculum for...
Springer, 2011. — 1414 p.
Second Edition
"In the preface to this impressive and well-produced book, the editors state that their aim is not to describe a new surgical specialty, since most surgeons will soon need to be "geriatric surgeons," but to assemble a comprehensive account that will allow "all providers of healthcare to the elderly to understand the issues involved in...
3rd edition. — Springer, 2020. — 1217 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-47770-1 This new edition builds upon the foundation of the first and second editions of the handbook, volumes separated by a decade of experience in the field, in a format that is both comprehensive and fluid. The combination of print and electronic versions will promote more rapid up-dating of chapters as new...
3rd edition. — Springer, 2020. — 4493 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-47771-8 This new edition builds upon the foundation of the first and second editions of the handbook, volumes separated by a decade of experience in the field, in a format that is both comprehensive and fluid. The combination of print and electronic versions will promote more rapid up-dating of chapters as new...
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2006. — 624 p. — ISBN 978-0781761963. This practical, ready-access reference provides clinicians and students with evidence-based strategies for the care of older patients. The book is organized to yield quick answers to questions arising during the patient encounter. The contributors offer pragmatic management guidelines appropriate for the...
Springer, 2017. — 372 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-31167-8 This book covers all aspects of the specialized field of gerontorheumatology, providing a complete overview of rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases and related conditions in the elderly. The emphasis is particularly on pathogenesis, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment, including the latest advances in biological and...
Springer, 2002. — 303 p. The authors provide a contemporary perspective on the status of qualitative research in gerontology. The second edition examines recent trends in the application of qualitative methodologies and the emergence of new qualitative techniques such as focus groups, studies of personal histories, and the use of photography. Chapters include discussions of...
Springer, 2024. — 442 p. — ISBN-13 : 978-3031573606 This book offers a thorough examination of frailty, covering its complexity through sections on foundational concepts, pathogenesis research, assessment methods, management strategies, care settings, its relation to other chronic conditions, and societal implications. It provides a deep understanding of frailty's scientific...
7th edition. — Springer Publishing, 2022. — 1278 p. — ISBN 978-0-8261-5056-1. The seventh edition of this classic multidisciplinary text for students of gerontology continues to offer practical, user-friendly, and comprehensive information about the physical changes and common pathologies associated with the aging process. Fully updated with current information regarding...
Amsterdam: Springer, 2008. — 183 p. The decision-making process that underlies ovarian hormone therapy (HT) is a fallible one. The question is whether or not physicians should prescribe HT to menopausal women, who are at a time in their lives when they are factoring various concerns into their decision to take (or not take) HT. Not only is it difficult to determine whether or...
Springer, 2017. — 244 p. Written by leading international experts, this book discusses the latest advances in the field of dementia in nursing homes. The topics and findings covered are based on their survey and on a scientific literature review. Dementia is spreading worldwide, placing a growing burden on healthcare systems and caregivers, as well as those affected. With...
Springer, 2020. — 638 p. This first-of-its-kind work on elder abuse and mistreatment provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the subject. Covering almost all regions of the world, it highlights different dimensions of elder abuse and mistreatment in terms of their prevalence, incidence, prevention, treatment, management and response from governments and civil society,...
Wiley, 2012. — 1765 p. Fifth Edition, 2 volumes 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, evidence-based, and practical information about the varied medical...
6th edition. — Wiley-Blackwell, 2022. — 1815 p. — ISBN 978-1-119-48420-2. Pathy’s Principles and Practice of Geriatric Medicine, Sixth Edition delivers a comprehensive overview of the subject, offering up-to-date, evidence-based, information about the many, and varied, problems suffered by ageing patients. In this latest edition, the authors take a refreshed approach to the...
New York: Routledge, 2017. — 350 p. Understanding where ageing occurs, how it is experienced by different people in different places, and in what ways it is transforming our communities, economies and societies at all levels has become crucial for the development of informed research, policy and programmes. This book focuses on the interdisciplinary field of study – geographical...
Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2019. — 399 p. — ISBN10: 1284153827, 13 978-1284153828 Geriatric Notes is an essential quick reference for the advanced practice provider (APP) who provides care to elders in the outpatient setting, such as nursing homes, family practice, or home health. With a practical, accessible, and concise approach, it offers an easy to understand overview of...
Springer, 2007. — 639 p. As the population ages, the unique needs of elderly patients are becoming increasingly important to practitioners of primary care, geriatric medicine, family medicine, and internal medicine. Physicians need a handy resource that presents the essentials of geriatric medicine and suggests simple ways to provide better care. Experts in geriatric medicine have...
Wiley, 2013. — 421 p. As improvements in living conditions and advances in modern medicine lead to increased life expectancy and the number of older adults world-wide continues to grow, so the number of older individuals with cardiac and cerebrovascular disease is rising. Over eighty per cent of all cardiovascular disease-related deaths now occur in patients aged sixty five or...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 459 p. With the world's population getting increasingly older, there has never been a more pressing need for the study of old age and ageing. An Introduction to Gerontology provides a wide-ranging introduction to this important topic. By assuming no prior expert knowledge and avoiding jargon, this book will guide students through all the main...
Springer, 2015. — 163 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-16094-8 This book translates the new findings in exercise research for the elderly for busy practitioners, trainees, students and administrators. This book provides practical strategies that can be implemented immediately in the common settings in which practitioners care for adults. The format includes key points and case examples which...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 206 p. — ISBN: 978-1-108-70189-1. This book is a practical how-to-guide for psychiatrists, psychologists and mental health workers on choosing and delivering evidence-based psychological therapies to older adults. It covers all the main evidence-based psychological therapies such as cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and interpersonal...
New York: Springer, 2021. — 300 p. The average life expectancy has increased worldwide in the recent decades. This has presented new challenges as old age brings the onset of diseases such as cancer, neurodegenerative disorders, cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, arthritis, osteoporosis, stroke, and Alzheimer’s disease. Studies and research have shown the potential...
Springer, 2014. — 233 p. Medical practitioners receive little, if any, formal training in the prevention, assessment and management of pressure ulcers and other chronic wounds. Pressure Ulcers in the Aging Population: A Guide for Clinicians is a resource primarily aimed at physicians interested in the fundamentals of wound care. This book is written for geriatricians, internists,...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 527 p. — ISBN: 9780199699261 Based around the core curriculum for specialist trainees and consultants, Oxford Case Histories in Geriatric Medicine is a valuable reference and teaching tool which provides an opportunity for case-based learning across a rapidly growing field. This book uses well-structured and concise cases from the Oxford...
Springer Publishing Company, 2010. — 449 p. — ISBN: 9780826122216. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the essential information that everyone working, or hoping to work in the field of aging, should know about disasters, emergencies, and their effects on the mental health and well-being of older persons. It provides the reader with evidence-based approaches for...
McGraw-Hill Education, 2014. — 481 p. Mastering the cognitive knowledge within a field such as geriatric medicine is a formidable task. It is even more difficult to draw on that knowledge, procure and filter through the clinical and laboratory data, develop a differential diagnosis, and, finally, to make a rational treatment plan. To gain these skills, the student learns best...
State University of New York Press, 2003. — 257 р. — ISBN 0-7914-5649-8 Incorporating qualitative and quantitative data and research methods from both demography and social anthropology, this book explores demographic trends in contemporary Japan's rapidly aging society. The contributors describe and analyze trends by addressing the ways in which demographic change is...
Springer, 2017. — 182 p. This book focuses specifically on the management of cardiovascular disease in elderly patients with particular frailties and in the “oldest old”. It is clearly explained how treatment in these patients differs from that in patients in their seventies who respond well to therapies and do not present frailties or organ failures. Although not young, the...
Springer, 2019. — 313 p. — (Healthy Ageing and Longevity) This book provides a comprehensive overview of the field of developmental programming of ageing phenotypes. Although gerontological research has traditionally focused on later stages of the life cycle, growing evidence indicates that both the rate of ageing-associated functional declines, and the risks of later-life chronic...
Springer, 2019. — 410 p. — (Healthy Ageing and Longevity). This book provides a comprehensive overview of the field of developmental programming of ageing phenotypes. Although gerontological research has traditionally focused on later stages of the life cycle, growing evidence indicates that both the rate of ageing-associated functional declines, and the risks of later-life...
The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2017. — 592 p. Aging is a natural phenomenon that is peculiar to all living things. However, accumulating findings indicate that senescence could be postponed or prevented by certain approaches. Substantial evidence has emerged supporting the possibility of radical human health and lifespan extension, in particular through pharmacological...
London: Manson Publishing, 2007. — 128 p. This book contains 109 clinical cases illustrated by color photographs, diagrams and tables that will help candidates for postgraduate examinations learn how to handle the investigation and management of elderly patients. The cases cover the main modes of presentation of acute illness in old age, such as fall, confusion, incontinence,...
Springer International Publishing, 2020. — 154 p. — (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology 1216). This book aims to clarify the potential association between frailty and cardiovascular disease in older people. Covering the biological as well as the clinical point of view, it allows researchers and clinicians to discover the significance of this topic. The contributions...
7th Edition. — Elsevier, 2021. — 592 p. — ISBN 9780323721684. Written with first-line primary care providers in mind, Ham’s Primary Care Geriatrics: A Case-Based Approach, 7th Edition, is a comprehensive, easy-to-read source of practical clinical guidance for this rapidly growing population. Using a unique, case-based approach, it covers the patient presentations you’re most...
Springer, 2024. — 1634 p. Older adults represent the most rapidly growing demographic in the U.S. and in many developed countries around the world. The field of geriatric medicine is still relatively young, and is only recently seeing a significant increase in peer reviewed literature. Medicare and Medicaid expenditures related to older adults are nearly a trillion dollars/year...
Springer, 2018. — 235 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-61327-7. This book provides a comprehensive and systematic state-of-the science review of major primary care delivery models, how they address specific needs of older adults, and available evidence for their efficacy. Written by experts in the field, this book explores the patient-centered medical home model (PCMH) in depth and dives...
World Scientific Publishing, 2023. — 382 p. — ISBN 978-9811271304. This is a guide book that showcases the commonest clinical problems encountered in the inpatient setting concerning elderly patients. Each chapter is based on a symptomatic theme and quizzes the reader through the evolution of a patient scenario upon hospitalisation. Engaging discussions occur after each quiz...
Routledge, 2018. — 257 p. — ISBN 978-1-138-63028-4. Critical Gerontology Comes of Age reflects on how baby boomers, caretakers, and health professionals are perceiving and adapting to historical, social, political, and cultural changes that call into question prior assumptions about aging and life progression. Through an exploration of earlier and later-life stages and the...
Springer, 2021. — 308 p. — ISBN 978-3-030-81757-2. This book provides a review of therapeutic foods and diets for aging patients. Drawing from extensive clinical experience in large integrative medical practices, it offers a unique and thorough perspective on the challenges that older adults present and the most effective ways to integrate nutritional approaches into their...
Springer, 2021. — 672 p. — ISBN 978-3-030-81758-9. This book provides a review of therapeutic foods and diets for aging patients. Drawing from extensive clinical experience in large integrative medical practices, it offers a unique and thorough perspective on the challenges that older adults present and the most effective ways to integrate nutritional approaches into their...
Columbia University Press, 2001. — 207 p. Why do some people remain alert and vigorous at an age when others are declining mentally and physically? Does their apparent advantage have a biological basis, and, if so, could this success be transferred to others predisposed to age more quickly? If this is achievable, does brain aging then become the last obstacle to an extension of...
2nd edition. — Springer Publishing Company, 2021. — 697 p. — ISBN 978-0-8261-6253-3. This second edition of the book, like the first, provides an overview of major issues associated with societal and global aging, paralleling the structure of many introductory social gerontology textbooks. Unlike most existing textbooks in the field, however, the discussion of each topic in...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. — 274 p. — ISBN 978-1-118-12792-6. The first book designed specifically for hospitalists and other hospital-based staff who need concise, evidence-based guidance on the vital topic of caring for older hospitalized patients. Hospitalists' Guide to the Care of Older Patients is an up-to-date, practical reference in geriatric medicine for hospitalists, as...
2nd edition. — McGraw-Hill Education / Medical, 2014. — 609 p. Current Diagnosis and Treatment: Geriatrics, 2nd Edition, is written for clinicians who provide care to older adults. In the context of our evolving health care system and a rapidly aging population, clinicians are continually adapting their practice to meet the needs of their older patients. Current Diagnosis and...
3rd edition. — CRC Press, 2016. — 502 p. — ISBN 9781910227657. This third edition of Essential Geriatrics has been comprehensively updated and expanded, and now includes over 200 questions and answers throughout the text in the 'best of five' format. This text specifically focuses on the key aspects of elderly care, spanning both general medicine and the particular problems...
2nd ed. — Springer, 2017. — 455 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-48685-7. With the expertise of an author panel of leading clinicians in the field of surgery, trauma, critical care and geriatrics the new edition of this text addresses the explosion in knowledge on the impact aging has on injury, acute illness and critical care management. The text covers the physiologic changes associated...
Springer, 2014. — 382 p.
Geriatric Trauma and Critical Care provides a multidisciplinary overview of the assessment and management of the elderly patient presenting with surgical pathology. By utilizing current literature and evidence-based resources, the textbook elucidates the unique nature of caring for the elderly population. The structure of the volume provides the reader...
Springer Science & Business Media, 2006. — 354 p. People are living longer and most countries are experiencing unprecedented increases in the number and proportion of their elderly populations, resulting from declines in mortality, lower fertility, and the baby boom cohorts entering old age. A fundamental issue facing the global community is meeting the challenges of population...
Bentham Science Publishers, 2016. — 220 p. The incidence of multiple chronic diseases affecting a single individual is common among elderly patients. This incidence is believed to be associated with a decline in many health outcomes, including quality of life, mobility, functional ability, increased frequency of hospitalizations, psychological distress, mortality and the use of...
CRC Press, 2006. — 766 p. Written by the foremost authorities on the topic, this reference provides quick access to essential information on specific antibiotics, major clinical infections, selected pathogens, and infections in long-term elderly-care facilities-summarizing the vast array of topics related to infectious diseases in older adults including epidemiology, clinical...
BenBella Books, 2021. — 632 р. — ISBN 978-195-066-5877 The prospect of living to 200 years old isn’t science fiction anymore. A leader in the emerging field of longevity offers his perspective on what cutting-edge breakthroughs are on the horizon, as well as the practical steps we can take now to live healthily to 100 and beyond. In The Science and Technology of Growing Young,...
Springer, 2015. — 279 p. This book focuses on the three most important aspects of ageing research: nutrition, physical exercise and epigenetics. The contributors discuss ways that age-related epigenetic imprints such as DNA methylation and histone acetylation are modified by these two interventions. The emphasis on epigenetics helps to illuminate the underlying mechanisms of...
Beijing: Springer, 2023. — 188 p. The socio-economic development and advances in medical health around the world have enabled humanity to pursue longevity. China, as a major developing country with 1.4 billion people, will become an aging society soon with 14% of the citizens aged 65 and above. By 2060, one in three Chinese will be over 65 years old. Du Fu, a great poet in the...
New York: Springer, 2021. — 453 p. This book aims to present the age-related alterations in redox signaling networks and their diagnostic biomarkers in aging cells using multidisciplinary approach. Establishing sensitive and specific biomarkers of dynamic redox homeostasis is crucially important in the development of effective antiaging and senolytic interventions. Recent years...
ITexLi, 2021. — 63 p. — ISBN 1789237602 9781789237603 1838816585 9781838816582. This volume is dedicated to functional decline in every organ due to several cellular, biological, and physiological changes over time. Molecular and cellular damages are gradually decreasing in the physical and mental capacities of the human body. Health results have shown that lifespan has...
СПб.: Наука, 2003. — 468 с.
В монографии проанализированы основные концепции о природе старения. Изложены
современные представления о молекулярных, клеточных и физиологических
механизмах старения, роли повреждений и репарации ДНК, теломер и теломеразы,
мутаций и генов, пролиферации и апоптоза в процессах старения и развития ассоциированной с возрастом патологии. Детально...
СПб.: Наука, 2003. — 468 с.
В монографии проанализированы основные концепции о природе старения. Изложены современные представления о молекулярных, клеточных и физиологических механизмах старения, роли повреждений и репарации ДНК, теломер и теломеразы, мутаций и генов, пролиферации и апоптоза в процессах старения и развития ассоциированной с возрастом патологии. Уделено внимание...
2-е изд., перераб. и доп. — СПб.: Наука, 2008, Том 2 — 434 с. В монографии проанализированы основные концепции о природе старения, история их возникновения и эволюция. Изложены современные представления о молекулярных, клеточных и физиологических механизмах старения, роли повреждений и репарации ДНК, теломер и теломеразы, мутаций и генов, пролиферации и апоптоза в процессах...
2-е изд., перераб. и доп. — СПб.: Наука, 2008, Том 1 — 481 с. В монографии проанализированы основные концепции о природе старения, история их возникновения и эволюция. Изложены современные представления о молекулярных, клеточных и физиологических механизмах старения, роли повреждений и репарации ДНК, теломер и теломеразы, мутаций и генов, пролиферации и апоптоза в процессах...
2-е изд., перераб. и доп. — СПб.: Наука, 2008, Том 1 — 481 с. В монографии проанализированы основные концепции о природе старения, история их возникновения и эволюция. Изложены современные представления о молекулярных, клеточных и физиологических механизмах старения, роли повреждений и репарации ДНК, теломер и теломеразы, мутаций и генов, пролиферации и апоптоза в процессах...
СПб.: Система, 2008. — 44 с. Репродуктивная функция человека и млекопитающих и ее регуляция. Регуляция овуляторного цикла у человека и млекопитающих. Гипоталамический механизм возрастного выключения овуляторной фукнции. Последствия возрастного выключения репродуктивной функции. Роль мелатонина в механизмах старения и развития возрастной патологии. Эпифиз и его функция....
СПб.: Эскулап, 1999. — 130 с. — ISBN: 5-89223-011-2. Введение Обзор истории геронтологии Периодизация истории геронтологии Познание и моделирование Периодизация истории геронтологии с позиции теории моделей Другие варианты периодизации геронтологии Период качественных моделей Продление жизни в древнейших культурах Даосизм Герокомия Алхимия Период количественных моделей Идея...
Л.: Наука, 1982. — 616 с. Представлены современные данные, освещающие вопросы общей и молекулярной биологии старения, старения клетки и физиологических систем, изменения нейрогуморальной регуляции при старении. Специальный раздел посвящен экспериментальному пролонгированию жизни.
Л.: Наука, 1982. — 616 с. Представлены современные данные, освещающие вопросы общей и молекулярной биологии старения, старения клетки и физиологических систем, изменения нейрогуморальной регуляции при старении. Специальный раздел посвящен экспериментальному пролонгированию жизни.
Москва.: Фонд поддержки научных исследований «Наука за продление жизни», 2010. - 416 с.
Этот обзор охватывает исследования сотен лабораторий, которые изучают механизмы старения и ведут поиск различных подходов к продлению здоровой человеческой жизни.
Информация об уже полученных научных результатах и задачах на будущее показывает объективную, мозаичную картину экспериментов,...
М.: Батин М.А., 2018. — 124 С. В книге приведена информация о научных исследованиях в области биологии старения и заболеваний, связанных со старением, наиболее важные биомаркеры, изменение показателей которых может говорить о возрастных изменениях и заболеваниях, сокращающих продолжительность жизни. Это первая часть стратегии победы над старением Longevity cookbook. Предназначена...
Пермь: Прикамский социальный институт, 2001. — 334 с. — ISBN 5-94604-007-5 В томе избранных трудов представлена информация об особенностях позно-вегетативной регуляции при старении, изменениях умственной и физической работоспособности и механизмов их снижения на протяжении зрелости и старения. Особое внимание уделяется одной из центральных проблем онтогенеза - определению...
К.: Вища школа, 1988. — 72 с. — (Новое в науке и технике. Студентам и школьникам). — ISBN 5-11-000009-3. В брошюре рассказывается о различных методах конструирования генов, хромосом, клеток тканей и организмов с целью познания механизмов старения и разработки методов борьбы с этим грозным биологическим явлением. Описываются достижения генной и клеточной инженерии в установлении...
К.: Вища школа, 1988. — 72 с. — (Новое в науке и технике. Студентам и школьникам). — ISBN 5-11-000009-3. В брошюре рассказывается о различных методах конструирования генов, хромосом, клеток тканей и организмов с целью познания механизмов старения и разработки методов борьбы с этим грозным биологическим явлением. Описываются достижения генной и клеточной инженерии в установлении...
Навчально-методичний посібник. — Вінниця: ДонНУ імені Василя Стуса, 2018. — 68 с. Навчально-методичний посібник складено на основі діючого навчального плану та програми з навчальної дисципліни «Біологія старіння» для студентів вищих навчальних закладів III-IV рівнів акредитації спеціальності підготовки 091 «Біологія». Посібник призначено для самостійної роботи студентів...
Пер. с фр. П.Б. Дроздовой. — СПб.: Издательство Ивана Лимбаха, 2021. — 312 с. — ISBN 978-5-89059-415-0. Человеческая жизнь? «Одинокая, нищая, грязная, скотская и краткая», — писал философ Томас Гоббс, пессимист классической эпохи. С тех пор изменилось всё или почти всё. Солидарность, изобилие и гигиена взяли верх. Прежде всего, существование перестало быть кратким — произошла...
Пер. с фр. П.Б. Дроздовой. — СПб.: Издательство Ивана Лимбаха, 2021. — 312 с. — ISBN 978-5-89059-415-0. Человеческая жизнь? «Одинокая, нищая, грязная, скотская и краткая», — писал философ Томас Гоббс, пессимист классической эпохи. С тех пор изменилось всё или почти всё. Солидарность, изобилие и гигиена взяли верх. Прежде всего, существование перестало быть кратким — произошла...
Пер. с франц. П.Б. Дроздовой. — СПб.: Изд-во Ивана Лимбаха, 2021. — 312 с. — ISBN 978-5-89059-415-0. Человеческая жизнь? «Одинокая, нищая, грязная, скотская и краткая», - писал философ Томас Гоббс, пессимист классической эпохи. С тех пор изменилось всё или почти всё. Солидарность, изобилие и гигиена взяли верх. Прежде всего, существование перестало быть кратким - произошла...
Самара: Самарский государственный медицинский университет, 2016. — 68 с. В учебно-методическом пособии приведены современные данные о проблеме биологического возраста. Представлены алгоритмы диагностики ускоренного старения на амбулаторном этапе, а также комплексная система для определения темпов старения. Учебное пособие предназначено для врачей, студентов, интернов,...
Самара: Самарский государственный медицинский университет, 2016. — 84 с. В пособии приводится определение, цели, показания и пошаговый алгоритм проведения комплексной гериатрической оценки с описанием методик и акцентов интерпретации полученных результатов. Учебное пособие предназначено для врачей, студентов, интернов, ординаторов и слушателей института профессионального...
/Популяционная геронтология -М.: ВИНИТИ,1987. -284 с
Популяционная геронтология - новая, быстро развивающаяся ветвь исследований биологии старения. Ускоренное развитие этого научного направления связано переворотом в мышлении геронтологов и обусловлено целым рядом обстоятельств.
Учебно-методическое пособие для самоподготовки студентов. — Архангельск: Архангельский медицинский колледж, 2011. — 75 с. Учебно-методическое пособие предназначено для самоподготовки студентов к семинарско – практическим занятиям по дисциплине «Гериатрия». В каждой теме представлена информация, дополняющая материал лекций и учебника, даны вопросы и задания для самоподготовки...
Учебно-методическое пособие. — Архангельск: Архангельский медицинский колледж, 2012. — 39 с.
Пособие предназначено для самоподготовки студентов к семинарско – практическим занятиям по дисциплине «Гериатрия». В каждой теме представлена информация, дополняющая материал лекций и учебника, даны вопросы и задания для самоподготовки (решение ситуационных задач, заполнение таблиц и...
Монография. — Новосибирск: СибАК, 2015. — 138 с. — ISBN: 978-5-4379-0438-1. Предлагаемая вниманию читателей коллективная монография «Актуальные вопросы геронтологии и гериатрии» содержит результаты исследований специалистов медиков Азербайджана, России, Узбекистана и Украины, объединённых общей профилактической направленностью, стремлением к максимально точной и быстрой...
Харьков: Основа, 1997. — 187 с. В представленной монографии подробно описана деменция различного происхождения. "Дементирующие процессы головного мозга" рассматривает такие вопросы, как эпидемиология и классификация деменций, изменения головного мозга структурного характера при деменции, клинико-неврологический анализ при различных формах дементирующих процессов, функциональное...
Учебное пособие. — М.: Научно-исследовательский медицинский центр «Геронтология», 2022. — 88 с. Учебное пособие посвящено современным подходам к знаниям об особенностях клинических проявлений, методов диагностики гериатрических синдромов у пожилых людей. Предисловие Основная терминология Гериатрический подход в здравоохранении и социальной защите. Общая схема наблюдения и ухода...
Москва: Университетская типография, 1805. — 244 с. Язык русский дореформенный. Перевод с немецкого Петра Озерова. Предуведомление от автора. Часть теоретическая. Состояние сей науки. Исследования жененной силы и долготы жизни вообще. Долгота жизни у растений. Долгота жизни в царстве животных. Долгота жизни у человека. Заключения, из опытов выведенные. Определение конца жизни...
Москва: Университетская типография, 1805. — 286 с. Язык русский дореформенный. Перевод с немецкого Петра Озерова. Предуведомление от автора. Часть практическая. Средства, жизнь сокращающие. Средства, к продлению жизни служащие.
Учебное пособие. — Ижевск: Удмуртский университет, 2019. — 220 с. В данном практикуме изложены современные методы исследования и оценки функционального состояния организма людей на заключительных этапах онтогенеза. Приводятся сведения о возрастном изменении основных функциональных систем и возрастно-половых показателях функций стареющего организма. Обсуждаются вопросы...
Учебное пособие. — Мн.: БелМАПО, 2005. — 31 с.
Диагностика и лечение пневмоний является одной из важных клинических проблем в гериатрической практике. Инволютивные изменения и наличие множественной фоновой патологии у лиц пожилого и старческого возраста определяют особенности течения заболевания, клинических проявлений, выбора фармакотерапии. Умение диагностировать пневмонию и...
М.: Знание, 1969. — 95 с. Об авторе. Введение. Биологические основы старости и ее сущность. Старость и эволюция организмов. Теории старения. Старость и учение о клетке. Течение старческого периода и вопросы классификации. Некоторые экологические и социологические аспекты в геронтологии. Старость и общепатологические процессы. Недуги старости. О диагностике и лечении старости....
М.: МИА, 2011. — 336 с. — ISBN: 978-5-8948-1870-2. В лекциях сконцентрирована основополагающая информация по вопросам специфики патогенеза, клинических проявлений, особенностям диагностики и лечения важнейших форм патологии ЖКТ у лиц пожилого и старческого возраста. Изложение основано на собственных клинических наблюдениях авторов и современных данных мировой медицинской...
СПб.: Весь, 2018. — 144 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9573-3333-3. Оставайтесь 40-летними в течение 20 лет и больше – с помощью последних достижений спортивной и пищевой медицины. Немецкий доктор наук Михаэль Дешпегель разработал эффективную трехмесячную программу, которая помогает улучшить образ жизни, надолго сохранить здоровье, физическую форму и силу. И, что немаловажно, вы можете...
М.: Знание, 1982. — 208 с.
В монографии "Большие биологические часы (введение в интегральную медицину)", автор исследует проблему "старения", волнующую человечество, на протяжении всего его существования. Современной медицине неизвестны, в полной мере, факторы, вызывающие старение организма. На протяжении многих лет, геронтологи выдвигают теории для объяснения механизмов этого...
Ленинград: Медицина, 1987. — 288 с. Эта книга — о причинах возникновения 10 главных неинфекционных болезней человека, о природе старения, о новых болезнях, о связи между акселерацией развития и болезнями, о возрастной норме и биологическом возрасте, о факторах, определяющих величину средней и максимальной продолжительности жизни, и о поисках новых путей для торможения скорости...
Ленинград: Медицина, 1987. — 288 с., ил.
Эта книга — о причинах возникновения 10 главных неинфекционных болезней человека, о природе старения, о новых болезнях, о связи между акселерацией развития и болезнями, о возрастной норме и биологическом возрасте, о факторах, определяющих величину средней и максимальной продолжительности жизни, и о поисках новых путей для торможения...
Учебник. — М.: Перо, 2024. — 110 с. — ISBN 978-5-00258-024-8. В учебнике раскрыты не только теоретические предпосылки формирования инновационных технологий в геронтологии, но и психологические особенности, и процессы их реализации. Основные идеи уже апробированы в многочисленных публикациях автора. Адресуется всем субъектам психолого-педагогического образования (адресовано...
Волгоград: Волгоградский ГАУ, 2015. — 144 с. — ISBN: 978-5-85536-911-3. В.Е. Древин, Е.И. Новикова, Е.Ю. Надежкина, Г.А. Савин, О.С. Филимонова, Е.Г. Савина, Одной из ключевых задач профилактической геронтологии является потребность оценки степени старения или уровня жизнеспособности организма и его элементов, поскольку такая оценка позволяет объективно зарегистрировать темп...
Монография. — Петрозаводск: Петрозаводский государственный университет, 2022. — 68 с. — ISBN 978-5-8021-3877-9. В монографии представлено подробное описание мелатонинергической системы, которая участвует во всех процессах жизнедеятельности и контролирует большинство функций организма посредством взаимодействия гормона мелатонина с клеточными структурами. Основное ее значение...
Учебное пособие. — 2-е изд., испр. и доп. — М.: ФОРУМ: Инфра-М, 2007. — 288 с. — (Профессиональное образование). — ISBN: 978-5-91134-068-1 (ФОРУМ), ISBN: 978-5-16-002916-0 (Инфра-М) В пособии раскрываются понятия геронтологии, гериатрии, старости. Даются основы общего ухода за пожилыми пациентами. Рассматриваются основные особенности заболеваний внутренних органов в пожилом и...
Монографія. – Херсон: 2014. — 120 с. — ISBN: 978-966-97-401-1-3. У монографії проведено експериментальне дослідження зміни інформаційних показників стану організму з віком. Візначено, що біомаркером людини стану в старшому віці може виступати морфологічні показники водного середовище організму. Розроблено автоматизований стенд дослідження фрактально – кластерної будови...
Курск: Курский государственный университет, 2016. — 76 с. В пособии описаны пути формирования в отечественном естествознании представлений о сущности основ геронтологии, современные геронтологические концепции, приведены общие закономерности динамического обмена веществ и энергии при старении, охарактеризованы профилактические основы геронтологии. Теоретические основы...
Учебно–методическое пособие. — Курск: Курский государственный университет, 2016. — 39 с. В пособии раскрыто понятие социальной геронтологии как комплексной науки, развивающейся на основе междисциплинарных исследований, истоки развития данной науки. Описана история поисков «эликсира жизни». Описаны различные способы омоложения организма. Раскрыт вклад российской науки в создание...
Кантемирова Р.К., Чернобай В.Г., Арьев А.Л., Дзахова С.Д. — Руководство для врачей. — СПб. : СпецЛит, 2010. — 160 с. — ISBN: 978-5-299-00388-8. Руководство рассчитано на широкий круг практикующих врачей, терапевтов, кардиологов, геронтологов, студентов медицинских вузов. В руководстве изложены особенности медикаментозной терапии у лиц пожилого и старческого возраста, как один...
М.: Мир, 1982. — 228 c. Монография известного индийского специалиста в области геронтологии, посвященная изменениям, наступающим при старении в структуре и функциях хроматина, активности ферментов, структуре коллагена и его синтезе, деятельности иммунной и эндокринной систем. Рассмотрены также старение клеток и современные теории старения. Предназначена для биологов,...
Барнаул: Алтайский государственный медицинский университет, 2006. — 68 с.
Авторы: Б.И. Козлов, В.А. Головин, А.П. Нагин, О.А. Новикова.
В методическом пособии представлены вопросы диагностики и лечения заболеваний у людей пожилого и старческого возраста. Даны рекомендации по лечебному питанию, фитотерапии. Материал представлен на основе анализа и обобщения литературных...
Учебник. — Москва, Самара: Самарский Дом печати, 1997. — 800 с.: ил. — ISBN: 5-7350-0211-2. Это первый учебник по геронтологии и гериатрии в Российской Федерации. Он состоит из четырех разделов: общей геронтологии, общих вопросов гериатрии, частной гериатрии и социальных аспектов в геронтологии. Представлены общие закономерности возрастных изменений физиологических систем,...
Л.Б. Лазебник, А.Л. Вёрткин, Ю.В. Конев, Е.Д. Ли, А.С. Скотников. М.: Эксмо, 2014. — 320 c. — ISBN: 978-5-699-68589-9. Продолжительность жизни в XXI веке неуклонно растет. Возможно, еще несколько десятилетий, и средний возраст пожилых людей будет выражаться числом 100. В этой связи меняется задача врачей. Вылечить от старения пока что нельзя. Зато вполне реально помочь человеку...
Л.Б. Лазебник, А.Л. Вёрткин, Ю.В. Конев, Е.Д. Ли, А.С. Скотников. М.: Эксмо, 2014. — 320 c. — ISBN: 978-5-699-68589-9. Продолжительность жизни в XXI веке неуклонно растет. Возможно, еще несколько десятилетий, и средний возраст пожилых людей будет выражаться числом 100. В этой связи меняется задача врачей. Вылечить от старения пока что нельзя. Зато вполне реально помочь человеку...
М.: Эксмо, 2014. — 320 с. — (Национальное руководство).
Продолжительность жизни в XXI веке неуклонно растет. Возможно, еще несколько десятилетий, и средний возраст пожилых людей будет выражаться числом 100. В этой связи меняется задача врачей. Вылечить от старения пока что нельзя. Зато вполне реально помочь человеку максимально долго сохранять качество жизни, трудоспособность и...
2-е издание, переработанное и дополненное. — Самара: Офорт, 2016. — 494 с. — ISBN: 978-5-473-01033-6. Руководство содержит современные научно-практические сведения, касающиеся классификации, симптоматики, диагностики, консервативного и оперативного лечения наиболее распространенных хирургических болезней у пациентов пожилого (60-74 года) и старческого (75-89 лет) возрастов и...
Пособие для студентов медико-диагностического факультета (сестринское дело) – Гродно: ГрГМУ, 2009. — 120 с. — ISBN: 978-985-496-543-7 В настоящее время во всем мире, в том числе и в Республике Беларусь, идет процесс постарения населения. В пособии раскрыты понятие геронтологии и основные положения гериатрии. Представлены возрастные изменения физиологических систем организма...
Алматы: КазНТУ, 2003. — 706 с. В монографии изложена общая кислородно-перекисная концепция старения, возрастных патологий (атеросклероза, сахарного диабета 2-го типа, болезни Альцгеймера), канцерогенеза и апоптоза. С её позиций рассмотрены принципиальные факты инвазивного роста и метастазирования неоплазм, лейкозогенеза как частного случая канцерогенеза, «спонтанная»...
Самиздат, 2019. — 50 с. Все больше ученых говорит о том, что к старению следует относиться как болезни, которую можно лечить. Современные научные данные свидетельствуют, что возрастное ухудшение функций организма можно затормозить. Уже созданы препараты, обладающие потенциалом замедления старения Книга знакомит читателя с достижениями науки в области контроля клеточного старения....
Самиздат, 2019. — 50 с. Все больше ученых говорит о том, что к старению следует относиться как болезни, которую можно лечить. Современные научные данные свидетельствуют, что возрастное ухудшение функций организма можно затормозить. Уже созданы препараты, обладающие потенциалом замедления старения Книга знакомит читателя с достижениями науки в области контроля клеточного...
Монография. — Екатеринбург: УГМУ, 2017. — 308 с. — ISBN: 978-5-89895-850-3. Монография посвящена решению проблемы современной экспериментальной медицины по использованию клеточно- и субклеточно-ориентированных технологий в геронтологии. Монография расшифровывает ведущие биохимические механизмы старения организма экспериментальных животных в виде взаимодействия процессов...
Минск: Наука и техника, 1965. − 184 с. Борьба со старостью — одна из главных задач современной науки. Как продлить жизнь человека, сохранить его здоровье, бодрость и работоспособность? Что нужно для продления жизни и борьбы со старостью? Все вопросы, связанные со старением организма, изучает геронтология. Цель данной работы — познакомить читателя с основными теориями и...
Учебно-методическое пособие. — Минск: БелМАПО, 2008 – 29 с. В пособии рассмотрены инсомнии как один из наиболее часто встречающихся видов нарушения сна у пожилых. Отражены причины, а также особенности клинических проявлений и течения. Изложены основные методы немедикаментозной и лекарственной терапии инсомний у пожилых с учетом возрастных особенностей. Пособие предназначено для...
Монография. — М.: ООО "Медицинское информационное агентство", 2011. — 464 с.
В монографии под острым полемическим углом зрения рассматриваются проблемы геронтологии. Сквозной темой идёт обсуждение вопроса об универсальности старения. Выдвигается концепция "АНЕРЕМ", главный тезис которой постулирует обязательное присутствие мейоза или мейозоподобного процесса в каждом или в...
Монография. – М.: ООО «Медицинское информационное агентство», 2011. – 464 с. В монографии под острым полемическим углом зрения рассматриваются фундаментальные проблемы геронтологии. Сквозной темой идёт обсуждение вопроса об универсальности старения. Выдвигается концепция «АНЕРЕМ», главный тезис которой постулирует обязательное присутствие мейоза или мейозоподобного процесса в...
Монография. — Екатеринбург: Знак качества, 2022. — 280 с.: ил., табл. — ISBN 978-5-89895-990-6. В монографии обобщен научный материал, создающий целостное представление о теоретических и практических аспектах современной геронтологии. На страницах издания в историческом аспекте освещены вопросы фундаментальной геронтологии, описывается ряд основных возраст-ассоциированных...
Перевод искусственным интеллектом сообщества "Книжный импорт". — Без выходных данных. — 169 с. После случайной встречи с необыкновенной девяностолетней женщиной известный геронтолог Карл Пиллемер задумался о том, что пожилые люди знают о жизни такого, чего не знают остальные. Его поиски привели к тому, что он опросил более тысячи американцев старше 65 лет, чтобы получить их...
Перевод искусственным интеллектом сообщества "Книжный импорт". — Без выходных данных. — 169 с. После случайной встречи с необыкновенной девяностолетней женщиной известный геронтолог Карл Пиллемер задумался о том, что пожилые люди знают о жизни такого, чего не знают остальные. Его поиски привели к тому, что он опросил более тысячи американцев старше 65 лет, чтобы получить их...
Перевод искусственным интеллектом сообщества "Книжный импорт". — Без выходных данных. — 169 с. После случайной встречи с необыкновенной девяностолетней женщиной известный геронтолог Карл Пиллемер задумался о том, что пожилые люди знают о жизни такого, чего не знают остальные. Его поиски привели к тому, что он опросил более тысячи американцев старше 65 лет, чтобы получить их...
Перевод искусственным интеллектом сообщества "Книжный импорт". — Без выходных данных. — 169 с. После случайной встречи с необыкновенной девяностолетней женщиной известный геронтолог Карл Пиллемер задумался о том, что пожилые люди знают о жизни такого, чего не знают остальные. Его поиски привели к тому, что он опросил более тысячи американцев старше 65 лет, чтобы получить их...
Ростов н/Д: Феникс, 2007. - 253 с.
Учебное пособие составлено в соответствии с требованиями Государственных образовательных стандартов подготовки специалистов среднего профессионального медицинского образования по лечебным специальностям в вопросах геронтологии и гериатрии. Оно состоит из двух основных разделов (основ геронтологии и основ гериатрии) и дополнительного,...
Ростов н/Д: Феникс, 2007. — 253 с. — ISBN: 978-5-222-12221-1. Учебное пособие составлено в соответствии с требованиями Государственных образовательных стандартов подготовки специалистов среднего профессионального медицинского образования по лечебным специальностям в вопросах геронтологии и гериатрии. Оно состоит из двух основных разделов (основ геронтологии и основ гериатрии) и...
Курск : Изд-во КГМУ, 2016. — 147 с. — ISBN: 978-5-7487-1920-9. Учебное пособие «Клиническая психология в геронтологии и гериатрии» подготовлено для студентов 3 курса факультета клинической психологии с учетом требований действующего Федерального государственного образовательного стандарта, учебной рабочей программы по дисциплине «Клиническая психология в геронтологии и...
СПб.: Прайм-Еврознак, 2008. — 778 с. — ISBN 978-5-93878-568-7. Научное издание под ред. члена-корреспондента РАМН В. X. Хавинсона. В настоящей книге представлены лекции по наиболее актуальным вопросам геронтологии и гериатрии. Представлены современные принципы диагностики, лечения, профилактики и реабилитации ведущей патологии в пожилом и старческом возрасте. Уделено внимание...
СПб.: Прайм-Еврознак, 2008. — 778 с. — ISBN 978-5-93878-568-7. Научное издание под ред. члена-корреспондента РАМН В. X. Хавинсона. В настоящей книге представлены лекции по наиболее актуальным вопросам геронтологии и гериатрии. Представлены современные принципы диагностики, лечения, профилактики и реабилитации ведущей патологии в пожилом и старческом возрасте. Уделено внимание...
Научно-практическое пособие. — Самара: Волга-Бизнес, 2013. — 416 с. С позиции доказательной медицины знание генетической предрасположенности к развитию тех или иных функциональных нарушений и заболеваний позволяет в персонифицированной медицине провести эффективные био- и ревитализационные мероприятия. Взаимосвязь данных мониторинга биологического возраста человека с...
Учебно-методическое пособие. — Москва: Московский областной научно-исследовательский клинический институт им. М.Ф. Владимирского, 2019. — 52 с. Пособие предназначено для терапевтов и узких специалистов, оказывающих медицинскую помощь пациентам пожилого и старческого возраста Введение Современная концепция гериатрической помощи в России Основные определения и понятия Синдром...
М.: Эксмо, 2013. - 246 с. - ISBN: 978-5-699-67743-6 Академик РАН Владимир Скулачев и ведущие российские биохимики, проведя многолетние эксперименты, сделали выдающееся научное открытие: старение - это программа, закодированная в генах. Ее можно расшифровать и отменить, ведь недаром обнаружен зверек, который никогда не стареет. На основе сенсационного исследования авторами книги...
Учебно-методическое пособие. — Челябинск : Уральская Академия, 2014. — 147 с. В труде подробно изложены наиболее употребляемые в литературе по физической реабилитации в геронтологии термины. Кроме этого, в пособии приводятся данные об основоположниках геронтологии и гериатрии, подробно излагаются разнообразные теории старения. Описываются основные физиологические и...
М.: Рипол Классик, 2021. — 288 с. — (Здоровье - образ жизни). Каждый из нас хочет жить долго и оставаться здоровым на протяжении всей жизни! Однако в условиях современного мира придерживаться полезных привычек и вести здоровый образ жизни не всегда легко. В этой книге знаменитый остеопат Андрей Смирнов и врач-диетолог Инна Кононенко поделятся своими советами и расскажут, как...
М.: Рипол Классик, 2021. — 288 с. — ISBN 978-5-386-13948-3. Каждый из нас хочет жить долго и оставаться здоровым на протяжении всей жизни! Однако в условиях современного мира придерживаться полезных привычек и вести здоровый образ жизни не всегда легко. В этой книге знаменитый остеопат Андрей Смирнов и врач-диетолог Инна Кононенко поделятся своими советами и расскажут, как...
М.: Рипол Классик, 2021. — 288 с. — ISBN 978-5-386-13948-3. Каждый из нас хочет жить долго и оставаться здоровым на протяжении всей жизни! Однако в условиях современного мира придерживаться полезных привычек и вести здоровый образ жизни не всегда легко. В этой книге знаменитый остеопат Андрей Смирнов и врач-диетолог Инна Кононенко поделятся своими советами и расскажут, как...
Монография. — Москва: Мир, 1964. — 273 с. Книга представляет собой современную сводку по вопросам старения. В ней рассмотрены явления, происходящие в организме при старении, изменения в отдельных органах, тканях и клетках, излагаются современные теории старения. Написана книга на весьма высоком научном уровне, но отнюдь не перегружена специальной терминологией, что делает её...
Монография. — Москва: Мир, 1964. — 273 с. Книга представляет собой современную сводку по вопросам старения. В ней рассмотрены явления, происходящие в организме при старении, изменения в отдельных органах, тканях и клетках, излагаются современные теории старения. Написана книга на весьма высоком научном уровне, но отнюдь не перегружена специальной терминологией, что делает её...
М.: Прометей, 2019. — 66 с. Продолжительность жизни населения Земли возрастает, и как следствие — неминуемо стареет. Увеличение продолжи-тельности жизни во многом обусловлено научными достижениями в фармакологии. Назначение современных лекарственных средств пожилым людям способствует продлению их жизни, предотвращает развитие некоторых заболеваний и осложнений, но также...
Методическое пособие для врачей первичного звена здравоохранения. — М.: Прометей, 2021. — 172 с. Данное пособие для врачей первичного звена медико-санитарной помощи представляет собой новый взгляд на вопросы организации медицинской помощи для пожилых людей как комплексной взаимосвязанной системы компетенций и отношений, выходящих за рамки исключительно врачебной практики....
Саратов: 60 с. Методическая разработка к практическим занятиям и внеаудиторной самостоятельной работе студентов (теоретические основы). 8 тем: Пропедевтическая гериатрия. Заболевания органов дыхания в гериатрической практике. ИБС в гериатрической практике. Артериальные гипертензии в пожилом и старческом возрасте. Патология органов пищеварения у пожилых. Кишечная дисфункция в...
Конспект лекций. — М.: ФББ МГУ, 2020. — 102 с. Лекция первая. Актуальность геронтологии. Медицинские аспекты старения. Экономические и политические аспекты старения. Зачем нужно изучать старение? Предмет изучения геронтологии, стареющие и нестареющие системы. Теория надежности и ее применение к живым системам. Примеры «нестареющих» организмов. Лекция вторая. Скорость старения....
Автор не указан. Пособие. – М.: Гериатрическая служба Москвы. 2022. – 10 с. Пособие создано при участии: Российский геронтологический научно-клинический центр. Гериатрическая служба Москвы Профессиональная медицина для пожилых людей. Основные рекомендации по физической активности для пожилых людей. Рекомендации. Варианты интенсивности физической активности. Умеренная физическая...
М.: Изд-во Академии медицинских наук СССР, 1949. — 394 с. Предисловие к первому изданию. Предисловие ко второму изданию. Социальное содержание вопроса о продлении жизни в СССР. Относительная устойчивость пределов жизни и завоевания в удлинении средней продолжительности жизни. Личная гигиена и социалистическая профилактика в продлении жизни. Удлинение средней продолжительности...
Л.: Наука, 1991. — 277 с.
В книге обобщены современные сведения и оригинальные данные авторов о структурных и биохимических изменениях мозга при старении; о старении нервных клеток; о поведении, эмоциях, памяти людей в пожилом и старческом возрастах; об особенностях старения различных структур мозга (базальные ядра, таламус, лимбическая система, гипоталамус, ствол мозга, спинной...
Л.: Наука, 1991. — 277 с. В книге обобщены современные сведения и оригинальные данные авторов о структурных и биохимических изменениях мозга при старении; о старении нервных клеток; о поведении, эмоциях, памяти людей в пожилом и старческом возрастах; об особенностях старения различных структур мозга (базальные ядра, таламус, лимбическая система, гипоталамус, ствол мозга,...
Л. Наука, 1982. — 618 с.
В настоящей книге – первом советском руководстве по биологии старения – представлены современные данные, освещающие вопросы общей и молекулярной биологии старения, старения клетки и физиологических систем, изменения нейрогуморальной регуляции при старении. Специальный раздел посвящен экспериментальному пролонгированию жизни
М.: Наука, 1975. – 272 с. — (Современные тенденции развития науки). Книга профессора знакомит читателя с новейшими достижениями геронтологии. Изложены современные представления о сущности старения, показаны изменения в нервной, эндокринной и сердечно-сосудистой системах с возрастом, молекулярно-генетические и клеточные механизмы старения. Описаны практические меры, используемые...
Л.: Наука, 1988. — 239 с. Книга посвящена фундаментальным механизмам старения и на их основе поиску путей продления жизни. Изложены современные данные о молекулярных, клеточных, системных механизмах старения. Обсуждается связь между старением и развитием болезней сердечно-сосудистой системы, рака, диабета. Подробно анализируются подходы к увеличению продолжительности жизни -...
Л.: Наука, 1988. — 248 с. — ISBN 5-02-025738-9. Монография посвящена одной из важнейших проблем современной биологии и медицины — увеличению продолжительности жизни. В ней анализируются существующие представления о молекулярных, клеточных и нейрогормональных механизмах старения и факторах, определяющих продолжительность жизни. Основное внимание уделено данным об увеличении...
Монография. — СПб.: Наука, 2009. — 54 с. В научном издании обобщены результаты многолетних исследований автора и коллектива Санкт-Петербургского института биорегуляции и геронтологии СЗО РАМН, посвященных изучению механизмов старения и эффективности пептидных биорегуляторов в профилактике возрастной патологии. Приводятся данные по оценке действия пептидов, полученные с...
Монография. — М.: РАН, 2020. — 58 с. В монографии обобщены результаты многолетних исследований автора и коллектива Санкт-Петербургского института биорегуляции и геронтологии, посвященные изучению биологической активности пептидных биорегуляторов на всех уровнях организации живой природы (молекулярно-генетический, клеточный, тканевый, органный, организменный). Приводятся данные...
Учебное пособие. — Бишкек: Кыргызско-Российский Славянский университет им. Первого президента Российской Федерации Б.Н. Ельцина (КРСУ), 2021. — 127 с. Учебное пособие посвящено актуальным проблемам геронтологии и гериатрии – организации лечебно-профилактической помощи пожилым пациентам и старческого возраста, дифференциальной диагностике и лечению заболеваний данной категории...
Учебное пособие. — Бишкек: Кыргызско-российский славянский университет им. первого Президента Российской Федерации Б.Н. Ельцина (КРСУ), 2022. — 124 с. — ISBN 978-9967-19-938-5. Учебное пособие посвящено актуальным проблемам геронтологии и гериатрии – организации лечебно-профилактической помощи пожилым пациентам и людям старческого возраста, дифференциальной диагностике и...
Казань: КГМУ, 2008. — 54 с. Учебно-методическое пособие по дисциплине «Сестринское дело в гериатрии» для самостоятельной работы студентов IV курса заочного отделения факультета МВСО составлено с учетом требований Государственного образовательного стандарта высшего профессионального образования по специальности 060109 «Сестринское дело» (третий уровень высшего профессионального...
Киев: Здоров'я, 1987. — 163 с. В справочном пособии описаны физиологические и метаболические изменения в организме при старении. Изложены особенности действия лекарственных препаратов у лиц пожилого и старческого возраста. Систематизированы в алфавитном порядке лекарственные препараты, наиболее часто вызывающие осложнения у лиц старших возрастных групп. Описаны побочные явления...
Методические рекомендации. — СПб.: АбсолютН, 2012. — 44 с. В методических рекомендациях представлен современный подход к диагностике, тактике ведения и принципам лечения пожилых и старых больных с ИБС и жировой дегенерацией печени. Предназначены для гериатров, терапевтов, кардиологов, гастроэнтерологов, семейных врачей.
Учеб. для студ. высш. учеб. заведений. — М.: Гуманит. изд. центр Владос, 1999. — 160 с. ISBN: 5-691-00398-4. Учебник содержит основные сведения по истории геронтологии и периодизации старения, рассматриваются внешние проявления и признаки старения ведущих физиологических систем организма. Особое внимание уделяется проблеме нормы старения, феномену долгожительства, путям и...
Учебно-методическое пособие. — Минск: БГМУ, 2014. — 74 с. Содержит общие сведения об основополагающих механизмах, лежащих в основе процессов старения организма, оценивается возможность его предиктивной коррекции, предупреждения проявлений ранних этапов возрастных изменений и пролонгирования сроков качественной жизни индивидуума. Предназначено для студентов 1-го курса всех...
Монография. — Калуга: Калужский государственный университет им. К.Э. Циолковского, 2020. — 178 с. — ISBN 978-5-88725-558-3. Раскрываются теоретические, методологические и эмпирические аспекты стратегического управления активным долголетием. Обоснованы особенности стратегического анализа, дано описание концепции стратегического планирования, выделены типы стратегий активного...
Підруч. для студентів вищ. учбових мед. закладів. — К.: Запоріжжя : [ЗДМУ], 2015. — 163 с. Учебник по єлективному курсу «Гериатрическая фармакология» предназначен для студентов медицинского факултета, согласно ученого плана по специальности «Лечебное дело» и «Педиатрия» и программі по фармакологи. В ученик включен матеріал по особенностям фармакодинимики и фармакокінетики ,...
Монография. — Москва: Товарищество научных изданий КМК, 2015. — 164 с. — ISBN 978-5-9906564-6-8. В монографии рассматривается ключевая роль возраст-зависимого накопления повреждений ДНК в процессе старения и значение механизмов репарации ДНК в определении продолжительности жизни. С возрастом происходит накопление повреждений ДНК, соматических мутаций и хромосомных аберраций....
Сухуми: Абхазское государственное издательство, 1956. — 185 с.
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