In quest'opera sono riportate le conoscenze piu aggiornate sulle indagini del DNA che sono comunemente utilizzate per l'identificazione di autori di reati violenti nelle indagini criminali, per l'attribuzione dell'identita a resti umani ed a vittime di disastri di massa, per la ricostruzione di rapporti parentali nelle indagini di paternita. La monografia descrive la biologia dei diversi tipi di DNA che sono utilizzati a questo scopo - i microsatelliti del DNA autosomico, il DNA mitocondriale, i...
Altern ALS Zukunft - Eine Studie Der Volkswagenstiftung
by Frieder Lang, Stephan Lessenich, and Klaus Rothermund
Many people passively accept factors like diminished brain power, reduced sex drive, and the loss of youthful exuberance, even though they are only entering their forties and fifties. Dr Khalsa argues that these factors are not a natural part of growing older, He claims that our brains can be rejuvenated, and we can get back our memories, our energy, our good mood, and our youthful sex drive. When we are under stress and we "age", he claims, we naturally produce an adrenaline hormone, cortisol,...
This thoughtful collection based on a highly successful conference held in Calgary, Alberta, combines the views of professional gerontologists, educators, health-care specialists, and policy makers to confront the issues affecting health care for older adults in both Canada and the United States. The contributors seek not only to inform but to inspire innovative responses from the private as well as the public sector. Experts in government, ageing, medicine, public administration, social service...
Menopause Matters (A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book)
by Julia Schlam Edelman
Menopause Matters is a complete guide for improving a woman's physical and mental health from age 35 and on. Gynecologist and menopause specialist Dr. Julia Schlam Edelman has helped thousands of women feel better and enjoy healthier lives. Scientifically sound and clinically tested, Dr. Edelman's advice is a welcome alternative to the often misleading, conflicting, and confusing sound bites in media reports on women's health issues. Menopause Matters covers the full spectrum of topics of vital...
Das vorliegende Werk beschreibt Bedeutung, Aufgaben, Organisation und Umsetzung der Altenselbsthilfe in Deutschland. Es wendet sich an politische Institutionen, Entscheider im Sozialmanagement, z.B. Kommunalstellen sowie an alle Bereiche, die mit Altenarbeit zu tun haben, wie Case-Manager, Pflegestutzpunkte, Krankenkassen, aber auch an Sozialwissenschaftler, Sozialarbeiter, Selbsthilfegruppen und Senioren.Dr. Rainer Neubart, ausgewiesener Experte auf dem Gebiet der Altersmedizin, beschreibt ansc...
Smart Homes; Design, Implementation and Issues (Smart Sensors, Measurement and Instrumentation, #14)
The book addresses issues towards the design and development of Wireless Sensor Network based Smart Home and fusion of Real-Time Data for Wellness Determination of an elderly person living alone in a Smart Home. The fundamentals of selection of sensor, fusion of sensor data, system design, modelling, characterizations, experimental investigations and analyses have been covered. This book will be extremely useful for the engineers and researchers especially higher undergraduate, postgraduate stud...
Using a new, integrative approach, Molecular Basis of Aging describes the aging phenomenon within mammalian organisms from the perspective of changes in information storage and coordination between hierarchical orders of structure. This unique approach provides the reader with a thorough insight into the evolution of molecular, cellular, tissue, and organ systems and processes in mammals. This informative volume contains up-to-date reviews of:
Food for thought: Nutrition and the aging brain (Cognitive Science and Psychology)
Nutrition for the Older Adult
by Melissa Bernstein and Ann Schmidt Luggen
Osteoarthritis, an Issue of Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, E-Book (Clinics: Internal Medicine, #38)
Pulitzer-prize winning author Dr. Robert Butler coined the term ageism and made Alzheimers a familiar word. Now he brings his formidable knowledge and experience in aging issues to a recent and unprecedented achievement: the extension of human life expectancy by thirty years. As Butler shows, our society has not yet adapted to this change. The U. S. has not made a research investment in aging. Only eleven medical schools out of 145 have geriatrics departments compared to England where geri...
AGEING TODAY:A POSITIVE APPROACH TO CARING FOR ELDERLEY
by Veronica Windmill
Medicare Prospective Payment and the Shaping of U.S. Health Care
by Rick Mayes and Robert A. Berenson
This is the definitive work on Medicare's prospective payment system (PPS), which had its origins in the 1972 Social Security Amendments, was first applied to hospitals in 1983, and came to fruition with the Balanced Budget Act of 1997. Here, Rick Mayes and Robert A. Berenson, M.D., explain how Medicare's innovative payment system triggered shifts in power away from the providers (hospitals and doctors) to the payers (government insurers and employers) and how providers have responded to encroac...