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Author | : Alice Cronin-Golomb |
Publisher | : Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2004-01-01 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 3805577575 |
"This book is essential reading for neurologists, neuropsychologists, ophthalmologists and optometrists, geriatricians and gerontologists, psychiatrists, occupational therapists and other health professionals who provide diagnosis and clinical care to individuals with Alzheimer's disease and related disorders."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : John E. Crews |
Publisher | : American Foundation for the Blind |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Older people |
ISBN | : 9780891283072 |
Vision Loss in an Aging Society is a thoughtful and challenging overview that integrates practice and policy issues relating to aging and visual impairment. It reflects the perspectives of leading experts in the fields of vision rehabilitation and aging. This essential reference outlines the critical components of public policy changes urgently needed in view of demographic trends and is an invaluable resource for university instructors as well as for professionals in the fields of low vision, social work, geriatric medicine, rehabilitation, occupational therapy, and public health.
Author | : Ivan Bodis-Wollner |
Publisher | : Frontiers Media SA |
Total Pages | : 106 |
Release | : 2020-01-20 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 2889634345 |
There are increasing lines of evidence showing that neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and Parkinson’s disease (PD) is not limited to the brain but also occurs in the retina. Consequently, AD/PD patients can gradually develop vision problems. This neurological and ophthalmological disorder creates a pressing need for developing therapy to treat vision impairment in AD/PD. On the other hand, pathophysiological changes in the retina may reflect what might happen in the same diseases in the brain. Thus retinal studies may allow us to develop quantifiable measures for the diagnosis and prognosis of disease progression. Furthermore, parallel or early pathophysiological changes of the retina in AD/PD allow us to study retina-brain interactions.
Author | : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 587 |
Release | : 2017-01-15 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0309439981 |
The ability to see deeply affects how human beings perceive and interpret the world around them. For most people, eyesight is part of everyday communication, social activities, educational and professional pursuits, the care of others, and the maintenance of personal health, independence, and mobility. Functioning eyes and vision system can reduce an adult's risk of chronic health conditions, death, falls and injuries, social isolation, depression, and other psychological problems. In children, properly maintained eye and vision health contributes to a child's social development, academic achievement, and better health across the lifespan. The public generally recognizes its reliance on sight and fears its loss, but emphasis on eye and vision health, in general, has not been integrated into daily life to the same extent as other health promotion activities, such as teeth brushing; hand washing; physical and mental exercise; and various injury prevention behaviors. A larger population health approach is needed to engage a wide range of stakeholders in coordinated efforts that can sustain the scope of behavior change. The shaping of socioeconomic environments can eventually lead to new social norms that promote eye and vision health. Making Eye Health a Population Health Imperative: Vision for Tomorrow proposes a new population-centered framework to guide action and coordination among various, and sometimes competing, stakeholders in pursuit of improved eye and vision health and health equity in the United States. Building on the momentum of previous public health efforts, this report also introduces a model for action that highlights different levels of prevention activities across a range of stakeholders and provides specific examples of how population health strategies can be translated into cohesive areas for action at federal, state, and local levels.
Author | : Christine Nguyen |
Publisher | : Frontiers Media SA |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2021-09-02 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 2889712591 |
Author | : Alberta L. Orr |
Publisher | : American Foundation for the Blind |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 9780891288091 |
As the number of older persons experiencing vision loss continues to soar over the upcoming years, all of us may find that a family member or friend we care about has become visually impaired. Aging and Vision Loss contains reassuring, supportive, and helpful information on meeting the needs of the older person and family caregivers as well.
Author | : Nancy D. Weber |
Publisher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9781560241997 |
It is estimated that by the year 2020 there will be 4.6 million persons who are elderly and blind or severely visually impaired. Vision loss in the elderly is a common problem but is frequently unaddressed. The affected often do not know where or when to go for help and care providers are sometimes equally uninformed. Vision and Aging responds to the needs of this growing population and provides the knowledge and tools necessary to increase the number and accessibility of services available to the visually impaired elderly. This comprehensive book addresses many areas of concern, including the current service network and its existing gaps and the public policy agenda necessary for better meeting the needs of persons who are elderly and visually impaired. With proper care and rehabilitation, many of these elderly can lead active, independent, and productive lives. Social workers and allied professionals will discover what resources are currently available and how to make sure their clients are able to explore the full range of opportunities open to them. Specific strategies to identify, reach, and serve the population are recommended, and changes to improve both public policy and the care system in general are addressed. With its thorough treatment of the subject, including chapters on measurement of rehabilitation outcomes, descriptions of service delivery models, a vision screening questionnaire, and elders'reactions to vision loss, Vision and Aging will be valuable reading for everyone involved in working with the visually impaired elderly. Students, agency administrators and staff, and public policy decision makers are among those from fields such as medicine, health promotion, aging, and rehabilitation who will find useful and practical information in this enlightening book.
Author | : Hilary A. Beaver |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 155 |
Release | : 2019-02-15 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 3030040194 |
Geriatric patients have unique responses to treatment and disease, often harboring co-morbidities that can impact evaluation, treatment, and prognosis, which can require specialized expertise or experience. Geriatric Ophthalmology, Second Edition draws upon the successful first edition by applying a competency-based approach to these patients, improving awareness, increasing understanding, and encouraging expertise about geriatric issues among eye care professionals. These intersecting conditions and their treatment are comprehensively discussed in this fully updated second edition, complete with additional high-quality illustrations and photos. Each chapter utilizes illustrative cases to exemplify the points of care encompassed by the competencies. Topics of special interest are included, such as diabetic retinopathy, age-related macular degeneration, cataracts, glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, low vision, all diseases of aging, and the effect of vision loss on the geriatric patient’s quality of life. Medical students, residents, fellows, clinicians, and allied health personnel alike will find this to be a comprehensive resource and exceptional guide to the care of older patients with geriatric ophthalmology problems.
Author | : Laleh Jill Razani |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Alzheimer's disease |
ISBN | : |
Semantic memory has been shown to deteriorate in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD), presumably due to damage to the neocortical structures, specifically the association cortices of the temporal lobes (Terry & Katzman, 1983). Patients with Huntington's disease (HD), however, do not show the same pattern of semantic memory deficits, possibly since the greatest brain damage is found in the striatum. AD and HD patients show deficits on a variety of olfactory tasks, but their pattern of performance differs somewhat, especially for odor memory. Given that AD patients show impaired semantic memory and olfactory functioning, it was hypothesized that semantic memory for olfaction would be compromised. While olfactory functioning is also impaired in HD, semantic memory is relatively intact, suggesting less impairment of semantic memory for olfaction in HD than AD. The striate cortex is relatively spared from changes in both AD and HD patients, thus it was hypothesized that the associative networks for colors would be relatively intact in both groups. Using triadic comparison tasks, similarity judgments were obtained for odors and for colors from 12 AD, 12 HD, and 24 age-matched normal controls (12 for each patient group). Using multidimensional scaling (MDS) analyses, the results revealed that AD patients showed a more disorganized MDS map for odors, but not for colors, than the HD and control groups. Semantic memory deficits for odors were further assessed using two multiple choice odor identification tasks: one in which the distractor choices were categorically related, and another in which the choices were categorically unrelated to the odors to be identified. Also, two types of questions, one probing for detailed (contextual) knowledge and the other for category knowledge, were asked about each odor. Results revealed that, while AD patients performed similarly in both odor identification conditions (p>.05), HD and controls made fewer errors in the categorically unrelated condition (p .05). Also, whereas AD patients made fewer errors answering category compared to detailed questions about odors (p
Author | : Davide Moretti |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Alzheimer's disease |
ISBN | : 9789535126553 |
"The dementia challenge is the largest health effort of the times we live in. The whole society has to move to a realization of the significance of prioritization to make an attempt in the direction of mental health promotion and dementia risk reduction. New priorities for research are needed to go far beyond the usual goal of constructing a disease course-modifying medication. Moreover, a full empowerment and engagement of men and women living with dementia and their caregivers, overcoming stigma and discrimination should be promoted. The common efforts and the final aim will have to be the progress of a ''dementia-constructive'' world, where people with dementia can take advantage of equal opportunities."--Provided by publisher