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1 online resource (x, 267 pages) : illustrations |
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Interdisciplinary topics in gerontology ; v. 30 |
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Interdisciplinary topics in gerontology ; v. 30.
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| Contents |
""Vol. 30""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""The Department of Geriatrics of the University Hospitals of Geneva""; ""Center for Interdisciplinary Gerontology, University of Geneva""; ""Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment in an EmergencyWard""; ""Functional Assessment Scale: An Assessment Instrument for Nursing Care?""; ""Epidemiology of Falls in a Geriatric Ward: Rationale for a Quality Program""; ""Bone and Nutrition in Aging""; ""Oral Health Problems in the Elderly""; ""Geriatric Infectious Diseases Program""; ""Years to Relish â€?Des anneÂ?es à savourerâ€?"" |
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""Role of the Clinical Pharmacologist in a Geriatric Hospital""""Epidemiology of Dementia in Geneva""; ""Vascular Dementia: A Diagnostic Challenge""; ""Evaluation and Diagnosis at the Memory Clinic of Geneva""; ""Neuropsychological Interventions in Demented Patients""; ""Neuroanatomy of Apraxia and Visual Agnosia in Alzheimer�s Disease""; ""Presenilin-1 Immunoreactivity in Human Neurodegenerative Diseases""; ""The Challenges of Oncogeriatrics""; ""Together against Pain � Pain and Suffering in the Elderly""; ""PalliativeManagement of Dyspnea in End-Stage Chronic Respiratory Disease"" |
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""Bereavement Follow-Up: A Prevention Programme""""Geriatric Abuse of Pain Sufferers""; ""Integration of Geriatrics in a New Problem-Based Undergraduate Curriculum at the Medical School of Geneva""; ""Postgraduate and Continuing Education in Gerontology""; ""The European Academy for Medicine of Aging: Training the Next Generation for Academic Leadership in Geriatrics""; ""Networking in the 21st Century: GINA � Geneva International Network on Ageing""; ""WHO Ageing and Health Programme""; ""Author Index""; ""Subject Index"" |
| Summary |
One of the world's major geriatric departments is housed in the Geneva University Hospital and has a 36-year-old history behind it. Some of its developments are set out in this book. Care programs such as geriatric concepts of care, community based support, convalescent beds, memory clinics, palliative medicine and care and practice of clinical ethics are discussed. Research has focussed on 15 years of comparative cross-sectional studies on aging in an urban and a rural area of Switzerland, prevalence of dementia in Geneva and Zurich, clinico-neuropathological correlation, fall prevention, hip fracture outcomes and the impact of nutrition on the recovery of hip fractures. Teaching activities include interactive pre-graduate teaching of geriatrics, patient-centered medicine, post ethics, teaching the teachers by the European Academy for Medicine of Aging. Networking by the Interfaculty Center of Gerontology, Swiss Foundation for Research on Healthy Aging and the WHO program on 'Aging and Health' are in progress. This book will be of interest to geriatricians, administrators, gerontological researchers and public health managers as it gives an insight into the setting up of a geriatric team and the implementation of geriatric programs |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Geriatrics.
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Older people -- Diseases.
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Aging -- Research
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Older people.
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Research.
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Aged
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Geriatrics
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Health Services for the Aged
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Research
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elderly.
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research (function)
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Research
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Older people
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Aging -- Research
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Geriatrics
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Older people -- Diseases
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Services de gériatrie.
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Vieillissement.
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Gériatrie.
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Sujet âgé.
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Geriatrie
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Alterskrankheit
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Gériatrie.
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Personnes âgées -- Maladies.
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Vieillissement -- Recherche.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Michel, Jean-Pierre (Geriatrician)
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Hof, Patrick R
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S. Karger (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9783318004229 |
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3318004227 |
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