The encyclopedia of elder care : the comprehensive resource on geriatric health and social care /

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- List of Entries -- A -- AARP (Previously the American Association of Retired Persons) -- Access to Care -- Access to Hospice Care -- Activities of Daily Living -- Acute Care for Elders -- Adult Day Services -- Adult Foster Care Homes -- Adult Protective Services -- Advance Directives -- Advanced Practice Nursing -- Affordable Health Care for the Elderly -- African Americans and Health Care Disparities -- Ageism -- Aging Agencies: City and County Level -- Aging Agencies: Federal Level -- Aging Agencies: State Level -- Alternative and Complementary Medicine -- Alzheimer's Association -- AMDA -- Dedicated to Long Term Care Medicine -- American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging -- American Federation for Aging Research -- American Geriatrics Society -- American Health Care Association -- American Indian Elders -- American Nurses Association -- American Society on Aging -- Americans with Disabilities Act -- Anemia -- Animal-Assisted Health Care -- Anxiety Disorders, Traumatic and Stressor-Related Disorders, and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders in Late Life -- Aortic Stenosis -- Asian American and Pacific Islander Elders -- Assessing Needs of Family Caregivers -- Assisted Living -- Assistive Devices -- Assistive Technology -- Association for Gerontology in Higher Education -- Autonomy -- B -- Balance -- Behavioral Expressions of Distress in People Living With Dementia -- Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia -- Bereavement -- Bipolar Affective Disorder -- Building Academic Geriatric Nursing Capacity Awards Program -- C -- Cancer Treatment -- Care Management -- Caregiver Burden -- Caregiver Burnout -- Caregiver Support Groups -- Caregiving Relationships -- Centenarians -- Challenges of Hospital Care: Preventable Hospitalization, Complex Care Transitions, and Rehospitalization -- Chronic Illness -- Clinical Pathways -- Coalition of Geriatric Nursing Organizations (CGNO) -- Cognitive Changes in Aging -- Cognitive Instruments -- Communication Issues for Practitioners -- Community Assessment -- Competency and Capacity -- Constipation in the Elderly -- Continuing Care Retirement Communities -- Contractures -- Coping With Chronic Illness -- Creativity -- Crime Victimization -- Cultural Assessment -- Cultural Competence and Aging -- Culture Change.…”
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