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Elder Justice: A Roadmap for Preventing and Combating Elder Abuse

Aging, Geriatrics, Medicine and Health
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Elder abuse – including neglect, abandonment, and financial exploitation, as well as physical and psychological abuse – affects millions of Americans each year, with widespread health, legal, social and economic implications. With the input of experts and stakeholders from across the country, this book identifies and prioritizes actions that direct service providers, educators, and researchers…
Elder Abuse and Neglect: Annotated Bibliographies

Aging, Geriatrics, Medicine and Health
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Elder abuse is a pervasive phenomenon around the world with devastating effects on the victims. Although it is not a new phenomenon, interest in examining elder abuse is relatively new. This book aims to provide an overview of the aetiological theories and measures of elder abuse. The book briefly reviews theories to explain causes of…
The Elder Justice Act and Reviews of Federal Elder Support Programs

Aging, Geriatrics, Medicine and Health
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Elder abuse is a complex issue that often requires a multifaceted policy response that combines public health interventions, social services programs, and criminal law enforcement for abusive behavior. To address this complexity, the Elder Justice Act was enacted as part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The act attempts to provide a coordinated…
Function and Metabolism of Aging: Longitudinal Neuroimaging Evaluations

Neuroscience Research Progress, Geriatrics, Gerontology and Elderly Issues, Aging, Geriatrics, Medicine and Health
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Maintaining good metabolic profile plays a significant role in improving the quality of life at aging. Widely recommended physical and psychological strategies include exercise, calorie restriction (such as healthy diet), anti-aging neuroprotective and anti-inflammation therapy. Most occurring risks at middle age range (45-65 years old) are obesity, insulin resistance, inflammation, alteration in the hypothalamus-hypophysis suprarenal…
Geriatric Psychodermatology: Psychocutaneous Disorders in the Elderly

Geriatrics, Gerontology and Elderly Issues, Aging, Geriatrics, Medicine and Health
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The interaction between mind and skin diseases is the focus in psychodermatology. This important subspecialty is the result of the merging of two major medical specialties: psychiatry and dermatology. Research and existing publications in this field are mainly focused on the general population. The increase in life expectation and the increasing number of elderly individuals…
Is Aging a Disease? Untangling the Relationship

Geriatrics, Gerontology and Elderly Issues, Aging
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Each species has its own characteristic aging trajectory coded by a species-specific developmental program. This developmental program is triggered at the time of fertilization, hence aging begins at conception. Within a species there are considerable variations in the aging phenotype between individuals due to the plasticity of the developmental process and its inherent stochasticity. The…
Social Security: Benefits and Special Programs

American Political, Economic and Security Issues, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Aging
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Social Security is a self-financing program that provides monthly cash benefits to retired or disabled workers and their family members and to the family members of deceased workers. Workers become eligible for Social Security benefits for themselves and their family members by working in Social Security-covered employment. Social Security is of ongoing interest both because…
Are Chronic Degenerative Diseases Part of the Ageing Process? Insights from Comparative Biology

Neuroscience Research Progress, Aging, Geriatrics, Medicine and Health
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Most of the DNA in the human genome does not encode proteins but it is involved in regulatory functions. In addition, the human genome is characterized by an extensive array of structural DNA variants arising from de novo mutations plus accumulated structural variants transmitted through an individual’s lineage. The result is that each person has…
Services and Supports for Older Adults: Federal Role

Aging, Geriatrics, Medicine and Health
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Five federal agencies within four departments fund home and community-based services and supports that older adults often require to continue living independently in their own homes and communities. The Administration on Aging (AoA) and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and the Departments of Housing…
Ageing and Mental Health: Global Perspectives

Intellectual Disabilities, Aging, Geriatrics, Medicine and Health
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Globally, the number of elderly individuals is growing at an unprecedented rate. Currently, eleven percent of the worldwide population is 65 years and older. This number will more than double to twenty-two percent (2 billion) by 2050. As the older population continues its inexorable growth, so does the number of older adults with mental health…
Optimization of Drug Prescribing in Elderly

Pharmacology - Research, Safety Testing and Regulation, Pharmacology, Geriatrics, Medicine and Health
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The present book offers a set of chapters which describes the procedure for drug treatment of the principal diseases that older people suffer from. In the pharmacological concept, it has been established that pharmacokinetics is the most useful strategy to determine the prime schedule of different medications for seniors. These strategies can be applied in…
Post-Acute and Long Term Geriatric Care Clinical Advisor. Volume II

Geriatrics, Gerontology and Elderly Issues, Geriatrics, Medicine and Health
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Changing demographics have resulted in the elderly constituting a more significant proportion of the population. Many older people will develop functional impairment and disability, necessitating either support at home or admission to long-term care facilities, rehabilitation centers, psychiatric institutions and hospices. Guidance in the clinical challenges that face the staff of such institutions is essential.…
Post-Acute and Long Term Geriatric Care Clinical Advisor. Volume I

Geriatrics, Gerontology and Elderly Issues, Geriatrics, Medicine and Health
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Changing demographics have resulted in the elderly constituting a more significant proportion of the population. Many older people will develop functional impairment and disability, necessitating either support at home or admission to long-term care facilities, rehabilitation centers, psychiatric institutions and hospices. Guidance in the clinical challenges that face the staff of such institutions is essential.…
Nursing Home Quality: Analyses of the Five-Star Rating System and Quality Trends

Aging, Geriatrics, Medicine and Health
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In 2008, in an effort to provide helpful information to consumers and improve provider quality, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) developed and implemented the Five-Star Quality Rating System (Five-Star System). The Five-Star System assigns each nursing home an overall rating and three component ratings—health inspections, staffing, and quality measures—based on the extent…
Technologies for Healthy, Graceful Aging: Issues, Recommendations, Federal Actions

Social and Behavioral Sciences, Aging
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The U.S. population is getting older, and Americans are living longer, on average, than they ever have before. As they age, people are healthier and more active than the generations before them and have fewer functional limitations such as difficulty walking or blindness. Studies show that people are happier on average as they advance into…
Arts and Aging in America: Challenges, Opportunities, Research Avenues

Aging, Geriatrics, Medicine and Health
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The United States is undergoing a major demographic shift, as older adults become a larger portion of the population. As people live longer and healthier lives, the perception of old age is changing, as are the capabilities, activities, and expectations of older adults. In preparation for addressing these changes this book looks at how the…
Human Security: Social Support for the Health of the Aging Population Based On Geriatric Behavioral Neurology

Geriatrics, Gerontology and Elderly Issues, Upcoming Publications, Aging
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As an objective of human security, it is important to understand the social system and to make more appropriate policies for people based on the bio-psycho-social viewpoint of health advocated by the World Health Organization (WHO). For countries with increasingly large populations of older adults, aging-related disorders cause many social handicaps. A comprehensive approach for…
Adherence to Medical Plans for Active and Healthy Ageing

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Non-adherence to medical plans remain a challenge for health care professionals and scientists, as their efforts to improve and explain patients’ adherence appear to be ineffective. In fact, a study by the World Health Organization found that only 50% of the patients in developed countries adhere to recommended treatment plans. This degree of non-adherence results…
Rethinking Aging: Foucault, Victims and Death

Social Perspectives in the 21st Century (Edited Series), Aging, Geriatrics, Medicine and Health
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This authentic book explores the concept of aging and its relationship to victimization and death in contemporary culture. Healthcare and welfare have emerged as key vehicles used to legitimize and position the identities that older people adopt in contemporary modernity. Both contain continually changing technologies that function to mediate relations between older people and the…
Ageing Disgracefully, with Grace: Enjoying Growing Older

Psychology Research Progress, Aging, Geriatrics, Medicine and Health
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A doctor was once heard to say that it is a pity we know our own age; otherwise, we could just say that we are as old as we feel. The populations of most countries are ageing, and because of this we can anticipate many years of retirement. We need to make the most of…
The Visually Disabled and the Elderly in the Age of IC Technologies

Disability and the Disabled - Issues, Laws and Programs, Geriatrics, Medicine and Health
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This volume presents a survey of technological innovations that enhance both the learning processes and the living conditions of individuals who live with a disability and the elderly. Information and Communications Technology (ICT) refers to technologies that process, store and communicate information to single users and across groups of users. Computers, microelectronics, multimedia and telecommunications…
The Power of Global Aging

Social Perspectives in the 21st Century (Edited Series), Aging
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This book is a demographical overview of the key issues associated with globalisation and global aging in the 21st century. The book explores how populational aging has increased the implications for socio-economic issues for individuals and populations. The book also explores China which is fast on its way to becoming the most powerful economic force…
Life Course and Society

Social Perspectives in the 21st Century (Edited Series), Aging
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This book explores the concept of key concepts, theories and practices related to life course issues associated with social work, power and trust in contemporary society. The book begins by narrating how aging studies has been colonized by biomedical conceptualizations, which have masked a social understanding of how aging and life course are socially constituted.…
Aging and Western Society: A Critical Approach

Social Perspectives in the 21st Century (Edited Series), Aging
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This book is an unashamedly sociological excursion relating to the ageing process in Western society. It fundamentally questions assumptions and ideas around ageing, and where these ideas originate. This book crucially explores conceptual, theoretical, methodological, practical and social policy issues relating to how ageing has been framed, constructed, deconstructed and reconstructed by politicians, policy makers…