Sunday, December 28, 2008

Handbook of Geriatric Assessment or The Abs Diet

Handbook of Geriatric Assessment

Author: Joseph J Gallo

Our health care system continues to undergo change, driven, in part, by the pressures of caring for a growing population of older adults. To address these changing needs and to provide better patient care, Aspen announces the new Third Edition of the Handbook of Geriatric Assessment. Completely revised and updated, it presents assessment and evaluation technology used by health care professionals, social workers, and researchers working with a wide variety of elderly populations including hospitalized elderly, nursing home residents, and those receiving home care services. Emphasis on the multidimensional approach in the care of older persons and the inclusion of new chapters on ethnicity, assessment, driving evaluation, and pain assessment keep this book on the cutting edge of health care trends.

Designed for:

  • Family Physicians
  • Geriatricians
  • Educators and Medical School Course Directors
  • Nurse Clinicians
  • Physical Assistants
  • Doctors of Osteopathy
  • Social Workers
  • Neurologists
  • Rehabilitative Therapists.

      Features:

      • Includes the latest cutting edge assessment techniques
      • Contains dozens of ready-to-use test, charts, and guidelines
      • Shows easy-to-understand models you can put into practice quickly
      • Hear from two distinguished medical ethicists on methods used to assess values of the well or ill older adult.

      Jeannine Forrest

      This handbook is a guide for clinicians on how to integrate multidimensional assessments for primary care of older adults. Select tools and questionnaires highlight domains that provide significant information for geriatric care. Extensive reference lists enrich each chapter. This book was previously published in 1995. The intent in this third edition is to foster multidimensional assessment of older adults with practical applications across primary care settings for all clinicians involved in geriatric care. These objectives are essential in promoting a unique approach in delivering care to elderly patients. The editors and contributors come close to meeting these ambitious objectives. This book is designed to be read by all healthcare professionals in geriatric care. The content is targeted toward practicing clinicians in primary care settings. Familiar aspects of geriatric evaluation are featured in great depth and substance, with multiple examples of tools for mental, social, functional assessments, health promotion, and disease prevention. Additional topics such as ethnicity, advanced directives, and the older driver identify emerging areas in geriatric care. The text is limited by unevenness in depth and examples of clinical assessment tools among various chapters. The chapter on pain leaves the reader wanting more concrete illustrations of tools that are better utilized by elderly patients. In addition, contributors discuss the importance of an interdisciplinary team, yet focus quite heavily on the geriatrician in conducting these multidimensional assessments. This book is a worthwhile resource that targets essential areas of assessment for the elderly. Compared toother texts such as Fordyce's Geriatric Pearls (F.A. Davis Company Publishers, 1999), it serves as a more useful guide in focusing the clinician's attention toward multidimensional assessment as a unique approach in the delivery of care to the elderly. Additions in this updated text are valuable in highlighting new research in geriatric care.

      Doody Review Services

      Reviewer: Jeannine Marie Forrest, Ph.D., R.N. (University of Illinois at Chicago College of Nursing)
      Description: This handbook is a guide for clinicians on how to integrate multidimensional assessments for primary care of older adults. Select tools and questionnaires highlight domains that provide significant information for geriatric care. Extensive reference lists enrich each chapter. This book was previously published in 1995.
      Purpose: The intent in this third edition is to foster multidimensional assessment of older adults with practical applications across primary care settings for all clinicians involved in geriatric care. These objectives are essential in promoting a unique approach in delivering care to elderly patients. The editors and contributors come close to meeting these ambitious objectives.
      Audience: This book is designed to be read by all healthcare professionals in geriatric care. The content is targeted toward practicing clinicians in primary care settings.
      Features: Familiar aspects of geriatric evaluation are featured in great depth and substance, with multiple examples of tools for mental, social, functional assessments, health promotion, and disease prevention. Additional topics such as ethnicity, advanced directives, and the older driver identify emerging areas in geriatric care. The text is limited by unevenness in depth and examples of clinical assessment tools among various chapters. The chapter on pain leaves the reader wanting more concrete illustrations of tools that are better utilized by elderly patients. In addition, contributors discuss the importance of an interdisciplinary team, yet focus quite heavily on the geriatrician in conducting these multidimensional assessments.
      Assessment: This book is a worthwhile resource that targets essential areas of assessment for the elderly. Compared to other texts such as Fordyce's Geriatric Pearls (F.A. Davis Company Publishers, 1999), it serves as a more useful guide in focusing the clinician's attention toward multidimensional assessment as a unique approach in the delivery of care to the elderly. Additions in this updated text are valuable in highlighting new research in geriatric care.

      Booknews

      Instructs clinicians on the evaluation of the older person, covering assessment of mental status, function, social situation, physical examination, and health promotion and disease prevention. Discusses ethnicity in geriatric assessment, the older driver, and assessment in special settings, and presents a case study of a geriatric assessment program at a university hospital. This third edition contains a new chapter on social and economic aspects of care. Gallo is affiliated with the department of family practice and community medicine and the department of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

      Rating

      3 Stars from Doody




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      The Abs Diet: The Six-Week Plan to Flatten Your Stomach and Keep You Lean for Life

      Author: David Zinczenko

      Whether you want to change your body to improve your health, your looks, your athletic performance, or your sex appeal, The Abs Diet offers you a simple promise: If you follow this plan, you will transform your body so that you can accomplish each and every one of those goals.
      The Abs Diet lets you enjoy the foods you crave. It’s not low-carb, low-fat, or low-anything else. It’s just a smart, sensible, healthy plan that will give you the body you want in weeks. The Abs Diet will show you how to eat to keep your body’s natural fat burners stoked at all times so you burn fat and build muscle all day, every day—even when you sleep. And you’ll never feel hungry, restricted, or deprived.

      Publishers Weekly

      Eat everything. Concentrate on whole grains. Drink milk. Balance protein with carbohydrates. Avoid processed sugars. Do some exercise. The idea that a diet book making such proposals comes as a pleasant surprise shows just how far afield we've gone in the search for new ways to be fit. The only thing new about this diet by the editor-in-chief of Men's Health is its name, and this, one can presume, is because nowadays, a book simply called "Sensible Eating" wouldn't sell. The book's title is indeed misleading; only the final chapter deals solely with abs. The rest is full of rational recommendations for a realistic diet plan: eat more and smaller meals; have oatmeal in the morning for a nourishing breakfast; don't starve yourself; drink plenty of water; and stay away from sodas and foods that contain high-fructose corn syrup. Whether readers will, in the end, walk away with abs of steel is not really the point. They'll control their weight in a healthy way, without counting calories, cutting out whole food groups or supporting the beef futures market. Best of all, this book tells readers why it works: increase your body's metabolism, gain some muscle and fat burns away. The authors make this seem like a fresh and very attainable ideal. (June) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.



      Table of Contents:
      Acknowledgmentsvii
      Introduction: You Have Abs. Yes, Youix
      The Abs Diet Cheat Sheet1
      Chapter 1Strip Away Fat, Strip Away Trouble3
      The Abs Diet Start-Up Kit21
      Chapter 2Why the Abs Diet? and Why Now?23
      Chapter 3Burn Fat Day and Night39
      Chapter 4How the Abs Diet Works53
      Chapter 5A Six-Pack in 6 Weeks75
      Chapter 6Shocker: How Low-Carb Diets Make You Fat83
      Chapter 7The Abs Diet Nutrition Plan93
      Chapter 8The Abs Diet Power 12107
      Special Report: Your Weight is Not Your Fault127
      Chapter 9The Abs Diet Meal Plan135
      Chapter 10Fitting the Abs Diet Into Everyday Life151
      Chapter 11Turbocharging the Abs Diet159
      Chapter 12The Abs Diet Workout169
      Chapter 13Targeting Your Abs201
      The Abs Diet Maintenance Plan261
      Nutritional Values of Common Foods263
      Glycemic Loads for Selected Foods276
      Index278

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