Gerontology for the Health Care Professional

"Gerontology for the Health Care Professional is a broad and practical overview of the expanding field of gerontology, geared toward all health care professionals. It is the best way to familiarize yourself with the most recent developments in gerontology and the future of aging. Focuses on multidimensional aspects of aging and caring for the elderly patient: demographics, alzheimer's disease, psychosocial and cognitive factors, physiology and pathology, roles of health care providers, nutrition, pharmacology, level of care of the elderly, future of the aging population, sexuality." - Back cover.