Entry
Reader's guide
Entries A-Z
Subject index
Polypharmacy
Polypharmacy simply means using too many drugs. By convention, it refers to a patient being on more than three drugs. The risk of dangerous drug events in elderly patients rises exponentially with the increasing number of prescribed and nonprescribed drugs. These ...
- Aging and the Brain
- Alzheimer's Disease
- Apolipoprotein E
- Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer's Disease
- Creutzfeldt–Jakob Disease
- Delirium and Confusional States
- Imaging of the Brain
- Lewy Body Dementia
- Mental Status Assessment
- Mild Cognitive Impairment
- Neurobiology of Aging
- Neurological Disorders
- Pick's Disease
- Stroke
- Syncope
- Vascular Dementia
- Vascular Depression
- Diseases and Medical Conditions
- Accelerated Aging Syndromes
- Anemia
- Aneurysms
- Arrhythmias
- Arthritis and Other Rheumatic Diseases
- Calcium Disorders of Aging
- Cancer
- Cancer Prevention and Screening
- Cancer, Common Types of
- Cataracts
- Cellulitis
- Congestive Heart Failure
- Diabetes
- Ear Diseases
- Eye Diseases
- Foot Problems
- Fractures in Older Adults
- Gastrointestinal Aging
- HIV and AIDS
- Hypertension
- Iatrogenic Disease
- Immune Function
- Incontinence
- Infections, Bladder and Kidney
- Infectious Diseases
- Kidney Aging and Diseases
- Menopause and Hormone Therapy
- Men's Health
- Metabolic Syndrome
- Musculoskeletal Aging: Inflammation
- Musculoskeletal Aging: Osteoarthritis
- Oral Health
- Osteoporosis
- Pneumonia and Tuberculosis
- Pressure Ulcers
- Sarcopenia
- Shingles
- Skin Neoplasms, Benign and Malignant
- Spinal Stenosis
- Systemic Infections
- Temperature Regulation
- Thyroid Disease
- Valvular Heart Disease
- Venous Stasis Ulcers
- Wound Healing
- Drug-Related Issues
- Function and Syndromes
- Mental Health and Psychology
- Agitation
- Alcohol Use and Abuse
- Anxiety Disorders
- Behavioral Disorders in Dementia
- Bereavement and Grief
- Control
- Delirium and Confusional States
- Depression and Other Mood Disorders
- Emotions and Emotional Stability
- Expectations Regarding Aging
- Life Course Perspective on Adult Development
- Loneliness
- Memory
- Mental Status Assessment
- Mild Cognitive Impairment
- Motivation
- Personality Disorders
- Positive Attitudes and Health
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
- Pseudodementia
- Psychiatric Rating Scales
- Psychosocial Theories
- Schizophrenia, Paranoia, and Delusional Disorders
- Selective Optimization With Compensation
- Self-Care
- Self-Efficacy
- Self-Rated Health
- Stress
- Subjective Well-Being
- Successful Aging
- Suicide and the Elderly
- Vascular Depression
- Nutritional Issues
- Physical Status
- Allostatic Load and Homeostasis
- Biological Theories of Aging
- Biomarkers of Aging
- Body Composition
- Body Mass Index
- Cardiovascular System
- Compression of Morbidity
- Fluid and Electrolytes
- Hearing
- Men's Health
- Multiple Morbidity and Comorbidity
- Normal Physical Aging
- Perioperative Issues
- Pulmonary Aging
- Skin Changes
- Skin Neoplasms, Benign and Malignant
- Sleep
- Surgery
- Temperature Regulation
- Therapeutic Failure
- Vision and Low Vision
- Women's Health
- Prevention
- Sociodemographic and Cultural Factors
- Active Life Expectancy
- Africa
- African Americans
- Age–Period–Cohort Distinctions
- Asia
- Asian and Pacific Islander Americans
- Australia and New Zealand
- Canada
- Caregiving
- Centenarians
- Compression of Morbidity
- Critical Perspectives in Gerontology
- Demography of Aging
- Disasters and Terrorism
- Disclosure
- Early Adversity and Late-Life Health
- Economics of Aging
- Education and Health
- Elder Abuse and Neglect
- Environmental Health
- Epidemiology of Aging
- Ethical Issues and Aging
- Ethnicity and Race
- Europe
- Expectations Regarding Aging
- Global Aging
- Health Communication
- Hispanics
- Homelessness and Health in the United States
- Latin America and the Caribbean
- Life Course Perspective on Adult Development
- Living Arrangements
- Loneliness
- Longevity
- Marital Status
- Mexico
- Midlife
- Migration
- Multiple Morbidity and Comorbidity
- Native Americans and Alaska Natives
- Negative Interaction and Health
- Oldest Old
- Quality of Life
- Rural Health and Aging Versus Urban Health and Aging
- Social Networks and Social Support
- Socioeconomic Status
- Stress
- Successful Aging
- Work, Health, and Retirement
- Studies of Aging
- Aging in Manitoba Longitudinal Study
- Cardiovascular Health Study
- Clinical Trials
- Critical Perspectives in Gerontology
- Duke Longitudinal Studies
- Epidemiology of Aging
- Established Populations for Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly
- Government Health Surveys
- Health and Retirement Study
- Hispanic Established Population for Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly
- Honolulu–Asia Aging Study, Honolulu Heart Program
- Longitudinal Research
- Longitudinal Study of Aging
- MacArthur Study of Successful Aging
- National Health Interview Survey
- National Long Term Care Survey
- Normative Aging Study
- Qualitative Research on Aging
- Twin Studies
- Systems of Care
- Advance Directives
- Advocacy Organizations
- Aging Network
- Assisted Living
- Caregiving
- Complementary and Alternative Medicine
- Continuum of Care
- Death, Dying, and Hospice Care
- Elder Abuse and Neglect
- Ethical Issues and Aging
- Geriatric Profession
- Geriatric Team Care
- Gerontological Nursing
- Health and Public Policy
- Health Care System for Older Adults
- Home Care
- Institutional Care
- Legal Issues
- Long-Term Care
- Long-Term Care Insurance
- Managed Care
- Medicaid
- Medicare
- Minimum Data Set
- National Institute on Aging
- Nursing Roles in Health Care and Long-Term Care
- Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS)
- Palliative Care and the End of Life
- Patient Safety
- Pets in Health Care Settings
- Rehabilitation Therapies
- Self-Care
- Social Work Roles in Health and Long-Term Care
- Telemedicine
196537
- Loading...
