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The mental status examination handbook
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ISBN: 0323694896 9780323694896 032369490X Year: 2022 Publisher: Philadelphia, PA

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The ability to effectively assess cognitive and other behavioral functions is an essential skill for neurologists, psychiatrists, geriatricians, nurses, and other clinicians who perform clinic and bedside examinations. Unique in the field, The Mental Status Examination Handbook is a user-friendly, comprehensive resource that provides practical guidance on cognitive assessment, clarifies mental status testing procedures, and assists with decision making for neuropsychological referrals. This detailed manual draws from the full history of behavioral neurology testing, making the complex and challenging area of cognitive assessment accessible for both students and practitioners. Offers guidance on how to choose and perform a large number of mental status tests, with information on selected test materials and normative values. Covers the bedside evaluation of arousal, attention, memory, language, perception, executive abilities, and other cognitive and behavioral areas. Provides an authoritative assessment and compendium of commonly used mental status scales, inventories and questionnaires. Describes relevant correlations with formal neuropsychological testing, neuroimaging, and neuropsychiatric disease. Explains how to weigh, use, and understand mental status scales and neuropsychological instruments. Discusses the meaning of cognitive symptoms and signs, and their neuroanatomical and neuropathological correlations. Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.


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Prevention and Management of Frailty
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ISBN: 303655372X 3036553711 Year: 2022 Publisher: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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It is important to prevent and manage the frailty of the elderly because their muscle strength and physical activity decrease in old age, making them prone to falling, depression, and social isolation. In the end, they need to be admitted to a hospital or a nursing home. When successful aging fails and motor ability declines due to illness, malnutrition, or reduced activity, frailty eventually occurs. Once frailty occurs, people with frailty do not have the power to exercise or the power to move. The functions of the heart and muscles are deteriorated more rapidly when they are not used. Consequently, frailty goes through a vicious cycle. As one’s physical fitness is deteriorated, the person has less power to exercise, poorer cognitive functions, and inferior nutrition intake. Consequently, the whole body of the person deteriorates. Therefore, in addition to observational studies to identify risk factors for preventing aging, various intervention studies have been conducted to develop exercise programs and apply them to communities, hospitals, and nursing homes for helping the elderly maintain healthy lives. Until now, most aging studies have focused on physical frailty. However, social frailty and cognitive frailty affect senile health negatively just as much as physical frailty. Nevertheless, little is known about social frailty and cognitive frailty. This special issue includes original experimental studies, reviews, systematic reviews, and meta-analysis studies on the prevention of senescence (physical senescence, cognitive senescence, social senescence), high-risk group detection, differentiation, and intervention.

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Public health & preventive medicine --- brain stimulation --- dementia --- meta-analysis --- naming --- primary progressive aphasia --- qualitative evaluation --- cognitive function --- data mining --- Parkinson’s disease with mild cognitive impairment --- random forest --- neuropsychological test --- motoric cognitive risk syndrome --- fall --- gait speed --- three-item recall --- older adults --- mixing ability --- color-changing chewing gum --- frailty --- cross-sectional study --- spousal concordance --- aging --- aged --- accidental falls --- pain --- mild cognitive impairment --- depressive symptoms --- frailty profiles --- latent class analysis --- quality of life --- perceived health --- frailty syndrome --- physiotherapy --- exercise --- mood --- BDI --- STAI --- SWLS --- muscle strength --- community-dwelling older adults --- physical frailty --- prevalence --- risk factors --- non-robust --- FRAIL scale --- Tilburg Frailty Indicator --- determinants --- community-based --- sleep quality --- middle-aged and older adults --- SUNFRAIL --- psychometric properties --- screening tool --- social isolation --- social networks --- social support --- social participation --- Parkinson’s disease dementia --- instrumental activities of daily living --- clinical dementia rating --- convergence rate --- neuropsychological tests --- neuropsychiatric symptoms --- explainable artificial intelligence --- machine learning --- stacking ensemble --- Self-Rating Anxiety Scale --- multiple risk factors --- fall assessment sheet --- elderly patients --- hospitalization --- risk management --- driving cessation --- meaningful activities --- psychosomatic functions --- physical functional performance --- nursing homes --- physical fitness --- gait analysis --- indicators --- screening --- artificial intelligence --- healthcare --- frail --- Baduanjin --- strength training --- endurance training --- Explainable Artificial Intelligence

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