Geriatrics at Your Fingertips 2008-2009 by: David Rueben 5 Thirdparty New from $13.94 Edition: 10 Media: Paperback EAN: 9781886775213 ISBN: 1886775214 Number Of Pages: 322 Publication Date: 2008-05-01 Publisher: American Geriatrics Society
Product Description: This pocket-sized, portable, practical and comprehensive clinical guide is an essential tool in evaluating and managing the diseases and disorders that most commonly affect older persons. It is an excellent tool for all practicing clinicians, including physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, physician assistants, and pharmacists, as well as professionals-in-training in all of these disciplines. Geriatrics At Your Fingertips includes: - A variety of assessment instruments and algorithms - Recommended diagnostic tests - Numerous drug tables including appropriate prescribing in older adults - A comprehensive index - A Ready Reference on the back cover to the most commonly used entries - Frequently used telephone numbers and Web sites
In 2006, the first baby boomers turned 60, unleashing a veritable tidal wave of gloomy punditry, advertising for financial services, and forecasts of impending national bankruptcy. In The Long Baby Boom, Jeff Goldsmith counters the predictions of such "catastropharians" with a far more optimistic scenario.
Drawing on evidence that most baby boomers plan on working long past age 65, Goldsmith argues that they will have a constructive impact on society over the next twenty years. By assuming a much larger portion of the financial burden of their own retirement and health costs, they will help preserve Social Security and Medicare for the less fortunate and for successive generations.
The Long Baby Boom is the first comprehensive forecast of baby boomers' career plans, health trends, and cultural and political values. Goldsmith's pro-work, pro-savings, pro-health social policy emphasizes personal responsibility without ripping the social safety net. Optimistic and innovative, The Long Baby Boom doesn't promise a cloud-free future, but it does reassure us that the sky isn't falling.
Product Description: The most up-to-date source of clinically focused information on the medical care of the increasing elderly population. This text features relevant diagnostic and treatment content needed by every provider of healthcare to older adults. The text covers the major diseases and disorders of the elderly with particular attention to the care of the elderly.
Product Description: 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 geriatric syndromes...and presentations of common conditions and situations. What's more, the 5th Edition now includes evidence-based medicine that helps you form a definitive diagnosis and create the best treatment plans possible and a BONUS CD-ROM containing supplemental materials.
Incorporates engaging case studies throughout to illustrate all of the principles and key clinical information you need to treat your geriatric patients as well as their families.
Features a two-color layout that highlights the most important information.
Provides evidence-based medicine wherever possible, giving you the most authoritative information on diagnosis, treatment, and management options.
Features an interdisciplinary perspective that reflects the field's increasingly team-oriented approach to geriatric care.
Includes a bonus CD-ROM containing additional color images, assessment tools, and review questions that help you hone your knowledge.
Presents USMLE-style questions in every chapter for quick review before clinical cases.
Uses a consistent format from chapter to chapter that lets you access the information you need fast.
Amazon.com: Merck Pharmaceuticals have edited a clear and comprehensive reference for older adults. Dr. Mark Beers begins with the age-old questions: when does a person become old and why does the body change? The remainder of this guide is divided into preventive and active care for self and others. The list of topics is a virtual everything you want to know about aging: nutritional needs, finding a doctor, understanding tests, surgery and rehabilitation, and long term care. More than one hundred specific medical conditions including fractures, constipation, tinnitus, dental disease, and dementia are explained and cross referenced with useful details. Although a clinical explanatory model prevails, non-traditional methods such as acupuncture and homeopathy receive honorable mention. The guide takes an unflinching look at sexuality, end of life decisions, and mistreatment of elderly adults. Other practical c! hapters are devoted to driving dilemmas and navigating the Byzantine financing of health care. This information is punctuated with essays from older adults--including a cheeky Max Sendak cartoon. The essays, along with charts, photos, and illustrations help to lessen the book's encyclopedic tone. Many older adults and the people who care for them will welcome the well-organized format and richly detailed information of this guide. --Barbara Mackoff
Product Description: Home reference manual for older people and those who care about them.
Product Description: A unique interdisciplinary guide that addresses the challenges of geriatric care, now with a two-color design, all-new illustrations, and many redesigned tables.
Product Description: The 5th edition of Swanson's Family Practice Review is a case base programmed text written for physicians with the certification and recertification examinations in mind, but is also of value for all physicians desiring to update their knowledge concerning practical aspects of primary care.
More than 75% all-new cases and questionsthe most thorough revision of the text ever
All new or enhanced content in sports medicine, public health, bioterrorism, evidence-based medicine, reading & interpreting medical literature, chronic & acute pain management, systems medicine, and medical errors and error reduction
More than 2100 board-style questionsmore than any competing product
New 8-page color insert featuring dermatology images, which mimic the type of images seen on the examination
Problem-oriented format that simulates clinical situations and allows the user to relate questions to real-life patient scenarios
Case-based organization, with questions related to each case
Aging: Concepts and Controversies by: Harry R. Moody 43 used from $50.99 32 Thirdparty New from $54.00 Edition: 5th Media: Paperback EAN: 9781412915205 ISBN: 1412915201 Number Of Pages: 504 Publication Date: 2006-01-13 Publisher: Pine Forge Press
Product Description:
Welcome to the worldâs most unique and dynamic textbook on aging! Widely praised and adopted in previous editions, the Fifth Edition of Aging once again presents key issues in an engaging and accessible fashion. Organized unlike any other traditional textbook, author Harry R. Moody presents basic concepts followed by controversies, supported by carefully chosen adapted readings. The result is the most captivating introduction to gerontology available today.
Key Features:
Embraces current controversies in aging: The close link between concepts and controversies in the broad areas of aging including health care, socioeconomic trends, and the life course are examined. Aging of the U.S. population has huge consequences for everyone, not just the elderly. Students are encouraged to become involved in the major aging issues that we as a society are struggling with and to take an informed stand.
Incorporates a reorganized format: The former section, Basic Concepts III, on the life course perspective, will now be the first section in the book. The Focus on Practice boxes have been moved to the Basic Concepts sections to demonstrate their relevance. The Focus on the Future sections follow the readings, encouraging students to understand the rapid change in society, and its implications on the aging population.
Includes new material: Each of the Basic Concepts and the Controversies sections has been updated with new citations and updated discussions. Over twenty-five percent of the readings are new. In addition, all charts and graphs have been updated with the most recent U.S. census data.
Accompanied by High Quality Ancillaries!
Instructors Resource CD-ROM: Provides test questions, back issues of the Teaching Gerontology newsletter, and PowerPoint slides for each of the Basic Concepts and Controversies covered in the text.
Teaching Gerontology newsletter: Published monthly during the academic year through the AARP Office of Academic Affairs. This informative newsletter has, among other things, the latest information on relevant new research, websites, workshops and new publications to enhance teaching and learning in courses on aging. It is available free to all adopters of Aging, Fifth Edition.
Student Study Site: Contains an annotated list of online resources in aging to better help students develop research papers. Check it out at http://www.sagepub.com/moody5study/
Intended Audience:
Perfect introductory text for a variety of undergraduate and graduate aging courses including Introduction to Aging, Social Gerontology, and Aging Policies
A trusted guide and an invaluable resource, Living with Rheumatoid Arthritis offers practical advice for the millions of people coping with this painful disease. Now thoroughly revised and expanded, in a second edition, this book brings readers up to date with the latest methods of diagnosis and treatment.
Building on their accessible explanation of the disease and its causes, the authors describe the essential components of care: medication, joint protection, physical activity, and good nutrition. They provide a wealth of new information on medications, including biologic response--modifiers, alternative and complementary approaches, and treatments for osteoporosis (which often accompanies rheumatoid arthritis), and they describe safe and effective ways to cope with pain, stiffness, and fatigue. The book helps readers understand their own emotional responses, as well as those of family and friends, and, because the disease often entails lifestyle changes, it provides practical advice for achieving as normal a life as possible.
With the latest information on medication, nutrition, and resources (online and off), this volume is a complete and comprehensive guide to the management of a difficult disease.
Basic Geriatric Nursing by: Gloria Hoffman Wold 8 used from $30.97 20 Thirdparty New from $31.15 Edition: 4 Media: Paperback EAN: 9780323052436 ISBN: 0323052436 Number Of Pages: 424 Publication Date: 2007-10-09 Publisher: Mosby
Product Description: Part of the popular LPN threads series, Basic GERIATRIC NURSING, 4th Edition presents the theories and concepts of aging, the physiologic and psychosocial changes and problems associated with the process, and appropriate nursing interventions. With its easy-to-read, clear writing style, this text provides the right depth and breadth of geriatrics content for LPN/LVNs.
UNIQUE! Nursing Care Plans follow the nursing process and include Critical Thinking Questions at the end of each plan.
UNIQUE! Key Points at the end of chapters summarize chapter highlights.
Clear, concise writing throughout, makes the content easily understandable and consistent.
Nursing Process sections in each appropriate chapter provides a strong framework for the discussion of the nursing care of the elderly patient as related to specific disorders.
UNIQUE! Nursing Interventions grouped according to health care setting (e.g. acute care, extended care, home care) allow you to see how care may be adapted and/or modified depending on the setting.
UNIQUE! Patient Teaching boxes instruct and inform both elderly patients and their caregivers about health promotion, disease prevention, and age-specific interventions.
UNIQUE! Complementary and Alternative Therapies boxes for geriatric patients provide valuable information on pain management through nonpharmocologic therapies.
Clinical Situations boxes include patient scenarios in the clinical setting, preparing you for patient care in the real world.
UNIQUE! Delegation Considerations boxes address such topics as restraints, elder abuse, and end-of-life care as related to responsibilities of nursing assistants and other health care workers who are supervised by LPN/LVNs.
UNIQUE! Critical Thinking boxes stress important content-related points and pose questions designed to stimulate further discussion.
Cultural Considerations boxes provide advice on culturally diverse patient care of older adults.
Includes content on ethical and legal issues in end-of-life care (including separate chapter that addresses pain management and palliative care in both the institutional and home settings).
UNIQUE! Perforated Student Activities workbook at the back of the book includes a variety of matching, multiple-choice, study questions, case studies with critical thinking questions, and Internet activities.
Full-color art, photographs, and design create a vivid, dynamic background for the narrative.
Improved format with more bulleted lists and smaller chunks of content make content even easier to understand and retain.
Case Studies and related Questions and Activities in the Student Activities section at the back of the book are detailed, in-depth clinical scenarios and related questions.
Content on Home Health for both patients and caregivers includes essential information for LPN/LVNs caring for older adults in the home setting.
Content on Alzheimer's disease help you recognize the many manifestations of the disease in each of its stages and provide safe, appropriate care.
Increased content on therapeutic communication acknowledges generational and cultural differences among patients and caregivers and helps you learn how to communicate effectively with older adults in any stage of health or illness.
Increased cultural content on the impact of aging in other cultures throughout help you become more culturally sensitive when providing nursing care.
UNIQUE! Section on Baby Boomers and the impact of their aging on health care addresses key information on the largest age group and their health care needs.
MyPyramid illustrates the 2005 revised guidelines from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and allows individualization of nutritional guidelines, helping you to easily modify nutritional needs for older adults.
UNIQUE! Evidence-based research to support gerontologic nursing care.
Updated Lab Values for Older Adults provide the necessary statistics for evaluating assessment data and providing appropriate nursing care.
Evolve Student Resources now include audio pronunciations, animations, and video assessment.
