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Integrated care and fall prevention in active and healthy aging / Patrik Eklund, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Advances in medical diagnosis, treatment, and care (AMDTC) book series
- ADVANCES IN MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS, TREATMENT, AND CARE BOOK SERIES.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Falls (Accidents).
- Older people.
- Aging.
- Accidental Falls--prevention & control.
- Aged.
- Healthy Aging.
- Medical Subjects:
- Accidental Falls--prevention & control.
- Aged.
- Healthy Aging.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (348 pages).
- monochrome
- Place of Publication:
- Hershey, Pennsylvania (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA) : IGI Global, [2021]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Chapter 1. Twin contributors to the physiology of ambulatory wellbeing and falls prevention in ageing populations: functional senescence and abnormal pathological change
- Chapter 2. Integrating social and health services for people, communities, homes, and places
- Chapter 3. Fall-risk-increasing drugs: background, current evidence on deprescribing, and future perspectives
- Chapter 4. Bone density and fall risk screening in Algarve: a preliminary study
- Chapter 5. Effects of spaceflight, aging, and bedrest on falls: aging meets spaceflight!
- Chapter 6. The role of neuroimaging in fall prevention in healthy adults at risk of Alzheimer's disease
- Chapter 7. Fall risk and the use of exercise as a fall prevention strategy
- Chapter 8. Fall prevention in education and training of healthcare students, professionals, and non-professionals
- Chapter 9. Fall prevention education: good examples from higher education
- Chapter 10. Health and fall risk monitoring within common assessments
- Chapter 11. Patient safety: the patient's perspective from public sector health institutions in the Algarve Region, Portugal
- Chapter 12. Fall prevention activities and resources in Norway: a review
- Chapter 13. Falls and fall injuries as societal challenges in Namibia
- Chapter 14. Integrated care in prevention: maturity and upscaling
- Chapter 15. Information and process in health.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Hershey, Pa. Available via World Wide Web.
- Title screen (IGI Global, viewed 08/14/2021).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Samuel Bellet Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9781799844129
- 1799844129
- Publisher Number:
- 99988331221
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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