A Comprehensive Guide to Geriatric Rehabilitation - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 3rd Edition
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Now in its third edition, this trusted clinical guide enables both the busy practitioner and student to review or to learn about a range of pathologies, conditions, examinations, diagnostic procedures, and interventions that can be effectively used in the physical rehabilitation of older people. It presents a broad overview of age-related physiological changes as well as specific professional discipline perspectives.
Organized into eleven distinct and interrelated units, the first unit begins with key anatomical and physiological considerations seen with aging which have significant impact on the older person. The second and third units go on to review important aging-related conditions and disorders of the musculoskeletal and neuromuscular/neurological systems respectively. Neoplasms commonly encountered in older people are the focus of the fourth unit; while aging-related conditions of the cardiovascular, pulmonary, integumentary and sensory systems are presented in units five through seven. Unit eight highlights a range of specific clinical problems and conditions commonly encountered with older patients.
Critically, all of these units emphasize important examination and diagnostic procedures needed for a thorough evaluation and stress interventions that can be of significant benefit to the older patient. The ninth unit presents select physical therapeutic interventions that are especially important in managing rehabilitative care. Key societal issues related to aging are discussed in the tenth unit. Finally, the concluding eleventh unit focuses on the successful rehabilitation team that includes both professional and non-professional caregiver members.
"The strengths of this generally excellent book lie in its thoughtful presentation of current approaches to clinical rehabilitation in older people." Reviewed by Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine 2015, Feb 2015
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A Comprehensive Guide to Rehabilitation of the Older Patient Elsevier eBook on VitalSource
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- A trusted guide to the conditions and problems faced when evaluating and treating geriatric patients
- Extensive coverage over 84 chapters, each written by an expert in the field
- Includes imaging, vision and the aging ear
- Cross-referenced - providing the complexity and inter-relatedness of co-morbidities common to aging patients
- Collaborative international perspective
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- Chapters on the aging spine; frailty; safe pilates for bone health; health care for older people
- Additional renowned editor - Ronald W. Scott
- Revised title to reflect the comprehensive scope of content covered (previously entitled Geriatric Rehabilitation Manual)
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Dedications
Contributors
Foreword
Preface to the second edition
Preface to the first edition
AcknowledgementsUNIT ONE: ANATOMICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS
1. Wholeness of the individual
2. Skeletal muscle function in older people
3. Effects of aging on bone
4. Effects of age on joints and ligaments
5. Aging and the central nervous system
6. Cardiac considerations in the older patient
7. Pulmonary considerations in the older patient
8. Effects of aging on the digestive system
9. Effects of aging on vascular function
10. Thermoregulation: considerations for aging people
11. The aging immune system
12. Pharmacology considerations for the aging individual
13. Laboratory assessment considerations for the aging individual
14. ImagingUNIT TWO: MUSCULOSKELETAL DISORDERS
15. Posture
16. Muscle weakness and therapeutic exercise
17. Motor neuron pathologies: postpolio syndrome and ALS
18. Osteoporosis and spine fractures
19. Rheumatic conditions
20. The shoulder
21. Total hip arthroplasty
22. Total knee arthroplasty
23. The aging bony thorax
24. The geriatric spine
25. Orthopedic traumaUNIT THREE: NEUROMUSCULAR AND NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS
26. Neurological trauma
27. Rehabilitation after stroke
28. Neurocognitive disorders
29. Multiple sclerosis
30. Parkinson's disease
31. Tremor and other involuntary movement
32. Generalized peripheral neuropathy
33. Localized peripheral neuropathiesUNIT FOUR: NEOPLASMS
34. Neoplasms of the brain
35. Neoplasms of the breast
36. Gastric and colon neoplasms
37. Neoplasms of the skin
38. Neoplasms of the prostateUNIT FIVE: CARDIOPULMONARY DISEASE
39. Exercise considerations for aging adults
40. Clinical development and progression of coronary heart disease
41. Cardiac arrhythmias and conduction disturbances
42. Heart failure and valvular heart disease
43. Cardiac pacemakers and defibrillators
44. Invasive cardiac procedures
45. Pulmonary diseasesUNIT SIX: BLOOD VESSEL CHANGES, CIRCULATORY AND SKIN DISORDERS
46. Diabetes
47. Amputations
48. Wound management
49. The insensitive foot
50. Skin disordersUNIT SEVEN: AGING AND PATHOLOGICAL SENSORIUM
51. Functional vision changes in the normal and aging eye
52. Functional changes in the aging ear
53. Considerations in elder patient communicationUNIT EIGHT: SPECIFIC PROBLEMS
54. Dysphagia
55. Incontinence of the bowel and bladder
56. Iatrogenesis in older adults
57. Hormone replacement therapy
58. Dizziness
59. Balance testing and training
60. Fracture consdierations
61. Contractures and stiffness
62. Fatigue
63. The aging wrist and hand
64. Overweight and obesity
65. Frailty in older persons
66. Evaluation of pain in older individualsUNIT NINE: SPECIAL PHYSICAL THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTION TECHNIQUES
67. Conservative interventions for pain control
68. Gait training
69. Orthotics
70. Prosthetics
71. Complementary therapies for the aging patient
72. Safe Pilates for bone health
73. Aquatic therapyUNIT TEN: SOCIAL AND GOVERNMENT IMPLICATIONS, ETHICS AND DYING
74. Legal considerations
75. Ethics
76. Generational conflict and healthcare for older persons
77. The end of life
78. Entry-level competencies for health professionals who work with older adultsUNIT ELEVEN: THE REHABILITATION TEAM
79. Caregivers: valuing unpaid care
80. Interdisciplinary geriatric assessment
81. Gerontological and geriatric nursing
82. Geriatric occupational therapy
83. Geriatric physical therapy
84. Providing social services to the older clientIndex
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