The Essentials of Health Care in Old Age

by Shah Ebrahim and Ebrahim Bennett

This pocket-sized text provides a wide-ranging introductory section on biological gerontology, and also intregrates the medical, sociological, psychological and rehabilitational aspects of caring for elderly people. This updated and revised second edition has four new chapters covering care in the community, ethnic elders, chronic wounds and the High ESR (measurement using red cells to establish the severity of illness).

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0340613726
• ISBN13: 9780340613726
• Release Date: June 1995
• Publisher: Hodder Education Publishers
• Length: 256 Pages