This new resource is a concise, comprehensive clinical manual for health care practitioners who evaluate and treatt older patients. When faced with a specific problem or diagnosis this user-friendly reference gives readers fact access to basic information regarding the definition, incidence, related conditions, tests and related diagnoses, clinical relevance, and therapeutic intervention of the condition or problem

FEATURES:

• Presents a broad overview of aging in a section on "Physiological considerations"
• Covers a wide range of topics that specifically deal with age-related patho-kinesiological changes in neuromusculas system
• Features discussions of cardiopulmonary conditions, including pathology, important guidelines for exercise, and reviews of medical-surgical findings
• Provides the latest information on new evaluation and treatment skills
• Includes additional topics, such as wellness and healthy aging, medicare, legal considerations, ethics, death and dying, the rehabilitation team, and more

CONTENTS:

Unit 1: Physiological considerations. Unit II: Pathokinesiology manifestations and therapeutic intervention. Musculoskeletal involvement. Neuromuscular and neurologic involvement. Neoplasms. Heart disease. Blood vessel changes and circulatory and skin disorders. Unit III: Aging and pathological sensorium. Unit IV: Specific problems. Unit V: Use and special considerations of physical therapeutic intervention technques. Unit VI: Sociopolitical considerations and ethics of death and dying. Unit VII: Rehabilitation team.