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This is a quick, accessible reference guide to acquired brain injuries (ABI) that provides non-medical specialist professionals who work with patients in brain trauma and rehabilitation settings with
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Enormous advances in our knowledge of genetic contributions to aging and disease, and in our understanding of the potential for manipulation of the aging process, have taken place during the past twen
Using a comparative, cross-national perspective, Global Aging: Comparative Perspectives on Aging and the Life Course explores the major topics in social gerontology worldwide and the demands that the
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While advance directives hold a great deal of promise for ensuring self-determination and quality of life near its end, the majority of Americans face life-threatening illness without having completed
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The Federal government together with more than fifty advocacy groups has spent the past forty years writing and refining the rules and guidelines in this manual. This book presents the latest federal
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