Many recent new developments highlighted in this volume's 12 chapters, indicate the multi-disciplinary nature of Alzheimer's Disease and dementia research. The emergence of an effective cure of AD and dementia depends on how well we understand the underlying pathogenic mechanisms. Our hope is that effective therapeutic agents that target memory-relevant AD pathogenesis and other dementic disorders are developed soon, through the intensive research efforts worldwide, as evidenced in this volume.

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Product Description: This fully updated seventh edition remains the pioneering text for practicing physicians and allied health staff confronted with the unique problems of an increasing elderly population. Dr Reichel's formative text is designed as a practical and useful guide for all health specialists...read more

Product Description: This issue of Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, guest edited by Drs. Cynthia Boyd, James T. Pacala, and Michael W. Rich, is devoted to Chronic Conditions in Older Adults with Cardiovascular Disease. Articles in this issue include: Epidemiology of multimorbidity in older adults with cardiovascular disease; Impact of multimorbidity on clinical outcomes in older adults with cardiovascular disease; Assessment of goals of care in patients with multiple chronic conditions; Challenges in decision-making: balancing trade-offs; Multimorbidity in older adults with heart failure; Multimorbidity in older adults with acute coronary syndromes; Multimorbidity in older adults with aortic stenosis; Multimorbidity in older adults with atrial fibrillation;Anticoagulation in older adults with multimorbidity; Approach to evaluating the multimorbid patient with cardiovascular disease undergoing non-cardiac surgery; Integrating care across disciplines; Assessing risks and benefits of invasive cardiac procedures in patients with advanced multimorbidity; Multimorbidity and end of life care in patients with cardiovascular disease; and Future research directions for cardiovascular disease...read more

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Product Description: Audie Award Nominee, Personal Development, 2013Joan Price is talking out loud about a subject that is often ignored or ridiculed in our society: later-life sexuality. Naked at Our Age is a candid, straight-talking book addressing senior sexuality in all its colors―the challenges, the disappointments, and the surprises, as well as the delights and the love stories...read more

Product Description: This book is designed to present the clinical geriatric trends within general internal medicine and family practice, which practitioners often encounter in caring for their older adult patients. Chapters focus on increasingly difficult clinical decisions that practitioners have to make in caring for older adults, who often experience medical complications due to memory loss, physical disability, and multiple chronic conditions...read more

Product Description: This text covers basic principles and practice of on-call psychiatric care in the geriatric patient in various medical settings. It compiles the most likely complaints and provides assessment and management tools for each situation...read more

Product Description: Aufbauend auf dem Lehrbuch „Ergotherapie bei Demenzerkrankungen" vertieft das Praxisbuch neue Behandlungs- und Betreuungsstrategien. Dabei baut die Autorin auf bekannte Therapiekonzepte für verhaltensgestörte Kinder (Sensorische Integration) und Schwerstbehinderte (Basale Stimulation) auf...read more

Product Description: Between 1870 and 1940, life expectancy in the United States skyrocketed while the percentage of senior citizens age sixty-five and older more than doubled—a phenomenon owed largely to innovations in medicine and public health. At the same time, the Great Depression was a major tipping point for age discrimination and poverty in the West: seniors were living longer and retiring earlier, but without adequate means to support themselves and their families...read more

Product Description: This comprehensive guide provides an integrated account of palliative care in dementia, outlining common problems and difficulties faced by those with dementia and their carers. It applies a palliative care approach to understanding, assessing and minimising the impact of a comprehensive range of distressing psychiatric symptoms, co-morbidities, and social and psychological distress related to dementia...read more