The encyclopedia of elder care the comprehensive resource on geriatric health and social care (Springer Publishing Company, LLC, 2014)
Includes bibliographical references and index
P -- Pain Assessment Instruments -- Palliative Care -- Parkinsonism -- Participant-Directed Care -- Patient / Provider Relationships -- Patient Safety -- Pensions and Financing Retirement -- Peripheral Arterial Disease -- Personality Disorders in the Elderly -- Pet Ownership Among Older Adults -- Pharmacists -- Physical and Mental Health Needs of Older LGBT Adults -- Physical Therapists -- Physical Therapy Services -- Physician-Assisted Suicide, Physician Aid in Dying, and Euthanasia -- Physician Competence in Aging -- Pioneer Network -- Podiatric Medicine -- Polypharmacy -- Polypharmacy: Drug / Drug Interactions -- Post-Acute Care -- Poverty -- Pressure Ulcer Prevention and Treatment -- Pressure Ulcer Risk Assessment -- Primary Palliative Care -- Prison-Residing Elders -- Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) -- Psychological/Mental Status Assessment -- Psychology -- Psychosis in Late Life -- Psychotropic Medication Use in Nursing Homes -- Q --
- Quality-of-Life Assessment -- R -- Rehabilitation -- Relocation Stress -- Respite Care -- Restraints -- Retirement -- Rheumatoid Arthritis -- Risk Assessment and Identification -- Rural Elderly -- S -- Satisfaction Measurement -- Self-Rated Health -- Senior Centers -- Senior Hunger -- Senior Service Line -- Sexual Health -- Signage -- Skin Issues: Bruises and Discoloration -- Skin Tears -- Sleep Disorders -- Social Isolation -- Social Security -- Social Supports (Formal and Informal) -- Speech-Language Pathologists -- Spirituality -- Staff Development -- Subcontinental Elders -- Substitute Decision Making -- Suicide in Late Life -- Sundowning -- Support Groups -- Surgery in the Elderly -- Swallowing Disorders and Aspiration -- T -- Tax Policy -- Technology -- Telehealth -- Therapeutic Recreation Specialists and Recreation(al) Therapists -- Thyroid Disease in Older Adults -- Transitional Care -- Transportation -- Treatments for Cognitive Impairment in Dementia -- U --
- Undue Influence Assessment in Elder Care -- Urinary Incontinence Assessment -- Urinary Tract Infections -- V -- Validation Therapy -- Vascular and Lewy Body Dementias -- Veterans and Veteran Health -- Vision Changes and Care -- Volunteerism -- W -- Walking Aids, Mobility Devices, and Amputation -- Wandering and Elopement -- X -- Xerostomia
I -- Iatrogenesis -- Immigrant Elders -- Immunization -- Information Technology -- Injury and Trauma -- Institutional Mistreatment: Abuse and Neglect -- Institutionalization -- Integumentary System -- Interdisciplinary Teams -- Intergenerational Care -- International Psychogeriatric Association -- Interviewing -- J -- Joint Replacement -- L -- Leisure Programs -- Life Events -- Life Review -- Long-Term Care Policy -- Low Vision -- M -- Meals On Wheels -- Measurement -- Measuring Physical Function -- Medicaid -- Medicare -- Medication Adherence -- Mental Capacity Assessment -- Mental Health Services -- Mild Cognitive Impairment -- Money Management -- Morbidity Compression -- Multidimensional Functional Assessment: Overview -- N -- National Asian Pacific Center on Aging -- National Consumer Voice for Quality Long-Term Care -- National Council on Aging -- National Gerontological Nursing Association -- National Indian Council on Aging -- National Institute on Aging -- National Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program -- Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities (NORCs) -- Neuropsychological Assessment -- Neuropsychologists -- Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus -- Nurses Improving Care of Healthsystem Elders (NICHE) -- Nursing Home Managed Care -- Nursing Home Reform Act -- Nursing Homes -- Nutritionists -- O -- Obesity -- Occupational Therapists -- Occupational Therapy Assessment and Evaluation -- Older Americans Act -- Oral Health Assessment -- Osteoarthritis -- Osteoporosis -- Over-the-Counter Drugs and Self-Medication