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Spezielle validierende Pflege: Emotion vor Kognition
By Sonja Scheichenberger, Brigitte Scharb. 2018
Das Buch stellt das von Brigitte Scharb entwickelte Pflegekonzept zur Befriedigung psychosozialer Grundbed rfnisse desorientierter hochbetagter Personen vor…
mit dem Ziel vorhandene Kompetenzen der Betroffenen zu f rdern bzw zu bewahren Das Konzept basiert auf einer pr zisen Dokumentation und Biographieerhebung unter Einsatz validierender Techniken nach Naomi Feil bzw Pflegema nahmen Diese vierte erweiterte und neu strukturierte Auflage ist gleichzeitig die erste die nach dem viel zu fr hen Tod von Brigitte Scharb entstand Sie orientiert sich dabei an den Darstellungen der vorangehenden Ausgaben wobei die Autorin Erg nzungen in den Grundlagen vorgenommen die spirituellen Bed rfnisse integriert die Pflegedokumentation auf die POP Diagnosen umgestellt und die Perspektiven der Betroffenen sowie Angeh rige n her beleuchtet hat Zahlreiche praktische Fallbeispiele illustrieren anschaulich wie ein entsprechendes Bed rfniskonzept erstellt und dokumentiert wird Das Buch richtet sich an station re und ambulante Pflegepersonen Altenbetreuung Heimhilfe sowie Betroffene und Angeh rigeDementia and Chronic Disease: Management of Comorbid Medical Conditions
By Angela Georgia Catic. 2020
This book is designed to guide all physicians in long-term care, in-, and outpatient settings who work with elders with…
co-current dementia and medical comorbidities. Chapters cover a wide range of challenging topics, including epidemiological data, evaluation and management techniques to optimize physical and cognitive function in patients with dementia, safety measures, and nonpharmacologic measures to support cognition. Chapters also discuss the unique aspects of managing the most common chronic diseases and the management of musculoskeletal pain in elders with dementia. Except for the introductory chapter, each chapter will include a case vignette to highlight some of the primary challenges of management of the particular chronic disease/condition in elders with dementia, making this an accessible and highly practical tool for medical professionals of all backgrounds.Written by experts in the field, Dementia and Chronic Disease is an excellent resource for all medical professionals treating patients with dementia, including geriatricians, family medicine physicians, social workers, nurses, hospitalists, and all others.Rumänisch-Deutsch für die Pflege zu Hause: română-germană pentru îngrijirea la domiciliu
By Nina Konopinski-Klein. 2020
Rumänisch/Deutsch, Deutsch/Rumänisch - Wörterbuch für rumänische Pflegende, Senioren und Angehörige:Eine große Herausforderung für viele rumänische Pflegekräfte im deutschsprachigen Raum ist die…
Verständigung im Alltag der häuslichen Pflege. Dieser einfache Sprachführer ist ein unverzichtbarer Helfer im direkten Gespräch. Begriffe und einfache Sätze aus dem Alltag werden in beiden Sprachen angeführt und erleichtern die Kommunikation zwischen allen Beteiligten. Häufig verwendete Vokabeln, medizinische Fachwörter und einfache Dialoge werden zu Alltagsthemen zusammengetragen, wie z.B.: Körperhygiene, Haushalt, der menschliche Körper, Wohlbefinden, Arztbesuch, Gesundheit und Krankheit, Ernährung. Zahlreiche Abbildungen unterstützen ebenfalls das Einander-Verstehen.Für rumänische Pflegekräfte, die in Deutschland, Österreich oder in der Schweiz arbeiten, Vermittlungsagenturen und Arbeitgeber im Gesundheitswesen, die mit slowakischen Fachkräften zusammenarbeiten. Aber auch Senioren und Angehörige, die dankbar sind über die Unterstützung im häuslichen Umfeld, finden in diesem Alltagswörterbuch eine wirklich praktische Hilfe.Molecular Mechanisms of Retina Pathology and Ways of its Correction
By Svetlana Trofimova. 2020
This book discusses the pathology of the retina, and reviews current research on the use of cell replacement therapy and…
short peptides to restore functional activity in retinal neurons. As the book describes, pathologies of the retina, including age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, and retinitis pigmentosa, present a long-standing challenge in the practice of clinical ophthalmology. Modern treatment for these conditions, which lead to irreversible blindness, includes laser exposure, surgical intervention, and drugs. These treatments aim to reduce the risk of new complications in the eye; pathogenetic therapy of degenerative diseases of the retina is practically absent in current ophthalmic practice. The first section of the book reviews the molecular mechanisms of age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, and retinitis pigmentosa, and reports on methods of treatment. The second section presents the results of recent experimental studies of the effects of short peptides on pluripotent embryonic cells; on proliferative activity in retinal cells and pigment epithelium; on expression of markers of differentiation or retinal neurons and pigment epithelium; and on the course of hereditary retinal pigmentation in Campbell rats. The third section offers results of clinical studies on the effectiveness of short peptides in patients with macular degeneration, and in patients with retinitis pigmentosa. The author concludes that the regular use of peptides in the treatment of degenerative diseases of the retina can slow the progression of the pathological process and preserve the patient’s vision for some 10-15 years. In addition, in 80 percent of patients, it is possible to increase visual function by increasing visual acuity, improving the boundaries of the visual field and the fundus.What Do I Do?: How to Care for, Comfort, and Commune With Your Nursing Home Elder, Revised and Illustrated Edition
By Katherine Karr, Jess Karr. 1985
Centenarians: A European Overview (SpringerBriefs in Aging)
By Laetitia Teixeira, Lia Araújo, Constança Paúl, Oscar Ribeiro. 2020
This book focuses on centenarians – people aged 100 and over – one of the fastest growing segments of the…
population in most developed countries. Drawing on official international and national data, it describes the longevity phenomenon and profiles socio-demographic, health and living conditions of long-lived people in 28 European countries. By comparing and synthesizing current information according to country, the book helps fill the knowledge gap regarding Europe’s centenarian population. Providing insights to help stakeholders better predict, plan for and respond to the challenges of extreme longevity, it is a valuable resource for students and academics in the field of population aging, gerontology and geriatrics, as well as social scientists and policymakers.AARP Love and Meaning after 50: The 10 Challenges to Great Relationshipsand How to Overcome Them
By Barry J. Jacobs, Julia L. Mayer. 2020
Sustain loving relationships and set yourself up for emotional wellness in your fifties, sixties, and beyond with this valuable collection…
of advice from two psychology experts."Drs. Mayer and Jacobs use their clinical wisdom and story-telling abilities to bring to life the challenges for couples as they age. Their advice will help strengthen long-term relationships to combat the rising trend of Gray Divorce."--Janis Abrahms Spring, PhD, author of After the Affair and Life with PopWith couples divorcing at higher rates than any generation before, and longer lifespans leaving people unwilling to settle for an unsatisfying partner, it's more important than ever to refocus and strengthen your relationship. The only question is: how?In AARP Love and Meaning after 50, husband-wife psychologist team Julia Mayer and Barry Jacobs -- with 50+ years of experience between them -- identify the 10 most common challenges to sustain loving relationships:The Empty Nest * Extended Family * Finances * InfidelityRetirement * Downsizing and Relocating * SexHealth Concerns * Caregiving * Loss of Loved OnesAARP Love and Meaning after 50 offers insights and anecdotes, do it yourself assessments and follow-up exercises, and tips for connecting through the difficult times. With this book, you'll find deeper meaning and greater satisfaction for the decades ahead--together.An Essential Guide to Aging Well: Older, Wiser
By Katharine Bethell. 2021
This book is a refreshingly honest self-help guide to aging well. It encourages readers to dispel gloom or overcome denial…
around the subject of aging and offers advice in a realistic, non-prescriptive format. Practical yet personable, chapters move through pertinent topics such as making the decision to retire and successfully navigating that transition; designing daily routines (your practice) and engaging in activities (your projects); connecting with others as relationships shift and evolve; and managing moods and emotional issues. The guide also supports readers coping with illness or injury, experiencing loss and grief, and those searching for meaning as they grow older. Written in a conversational style, An Essential Guide to Aging Well motivates its readers to be curious about this time of life, and to design the best possible version of it for themselves.Ageism: Stereotyping and Prejudice against Older Persons
By Todd Nelson. 2017
Current research and theory from a range of disciplines on ageism, discussing issues from elder abuse to age discrimination against…
workers, revised and updated.People commonly use age to categorize and stereotype others–even though those who stereotype the elderly are eventually bound to become elderly themselves. Ageism is found cross-culturally, but it is especially prevalent in the United States, where most people regard growing older with depression, fear, and anxiety. Older people in the United States are stigmatized and marginalized, with often devastating consequences. This volume collects the latest theory and research on prejudice against older people, offering perspectives from psychology, nursing, medicine, social work, and other fields. The second edition has been completely updated, with new or extensively revised contributions. The contributors, all experts in their fields, consider issues that range from elder abuse to age discrimination against workers. There has been a relative dearth of research on ageism, perhaps because age prejudice is still considered socially acceptable. This book is still the only one that examines ageism in such detail, from such diverse scholarly perspectives. The contributors discuss the origins and effects of ageism and offer suggestions for how to reduce ageism as the wave of baby boomers heads for old age.Aging with Agency: Building Resilience, Confronting Challenges, and Navigating Eldercare
By Sandi Peters. 2020
An experiential guide to re-orienting our understanding of late adulthood as one of life's most meaningful and transformative stagesAging can…
bring new fears, challenges, and concerns. Loss of career, loved ones, or changing physical and cognitive abilities can leave us feeling isolated and scared. Sandi Peters shows us that growing older need not mean the end of personal growth. In fact, late adulthood can prove to be the most meaningful and transformative period of one's life. The key, says Peters, is the development of one's inner life, and with it a shift in one's relation to the aging process. The book draws on history, philosophy, psychology, gerontology, and spirituality to deepen and expand our understanding of what it means to grow old in the twenty-first century. Peters shares time-tested contemplative practices such as meditation, active imagination, dream work, and creative writing designed to enhance one's inner worlds and enable us to face life's inevitable changes with equanimity and insight. She offers practical advice on issues such as assisted living and home care, and a refreshingly new perspective on matters of memory and cognitive change.This book introduces undergraduates to library research in the field of gerontology and focuses on the wide variety of sources…
available for research. It covers physiological and psychological aspects of aging; social aspects of aging; and environmental aspects of aging.Celebrando a las abuelas: Las abuelas hablan acerca de sus vidas
By Ann Richardson. 2020
Convertirte en abuela es tanto emocionante como desafiante. En Celebrando a las Abuelas, 27 mujeres describen, en sus propias palabras,…
cómo ellas han respondido a los muchos placeres y demandas de su papel. Ellas también analizan cómo ha cambiado la imagen de sí mismas y la estructura de sus vidas. ¿Cómo te sentiste al cargar a tu primer nieto? ¿El tiempo con tus nietos se pasa volando? ¿Hay una nueva intensidad o una nueva complejidad en tus relaciones familiares? Estas historias te hablarán. Frecuentemente recomendado como un regalo original para una abuela nueva. “Confirma de una manera directa lo encantadora que la relación entre abuela y nieto es….. Muy interesante y conmovedora” Jane Fearnley Whittingstall, autora de La guía de la buena abuelita “Un fascinante análisis sobre qué se siente ser una abuela el día de hoy, desde el gozo y la plenitud a las decepciones y ansiedades” Virginia Ironside, consultora sentimental y novelistaOn the Shores of Welcome Home (American Poets Continuum #176)
By Bruce Weigl. 2019
In this Isabella Gardner Award-winning collection of poems, Bruce Weigl meditates on the ghosts and the grace one encounters in…
life’s second act. A celebrated poet and veteran of the Vietnam War, Weigl offers a nuanced sense of aging as a departure and death as a returning home. With a sage’s eye for mindfulness and a soldier’s longing for the country where he served, Weigl’s poems reveal the long scars left by Vietnam and the new possibilities one encounters in the wake of life-altering experiences.Biological Clocks
By Susan Binkley. 1998
Biological Clocks introduces the subject of human chronobiology. It describes biological clocks; why we have clocks; how biological clocks relate…
to sleep disorders, depression, and jet lag; and how the reader can measure his/her own rhythms.The Merck Manual of Health and Aging
By Mark H. Beers, Thomas V Jones. 2004
This book intends to help people navigate the health care system and find useful information on health and disease.It also…
gives in-depth information about most of the disorders that affect older people and about differences in how disorders may affect older people.Providing Home Care for Older Adults: A Professional Guide for Mental Health Practitioners
By Danielle L. Terry. 2021
A practical guide to providing home-based mental health services, Providing Home Care for Older Adults teaches readers how to handle…
the unique aspects of home-based care and apply and adapt evidence-based assessment and treatment within the home-based setting. Featuring contributions from experienced, board-certified home care psychologists, social workers, and psychiatrists, the book explains the multifaceted role of a home-based provider, offers concrete and practical considerations for working within the home, and highlights adaptations to specific evidence-based methods used in treating homebound older adults. Also covered are special topics related to hoarding, safety, capacity evaluations, caregivers, case management, and use of technology. Each chapter includes engaging case examples with practical tips that illustrate what it is like to work in this new and exciting frontier. Psychologists, counselors, and other mental health practitioners in home settings will be able to use this guide to provide effective home-based care to older adults.Families and Social Change in the Gulf Region
By Jennifer E. Lansford, Anis Ben Brik, Abdallah M. Badahdah. 2021
This timely volume explores the impact of dramatic social change that has disrupted established patterns of family life and human…
development in the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council. It addresses several major deficits in knowledge regarding family issues in the Gulf countries, bringing a critical perspective to the emerging challenges facing families in this region. Lansford, Ben Brik, and Badahdah examine the role of urbanization, educational progress, emigration, globalization, and changes in the status of women on social change, as well as tackling issues related to marriage, fertility and parenthood, and family well-being. This book explores how family relationships and social policies can promote physical health, psychological well-being, social relationships, safety, cognitive development, and economic security in the Gulf countries, placing a unique emphasis on contemporary families in this region. Families and Social Change in the Gulf Region is essential reading for scholars from psychology, sociology, education, law, and public policy. It will also be of interest to graduate students in these disciplines.Teen Spirit: How Adolescence Transformed the Adult World
By Paul Howe. 2020
Teen Spirit offers a novel and provocative perspective on how we came to be living in an age of political…
immaturity and social turmoil. Award-winning author Paul Howe argues it's because a teenage mentality has slowly gripped the adult world.Howe contends that many features of how we live today—some regrettable, others beneficial—can be traced to the emergence of a more defined adolescent stage of life in the early twentieth century, when young people started spending their formative, developmental years with peers, particularly in formal school settings. He shows how adolescent qualities have slowly seeped upward, where they have gradually reshaped the norms and habits of adulthood. The effects over the long haul, Howe contends, have been profound, in both the private realm and in the public arena of political, economic, and social interaction. Our teenage traits remain part of us as we move into adulthood, so much so that some now need instruction manuals for adulting.Teen Spirit challenges our assumptions about the boundaries between adolescence and adulthood. Yet despite a cultural system that seems to be built on the ethos of Generation Me, it's not all bad. In fact, there has been an equally impressive rise in creativity, diversity, and tolerance within society: all traits stemming from core components of the adolescent character. Howe's bold and suggestive approach to analyzing the teen in all of us helps make sense of the impulsivity driving society and encourages us to think anew about civic reengagement.Surgical Decision Making in Geriatrics: A Comprehensive Multidisciplinary Approach
By Rifat Latifi. 2020
This book is designed to present a comprehensive and state-of the-art approach to all aspects of geriatric surgery within the…
broad confines of surgery in geriatrics including general surgery, neurosurgery, thoracic surgery, vascular surgery, cardiac surgery, surgical oncology, hepatobiliary and transplant surgery, plastic, colorectal, orthopedic, gynecologic, and urologic surgery. The text is split into four parts. The first part is organized under general considerations on the geriatric surgical patient and includes current trends in geriatric surgery, and a number of important general issues such as practical approaches to reversal of bleeding/anticoagulation, role of anesthetic concerns in advanced age, frailty index and measurements of physiological reserves, nutritional support in the elderly, quality of life in the elderly, drug use, and family involvement. Part two of the book focuses on surgery specific system-based problems in geriatric surgical patients. The third part addresses many other important aspects of geriatric surgery including palliative and end of life care for the elderly, religious issues and the elderly care surgery, elderly with mental health issues, and nursing care of elderly patients. The fourth and final part describes the need for geriatric surgical care education and the components that are essential for the curriculum of current and future generations of students. Written by experts in the field, Surgical Decision Making in Geriatrics addresses patient selection, pre-operative considerations, technical conduct of the most common operations, and avoiding complications.In Praise of Ageing: Awakening to Old Age with Wisdom and Compassion
By Carmel Shalev. 2020
'In this moving and tender meditation on the process of growing old, Carmel Shalev reveals ageing as a new beginning…
rather than a shameful ending of life.'' -- Stephen BatchelorDrawing on the insights of Buddhism, In Praise of Ageing invites the reader to meet the challenges of growing older with an open mind in order to age with grace, understanding and wisdom. Written by an Israeli human rights lawyer who specialized in bio-ethics, including end-of-life care, the book looks at the current cultural context of youth versus age, and weaves the author's personal experiences of her own and her parents' ageing with ancient Buddhist wisdom that accepts growing older as a natural process. All phenomena appear, fade and disappear. So, too, our lives proceed from birth to death. The four parts of the book address reality, vulnerability, identity and meaning. We can acknowledge reality, see the impermanence of the weakening body, and accept that we are subject to ageing, sickness and death. But we also must deal with the social prejudices against ageing that bring new vulnerabilities, such as the questions of identity that arise when we retire from the workforce. This book shows that it is nonetheless in our hands to shape our place in the world and find meaning as elders with love, compassion, joy and equanimity. Ageing, indeed, has its hardships. Yet we have a choice how to relate to our experience - with animosity or friendliness. If we open our minds to ageing with a compassionate, curious and courageous heart, we can find treasures of wisdom to share as our heritage to future generations.