Total of resources: 27152

Disaster Preparedness: guide for elders 2006

It presents basic orientations for aged on as to act in emergency cases: hurricanes, floods, become, forest fires, storms, it dries, among others.
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Resource added in: 26/09/2001
Available languages: English
Aged, Disaster Warning, Programs of Education in Disasters

The enigma of aging

It presents an including vision of the aging: as the process occurs, social and psychological aspects of the aging and research in the area.
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Resource added in: 26/09/2001
Available languages: English
Aging, Geriatrics, Aged/psychology

Aging and death in folklore

It shows the sample as the process of aging and the death is portraied in popular sayings.
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Resource added in: 26/09/2001
Available languages: English
Aging, Death, Folklore

Age-related changes in memory

It informs as occurs the functioning of the memory, the possible relation between its performance and the aging, as daily habits they can influence in the performance of the memory, beyond bringing ti...
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Resource added in: 26/09/2001
Available languages: English
Aging, Memory, Memory Disorders

Age-related changes in hearing

It presents the incidence of the auditory problems in the aged ones, its causes, types of auditory loss, beyond recommendations and orientations. Document in PDF format, required Acrobat Reader.
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Resource added in: 26/09/2001
Available languages: English
Aging, Hearing Loss, Health of the Elderly

Age-related changes in vision

It presents the changes related to the aging in the vision, more common illnesses, its symptoms and treatment.
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Resource added in: 26/09/2001
Available languages: English
Aging, Vision, Ocular, Health of the Elderly

Profile of older Americans

Apresenta dados estatísticos dos idosos norte-americanos: total da população idosa, seu estado civil, com quem os idosos moram, sua composição étnica e sua distribuição geográfica. Também tr...
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Resource added in: 25/09/2001
Available languages: English
Health of the Elderly, Aged

Segunda Asamblea Mundial para el Envejecimiento: Madrid 2002

Página oficial da Segunda Assembléia Mundial sobre o Envelhecimento. Apresenta informações sobre o processo preparatório do evento, documentos da OMS, calendário preliminar das atividades, ONGs ...
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Resource added in: 25/09/2001
Available languages: English, Spanish, French

Older adults: depression and suicide facts

It presents the main symptoms of the depression and brings the main forms of treatment.
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Resource added in: 25/09/2001
Available languages: English
Aged, Depression/therapy, Depression/prevention & control, Suicide

Crime and older people

It presents informations on as to protect itself against the violence in house, in the street, aged blows applied in and salient the importance of the register of occurrences.
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Resource added in: 24/09/2001
Available languages: English
Aged, Aged Rights, Elder Abuse