| Description |
1 online resource (342 pages) |
|
text txt rdacontent |
|
computer c rdamedia |
|
online resource cr rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Note |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 23, 2015). |
| Contents |
Cover; Title; EUL; Contents; Foreword; Preface; List of Contributors; Chapter 01; Chapter 02; Chapter 03; Chapter 04; Chapter 05; Chapter 06; Chapter 07; Chapter 08; Chapter 09; Chapter 10; Chapter 11; Chapter 12; Chapter 13; Chapter 14; Chapter 15; Index; Bak Cover. |
| Summary |
Demographic changes due to improved life expectancy and access to medical care has increased the number of people aged 65 years and beyond. This raises an important new challenge for healthcare professionals. Changes in organ functions, homeostatic mechanisms and receptor responsiveness impair drug distribution, metabolism and excretion, and reduce the effectiveness of medicines among geriatric patients. As a consequence, management of medical regimens is much more challenging in the elderly than in younger adult patients. Elderly patients are also more susceptible than other age groups to certain drug-drug interactions, drug-disease interactions and adverse drug reactions owing to the number of drugs administered. Polypharmacy and potentially inappropriate medication is a common finding in the elderly healthcare and it is considered a public health issue related to morbidity, mortality and health care resource use. Psychopharmacological Issues in Geriatrics can be regarded as a 'pharmacovigilance' manual for elderly patients as it presents recommendations for geriatric prescription with specific considerations. The eBook also provides a comprehensive review of specific classes of psychopharmacological agents used to treat geriatric patients, including antipsychotics, anxiolytics, hypnotics and mood stabilizers. The book is intended as a handbook for general medical and nursing practitioners. |
| Subject |
Geriatric psychopharmacology.
|
|
Psychopharmacology.
|
|
Older people.
|
|
Geriatrics |
|
Psychopharmacology |
|
Aged |
|
Psychopharmacologie gériatrique.
|
|
Psychopharmacologie.
|
|
Personnes âgées.
|
|
elderly.
|
|
MEDICAL -- Gynecology & Obstetrics.
|
|
Psychopharmacology
|
|
Older people
|
|
Geriatric psychopharmacology
|
| Added Author |
Lertxundi, Unax, editor.
|
|
Medrano Cotito, Juan, editor.
|
|
Hernández, Rafael, editor.
|
| Other Form: |
Print version: Psychopharmacological issues in geriatrics. Sharjah, United Arab Emirates : Bentham Science Publishers, ©2014 v, 336 pages 9781681080352 |
| ISBN |
9781681080345 (electronic bk.) |
|
1681080346 (electronic bk.) |
|
9781681080352 |
| Standard No. |
DEBBG BV043958873 |
|
DEBSZ 481290990 |
|
