A Comprehensive Guide to Safety and Aging
eBook - ePub

A Comprehensive Guide to Safety and Aging

Minimizing Risk, Maximizing Security

  1. 414 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

A Comprehensive Guide to Safety and Aging

Minimizing Risk, Maximizing Security

About this book

This book is a comprehensive survey on safety for older adults. It contains contributions by experts from over a dozen disciplines, including physicians, audiologists, optometrists, mental health professionals, lawyers, occupational therapists, and policy makers. This multi-disciplinary approach provides a new and expansive conceptual framework for health care professionals, students, policymakers, and others who care for older adults, and promotes an understanding of the many challenges that adults face as they age.

This book describes the complex range of issues that need to be considered when safeguarding older adults. We hope that this book will be of benefit to anyone currently working or training to work with older adults, helping them to fully appreciate the many safety issues that can arise. The book will be also be useful for both older adults and their caregivers, helping them to identify and address areas of concern. Our goal is to mitigate injury or other harm through an increased understanding of the risks encountered by older adults. This text will also appeal to professionals and graduate students in the fields of human factors and ergonomics, occupational health, and safety.

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Yes, you can access A Comprehensive Guide to Safety and Aging by Barry S. Eckert, Robert Wolf, Amy R. Ehrlich, Barry S. Eckert,Robert Wolf,Amy R. Ehrlich in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Technology & Engineering & Industrial Engineering. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Editors’ Note
  7. About the Editors
  8. List of Contributors
  9. 1 Introduction
  10. 2 Hazards of Hospitalization
  11. 3 Atypical Presentations of Common Diseases
  12. 4 Hip Fractures in Older Adults
  13. 5 Functional Fitness for Optimal Aging
  14. 6 Care Transitions
  15. 7 Medication Management Issues in the Older Adult Patient
  16. 8 Oral Health and Older Adults
  17. 9 Preventing Falls and Fall-Related Injuries among Older Adults
  18. 10 Home Modifications
  19. 11 Advancements in Technology to Promote Safety and Support Aging in Place
  20. 12 Supporting Community Engagement with Assistive Technology as a Means of Health Promotion for Older Adults
  21. 13 Older Adult Driver Safety
  22. 14 Travel and Seasonal Safety for Older Adults
  23. 15 Emergency Preparedness and Fire Safety
  24. 16 Safety Considerations for Older Workers
  25. 17 Mental Health: Depression, Anxiety, and Social Isolation
  26. 18 Suicide Prevention
  27. 19 Social Isolation and Loneliness
  28. 20 Caregiver Safety and Self-Care
  29. 21 Opioid Use and Abuse in Older Adults
  30. 22 Reducing Harm Related to Substance Use by Older Adults
  31. 23 Hearing and Aging
  32. 24 Common Eye Diseases, Their Visual Outcomes, and Strategies for Enhancing Use of Remaining Vision
  33. 25 Blindness and Low Vision Rehabilitation Services
  34. 26 Safety Considerations in Older Adults with Cognitive Impairment Including Dementia
  35. 27 Legal Safety Tools
  36. 28 Older Adults and Scams
  37. 29 Elder Abuse and Financial Exploitation
  38. 30 Financing Care: How Clinicians Can Support and Prepare Their Patients
  39. 31 Health Inequities: Closing the Disparities Gap in the Aging Population
  40. 32 The Value of Age-Friendly Public Health Systems to Older Adult Health and Well-Being
  41. 33 The Impact of Aging on Healthy Eyes
  42. Index