- 342 pages
- English
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Social Work and Geriatric Services
About this book
This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.Social Work & Geriatric Services examines many facets concerning the care of the elderly. Topics discussed include chronic disease prevalence, conducting research with older people, cognitive functioning and social integration, exercise for the elderly, suicide and depression in the elderly,
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ANDHOW TO CITE
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Chronic Disease Prevalence and Care Among the Elderly in Urban and Rural Beijing, China—A 10/66 Dementia Research Group Cross-Sectional Survey
- 3. Challenges to Conducting Research with Older People Living in Nursing Homes
- 4. Association between Subjective Memory Complaints and Health Care Utilisation: A Three-Year Follow Up
- 5. Cognitive Function, Social Integration and Mortality in a U.S. National Cohort Study of Older Adults
- 6. Magnitude of Potentially Inappropriate Prescribing in Germany Among Older Patients with Generalized Anxiety Disorder
- 7. Social Vulnerability, Frailty and Mortality in Elderly People
- 8. Impact of Exercise in Community-Dwelling Older Adults
- 9. Social Participation and Independence in Activities of Daily Living: A Cross Sectional Study
- 10. Age-Related Attenuation of Dominant Hand Superiority
- 11. Are Sedatives and Hypnotics Associated with Increased Risk of Suicide in the Elderly?
- 12. Mental Rotation of Faces in Healthy Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease
- 13. Preventing Falls in Older Multifocal Glasses Wearersby Providing Single-Lens Distance Glasses: The Protocol for the VISIBLE Randomized Controlled Trial
- 14. Emotional Stress as a Trigger of Falls Leading to Hip or Pelvic Fracture. Results From the Tofa Study—A Case-Crossover Study Among Elderly People in Stockholm, Sweden
- 15. Health Status Transitions in Community-Living Elderly with Complex Care Needs: A Latent Class Approach
- 16. Effectiveness of a Mobile Smoking Cessation Service in Reaching Elderly Smokers and Predictors of Quitting
- 17. Factors Associated with Self-Rated Health in Older People Living in Institutions
- 18. Discomfort and Agitation in Older Adults with Dementia
- 19. Factors Influencing Elderly Women’s Mammography Screening Decisions: Implications for Counseling
- 20. Do Social Networks Affect the Use of Residential Aged Care Among Older Australians?
- Back Cover