Aging: The Health-Care Challenge, 4th Edition.

OVERVIEW

This classic textbook provides practitioners and students working in geriatric rehabilitation an interdisciplinary approach to the assessment and rehabilitative management of older persons.

Clinically focused, the 4th edition reviews crucial information about the elderly people and suggests strategies for implementing practical rehabilitation goals in a variety of care settings.

KEY FEATURES

• Focuses on the clinical aspects of geriatric rehabilitation
  
• Covers theories of aging and the psychosocial and physiological dimensions of aging, and related issues such as drugs, stress, sexuality, and death and dying
  
• Contains clear explanations of intervention techniques and examination tools
  
• Additional chapters: "Frail and Institutionalized Elderly Clients" and "Home Care"
  
• All clinical chapters contain a case study
  
• Extensive evidence-based medical updating of all chapters, clinically interpreting the latest research
  
• Chapter 14, "Medication Management and Appropriate Substance Use for Elderly Individuals," contains coverage of the pros and cons of alternative medications
  
• The musculoskeletal chapter presents the latest information on standardized norms for strength
  
• "Working with the Dying Older Patient" has been extensively revised
  
• The Medicare documentation chapter covers the most recent reimbursement issues facing the geriatric clinician
  
• Reflects the language of the APTA's Guide to Physical Therapist Practice

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Part 1: Theories and Psychological Aspects of Aging
1. Theories of Aging
2. Psychosocial Aspects of Aging

Part 2: Physical Aspects of Aging
3. Activities of Daily Living
4. The Effects of Aging on Communication
5. Leisure Skills
6. The Changing Realm of the Senses
7. Musculoskeletal Changes with Age: Clinical Implications
8. Clinical Implications of Neurologic Changes During the Aging Process
9. Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation of the Geriatric Patient and Client
10. Implications of Oncology in Elderly Adults
11. Health Promotion for Elderly Clients

Part 3: External Aspects of Aging: The Current Status
12. Stress and Aging
13. Nutritional Rehabilitation and Elderly Individuals
14. Medication Management and Appropriate Substance Use for Elderly Individuals
15. Sexuality and Elderly Individuals
16. Working with the Dying Older Patient
17. Clinical Research in Geriatrics
18. Medicare Documentation: The Paperwork Challenge
19. Frail and Institutionalized Elderly Clients
20. Home Care

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