A Comprehensive Guide to Safety and Aging: Minimizing Risk, Maximizing Security
S. Eckert, Barry, Wolf, Robert, Ehrlich, Amy R.
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商品描述
This text covers safety topics related to aging. Featuring a toolkit including checklists and workbook elements to outline what tasks need to be conducted, and in what order, the book aims to identify potential risks and avoid potential pitfalls. It discusses fire safety, food safety, occupational safety, personal emergency response systems (PERS), fall detection devices, remote patient monitoring devices, electronic medication ordering and dispensing, home-based activity monitoring, legal safety tools, medical safety concerns, and tools, falls prevention and vertigo. The text will appeal to professionals and graduate students in the fields of ergonomics, human factors, occupational health, and safety.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
這本書涵蓋與老化相關的安全主題。該書提供了一個工具包，包括檢查清單和工作簿元素，以便概述需要進行的任務以及順序，旨在識別潛在風險並避免潛在陷阱。它討論了火災安全、食品安全、職業安全、個人緊急應對系統（PERS）、跌倒檢測裝置、遠程病人監測裝置、電子藥物訂購和分發、家庭活動監測、法律安全工具、醫療安全問題和工具、跌倒預防和眩暈。這本書將吸引人體工程學、人因學、職業健康和安全領域的專業人士和研究生。
作者簡介
Robert J. Wolf, JD, MuP, has a distinguished career in aging, health, law, and philanthropy. He has held leadership roles in t important organizations focusing on older adults, including AARP, New York Academy of Medicine, National Council on Aging and Weill Cornell Medical Center, and continues to advise one of the largest foundations in this field. Bob is a pioneer in the field of elder law, at the Brookdale Center on Aging at Hunter College and at Strauss and Wolf, the nation's first law firm devoted to eldercare. He has authored publications on aging policy, law, and the rights of caregivers. Bob has a J.D. degree from Brooklyn Law School, an MUP from Hunter College, and a post-graduate certificate in not-for-profit management from the Columbia School of Business.
Barry S. Eckert, PhD, is currently the Provost at Salus University, a graduate school of health sciences that offers professional and graduate degree and certificate programs to more than 1,200 students, both on-campus and around the globe, with more than 14,000 alumni worldwide. Prior to that Dr. Eckert was Dean at two different universities: The College of Health Professions of Armstrong at Atlantic State University in Savannah, Ga., and Long Island University in Brooklyn, N.Y. In addition to his previous roles, Dr. Eckert has written or contributed to several peer-review research publications in cell biology and anatomy.
Amy Ehrlich, MD, is the Associate Chief of the Division of Geriatrics at Montefiore Medical Center and College of Medicine and is board certified in Internal Medicine, Geriatrics, and Hospice and Palliative Care. Dr. Ehrlich has been involved in program design and development in geriatrics education for medical students, residents and fellows at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Ehrlich's research interests include screening for mild cognitive impairment and dementia in ethnically and racially diverse primary care settings and the prevention of burns and fires in older adults. In her role as Medical Director of Montefiore Home Care, she works with the interdisciplinary home care team to develop innovative disease specific programs which help address challenges in transitions of care in the Montefiore network.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
Robert J. Wolf, JD, MuP，在老年、健康、法律和慈善事業方面擁有卓越的職業生涯。他曾在許多專注於老年人的重要組織擔任領導職務，包括AARP、紐約醫學院、全國老年委員會和威爾康奈爾醫學中心，並繼續為該領域最大的基金會之一提供諮詢。Bob是老年法律領域的先驅，在亨特學院的布魯克代爾老年中心和Strauss and Wolf律師事務所工作，該律師事務所是美國第一家專門從事老年護理的律師事務所。他撰寫了關於老年政策、法律和照顧者權益的出版物。Bob擁有布魯克林法學院的法學博士學位，亨特學院的城市規劃碩士學位，以及哥倫比亞商學院的非營利管理研究生證書。
Barry S. Eckert, PhD，目前擔任Salus大學的教務長，該大學是一所提供專業和研究生學位和證書課程的健康科學研究生院，全球有超過1,200名學生，並擁有超過14,000名校友。在此之前，Eckert博士曾擔任兩所不同大學的院長：喬治亞州薩凡納市的亞特蘭大州立大學健康專業學院和紐約布魯克林的長島大學。除了之前的職位外，Eckert博士還撰寫或參與了幾篇細胞生物學和解剖學的同行評審研究出版物。
Amy Ehrlich, MD，是蒙特菲奧醫學中心和醫學院老年科副主任，並且是內科、老年醫學和緩和醫療證書持有人。Ehrlich博士一直參與阿爾伯特愛因斯坦醫學院醫學生、住院醫師和研究員的老年醫學教育計劃設計和開發。Ehrlich博士的研究興趣包括在種族和族裔多樣化的初級保健設置中篩查輕度認知障礙和癡呆症，以及預防老年人燒傷和火災。作為蒙特菲奧家庭護理的醫學總監，她與跨學科家庭護理團隊合作，開發創新的疾病特定計劃，幫助解決蒙特菲奧網絡中護理轉換中的挑戰。
