| Description |
1 online resource |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
"A Sage reference publication." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
Covers the biological, psychological, social, and economic aspects of health and aging and the impacts within the health-care system. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Older people -- Health and hygiene -- Encyclopedias.
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Older people -- Health and hygiene. |
| Genre/Form |
Encyclopedias.
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| Subject |
Aging -- Encyclopedias.
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Aging. |
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Aging. |
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Geriatrics. |
| Genre/Form |
Encyclopedia.
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Electronic books.
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Encyclopedias.
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| Added Author |
Markides, Kyriakos S.
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Sage Publications.
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| Added Title |
Encyclopedia of health and aging |
| Other Form: |
Print version 9781412909495 |
| ISBN |
9781452265643 (electronic book) |
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145226564X (electronic book) |
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9781412953870 (electronic book) |
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1412953871 (electronic book) |
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9781412956208 |
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141295620X |
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9781412909495 (alkaline paper) |
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141290949X (alkaline paper) |
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9781849725576 |
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1849725578 |
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