Research and the ageing population.

This international symposium focuses on the contributions that biomedical research is making to the provision of proper health care for the increasing numbers of elderly people in all countries, developed and developing. Recent, encouraging developments in the areas of malignancy, dementia, osteopor...

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Corporate Author: Symposium on Research and the Ageing Population John E. Fogarty International Center for Advanced Study in the Health Sciences
Other Authors: Evered, David, Whelan, Julie
Format: Conference Proceeding eBook
Language:English
Published: Chichester [England] ; New York : Wiley, 1988.
Series:Ciba Foundation symposium ; 134.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The health of the elderly population : results from longitudinal studies with age-cohort comparisons / Alvar Svanborg
  • Health and ageing in the developing world / Gary R. Andrews
  • Ageing and disease / J. Grimley Evans
  • Cerebrovascular disease and the elderly / Klaus Ostemnann, Brigitte Sprung-Ostermann
  • Alzheimer's disease as an age-dependent disorder / Robert Katzman
  • Questions in the psychiatry of old age / Tom Arie
  • Cardiovascular disease in the elderly / Nanette K. Wenger
  • Osteoporosis and age-related fracture syndromes / B.L. Riggs, L.J. Melton III
  • Ageing and infection / J.P. Phair, C.S. Hsu, Y.L. Hsu
  • Malignant disease and the elderly / Vincent Mor
  • Longitudinal insights into the ageing population / A.J. Fox
  • The nature and causes of ageing / T.B.L. Kirkwood
  • Changing health needs of the ageing population / Jacob A. Brody
  • Planning for health services for the elderly / Carel F. Hollander, Henk A. Becker
  • The costs of long-term care : distribution and responsibility / Stanley S. Wallack, Marc A. Cohen.