Geriatric Rehabilitation Manual

Description

This new resource is a concise, comprehensive clinical manual for those who evaluate and treat older patients. This user-friendly resource provides fast access to the definition, incidence, related conditions, tests and related diagnoses, clinical relevance, and therapeutic intervention of particular conditions or problems.

Presents a broad overview of aging in a section on Physiological Considerations.

Covers a wide range of topics that specifically deal with age-related patho-kinesiological changes in neuromuscular system.

Features discussions of cardiopulmonary conditions, including pathology, important guidelines for exercise, and reviews of medical-surgical findings.

Provides the latest information on new evaluation and treatment skills.

Includes additional topics, such as wellness and healthy aging, medicare, legal considerations, ethics, death and dying, the rehabilitation team, and more.

Get the book

Other editions

• 

  Geriatric Rehabilitation Manual

  • 2007
  • 559 pages
  • Paperback
  • Elsevier Health Sciences

Similar books

• 

  America: A Concise History + Sovereignty and the Goodness of God + Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, 2nd...

  By Neal Salisbury, Frederick Douglass, Mary Rowlandson

  The authors' own abridgement preserves the hallmark explanatory power of the parent text, helping students to understand not only what happened but why -- so they're never left wondering what's important.

• 

  A History of Military Medicine: From the Renaissance through modern times

  By Richard A. Gabriel, Karen S. Metz

  David T. Courtwright , “ Opiate Addiction As a Consequence of the Civil War ... Carey P. McCord , " Scurvy as an Occupational Disease : Scurvy in the World's Armies , ” Journal of Occupational Medicine 13 , no .

• 

  強曲線‧翹臀終極聖經：一輩子最佳健身指導書，48週訓練課程＋265個動作詳解: Strong Curves: A Woman’s Guide to Building a Better Butt and Body

  By 布瑞特‧康崔拉斯

  臀部肌群──女性肌肉力量的來源！ 臀部越強壯，曲線就越美，肌肉越精實 連健身教練都找他請教！世界知名翹臀大師布瑞特‧康崔拉斯 ...

• 

  The Complete Handbook of Holistic Health

  By Michael C. Moore, Lynda J. Moore

  Michael C. Moore, Lynda J. Moore ... 185 , 187 , 192–93 , 195– 96 , 198 , 199 , 243 Borenstein , Benjamin , 5 Botanicals , 169–70 , 237 See also Herbalism Brackbill , Yvonne , 19 Brain Mind Bulletin , 217 Braswell , Charles , 219 Bread ...

• 

  Profiles in Gerontology: A Biographical Dictionary

  By Daniel M. Albert, W. Andrew Achenbaum

  44 JUNE E. BLUM his early , influential studies were “ The Epidemiology of Late Life Depression , ” which appeared in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society , 30 ( 1982 ) : 587–92 ; and , with L. Hyer , “ Depressive Symptoms ...

• 

  Preventing Alcohol Abuse: Alcohol, Culture, and Control

  By David J. Hanson

  The statistician Duffy succinctly points out a simple but major problem: The Ledermann proposition, however formulated, is false, not only on account of shortcomings in parameter estimation and data sets adduced in support, etc., ...

• 

  Sex, Sin, and Science: A History of Syphilis in America

  By John Parascandola

  Brandt, No Magic Bullet, pp. 36–37. 87. Ibid., p. 38; Klaasen and Flaminio, Celebrating, pp. 3–5. 88. William F. Snow, “Progress, 1900–1915,” Social Hygiene 2 (1916): 37–47 (quotation on p. 37). 89. Brandt, No Magic Bullet, p. 41. 90.

• 

  Substance Abuse: A Global View

  By Andrew L. Cherry, Mary E. Dillon, Douglas Rugh

  This book examines this deadly social issue through these case studies highlighting 13 different countries from around the world.

• 

  Encyclopedia of Birth Control

  By Marian Rengel

  Biddlecom , Ann E. , and Bolaji M. Fapohunda . “ Covert Contraceptive Use : Prevalence , Motivations , and Consequences . ” Studies in Family Planning 29 ( 1998 ) : 360–732 . Biddlecom , Ann E. , John B. Casterline , and Aurora E. Perez ...

• 

  Primer on the Rheumatic Diseases

  By John H. Klippel, John H. Stone

  Robbins L , Allegrante JP , Paget SA . Adapting the systemic lupus erythematosus self - help ( SLESH ) for Latino SLE patients . Arthritis Care Res 1993 ; 6 : 97–103 . 18. Horton R , Steiner - Grossman P. Lupus Line Leader's Manual : A ...