Geriatric Ophthalmology A Competency-based Approach /
The elderly patient is not simply an "older adult." Geriatric patients have unique responses to treatment and disease: they often harbor co-morbidities that can impact evaluation, treatment, and prognosis. Often elderly patients may require specialized expertise or experience to deal with...
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Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
Γλώσσα: | English |
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New York, NY :
Springer US,
2010.
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Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Scope of the Problem and Demographic Shift in Population: Visual Disease Incidence and Prevalence in the Elderly Population
- Refractive Error in the Geriatric Population
- Cataracts and Cataract Surgery
- Glaucoma in the Elderly
- Diabetic Retinopathy and Its Management
- Age-Related Macular Degeneration and Its Management
- Low Vision: When Vision Fails
- Visual Loss and Depression
- Visual Loss and Dementia
- Visual Loss and Hearing Loss
- Visual Loss and Falls
- Elder Abuse
- Functional Impairment and Visual Loss
- The Research Agenda-Setting Project (RASP)
- Screening for Comorbidities
- Refer Comorbidities.