Medical problems in women over 70 : when normative treatment plans do not apply /
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| Imprint: | Abingdon, Oxon [England] : Informa Healthcare ; Boca Raton, FL : Distributed in North America by Taylor & Francis, 2007. |
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| Description: | ix, 247 p. : ill. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7094155 |
Table of Contents:
- Section 1. Epidemiology and scope of problem
- 1. Worldwide population changes
- 2. New social structures (divorce, widowhood, rural and urban)
- 3. Mortality and climate change
- Section 2. Conditions affecting the elderly(Pathology, impact on daily living, investigations, contribution to ill health management strategies)
- 4. Balance, falls and mortality
- 5. Vision
- 6. Audition
- 7. Dementia
- 8. Depression and mood changes (care at home, in residential care, hospital, drug/ECT/cognitive therapy)
- 9. Dentition
- 10. Continence
- 11. Sex (couple and single-sex relationships, heterosexual and same-sex, at home, living alone, residential care)
- 12. Sleep disorders
- Section 3. Managing the problem
- 13. Setting up a one-step gerontology service
- 14. Investigations BP, BMI, Hb, biochemistry, immunology (what are the normative values, what does the physician need to ask?)
- 15. Diet and micronutrients: living alone and residential care
- 16. Polypharmacy getting prescriptions, compliance, drug interactions, drug metabolism changes with age
- 17. Alternative and complementary therapies
- 18. Designing living places independent and residential
- 19. Palliative care: location, chemotherapy, analgesia
- 20. Caring for carers: professional and non-professional
- Index & Bibliographies
