Download Gedächtnistraining 50+ planen, durchführen und evaluieren: by Ellen Prang PDF

By Ellen Prang

Ellen Prang gibt in präziser shape einen Überblick u.a. zur Planung, Durchführung und review eines Gedächtnistrainings. Sie beantwortet Fragen, wie eine Trainingsstunde optimum strukturiert wird, welche Inhalte und Methoden gewählt werden sollten und wie die Effizienz gemessen werden kann. Beispiele erleichtern den move in die Praxis. Die aktuellen Bedürfnisse der Teilnehmenden, ihre Ressourcen, Fähigkeiten und die Biografie stehen im Mittelpunkt einer Einzelaktivierung ohne Leistungs- und Zeitdruck. Praktiker erhalten fundierte Kenntnisse und didaktisch-methodisches Wissen in kompakter shape für die Leitung eines Gedächtnistrainings.

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Download Immunosenescence by Graham Pawelec PDF

By Graham Pawelec

Human immunosenescence contributes to morbidity and mortality in later lifestyles. The age-associated expanding occurrence of melanoma and heart problems plateaus at round eighty years of age in industrialised nations, yet loss of life as a result of infectious ailment keeps to extend as much as a hundred years of age and past. figuring out the explanations for age-associated adjustments to protecting immunity within the aged may facilitate the improvement of interventions to reconstitute applicable immune functionality, elevate responsiveness to vaccination and expand healthspan. nearly all of the papers accumulated during this quantity consequently deal with not just the mechanisms chargeable for immune growing older in people yet examine what can be entire to redress the erosion of immune competence with age.

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Download Eldercare Technology for Clinical Practitioners by Majd Alwan, Robin Felder PDF

By Majd Alwan, Robin Felder

This very important instruction manual addresses applied sciences unique on the evaluate, early detection and the mitigation of universal geriatric stipulations. those contain decline in practical skills, gait, mobility, sleep disturbance, imaginative and prescient impairment, listening to loss, falls, and cognitive decline. This e-book not just describes the kingdom of either embedded and wearable applied sciences, but in addition makes a speciality of examine exhibiting the capability software of those applied sciences within the field.

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Download Surviving Dementia: A Clinical and Personal Perspective by Carol W. Berman PDF

By Carol W. Berman

This textual content ways the care of dementia sufferers through the event of a psychiatrist in addition to a caregiver, delivering a holistic method of care that's not like the other ebook out there. Laced along with her reviews from either her expert and private lifestyles, Huffington Post columnist and psychiatrist Dr. Carol W. Berman goals to coach psychological overall healthiness execs on issues that they proceed to grapple with, together with prognosis and therapy, behavioral demanding situations between sufferers, operating with non-professional caregivers, hospice care, and lots of different problems pros face whilst taking care of dementia sufferers. With an analogous easy-to-read but informative tone Dr. Carol W. Berman is understood for between her numerous medical and lay assets, pros locate that this instrument is a superb source for structuring care plans with the non-professional caregiver being affected by care management.
Surviving Dementia: A scientific and private Perspective is a phenomenal source for psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, social staff, and different physicians drawn to versions of dementia care.

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Download Challenges in Acute Geriatric Care by Jochanan E. Naschitz PDF

By Jochanan E. Naschitz

This paintings fills a spot within the literature in proposing a suite of subject matters on acute geriatric care. so much chapters are based as grand rounds, excited by scientific difficulties that experience constrained disclosure in textbooks, offered as a conversation among idea and perform, written via clinicians for clinicians. This assortment relies on encounters among geriatricians and specialists, intended to unravel medical difficulties; a collaboration the place scientific event and interdisciplinary trade may well supplant scanty directions. A multidisciplinary strategy is additionally proposed to minimize practical decline of aged sufferers, reduce size of health facility remains, and stop nursing domestic admissions.

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Download Molecular Mechanisms of Neurodegenerative Diseases by Marie-Francoise Chesselet PDF

By Marie-Francoise Chesselet

Marie-Françoise Chesselet, MD, PhD, and a panel of top researchers and neurologists from and academia seriously assessment the newest advances from diverse but complementary issues of view. concentrating on Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and CAG triplet repeat illnesses, the authors convey how stories of mobile and genetically engineered animal versions have better our figuring out of the molecular mechanisms of neurodegenerative ailments and should bring about new therapeutics. subject matters comprise the function of Ab toxicity, glial cells, and irritation in Alzheimer's affliction; the formation of irregular protein fragments throughout a number of illnesses, the influence of dopamine and mitochondrial disorder on neurodegeneration. Authoritative and insightful, Molecular Mechanisms of Neurodegenerative ailments synthesizes the radical principles and ideas now rising to create a clean knowing of neurodegenerative issues, person who supplies to steer to strong new remedies that hinder, hold up the onset, gradual the development, or maybe treatment those merciless ailments.

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Download Geriatric Neurology by Anil K. Nair, Marwan N. Sabbagh PDF

By Anil K. Nair, Marwan N. Sabbagh

Aging impacts neurological functionality resulting in neurological disease

As society grows older, so do the neurological difficulties linked to getting older. those may be new neurological deficits as a result of the getting older approach itself, or the impression of getting older on already present neurological stipulations. Neurologists will spend expanding quantities of time coping with sufferers with age-related neurological complications.

Geriatric Neurology brings jointly the knowledge of world-leading specialists. they've got crafted a brand new textbook to outline this rising subspecialty from simple technological know-how via scientific evaluate and scientific administration to social features of sufferer care. Geriatric Neurology covers: * The getting older mind in neurology * overview of the geriatric neurology sufferer * Neurological stipulations within the aged * Therapeutics for the geriatric neurology sufferer * administration concerns past therapeutics

Comprehensive in scope yet with sensible concentration for powerful sufferer care, Geriatric Neurology presents top-of-class information for the administration of aged sufferers with neurological issues.

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Download Integrated Management of Depression in the Elderly by Carolyn A. Chew-Graham, Robert Baldwin, Alistair Burns PDF

By Carolyn A. Chew-Graham, Robert Baldwin, Alistair Burns

Melancholy is among the most typical psychological illnesses dealing with older humans, and it is usually unrecognised and customarily under-treated. built-in administration of melancholy within the aged presents a completely new method of realizing late-life melancholy, through the use of a sequence of case reports with commentaries from practitioners across the world. The ebook covers the epidemiology, presentation and prognosis of melancholy in older humans and descriptions present facts for potent administration drawing on lately released paintings. The substantive a part of the publication provides ten case reviews of accelerating complexity, every one case has a observation from a major care clinician and a wellbeing and fitness or social care expert, to stipulate how execs may still interact to regulate the sufferer inside their group. Contributions from international specialists supply the ebook a global charm. it's going to entice a large viewers of well-being and social care execs including psychiatrists-in-training.

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Download Brocklehurst’s Textbook of Geriatric Medicine and by Howard M. Fillit MD, Kenneth Rockwood MD FRCPC FRCP, John PDF

By Howard M. Fillit MD, Kenneth Rockwood MD FRCPC FRCP, John B Young MBBS(Hons) FRCP

The best reference within the box of geriatric care, Brocklehurst’s Textbook of Geriatric drugs and Gerontology, eighth Edition, via Drs. Howard M. Fillit, Kenneth Rockwood, and John B. younger, presents a modern, worldwide perspective on issues of significance to today’s gerontologists, inner drugs physicians, and kinfolk medical professionals. An elevated specialize in frailty, in addition to insurance of key concerns in gerontology, disease-specific geriatrics, and complicated syndromes particular to the aged, makes this eighth version the reference you’ll flip to on the way to meet the original demanding situations posed via this growing to be sufferer population.

  • Consistent discussions of scientific manifestations, analysis, prevention, remedy, and extra make reference quickly and easy.
  • More than 250 figures, together with algorithms, pictures, and tables, supplement the textual content and assist you locate what you would like on a given condition.
  • Clinical relevance of the newest medical findings is helping you simply follow the cloth to daily practice.

  • A new bankruptcy on frailty, plus an emphasis on frailty through the book, addresses the complicated scientific and social matters that have an effect on care, and the explicit wisdom and talents crucial for assembly your sufferers’ complicated wishes.
  • New content material brings you as much as date with info on gerontechnology, emergency and pre-hospital care, HIV and getting older, in depth therapy of older adults, telemedicine, the outfitted setting, and transcultural geriatrics.
  • New editor Professor John Young brings a clean point of view and targeted services to this edition.

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