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  • Handbook of Pain Relief in Older Adults

    An Evidence-Based Approach

    Edited by F. Michael Gloth III ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    A comprehensive assessment of the clinical, psychological, legal, and cultural aspects of dealing with unnecessary pain in the elderly. The authors explore pharmacotherapy (nonopioids, opioids, and adjuvants), interventional strategies, the role of rehabilitation in managing pain in seniors, and the problems of pain management in long-term care. Supplementary features include continuing medical ... Read more

    $102.49 CAD

  • Handbook of Pain Relief in Older Adults

    An Evidence-Based Approach

    Edited by F. Michael Gloth, III ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    The second edition of the Handbook of Pain Relief in Older Adults: An Evidence-Based Approach expands on the first edition by providing a number of timely new features. Most important of these are the revised recommendations from the American Geriatrics Society on prescribing that reflect the many new agents available since the last guidelines were released in 2001. Additionally, concepts such as ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

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  • Care at the Close of Life: Evidence and Experience

    From one of the world’s leading medical journals comes the definitive evidence-based, full-color guide to end-of-life and palliative care"...represents an important milestone in the evolution of care for people with advanced disease—-for which its editors and authors and JAMA should be rightly proud. It is wonderful that JAMA had the foresight to publish a series on this topic, which, as medicine ... Read more

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  • Essential Tremor in Clinical Practice

    Series series Medicine (R0)
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  • Depression in Later Life

    Series series Oxford Psychiatry Library
    Depression affects between 10-15% of older people, making it the most frequently encountered mental health condition in later life. Despite this, the condition is easily missed in clinical practice or not adequately treated. Part of the Oxford Psychiatry Library, this second edition of Depression in Later Life highlights areas of depression which are of special relevance to later life, how to ... Read more

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    Series series Medicine (R0)
    The first edition of Parkinson’s Disease and Nonmotor Dysfunction was published in 2005 to provide a source of detailed information that could be readily accessed by the practicing physician. The widely praised first edition described and explained these nonmotor features that had at that point received insufficient attention both in the medical and in the lay literature. Since the publication of ... Read more

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    Series series Medicine (R0)
    As aging trends in the United States and Europe in particular are strongly suggestive of increasingly older society, it would be prudent for health care providers to better prepare for such changes. By including physiology, disease, nutrition, pharmacology, pathology, radiology and other relevant associated topics, Geriatric Gastroenterology fills the void in the literature for a volume devoted ... Read more

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    Active Surveillance for Localized Prostate Cancer: A New Paradigm for Clinical Management will serve as a useful resource for physicians dealing with, and interested in, this complex and evolving branch of prostate cancer management. The book will also be of interest to scientifically literate patients and their families. The volume provides an introduction to the concept of active surveillance in ... Read more

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  • Pressure Ulcers in the Aging Population

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    Series series Medicine (R0)
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    This book covers all aspects of the specialized field of gerontorheumatology, providing a complete overview of rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases and related conditions in the elderly. The emphasis is particularly on pathogenesis, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment, including the latest advances in biological and pharmacological therapy and potential treatment side effects. The book will ... Read more

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