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  • Geriatric Emergencies

    A Case-Based Approach to Improving Acute Care

    Series series Medicine (R0)
    Care for older adults in Emergency Departments (EDs) has historically been focused on acute medical conditions with little emphasis on geriatric-specific issues. In 2010, emergency departments (EDs) throughout the nation saw almost 130 million patients, 15% of whom were 65 or older. The number of older adults who visit an ED has doubled in the last decade and continues to grow rapidly. Older ... Read more

    $96.09 CAD

  • New Directions in Geriatric Medicine

    Concepts, Trends, and Evidence-Based Practice

    Edited by Lee Ann Lindquist ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This book is designed to present the clinical geriatric trends within general internal medicine and family practice, which practitioners often encounter in caring for their older adult patients. Chapters focus on increasingly difficult clinical decisions that practitioners have to make in caring for older adults, who often experience medical complications due to memory loss, physical disability, ... Read more

    $108.89 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Judicial Behavior

    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Judicial Behavior offers readers a comprehensive introduction and analysis of research regarding decision making by judges serving on federal and state courts in the U.S. Featuring contributions from leading scholars in the field, the Handbook describes and explains how the courts' political and social context, formal institutional structures, and informal norms affect ... Read more

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  • Science and Religion

    Perspectives Across Disciplines

    Science and Religion: Perspectives Across Disciplines interweaves science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields with the arts, humanities, theology, and psychology to cultivate discussion on science and religion alongside biblical interpretation. This anthology is paradoxically ecumenical, for it embraces unifying and disparate positions without being prescriptive or exclusive. It is ... Read more

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  • Aging Hair

    Series series Medicine (R0)
    “Aged? But he does not appear aged, just look, his hair has remained young!” Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time (1913–27) The appearance of hair plays an important role in peoples’ overall physical appe- ance and self-perception. With today’s increasing life-expectation, the desire to look youthful plays a bigger role than ever. The hair care industry has become aware of this, and capable to ... Read more

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  • Big Fellow, Long Fellow. A Joint Biography of Collins and De Valera

    A Joint Biography of Irish politicians Michael Collins and Eamon De Valera

    by T. Ryle Dwyer ...
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  • Exercise for Aging Adults

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    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This book translates the new findings in exercise research for the elderly for busy practitioners, trainees, students and administrators. This book provides practical strategies that can be implemented immediately in the common settings in which practitioners care for adults. The format includes key points and case examples which showcase the strong evidence supporting exercise by older adults as ... Read more

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  • Whole Person Care

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  • Geriatrics Models of Care

    Bringing 'Best Practice' to an Aging America

    Series series Medicine (R0)
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