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Abstract: "This book features current research on the diagnosis, monitoring, management, and treatment of recurring diseases such as diabetes, Parkinson's disease, autoimmune disorders, and others. Highlighting a range of pertinent topics such as medication management, quality of life issues, and sustainable health"--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

• Section 1. Alzheimer's disease and dementia. Chapter 1. The impact of decline on everyday life in Alzheimer's disease ; Chapter 2. Towards an HCI-based symbiotic environment for Alzheimer's support ; Chapter 3. Assistive technologies and the carers of people with dementia: empowerment and connection ; Chapter 4. Visual communication to improve relationship quality in spousal caregivers of individuals with Alzheimer's disease ; Chapter 5. Preventing Alzheimer's wandering: the potential of involving communities ; Chapter 6. Integrated ecare in dementia: the Irish experience in the independent project
• Section 2. Autoimmune diseases. Chapter 7. Drug delivery strategies for tolerogenic therapy for autoimmune diseases in an antigen-specific manner ; Chapter 8. HIV/AIDS discrimination, stigmatization, and denial: a study in social work perspective
• Section 3. Blood disorders. Chapter 9. An artificial intelligence approach to thrombophilia risk
• Section 4. Cardiovascular disease. Chapter 10. Pharmacogenomics and cardiovascular disease ; Chapter 11. Coronary heart disease prognosis using machine-learning techniques on patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus ; Chapter 12. Chinese herbal medicine in the management of atherosclerosis-related chronic conditions in an aging population
• Section 5. Caregivers and education. Chapter 13. Respite tourism for family caregivers ; Chapter 14. Turning PAGES with health coaching and family involvement ; Chapter 15. Knowledge management for health care and Long-term care in the technology-organization-environment context ; Chapter 16. Case studies of chronically ill children: implications for education professionals
• Section 6. Diabetes. Chapter 17. Analyzing online social support within the type 1 diabetes community ; Chapter 18. Diabetes mellitus and aging ; Chapter 19. Health guidance provision infrastructure for personalized diabetes management: the healthdiab solution
• Section 7. Kidney disease. Chapter 20. General approach to evaluating beneficial and adverse effects of CAM use in kidney diseases
• Volume Chapter 21. Coping and transition in young people with chronic kidney disease (CKD) maintaining best practice: paediatric nephrology
• Section 8. Mental illness. Chapter 22. Global burden of mental disorders: quality of care and Unmet needs for treatment of chronic mental illness ; Chapter 23. Psychosocial intervention strategies for patients with schizophrenia: in chronic mental illness ; Chapter 24. Management of chronic mental illnesses and substance use disorders ; Chapter 25. Chronic mental illness in old age homes: an international perspective ; Chapter 26. Comorbidity of medical and psychiatric disorders in geriatric population: treatment and care ; Chapter 27. Chronic mental illness and the changing scope of intervention strategies, diagnosis, and treatment in child and adolescent population ; Chapter 28. Chronic mental illness in prisons: global scenario
• Section 9. Nerve disorders and pain management. Chapter 29. Medical management of trigeminal neuralgia ; Chapter 30. V2 rhizotomy ; Chapter 31. Effecting superior pain management strategies by combining technology with tradition ; Chapter 32. Manage my pain: a patient-driven mobile platform to prevent and manage chronic postsurgical pain
• Section 10. Remote monitoring, mobile health, and medical imaging. Chapter 33. Chronic condition management using remote monitoring and telehomecare ; Chapter 34. Towards a telehomecare in Algeria: case of diabetes measurement and remote monitoring ; Chapter 35. Virtual carer: a first prototype ; Chapter 36. Healthcare computer reasoning addressing chronically ill societies using IoT: deep learning AI to the rescue of home-based healthcare ; Chapter 37. Commercial home assistance services ; Chapter 38. STRIPA: the potential usefulness of a medical app ; Chapter 39. Performance of service-oriented architecture (SOA): medical image systems for chronic diseases
• Section 11. Spending and economics. Chapter 40. The economics of long-term care: key concepts and major financing and delivery models ; Chapter 41. Long-term care spending relevant to U.S. Medicaid expansion: Medicaid long-term care spending.

Contributors:

IGI Global , publisher, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/pbl

Information Resources Management Association , editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

Chronic diseases

Long-term care of the sick

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from title screen (IGI Global, viewed 09/07/2018).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (2 volumes

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

RT120.L64 C47 2019eb

ISBNs:

9781522571223 (hardcover) [Invalid]
9781522571230 (ebook)

Other Standard Numbers:

Digital Object Identifier: 10.4018/978-1-5225-7122-3

OCLC Numbers:

1051151251

Other Control Numbers:

slc20448803 (source: CaBNVSL)
101725122 (source: DNLM)
[Unknown Type]: igi00203078