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The number of older subjects is rapidly increasingly worldwide. As a consequence, the nature of clinical conditions is also changing. Traditional medicine and models of care have been based on the evaluation and treatment of single and usually acute conditions occurring in relatively young individuals. Today, the usual clinical manifestation of diseases is characterized by multiple and often chronic conditions affecting older people. In this scenario, frailty and dementia have been triggering special interest both in research and clinical settings due to their high prevalence, impact on the individual’s quality of life, and consequences for public health worldwide. These conditions aptly reflect the complexity of age-related pathological conditions, finding as causal factor a myriad of heterogeneous, interacting, and often still unclear pathophysiological processes. Indeed, their study is strongly affected by the difficulty to differentiate the effects of a normal aging process from eventual pathological deviations of the underlying systems. Their occurrence and trajectories over time are strongly affected by a wide array of factors and determinants that can be hardly attributed to the deficit/involvement of single biological systems and/or health domains. Moreover, environment and social factors also play a key role in the determination of phenotypes. The present Research Topic is aimed at widening our understanding of the frailty and dementia phenomena occurring with aging, in order to improve the clinical and public health approaches to these burdening conditions.

Dementia. --- Aging --- Psychological aspects. --- cognition --- caregiver --- Frailty --- dementia --- mild cognitive impairment --- aging --- cognitive frailty --- Alzheimer

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The authors have developed the ethical imagination inviting a sense of “otherness” towards the vulnerable self, rebounding care for the other as a way to understand our everyday neurotic (normal) tendency of small vices as the propensity and possibility for responsibility towards the other. The authors, inviting the reader into troublesome feelings such as laziness and anger, bring a Levinasian horizon into focus, so that even in the midst of laziness, there remains the small goodness to set the self free to care for the other, meeting the demands, challenges, hesitation, shuddering, tension and shocks of such alterity, of living “otherwise”.

Medical ethics & professional conduct --- caregiver --- philosophy --- science --- caretakers --- philosophers --- morality --- vulnerable --- neurotic --- small vices --- responsibility --- laziness --- anger --- Levinasian --- goodness --- demands --- challenges --- hesitation --- shuddering --- tension --- shock --- vulnerability of the caregiver --- vices for the virtuous caring of the caregiver --- group discussions amongst caregivers --- social sciences --- healthcare

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A study of caregiving in America across ethnic and class divides during the 19th and early 20th century. This book reveals how a complex series of historical changes altered the cultural meaning of care.

Caregivers --- Medical personnel-caregiver relationships --- Women --- Home nursing --- Home care services --- Nursing --- Care of the sick --- Caregivers and medical personnel --- Medical personnel and caregivers --- Relationships, Medical personnel-caregiver --- Care givers --- Carers --- Family caregivers --- Home health caregivers --- Informal caregivers --- Volunteers --- History --- Social conditions.

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Old age is increasingly becoming the focus of research and development in Europe. Concerning orthopaedics and sports medicine, the elderly especially are considered as frail patients who need support to maintain the health of their musculoskeletal systems. For this reason, several interventions regarding physical activity have been investigated in recent years in order to understand whether some programs of physical activity are better than others as conservative treatments for degenerative musculoskeletal pathologies (i.e., osteoarthritis, rotator cuff arthropathy, and lower back pain). Furthermore, several investigations have been carried out to understand the best preoperative and postoperative protocols of physical activity to improve the results of orthopaedic surgery. The aim of this Special Issue was to collect the updated evidence concerning these topics in the form of a collection of systematic reviews of the literature.

aging --- cerebral cortex --- dynapenia --- elderly --- motor unit --- muscle strength --- neural --- neuroplasticity --- sarcopenia --- knee --- hip --- arthroplasty --- physical activity --- prehabilitation --- chronic low back pain --- old aged patients --- physical therapy --- walking --- global postural rehabilitation --- cycling --- hydrotherapy --- yoga --- biomarkers --- noncommunicable diseases --- hypertension --- diabetes --- active exercise --- sport --- land-based --- aquatic --- knee or hip osteoarthritis --- older people --- systematic review --- meta-analysis --- osteoarthritis --- tendinopathies --- hip arthroplasty --- knee arthroplasty --- rehabilitation --- physiotherapy --- caregiver --- orthopedic disease --- caregiver strain --- shoulder --- caregiver stress --- dyads --- replacement --- return to sport --- knee osteoarthritis --- unicompartimental knee arthroplasty --- activity --- physical exercise --- balance --- falls --- n/a

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"'Patient poets: Illness from inside out' invites readers to consider what caregivers and medical professionals may learn from poetry by patients. It offers reflections on poetry as a particularly apt vehicle for articulating the often isolating experiences of pain, fatigue, changed life rhythms, altered self-understanding, embarrassment, resistance, and acceptance. The chapters discuss poems that represent a particular dimension of the experience of illness or disability -- foreboding, isolation, fear, shame, wry humor, acceptance, deepening self-knowledge." -- Back cover.

People with disabilities, Writings of. --- Patients' writings. --- Patients. --- Medicine. --- Medical personnel-caregiver relationships. --- Medical personnel and patient. --- Breast --- Autobiographical poetry. --- Écrits de patients. --- Écrits de personnes handicapees. --- Medecine --- Patients --- Sein --- Poesie autobiographique. --- Relations personnel medical-patient. --- Relations personnel medical-aidant naturel. --- Professional-Patient Relations --- Medicine --- Cancer