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Practical Physiotherapy with Older People

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  • © 1990

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Authors:
  1. Lucinda Smyth

    1. Community Physiotherapist, Norwich Health Authority, Norwich, UK

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Part of the book series: Therapy in Practice Series (TPS)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Examination and assessment

    • Lucinda Smyth
    Pages 1-27

  3. The patient as a person

    • Lucinda Smyth
    Pages 28-41

  4. Goal setting

    • Lucinda Smyth
    Pages 42-53

  5. Treatment

    • Lucinda Smyth
    Pages 54-79

  6. Working as a team

    • Rowena Kinsman
    Pages 80-91

  7. Maintenance of good health

    • Patricia Smith
    Pages 92-108

  8. Evaluation and quality assurance

    • Helen Ransome
    Pages 109-153

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 154-160
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About this book

Contrary to popular belief, practice of physiotherapy with elderly patients is no easy option. In addition to grappling with the effects of multipathology it presents problems of accommodating to the patients' altering physiological state and the accumulating life events of older age. There are challenges of ethics in decision making. In therapeutic management it is sometimes hard to know where to begin, what to try, and when to stop or offer something eise. The work offers both satisfaction and despair, frustration and enormous interest. Despite the existence of many specialist textbooks on medicine and physiotherapy, it is widely feit there is a place for a basic guide to physiotherapy with elderly people. This book aims to provide guidance and insights based on the writers' experience, as weil as from the current literature. Good practice must be holistic in its breadth of knowledge and attitude to the individual, but meticulous in attention to detail in examination and treatment as for a patient of any age.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Community Physiotherapist, Norwich Health Authority, Norwich, UK

    Lucinda Smyth

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Practical Physiotherapy with Older People

  • Authors: Lucinda Smyth

  • Series Title: Therapy in Practice Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3031-6

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1990

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-412-33580-8Published: 01 January 1990

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4899-3031-6Published: 19 December 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 160

  • Topics: Physiotherapy, Pharmacology/Toxicology

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