Older People / Geriatrics
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Welcome to Older People section of Physiopedia
This section is being created as part of a project undertaken through AGILE (Chartered Society of Physiotherapy Clinical Interest Group of Physiotherapists working with Older People in the UK). Please do not edit these pages until the project is complete, but feel free to contact the author with any comments.Contents |
Policy
- Older people – An Introduction
- Theories of Aging
- Policy and Initiatives Focused on the Older Population
- Health Promotion and Public Health
- Consent and Confidentiality
- Perceptions about Ageing and Ageism
Physiology
- Patterns of Illness, Physiological Changes and Multiple Pathology
- Central Nervous System: Special Senses
- Central Nervous System: Brain and Spinal Cord
- Locomotor System
- Cardiorespiratory Systems
- Genitourinary System
- Changes in Other Systems
- Psychological factors in Ageing
- Medication and Older People
Physiotherapy
Recent Research from Physiospot
- Comparing the validity of five participation instruments in persons with spinal conditions.
- Feasibility of a new concept for measuring actual functional performance in daily life of transfemoral amputees.
- Long-term effects of rTMS on motor recovery in patients after subacute stroke.
- Restoration of walking function in an individual with chronic complete (AIS A) spinal cord injury.
- Free Online Access to all SAGE Journals until October 15, 2010
- Physical therapists? unique role in healthy ageing
- Lower limb reaction time discriminates between multiple and single fallers.
- The effectiveness of interventions in the management of patients with primary frozen shoulder.
- ?Wii-habilitation? first for hospital
- Aspiration Control System for Treating Collapsed Lung
Contributors:Admin, Bhanu Ramaswamy, Rachael Lowe, Tony Lowe
