Books in Geriatrics and gerontology

The Potential of Intermittent Fasting in Age-related Diseases and Precision Anti-aging Therapeutics

1st Edition
November 1, 2025
Jitendra Kumar Sinha + 2 more
English
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The Potential of Intermittent Fasting in Age-related Diseases and Precision Antiaging Therapeutics takes an in-depth look at the beneficial and efficacious role of intermittent fasting in a wide array of aging-associated diseases. It provides a comprehensive resource that outlines the potential benefits and future research directions, while delving into the limitations and nuances of intermittent fasting in managing these conditions. This book serves as a go-to reference for researchers and clinicians seeking accurate insights into how intermittent fasting can positively influence the health and longevity of the aging population.The book is divided into six sections, starting with the fundamentals of aging and the effects of intermittent fasting. Subsequent sections examine its physiological impact on aging, influence on stress resistance, heart, gut, and overall health optimization. The book also discusses social and ethical considerations, bridging research findings and clinical practice, and the potential integration of intermittent fasting into the treatment of age-related diseases. It provides a consolidated and scientifically grounded perspective, equipping readers with a balanced understanding of the topic.

Geriatric Neurosurgery in Clinical Practice

1st Edition
November 1, 2025
English

Geriatric Neurosurgery: An Evidence-Based Approach is an essential resource that provides a thorough and modern overview of geriatric neurosurgery. This volume compiles the latest research and clinical practice guidelines, offering practical advice for clinicians caring for elderly patients. It delves into a range of topics, including the management of common neurosurgical conditions in elderly patients, surgical techniques, postoperative care, and the integration of multidisciplinary approaches to enhance patient outcomes. Users will find this to be an invaluable reference for practicing neurosurgeons, neurosurgery residents, neurologists, geriatric physicians, and researchers seeking clear and concise information on current treatments and procedures for geriatric neurosurgery.

Role of Sex and Gender in Aging and Longevity

1st Edition
August 6, 2025
Calogero Caruso
English
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Role of Sex and Gender in Aging and Longevity aims to shed light on the complex interplay between sex and gender differences in the aging process and longevity of individuals. While biological sex differences have long been recognized as influencing various aspects of aging, this book includes how gender also plays a significant role in shaping these processes, accelerating aging, or favoring longevity. By acknowledging the influence of both biological and socially constructed factors, this book offers a comprehensive understanding of why individuals may experience different aging trajectories and have divergent longevity outcomes.This book explores the intricate ways in which gender norms, roles, and expectations shape individual experiences of aging and delves into the social determinants of health that can interact with biological factors to influence the aging process and longevity outcomes. By examining these interactions, the book aims to provide a nuanced understanding of the multifaceted nature of aging and longevity and how sex and gender contribute to these complex phenomena.

Geriatric Surgery and Perioperative Care

1st Edition
November 19, 2024
Gabriella Bettelli + 1 more
English
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Geriatric Surgery and Perioperative Care presents clear evidence to support regulatory and financial decisions in the light of the value-based care principles. The book outlines standards of care for elderly patients undergoing surgery as well as minimal requirements for modern management aimed at delivering cost-effective healthcare. It opens with the epidemiology and patho-physiological changes of aging and their impact on anesthesia and surgery. Subsequent chapters guide readers through the surgical process, addressing preoperative optimization, intraoperative procedures and management, and postoperative principles, including ICU care.The book concludes with ethical principles, care models, and hospital design to support a golden silver surgery using a team-based approach. This title is an important resource for healthcare professionals, practitioners, and others pursuing current strategies and methods for successful perioperative care of the elderly.

Early Vascular Aging (EVA)

2nd Edition
February 29, 2024
Pedro Guimarães Cunha + 4 more
English
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Early Vascular Aging (EVA): New Directions in Cardiovascular Protection, Second Edition continues to be the most comprehensive and authoritative resource on premature alterations in artery structure and function. The book presents a novel approach to the problem of cardiovascular disease, showing it in relation to great vessels disease and revealing a comprehensive approach to the problem of increased rigidity of the great vessels, its causes, and further consequences. This second edition contains completely updated content with expanded coverage of basic and translational research, systematic reviews of the most prominent literature, discussion of applicability of new evidence and more. Written by an international team of clinicians and researchers, this is a valuable resource to basic and translational scientists, clinical researchers and clinicians in the cardiovascular field interested in prevention, diagnosis and treatment of EVA.

Anti-Aging Drug Discovery on the Basis of Hallmarks of Aging

1st Edition
July 19, 2022
Sandeep Kumar Singh + 2 more
English
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Anti-Aging Drug Discovery on the Basis of Hallmarks of Aging is a comprehensive and timely book on all aspects of anti-aging strategies. The book provides comprehensive, foundational knowledge on the mechanisms of aging and current anti-aging strategies and approaches developed. Aging research has experienced an unprecedented advance over recent years with the discovery that the rate of aging is determined, at least to some extent, mainly by our genetics and modulated by environmental factors. The hallmarks of aging describe the molecular and cellular processes that govern biological aging and their variation in individuals.

The Neurobiology of Aging and Alzheimer Disease in Down Syndrome

1st Edition
August 27, 2021
Elizabeth Head + 1 more
English
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The Neurobiology of Aging and Alzheimer Disease in Down Syndrome provides a multidisciplinary approach to the understanding of aging and Alzheimer disease in Down syndrome that is synergistic and focused on efforts to understand the neurobiology as it pertains to interventions that will slow or prevent disease. The book provides detailed knowledge of key molecular aspects of aging and neurodegeneration in Down Syndrome by bringing together different models of the diseases and highlighting multiple techniques. Additionally, it includes case studies and coverage of neuroimaging, neuropathological and biomarker changes associated with these cohorts. This is a must-have resource for researchers who work with or study aging and Alzheimer disease either in the general population or in people with Down syndrome, for academic and general physicians who interact with sporadic dementia patients and need more information about Down syndrome, and for new investigators to the aging and Alzheimer/Down syndrome arena.

Encyclopedia of Biomedical Gerontology

1st Edition
November 20, 2019
Suresh Rattan
English
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Encyclopedia of Biomedical Gerontology, Three Volume Set presents a wide range of topics, ranging from what happens in the body during aging, the reasons and mechanisms relating to those age-related changes, and their clinical, psychological and social modulators and determinants. The book covers the biological and medical aspects of gerontology within the general framework of the biological basis of assessing age, biological mechanisms of aging, age-related changes in biological systems, human age-related diseases, the biomedical practicality and impracticality of interventions, and finally, the ethics of intervention.

The Science of Hormesis in Health and Longevity

1st Edition
October 23, 2018
Suresh Rattan + 1 more
English
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The Science of Hormesis in Health and Longevity provides a comprehensive review of mild stress-induced physiological hormesis and its role in the maintenance and promotion of health. Coverage includes the underlying mechanisms of hormesis, including details of stress-response signaling, an enriched environment, positive challenges and dose-response mechanisms, amongst others. Research from top experts is presented to provide suggestions for developing novel therapeutic strategies, along with lifestyle interventions to promote health and homoeostasis. Researchers in aging and physiology, gerontologists, clinicians and medical students will find this a valuable addition for their work.

The Role of Global Air Pollution in Aging and Disease

1st Edition
January 21, 2018
Caleb E. Finch
English
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Global Air Pollution in Aging: Reading Smoke Signals is a complete reference connecting environmental pollution research to the human aging process. Since 1800, lifespans have more than doubled as infections declined and medicine improved. But the 20th century introduced a new global scourge of air pollution from fossil fuels with the potential to damage arteries, hearts and lungs that has been related to chronic exposure of air pollution from fossil fuels. Risk areas of study include childhood obesity, brain damage associated with air pollution, increased risk for autism in children and dementia in older adults. In humans and animals, air pollution stimulates chronic inflammation in different organs, and genetic vulnerability to air pollution is being recognized, particularly for carriers of the Alzheimer risk gene ApoE4.

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