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  • Tresch and Aronow's Cardiovascular Disease in Older Adults

    Seventh Edition

    The Seventh Edition of Tresch and Aronow's Cardiovascular Disease in Older Adults thoroughly updates the material in the sixth edition by renowned experts in geriatric cardiology. New features include a short list of Key Points at the start of each chapter to help guide the reader, a new chapter on Cardio-oncology in Older Adults, a topic of increasing importance, and new sections on geroscience, ... Read more

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  • End-of-Life Care in Cardiovascular Disease

    Series series Medicine (R0)
    End-of-life issues in cardiology are becoming increasingly important in the management of patients in the cardiac unit, but there is frequently a lack of understanding regarding their impact on cardiology practice. The cardiac unit is increasingly becoming the location whereby a number of key clinical decisions relating to end-of-life care are being made, such as the decision to remove medications ... Read more

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  • Managing Chronic Conditions in Older Adults with Cardiovascular Disease, An Issue of Clinics in Geriatric Medicine

    Series Book Volume 32-2 - The Clinics: Internal Medicine
    This issue of Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, guest edited by Drs. Cynthia Boyd, James T. Pacala, and Michael W. Rich, is devoted to Chronic Conditions in Older Adults with Cardiovascular Disease. Articles in this issue include: Epidemiology of multimorbidity in older adults with cardiovascular disease; Impact of multimorbidity on clinical outcomes in older adults with cardiovascular disease; ... Read more

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  • Cardiac Rhythm Disorders in Older Adults, An Issue of Clinics in Geriatric Medicine

    Series Book Volume 28-4 - The Clinics: Internal Medicine
    This issue of Clinics in Geriatric Medicine focuses on the pharmacological, non-pharmacological, and device therapies in the medical management of cardiac rhythm disorders in the elderly population. It also reviews the epidemiology of arrhythmias and conduction disorders in older adults, atrial fibrillation and atrial flutter: stroke prevention, bradyarrhythmias and conduction disorders, and ... Read more

    $75.99 USD

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  • Building Evidence for Active Ageing Policies

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    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
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  • Aging Together

    Dementia, Friendship, and Flourishing Communities

    Never in human history have there been so many people entering old age—roughly one-third of whom will experience some form of neurodegeneration as they age. This seismic demographic shift will force us all to rethink how we live and deal with our aging population.Susan H. McFadden and John T. McFadden propose a radical reconstruction of our societal understanding of old age. Rather than ... Read more

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  • Ageism and Mistreatment of Older Workers

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    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
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