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Over 4 million Americans suffer from Alzheimer's disease, which is an organic disorder that is progressive, debilitating, and irreversible.

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Section II (Special Issues in Geriatric Health Care) includes ethnic and minority health issues in aging, geriatric care and older women, medical ethics in geriatrics, and new reimbursement systems for medical care for the elderly.

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This up-to-date bibliography of heretofore scattered references to nursing assistants includes literature pertinent to the construction of models to improve nursing assistant practice and emphasizes the psychosocial skills that are invaluable to the nursing assistant's work.

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A prescription for health care for older adults and their families by using life stories to treat the "third age" stage of life.

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This guide examines injury prevention for the elderly. It provides a survey of 621 references which cover injury prevention in general as well as various accidents and problems, ranging from burns and scalds to hypothermia and hyperthermia.

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This bibliography aims to provide gerontologists, health care professionals and the general reader with a source for identifying literary works whose plot, characters and themes provide insight into various topics in gerontology.

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Most studies of geriatric patients have focused on nursing homes. This ethnography details the day-to-day experiences of a geriatric and assessment unit by examining the staff, families, and patients themselves. It looks at the activities that take place in the unit as well as the less obvious cultural patterns of the process.

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Following an introduction that outlines the history and projects the future of gerontology, the authors offer insightful profiles of roughly 300 researchers, teachers, and practitioners in aging.

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A comprehensive work on the prevalent geriatric problem of self-neglect. It contains original clinical research and analyzes the medical, psychological, and social aspects of geriatric self-neglect from various perspectives of professionals within the geriatric field.

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The nursing assistant has a special and vital role in nursing home care.

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Gerontology is a multidisciplinary field, and this bibliography provides a multidisciplinary perspective on research on aging. Included are bibliographies on caregiving and health care, rituals related to death and dying, sleep disorders, Alzheimer's Disease, coronary disease, and the use of growth hormone in aging research.

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The first book introduces the 18 types of Chinese herbs, which have been widely used in China for intervention of anti-aging and age-related diseases. We wish this book will facilitate progress toward healthy aging solutions and successful interventions.

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