Practical Physiotherapy with Older People

by Rowena Kinsman, Pat Smith, Helen Ransome, et al.

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0412335808
• ISBN13: 9780412335808
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"