Gerontology/Ageing

The responsibility of providing mental health evaluations and treatment to nursing home patients is increasingly falling on the shoulders of social services and nursing staff. Psychosocial Intervention in Long-Term Care provides the advanced techniques you, as a caregiver, need for assessing and int..

The responsibility of providing mental health evaluations and treatment to nursing home patients is increasingly falling on the shoulders of social services and nursing staff. Psychosocial Intervention in Long-Term Care provides the advanced techniques you, as a caregiver, need for assessing and int..

This book presents clinicians with a series of cases on which to base discussion of the investigation and management of patients, and provides the trainee, or established doctor, with a medium to help prepare for post-graduate examinations and clinical practice...

Here is the first book which highlights the unique resource of religion in the field of prevention. Until now, religious systems have been a largely undertapped resource of talent, energy, care, and physical and financial assets. Religion and Prevention in Mental Health is a significant new volume t..

The study of grandparents raising grandchildren, now almost two decades old, has tended to have a negative bias, emphasizing the difficulties such people face and the negative impact that grandparent caregiving has on them physically, socially, and emotionally. This edited book seeks to reverse this..

The study of grandparents raising grandchildren, now almost two decades old, has tended to have a negative bias, emphasizing the difficulties such people face and the negative impact that grandparent caregiving has on them physically, socially, and emotionally. This edited book seeks to reverse this..

Self-Neglect explores the social, ethical, medical, and practical implications of the most prevalent form of elder abuse. It examines the topics of passive suicide and indirect life-threatening behavior to help medical practitioners working with the elderly understand why patients do not follow doct..

Self-Neglect explores the social, ethical, medical, and practical implications of the most prevalent form of elder abuse. It examines the topics of passive suicide and indirect life-threatening behavior to help medical practitioners working with the elderly understand why patients do not follow doct..

In this book, originally published in 1987, two research disciplines – social gerontology and sleep research – are brought together with the aim of providing a straightforward account of how sleep is changed and disrupted by the biological and social impact of ageing...

Summarizing the work of EDCON's working group on the topic, this text explores the differences in clinical practice and the provision of services throughout Europe, and also examines the roles involved in multi-disciplinary care of dementia patients...

Discover a positive perspective on aging with Still Going Strong: Memoirs, Stories, and Poems About Great Older Women. This exuberant, inspiring anthology celebrates the vitality of women who know that life after middle age is a time of growth and fulfillment, enriched by the wisdom of experience...

Discover a positive perspective on aging with Still Going Strong: Memoirs, Stories, and Poems About Great Older Women. This exuberant, inspiring anthology celebrates the vitality of women who know that life after middle age is a time of growth and fulfillment, enriched by the wisdom of experience...