Social work and geriatric services
<P><STRONG>Social Work & Geriatric Services</STRONG> examines many facets concerning the care of the elderly. Topics discussed include chronic disease prevalence, conducting research with older people, cognitive functioning and social integration, exercise for the elderly, suic...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Oakville, ON :
Apple Academic Press
2011.
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| Edition: | 1st |
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009701171206719 |
Table of Contents:
- Front Cover; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ANDHOW TO CITE; 1. Introduction; 2. Chronic Disease Prevalence and Care Among the Elderly in Urban and Rural Beijing, China-A 10/66 Dementia Research Group Cross-Sectional Survey; 3. Challenges to Conducting Research with Older People Living in Nursing Homes; 4. Association between Subjective Memory Complaints and Health Care Utilisation: A Three-Year Follow Up; 5. Cognitive Function, Social Integration and Mortality in a U.S. National Cohort Study of Older Adults
- 6. Magnitude of Potentially Inappropriate Prescribing in Germany Among Older Patients with Generalized Anxiety Disorder7. Social Vulnerability, Frailty and Mortality in Elderly People; 8. Impact of Exercise in Community-Dwelling Older Adults; 9. Social Participation and Independence in Activities of Daily Living: A Cross Sectional Study; 10. Age-Related Attenuation of Dominant Hand Superiority; 11. Are Sedatives and Hypnotics Associated with Increased Risk of Suicide in the Elderly?; 12. Mental Rotation of Faces in Healthy Aging and Alzheimer's Disease
- 13. Preventing Falls in Older Multifocal Glasses Wearersby Providing Single-Lens Distance Glasses: The Protocol for the VISIBLE Randomized Controlled Trial14. Emotional Stress as a Trigger of Falls Leading to Hip or Pelvic Fracture. Results From the Tofa Study-A Case-Crossover Study Among Elderly People in Stockholm, Sweden; 15. Health Status Transitions in Community-Living Elderly with Complex Care Needs: A Latent Class Approach; 16. Effectiveness of a Mobile Smoking Cessation Service in Reaching Elderly Smokers and Predictors of Quitting
- 17. Factors Associated with Self-Rated Health in Older People Living in Institutions18. Discomfort and Agitation in Older Adults with Dementia; 19. Factors Influencing Elderly Women's Mammography Screening Decisions: Implications for Counseling; 20. Do Social Networks Affect the Use of Residential Aged Care Among Older Australians?; Back Cover
