"For many people growing old means facing one or more chronic diseases. Successful Aging and Adaptation with Chronic Diseases reviews, coalesces, and expands what we know about how older adults successfully experience the aging process and how they feel about and live with chronic illnesses. Questions considered include: How do older adults approach and deal with everyday-life when affected by multiple health problems? What kind of imp ..."
"Osteoporosis is a silent but crippling disease process that can have devastating consequences for the successful aging of most women and many men. This book will raise awareness and inform health professionals about this often preventable and treatable disease. Written by a team of authors from medicine, nursing, nutrition, exercise physiology, and physical therapy, the book provides an overview of the disease process--discussing its ep ..."
"Osteoporosis is a preventable disease. But each year some 500,000 people are hospitalized from osteoporosis fractures, and another 180,000 people are placed into nursing homes from injuries due to osteoporosis. What can nurses, clinicians, medical researchers, physiologists, health care policy experts, and other providers do to diminish, if not eradicate, the disease from local to global scales? What are the best methods for care and ..."
Aging Well(1st Edition) Gerontological Education for Nurses and Other Health Professionals by May L. Wykle, SarahHallGueldner Paperback, 596 Pages, Published 2010 by Jones & Bartlett Learning ISBN-13: 978-0-7637-7937-5, ISBN: 0-7637-7937-7
"Aging Well: Gerontological Education for Nurses and Other Health Professionals brings a fresh outlook to gerontological education and promotes the experience of aging as a positive circumstance, and elders as a treasure of society. Discussion centers on the application of research findings to encourage elders to rise above and beyond disability, to help them retain their identity of personhood, and integrate into society in general and ..."
Osteoporosis Clinical Guidelines for Prevention, Diagnosis, and Management by Eric D. Newman Md, SarahHallGueldner Paperback, 280 Pages, Published 2007 by Springer Publishing Co., Inc. ISBN-13: 978-0-8261-0343-7, ISBN: 0-8261-0343-X
"Osteoporosis is a preventable disease. But each year some 500,000 people are hospitalized from osteoporosis fractures, and another 180,000 people are placed into nursing homes from injuries due to osteoporosis.What can nurses, clinicians, medical researchers, physiologists, health care policy experts, and other providers do to diminish, if not eradicate, the disease from local to global scales? What are the best methods for care and tre ..."
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last 12 months of arthritis, asthma, bronchitis, cancer, diabetes, emphysema,
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"Osteoporosis - an insidious and crippling skeletal disease characterized by low bone mass, systemic deterioration of bone tissue, and increase in bone fragility and susceptibility to fracture - has now reached epidemic proportions among postmenopausal women. This excellent collection of recent articles by specialists from medicine, nursing, nutrition, exercise physiology, physical therapy, and demography addresses the many challenges of ..."