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Pressure Ulcers in the Aging Population: A Guide for Clinicians is a resource primarily aimed at physicians interested in the fundamentals of wound care. This book is written for geriatricians, internists, general practitioners, residents and fellows who treat older patients. Unlike other wound texts on the market, the book addresses the specific issues of wound prevention and management in older individuals. The text emphasizes proper documentation and elements of the team care process. There …

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Other Authors: Thomas, David R.; Compton, Gregory A.

Responsibility: David R. Thomas, Gregory A. Compton, editors

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Humana Press

Date of Publication: c2014

Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 233 pages)

Series Vol.: v. 1

Series Title: Aging medicine

ISBN: 9781627037006 (electronic bk.); 9781627036993

Subjects (MeSH): Pressure Ulcer - prevention & control; Pressure Ulcer - therapy

Subjects (LCSH): Bedsores; Bedsores - Healing; Geriatric dermatology; Geriatrics

Abstract: Pressure Ulcers in the Aging Population: A Guide for Clinicians is a resource primarily aimed at physicians interested in the fundamentals of wound care. This book is written for geriatricians, internists, general practitioners, residents and fellows who treat older patients. Unlike other wound texts on the market, the book addresses the specific issues of wound prevention and management in older individuals. The text emphasizes proper documentation and elements of the team care process. There is up to date information on skin changes at the end of life and the concept of unavoidability. Chapters are written by experts in their fields and include such evolving topics as deep tissue injury and the newer support surface technologies.

Contents: The Biology of Wound Healing -- Incidence and Prevalence of Pressure Ulcers -- Prevention of Pressure Ulcers -- Assessment and Documentation of Pressure Ulcers -- General Principles of Pressure Ulcer Management -- Local Wound Treatment in Pressure Ulcer Management -- Surgical Management of Pressure Ulcers -- The Role of Nutrition in the Management and Prevention of Pressure Ulcers -- Assessment and Management of Wound Colonization and Infection in Pressure Ulcers -- Palliative Wound Care and Treatment at End of Life -- Quality of Care -- Legal Aspects of Pressure Ulcer Care.

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Location: Online

Acute care for elders : a model for interdisciplinary care

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Michael L. Malone, Elizabeth A. Capezuti, Robert M. Palmer, editors. --New York: Humana Press , c2014.

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Acute Care for Elders (ACE) is a model of care designed to improve functional outcomes and to improve the processes for the care of older patients. This model includes: an environment of care designed to promote improved function for older patients; an interdisciplinary team that works together to identify/address the vulnerabilities of the older patients; nursing care plans for prevention of disability; early planning to help prepare the patient to return home; and a review of medical care to …

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Other Authors: Malone, Michael L.; Capezuti, Liz; Palmer, Robert M.

Responsibility: Michael L. Malone, Elizabeth A. Capezuti, Robert M. Palmer, editors

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Humana Press

Date of Publication: c2014

Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxiii, 259 pages)

Series Title: Aging medicine

ISBN: 9781493910250 (electronic bk.); 9781493910243

Subjects (MeSH): Acute Disease - therapy; Critical Care - methods; Geriatrics - methods; Health Services for the Aged

Subjects (LCSH): Geriatrics; Older people - Health and hygiene; Nursing

Abstract: Acute Care for Elders (ACE) is a model of care designed to improve functional outcomes and to improve the processes for the care of older patients. This model includes: an environment of care designed to promote improved function for older patients; an interdisciplinary team that works together to identify/address the vulnerabilities of the older patients; nursing care plans for prevention of disability; early planning to help prepare the patient to return home; and a review of medical care to prevent iatrogenic illness. Acute Care for Elders: A Model for Interdisciplinary Care is an essential new resource aimed at assisting providers in developing and sustaining an ACE program. The interdisciplinary approach provides an introduction to the key vulnerabilities of older adults and defines the lessons learned from the Acute Care for Elders model. Expertly written chapters describe critical aspects of ACE: the interdisciplinary approach and the focus on function. The fundamental principles of ACE described in this book will further assist hospital leaders to develop, implement, sustain and disseminate the Acute Care for Elders model of care.

Contents: An Introduction to the Acute Care for Elders -- The Team Approach to Interdisciplinary Care -- Patient and Hospital Factors that Lead to Adverse Outcomes in Hospitalized Elders -- An Overview of Hospital-Based Models of Care -- The Acute Care for Elders Unit -- How to Develop, Start and Sustain an Acute Care for Elders Unit -- How to Disseminate the ACE Model of Care Beyond One Unit -- How to Use the ACE Unit to Improve Hospital Safety and Quality for Older Patients: From ACE Units to Elder-Friendly Hospitals -- ACE Unit Business Model -- Models of Care to Transition from Hospital to Home -- What is the Role of Hospitalists in the Acute Care for Elders? -- How to Improve Care for Seniors in the Emergency Department -- How to Improve Care for Older Patients in the Intensive Care Unit -- The Future of Acute Care for Elders.

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Meeting the needs of older adults with serious illness : challenges and opportunities in the age of health care reform

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Amy S. Kelley, Diane E. Meier, editors. --New York: Springer , c2014.

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Meeting the Needs of Older Adults with Serious Illness: Challenges and Opportunities in the Age of Health Care Reform provides an introduction to the principles of palliative care, describes current models of delivering palliative care across care settings, and examines opportunities in the setting of healthcare policy reform for palliative care to improve outcomes for patients, families and healthcare institutions. The United States is currently facing a crisis in health care marked by unsusta…

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Other Authors: Kelley, Amy S.; Meier, Diane E.

Responsibility: Amy S. Kelley, Diane E. Meier, editors

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Springer

Date of Publication: c2014

Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 240 pages)

Series Title: Aging medicine

ISBN: 9781493904075 (electronic bk.); 9781493904068

Subjects (MeSH): Health Care Reform; Health Services for the Aged; Insurance, Health; Palliative Care - economics; Quality of Health Care; United States. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

Subjects (LCSH): Older people - Medical care; Older people - Hospice care; Palliative treatment; Terminal care

Other Subjects: United States

Abstract: Meeting the Needs of Older Adults with Serious Illness: Challenges and Opportunities in the Age of Health Care Reform provides an introduction to the principles of palliative care, describes current models of delivering palliative care across care settings, and examines opportunities in the setting of healthcare policy reform for palliative care to improve outcomes for patients, families and healthcare institutions. The United States is currently facing a crisis in health care marked by unsustainable spending and quality that is poor relative to international benchmarks. Yet this is also a critical time of opportunity. Because of its focus on quality of care, the Affordable Care Act is poised to expand access to palliative care services for the sickest, most vulnerable, and therefore most costly, 5% of patients- a small group who nonetheless drive about 50% of all healthcare spending. Palliative care is specialized medical care for people with serious illnesses. It focuses on providing patients with relief from the symptoms, pain, and stress of a serious illness--whatever the diagnosis or stage of illness. The goal is to improve quality of life for both the patient and the family. Research has demonstrated palliative care's positive impact on health care value. Patients (and family caregivers) receiving palliative care experience improved quality of life, better symptom management, lower rates of depression and anxiety, and improved survival. Because patient and family needs are met, crises are prevented, thereby directly reducing need for emergency department and hospital use and their associated costs. An epiphenomenon of better quality of care, the lower costs associated with palliative care have been observed in multiple studies. Meeting the Needs of Older Adults with Serious Illness: Challenges and Opportunities in the Age of Health Care Reform, a roadmap for effective policy and program design, brings together expert clinicians, researchers and policy leaders, who tackle key areas where real-world policy options to improve access to quality palliative care could have a substantial role in improving value.

Contents: Part I. Current Needs of Older Adults with Serious Illness -- 1. When More Is Less: Overuse of Medical Services Harms Patients -- 2. Disparities in Access to Palliative Care -- 3. Family Caregiving and Palliative Care: Aligning Theory, Practice, and Policy -- Part II. Settings for the Care of the Seriously Ill -- 4. This Is Your Life: Achieving a Comprehensive, Person-Centered Model of Care at the Intersection of Policy, Politics, and Private Sector Innovation -- 5. Hospice and Healthcare Reform: What Is the Optimal Path? -- 6. Palliative Care in the Long-Term Care Setting -- Part III. Measuring Quality and Paying for the Care of the Seriously Ill -- 7. Quality and Outcome Measures -- 8. Palliative Care’s Impact on Utilization and Costs: Implications for Health Services Research and Policy -- 9. Long-term Services and Supports: A Necessary Complement to Palliative Care -- 10. The Manifest Destinies of Managed Care and Palliative Care -- Part IV. Platforms for Improvement -- 11. Models of Care Delivery and Coordination: Palliative Care Integration Within Accountable Care Organizations -- 12. Implementing a Care Planning System: How to Fix the Most Pervasive Errors in Health Care -- 13. Igniting Action to Integrate Palliative Care in Our US Health System: The Role of Disease-Specific Advocacy Groups—A Cancer Advocacy Case Study -- 14. What Do You Mean You Don’t Also Offer Palliative Care? Effective Public Engagement to Harness Demand to Improve Care for Serious Illness -- 15. Research Priorities in Palliative Care for Older Adults -- 16. Medical and Nursing Education & Training.

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Aging and money : reducing risk of financial exploitation and protecting financial resources

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Ronan M. Factora, editor. --New York: Humana Press , c2014.

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Increasingly, we hear of more and more elders falling victim to financial exploitation. Although this form of elder abuse has been recognized for years, its incidence, prevalence, and impact on the common individual has been only more recently brought to the spotlight. Despite these circumstances, recognition of risk factors and indicators of financial exploitation are not widely disseminated. Additionally, once situations are identified and confronted, the knowledge of what to do next is lacki…

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Other Authors: Factora, Ronan M.

Responsibility: Ronan M. Factora, editor

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Humana Press

Date of Publication: c2014

Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 204 pages)

Series Title: Aging medicine

ISBN: 9781493913206 (electronic bk); 9781493913190

Subjects (MeSH): Aged; Banking, Personal; Crime Victims; Mental Competency; Risk Factors; Social Welfare; Socioeconomic Factors

Abstract: Increasingly, we hear of more and more elders falling victim to financial exploitation. Although this form of elder abuse has been recognized for years, its incidence, prevalence, and impact on the common individual has been only more recently brought to the spotlight. Despite these circumstances, recognition of risk factors and indicators of financial exploitation are not widely disseminated. Additionally, once situations are identified and confronted, the knowledge of what to do next is lacking. These gaps are present within the medical community, law-enforcement, and the finance community areas where opportunities for recognition and intervention are common. Our elders often have no idea of what to do when they see their own risk or when they fall victim. Aging and Money: Reducing Risk of Financial Exploitation and Protecting Financial Resources helps clinicians to integrate identification of such indicators of abuse into their geriatric assessment as well as guide them in performing an assessment of an individual's financial decision-making capacity when appropriate. Aging and Money: Reducing Risk of Financial Exploitation and Protecting Financial Resources is an essential new text that provides the practicing clinician with information on identifying risk factors and clinical clues associated with financial exploitation and how to incorporate these steps into their practice.

Contents: Financial Exploitation of the Elderly: Review of the Epidemic—Its Victims, National Impact, and Legislative Solutions -- One Piece of the Puzzle-Financial Exploitation and Elder Abuse -- Barriers to Recognition -- Financial Abuse of the Elderly: Risk Factors -- Screening Older Patients for Risk Factors Associated with Financial Exploitation -- Clinical Assessment of Financial Decision Making Capacity -- Next Steps: Documentation and Accessing Community Healthcare Resources -- Financial Exploitation: The Legal Perspective -- Financial and Legal Methods to Protect Individuals from Financial Exploitation -- Critical Documents Associated with Aging: An Organized Guide to Personal Files -- Who Can You Turn To: the Role of Adult Protective Services (APS) and Other Community Resources -- Being the Advocate-Disseminating Knowledge About Financial Exploitation to the Community -- Future Directions: Public Policy and Advocacy.

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Location: Online

Prevention of Late-Life Depression : Current Clinical Challenges and Priorities

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Olivia I. Okereke, editor. --Cham: Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Humana Press , c2015.

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This book illustrates the imperative for late-life depression prevention. It introduces a broad range of approaches to prevention, and provides detailed examples of clinical and research applications of late-life depression prevention: all with consideration of medical and scientific, social, economic and global health perspectives. Current guidelines and tools for assessing depressive disorders among older adults are discussed, with a view toward applications for prevention. Written by experts…

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Other Authors: Okereke, Olivia I

Responsibility: Olivia I. Okereke, editor

Place of Publication: Cham

Publisher: Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Humana Press

Date of Publication: c2015

Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 191 p. : 12 illus., 7 illus. in color)

Series Title: Aging medicine

ISBN: 9783319160450; 9783319160443 (print ed.)

Subjects (MeSH): Aged - psychology; Depressive Disorder - prevention & control

Abstract: This book illustrates the imperative for late-life depression prevention. It introduces a broad range of approaches to prevention, and provides detailed examples of clinical and research applications of late-life depression prevention: all with consideration of medical and scientific, social, economic and global health perspectives. Current guidelines and tools for assessing depressive disorders among older adults are discussed, with a view toward applications for prevention. Written by experts in the field, this text also considers policy and economic implications for preventing late-life depression, such as the many complicating conditions, such as diabetes, hypertension or heart disease, that may co-occur with depression among older adults and that may incur higher total healthcare costs. Prevention of Late-Life Depression: Current Clinical Challenges and Priorities is an important new volume that will be useful to all providers that are concerned with the mental health of our rapidly expanding aged population.

Contents: Prevention of Major Depression: A Global Priority -- The Framework for Prevention -- Social and Behavioral Risk Factors for Late-life Depression -- Prevention of Depression in Medical Conditions -- Vascular Depression and the Role of Neuroimaging and Biomarkers -- Measurement and Assessment in Late-life Depression -- Indicated Prevention -- Selective and Universal Prevention of Late-life Depression -- Health Policy and Economic Aspects of Late-life Depression Prevention -- Depression among Blacks during Late Life: Examining Within-Group Variations -- Global Priorities and Possibilities.

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Fractures in the Elderly : A Guide to Practical Management

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Robert J. Pignolo, Jaimo Ahn, editors. (Second edition) --Cham: Humana Press , c2018.

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Newly revised and updated, this book provides geriatricians and orthopedic surgeons with the most vital tools to treat elderly patients who sustain a variety of fractures. The text uniquely encompass the etiologies of fracture in the elderly, perioperative management, the surgical treatment of common fractures in the elderly, as well as rehabilitation and prevention in the older patient. It focuses on the most current data and opinions regarding assessment and management of geriatric conditions…

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Other Authors: Pignolo, Robert J.; Ahn, Jaimo

Responsibility: Robert J. Pignolo, Jaimo Ahn, editors

Edition: Second edition

Place of Publication: Cham

Publisher: Humana Press

Date of Publication: c2018

Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 315 p.) : 41 illus., 1 illus. in color

Series Title: Aging medicine

ISBN: 9783319722283; 9783319722269 (print ed.); 9783319722276 (print ed.)

Subjects (MeSH): Aged - physiology; Fractures, Bone - etiology; Fractures, Bone - prevention & control; Perioperative Care

Specialty: Geriatrics; Orthopedic Procedures

Abstract: Newly revised and updated, this book provides geriatricians and orthopedic surgeons with the most vital tools to treat elderly patients who sustain a variety of fractures. The text uniquely encompass the etiologies of fracture in the elderly, perioperative management, the surgical treatment of common fractures in the elderly, as well as rehabilitation and prevention in the older patient. It focuses on the most current data and opinions regarding assessment and management of geriatric conditions that predispose the elderly to fracture, perioperative complications and subsequent functional decline. Unlike any other text, experts in both orthopedics and geriatrics review the content of each chapter for readability and appeal to his/her respective discipline, making this the physician's ultimate guide to treating elderly patients with injuries. Fractures in the Elderly, Second Edition is a valuable resource for geriatricians, orthopedic surgeons, physiologists, and rehabilitation specialists.

Contents: Osteobiology of Aging -- Pathologic Fractures -- Falls -- Geriatric Physiology -- Anticoagulation -- Prevention and Management of Perioperative Delirium -- Anesthesia and Pain Management in Geriatric Fractures -- Postoperative Complications -- Hand and Wrist Fractures in the Elderly -- Fractures of the Shoulder and Elbow -- Vertebral Compression Fractures -- Pelvic and Hip Fractures -- Fractures of the Distal Femur -- Tibial Plateau Fractures in the Elderly -- Ankle Fractures -- Rehabilitation -- Evaluation of Bone Fragility and Fracture Prevention.

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Age-Related Changes of the Human Eye

https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat29975

Classic Papers in Geriatric Medicine with Current Commentaries

https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat28349

Oxidative Stress in Aging : From Model Systems to Human Diseases

https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat29203

Eldercare Technology for Clinical Practitioners

https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat29322

Life-Span Extension : Single-Cell Organisms to Man

https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat30243

Handbook of Pain Relief in Older Adults : An Evidence-Based Approach

https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat30318

Fractures in the Elderly : A Guide to Practical Management

https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat29182

Pressure ulcers in the aging population : a guide for clinicians

https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat33788

Acute care for elders : a model for interdisciplinary care

https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat33881

Meeting the needs of older adults with serious illness : challenges and opportunities in the age of health care reform

https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat33913

Aging and money : reducing risk of financial exploitation and protecting financial resources

https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat33917

Prevention of Late-Life Depression : Current Clinical Challenges and Priorities

https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat39238

Fractures in the Elderly : A Guide to Practical Management

https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat43196