TY - BOOK ID - 133696578 TI - Health Care for Older Adults AU - Tarazona Santabalbina, Francisco José AU - Santaeugènia Gonzàlez, Sebastià Josep AU - García Navarro, José Augusto AU - Viña, José PY - 2021 PB - Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute DB - UniCat KW - Public health & preventive medicine KW - neck stabilization exercise KW - nonspecific neck pain KW - salt pack KW - thermotherapy KW - anticholinergic drugs KW - pneumonia KW - elderly KW - potentially inappropriate medication KW - pharmacoepidemiology KW - infrared thermography KW - cutaneous temperature KW - skin blood flow KW - dementia KW - body temperature KW - thermal sensation KW - thermal comfort KW - imaging KW - mapping KW - environmental temperature KW - frailty KW - COVID-19 KW - aging KW - physical activity KW - mental health KW - social relationships KW - social frailty KW - older adults KW - life satisfaction KW - accidental falls KW - research hotspot KW - CiteSpace KW - knowledge domain visualization KW - geriatric syndromes KW - healthy aging KW - exercise KW - histones KW - DNA methylation KW - non-coding RNA KW - hip fractures KW - geriatric assessment KW - orthogeriatric care KW - functional recovery KW - mortality KW - hip fracture surgery KW - multidisciplinary care KW - predictive model KW - hip fracture KW - gait recovery KW - feasibility KW - frailty index KW - psychometrics KW - reliability KW - validity KW - ageing KW - qualitative research KW - primary health care KW - loneliness KW - social capital KW - colorectal cancer KW - comprehensive geriatric assessment KW - geriatric liaison KW - multicomponent programs KW - functional capacity KW - n/a KW - occupational therapy KW - occupational function KW - social network KW - social isolation KW - posterior occlusal support KW - maximum occlusal force KW - masticatory function KW - standing motion KW - removable prostheses KW - Eichner index KW - fracture fixation KW - geriatric KW - intertrochanteric fractures KW - prognostic factors KW - Thai KW - aged people KW - STOPP/START KW - Beers criteria KW - medical prescriptions for chronic pathologies KW - inappropriate prescribing KW - nursing KW - delirium KW - machine learning technique KW - random forest UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:133696578 AB - In recent decades, life expectancy has been increasing. This is a historical milestone in the history of humanity. We have never lived so long before. In these circumstances, giving the best care to older adults efficiently is one of the greatest challenges of developed countries. This book explores different initiatives that result in the improvement of health conditions of older adults, such as multicomponent physical exercise programs, interventions that try to avoid loneliness and social isolation, and multidisciplinary assessment, and the treatment of frailty and other geriatric syndromes, of the elderly in various settings such as the Emergency Unit, Orthogeriatrics, and Oncogeriatrics. This book offers different manuscripts to readers, each trying to improve life satisfaction, quality of life, and life expectancy in older adults in different scenarios. It is up to us to achieve these goals. We are sure that these interesting chapters will contribute to improving clinical practices. Following the completion of the Special Issue "Health Care for Older Adults" for the international Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, the Guest Editors felt the satisfaction of having reached 18 published manuscripts and the possibility of transforming this volume into a book. This book was born from the need to show how health and social advances have increased human longevity as never before. We live longer, knowing more and more the epigenetic mechanisms of this longevity, as extended aging also coexists with the least favorable aging trajectories. Among them, a syndrome stands out from the gerontological and geriatric perspective: frailty. Due to the pandemic, a social problem has increased its presence in clinical practice: ageism. Older adults have found it difficult to access the necessary clinical resources due to the simple matter of age. However, at this moment, we are able to detect and to reverse frailty. In the same way, we should aim to prevent loneliness and social isolation, involved in social frailty. Geriatric syndromes are underdiagnosed and undertreated, but clinical and geriatric knowledge provide diagnostic tools and non-pharmacological approaches to prevent and to treat them. All health professionals working together in an interdisciplinary team could improve the clinical practices to develop a quality health care for older adults, improving their life satisfaction and quality of life perception too. ER -