Published August, 2020
By Helaine Selin and Robert M. Rakoff
Publisher: Springer (Springer Nature Switzerland AG)
Rating: 1.00
Availability: Available

Death Across Cultures: Death and Dying in Non-Western Cultures, explores death practices and beliefs, before and after death, around the non-Western world. These chapters address changes in death rituals and beliefs, medicalization and the industry of death, and the different ways cultures mediate the impacts of modernity.

---

Published August, 2020
By Alexander Vaiserman
Publisher: Springer (Springer Nature Switzerland AG)
Rating:
Availability: Available

---

Published July, 2020
By Laetitia Teixeira, Lia Araujo, Constanca Paul and Oscar Ribeiro
Publisher: Springer (Springer Nature Switzerland AG)
Rating:
Availability: Available

This book focuses on centenarians - people aged 100 and over - one of the fastest growing segments of the population in most developed countries.

---

Published July, 2020
By Kathleen Taylor
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Rating: 1.00
Availability: Available

Kathleen Taylor offers a clear guide to dementia, covering its history and its definition, different types and their symptoms, diagnosis and treatment, and the underlying science. She also explains why we still have no cure for dementia, and looks at current research which could soon change that.

---

Published July, 2020
By Svetlana Trofimova
Publisher: Springer (Springer Nature Switzerland AG)
Rating:
Availability: Available

This book discusses the pathology of the retina, and reviews current research on the use of cell replacement therapy and short peptides to restore functional activity in retinal neurons.

---

Published July, 2020
By Gizdem Akdur
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
Rating:
Availability: Available

This book makes an enquiry into policies surrounding old age and telecare. It contextualises telecare within the wider history of health and social care in England to build the case that there are grand narratives of old age embedded in policies.

---

Published June, 2020
By Andrew D. Duckworth, Marc F. Swiontkowski, Charles M. Court-Brown, David Ring, Charles Court-Brown, Margaret M. McQueen, Susan M. Friedman, Andrew David Duckworth and Margaret McQueen
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CRC Press)
Rating:
Availability: Available

Trauma in older people aged over 65 is a rapidly growing field within orthopaedics. Up to two thirds of fractures occur as a result of a fall and about one third occur in the over-65 population. The aim of this comprehensive text is to present the epidemiology and management of musculoskeletal trauma that occurs in the elderly.

---

Published June, 2020
By Pramod C Rath
Publisher: Springer (Springer Verlag, Singapore)
Rating:
Availability: Available

The book deals with basic cellular and molecular mechanisms associated with aging. It comprehensively describes the important genetic, epigenetic, biochemical and metabolic regulations during aging, as well as some important age-related diseases.The book is divided into four major sections for easy understanding.

---

Published June, 2020
By S. Sethu K. Reddy and Sethu K. Reddy
Publisher: Elsevier (Elsevier - Health Sciences Division)
Rating:
Availability: Available

---

Published June, 2020
By Duncan R. Forsyth and Stephen J. Wallis
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Rating:
Availability: Available

Best of Five MCQs for the Geriatric Medicine SCE is a key resource designed specifically for this high-stakes exam. It contains 300 best of five questions with explanatory answers, each accurately reflecting the layout of questions in the exam.

---