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Natural Hormone Balance for Women: Look Younger, Feel Stronger, and Live Life with Exuberance

by Uzzi Reiss & Martin Zucker

A pioneering gynecologist and antiaging specialist with a successful Beverly Hills practice, Dr. Uzzi Reiss shows the way for women who want to turn back the effects of time through natural hormone therapy,...


Last Acts: Discovering Possibility and Opportunity at the End of Life

by M.D., David J. Casarett

What would you do if you had only a few days to live? Or a few weeks or months? What if a loved one were in this situation -- how could you help that person decide how to spend the time that remained? Perhaps...


Designing and Delivering Dementia Services

by Hugo de Waal, Constantine Lyketsos & David Ames

Dementia is increasingly and widely recognised as a serious health and social challenge, in the developed world as well as in the developing world. The need therefore to design and implement dementia care services...


Remember When?

by Scientific American Editors

We don’t often marvel at the process of remembering—that is, until we forget. What allows us to remember, and how do we forget? Most importantly, why do we remember certain things and not others? In this...


The Forgetting: Alzheimer's: Portrait of an Epidemic

by David Shenk

Afflicting nearly half of all persons over the age of 85, Alzheimer’s disease kills nearly 100,000 Americas a year as it insidiously robs them of their memory and wreaks havoc on the lives of their loved ones....


Charting a Course for High Quality Care Transitions

by Eric A. Coleman

Learn how to ensure quality and safety for vulnerable older adults Transitional care is crucial to older adults with complex care needs who are moving between different locations or different levels of care....


Complementary and Alternative Therapies and the Aging Population: An Evidence-Based Approach

by Ronald Watson

The major objective of this book is to review in detail health problems occurring with significant frequency in aging adults which are proposed to be treated or ameliorated using nutriceuticals as foods and...


Talking Over the Years: A Handbook of Dynamic Psychotherapy with Older Adults

by Sandra Evans & Jane Garner

How can we work effectively with older people?

What contribution can be made by the field of psychodynamics?

It is now recognised that older adults can benefit from psychodynamic therapy and that psychodynamic...


Predictive Health: How We Can Reinvent Medicine to Extend Our Best Years

by Kenneth L. Brigham & Michael M. E. Johns

It’s no stretch to claim that America is in the midst of a healthcare meltdown. Care is costly and unattainable for many, and often unsatisfactory even for those who can afford treatment. The medical system...


Guia para el Cuidado de Nuestros Mayores

by Stella Henry & Ann Convery

En esta exhaustiva y práctica guía, Stella Henry, experta en cuidados a largo plazo, ayuda a los lectores a dominar la abrumadora logística y las fuertes emociones que provoca el tomar decisiones respecto...


Metabolic Syndrome. From Risk Factor to Management

by Michael J. Blaha & Rajesh Tota-Maharaj

Increased caloric intake, increased refined carbohydrate consumption, and physical inactivity have led to an explosion in the worldwide incidence of abdominal obesity and the emerging epidemic of insulin resistance,...


Risk of Disability in Elderly Diabetic Patients

by Claudio Marengo - Marco Comoglio

In elderly population, diabetes is often associated with a wide range of complications and comorbidities that can affect the patients’ ability to care for themselves, thus complicating the medical assistance....


Personality in Adulthood, Second Edition

by Robert R. McCrae & Jr., Robert T. Costa

This influential work examines how enduring dispositions or traits affect the process of aging and shape each individual's life course. From two well-known authorities in the field, the volume is grounded in...


Restorative Care Nursing for Older Adults

by Barbara Resnick

The purpose of restorative care nursing is to take an active role in helping older adults maintain their highest level of function, thus preventing excess disability. This book was written to help


How We Age: A Doctor's Journey into the Heart of Growing Old

by Marc Agronin

A young doctor’s reflections on his experiences as a nursing-home psychiatrist—with remarkable stories of vitality and growth that transformed his view of aging


Aging with Grace: What the Nun Study Teaches Us About Leading Longer, Healthier, and More Meaningful Lives

by David Snowdon

In 1986 Dr. David Snowdon, one of the world’s leading experts on Alzheimer’s disease, embarked on a revolutionary scientific study that would forever change the way we view aging—and ultimately living....