Encyclopedia of health & aging /

Table of Contents: “…Accelerated Aging Syndromes -- Active Life Expectancy -- Activities of Daily Living and Instrumental Activities of Daily Living -- Advance Directives -- Adverse Drug Reactions -- Adverse Drug Withdrawal Events -- Advocacy Organizations -- Africa -- African Americans -- Age-Period-Cohort Distinctions -- Age-Related Changes in Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics -- Aging in Manitoba Longitudinal Study -- Aging Network -- Agitation -- Alcohol Use and Abuse -- Allostatic Load and Homeostasis -- Alzheimer's Disease -- Anabolic Therapies -- Anemia -- Aneurysms -- Anti-Aging Interventions -- Anxiety Disorders -- Apolipoprotein E -- Arrhythmias -- Arthritis and Other Rheumatic Diseases -- Asia -- Asian and Pacific Islander Americans -- Assisted Living -- Assistive Devices -- Australia and New Zealand -- Balance -- Behavioral Disorders in Dementia -- Bereavement and Grief -- Biological Theories of Aging -- Biomarkers of Aging -- Body Composition -- Body Mass Index -- Calcium Disorders of Aging -- Canada -- Cancer -- Cancer, Common Types of -- Cancer Prevention and Screening -- Cardiovascular Health Study -- Cardiovascular System -- Caregiving -- Cataracts -- Cellulitis -- Centenarians -- Clinical Trials -- Complementary and Alternative Medicine -- Compression of Morbidity -- Congestive Heart Failure -- Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer's Disease -- Continuum of Care -- Control -- Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease -- Critical Perspectives in Gerontology -- Death, Dying, and Hospice Care -- Delirium and Confusional States -- Demography of Aging -- Depression and Other Mood Disorders -- Diabetes -- Dietary Variety -- Disability and the Disablement Process -- Disasters and Terrorism -- Disclosure -- Driving -- Drug-Disease Interactions -- Drug-Drug Interactions -- Drug Underuse -- Duke Longitudinal Studies -- Ear Diseases -- Early Adversity and Late-Life Health -- Economics of Aging -- Education and Health -- Elder Abuse and Neglect -- Emotions and Emotional Stability -- Environmental Health -- Epidemiology of Aging -- Established Populations for Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly -- Ethical Issues and Aging -- Ethnicity and Race -- Europe -- Exercise and Physical Activity -- Expectations Regarding Aging -- Eye Diseases -- Fluid and Electrolytes -- Foot Problems -- Fractures in Older Adults -- Frailty -- Gait Disorders -- Gastrointestinal Aging -- Geriatric Assessment -- Geriatric Profession -- Geriatric Team Care -- Gerontological Nursing -- Global Aging -- Government Health Surveys -- Health and Retirement Study -- Health and Public Policy -- Health Care System for Older Adults -- Health Communication -- Health Promotion and Disease Prevention -- Hearing -- Hispanic Established Population for Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly -- Hispanics -- HIV and AIDS -- Home Care -- Homelessness and Health in the United States -- Honolulu-Asia Aging Study, Honolulu Heart Program -- Hypertension -- Iatrogenic Disease -- Imaging of the Brain -- Immune Function -- Inappropriate Prescribing -- Incontinence -- Infections, Bladder and Kidney -- Infectious Diseases -- Injury Prevention -- Institutional Care -- Instruments -- Kidney Aging and Diseases -- Latin America and the Caribbean -- Legal Issues -- Lewy Body Dementia -- Life Course Perspective on Adult Development -- Living Arrangements -- Loneliness -- Longevity -- Longitudinal Research -- Longitudinal Study of Aging -- Long-Term Care -- Long-Term Care Insurance -- MacArthur Study of Successful Aging -- Managed Care -- Marital Status -- Medicaid -- Medicare -- Medication Adherence -- Medication Errors -- Memory -- Menopause and Hormone Therapy -- Men's Health -- Mental Status Assessment -- Metabolic Syndrome -- Mexico -- Midlife -- Migration -- Mild Cognitive Impairment -- Minimum Data Set -- Mobility -- Mobility Assessment -- Motivation -- Multiple Morbidity and Comorbidity -- Musculoskeletal Aging: Inflammation -- Musculoskeletal Aging: Osteoarthritis -- National Health Interview Survey -- National Institute on Aging -- National Long Term Care Survey -- Native Americans and Alaska Natives -- Negative Interaction and Health -- Neurobiology of Aging -- Neurological Disorders -- Normal Physical Aging -- Normative Aging Study -- Nursing Roles in Health Care and Long-Term Care -- Nutrition and Public Health -- Nutrition, Malnutrition, and Feeding Issues -- Obesity -- Oldest Old -- Oral Health -- Osteoporosis -- Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS) -- Pain -- Palliative Care and the End of Life -- Patient Safety -- Performance Measures of Physical Function -- Perioperative Issues -- Personality Disorders -- Pets in Health Care Settings -- Pick's Disease -- Pneumonia and Tuberculosis -- Polypharmacy -- Positive Attitudes and Health -- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder -- Pressure Ulcers -- Pseudodementia -- Psychiatric Rating Scales -- Psychosocial Theories -- Pulmonary Aging -- Qualitative Research on Aging -- Quality of Life -- Rehabilitation Therapies -- Rural Health and Aging Versus Urban Health and Aging -- Sarcopenia -- Schizophrenia, Paranoia, and Delusional Disorders -- Selective Optimization with Compensation -- Self-Care -- Self-Efficacy -- Self-Rated Health -- Sexuality -- Shingles -- Skin Changes -- Skin Neoplasms, Benign and Malignant -- Sleep -- Smoking -- Social Networks and Social Support -- Social Work Roles in Health and Long-Term Care -- Socioeconomic Status -- Spinal Stenosis -- Stress -- Stroke -- Subjective Well-Being -- Successful Aging -- Suicide and the Elderly -- Surgery -- Syncope -- Systemic Infections -- Telemedicine -- Temperature Regulation -- Therapeutic Failure -- Thyroid Disease -- Twin Studies -- Valvular Heart Disease -- Vascular Dementia -- Vascular Depression -- Venous Stasis Ulcers -- Vision and Low Vision -- Vitamins, Minerals, and Dietary Supplements -- Women's Health -- Work, Health, and Retirement -- Wound Healing.…”
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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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