| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 361 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
Myths and Realities of Natural Disasters Revisited -- Triaging Acute Care Patients During a Disaster -- Disaster Planning for Community-Dwelling Older Adults: Strengths, Weaknesses, and Interventions -- Emergency Preparedness for Home Based Primary Care Senior Veterans: Lessons Learned from Previous Experience -- Disasters and the Frail Elderly -- Seniors, Disaster Mortality, and End-of-Life Care -- The Role of Informal Caregivers for Frail Elders in Disasters -- Building Resilience in Nursing Homes in Disasters -- Long-Term Care Facilities: Challenges and Technology -- The Evolution of Academic-Based Geriatric Emergency Preparedness and Response (GEPR) Training for Medicine, Health, and Behavioral Sciences -- Outcomes of Academic-Based Geriatric Emergency Preparedness and Response (GEPR) Training for Medicine, Health, and Behavioral Professions -- The CCOPER Project-Continuum of Care Operational Preparedness and Emergency Response -- Disaster Health Competencies and Their Application: Caring for Seniors -- Contributing to Geriatric Health and Well-Being Through Improving Community Resilience Capacities -- Cultural Competent Care for Seniors in Disasters -- Literacy and Disaster Preparedness for Seniors -- The Role of Academic Health Centers in Disaster Preparedness -- Geriatric Trauma -- Joplin: Preparedness Lessons from a Devastating Tornado -- Mental Health Consequences of Disaster Exposure in Older Adults -- The Long-Term Effect of Trauma for Disaster Victims -- Seniors During Wars and Civil Strife: The Lebanese Story |
| Summary |
Disaster Preparedness for Seniors: A Comprehensive Guide for Healthcare Professionals outlines specific disaster scenarios for homebound, community, hospitalized, long term care, homeless and aged veterans. Chapters are written by a diverse group of authors, all of whom offer insight and expertise in training healthcare professionals in preparing for disasters. Topics include myths and realities of natural disasters and disaster preparedness for special populations of elders-the acute care elderly, the community-dwelling elderly, home based primary care senior veterans, the immune-compromised elderly, those with multiple and co morbid illnesses, the long-term care elderly, those elderly at the end of life and the effects of disaster on caregivers. A significant portion of the book is also devoted to training, competencies, literacy, cultural competency and resilience in disaster preparedness as well as the role of the academic medical center. The volume concludes with coverage of the management of behavioral, medical and psychological consequences of disasters. Disaster Preparedness for Seniors: A Comprehensive Guide for Healthcare Professionals is an important new volume and will serve as a guide for the development of programs, policies and procedures for evacuation of seniors during various disaster scenarios |
| Analysis |
eerstelijnsgezondheidszorg |
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primary health care |
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geneeskunde |
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medicine |
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volksgezondheid |
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public health |
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geriatrie |
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geriatrics |
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noodgevallen |
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emergencies |
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Medicine (General) |
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Geneeskunde (algemeen) |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed August 29, 2014) |
| Subject |
Emergency management -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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Geriatrics.
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Emergency management.
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Emergency medicine.
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Older people.
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Human beings.
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Disaster Medicine -- organization & administration
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Disaster Planning
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Emergency Medicine
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Geriatrics
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Aged
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Humans
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disaster planning.
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elderly.
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Homo sapiens (species)
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- State & Provincial.
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Older people
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Emergency medicine
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Emergency management
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Geriatrics
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| Genre/Form |
handbooks.
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Handbooks and manuals
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Handbooks and manuals.
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Guides et manuels.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cefalu, Charles, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781493906659 |
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1493906658 |
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149390664X |
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9781493906642 |
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9781493906666 |
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1493906666 |
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9781493946556 |
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1493946552 |
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