Health and Psycology

This section contains detailed information for health professionals who specialize in the psychology of aging, and for older persons themselves and their families.

Links in this section go to Spanish pages

Contents

Health

Detailed information for health professionals and other more general information for families and older people themselves [information bulletin about the contents of the Health section].

• Dissemination of scientific information. Specialized queries in the Medline database. Scientific journals on gerontology and the Older Persons Portal e-journals platform. Scientific reviews of highly topical documents.
   
• Clinical Practice Guides: list of links.
   
• Health and illness guide. -New section-. Manuals, guides and leaflets, documents, questions and answers, links.
   
• Documents with assorted information about health issues. Free full-text access.
     
• Current news. Monthly news from JANO online about older persons' health issues. Media that report on health issues (general and specialized).
   
• Links to resources regarding health and older persons.

The psychology of aging

Detailed and up-to-date information about psychological aspects and old age: basic knowledge, skills, autonomy and dependence, mental health, dementia and social relations.

• Finding out about old age: the changes associated to aging, emotions, control, facing up to it, etc. -Updated in Augoust 2009-.
   
• Skills for working with older persons: assessment, communication, therapeutic skills to bear in mind when working with older persons . -Updated in Augoust 2009-
   
• Health promotion: promoting health and welfare in older persons. -Updated in Augoust 2009-
   
• Autonomy and dependence: boosting older persons' autonomy and making them less dependent. -Updated in Augoust 2009--.
   
• Mental health: depression and anxiety in older persons. -Updated in Augoust 2009-  
  
  
• Dementia with a special emphasis on intervention. -Updated in Augoust 2009-
  
  
• Society and older persons: social relations at old age, retirement, participating in society, etc. -Updated in Augoust 2009-
• Gerontology lessons: -Updated in May 2008-

The contents of the "Psychology of aging" section are supervised and coordinated by Ignacio Montorio Cerrato and Gema Pérez Rojo, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

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• Alzheimer
  Caregivers
  Dependency
  Depression
  Elderly abuse
  Isolation
  Nutrition
  Parkinson
  Sexuality
  Sleep