Las demencias son el principal problema de salud pública a nivel mundial. Según datos de la Organización Mundial de la Salud, cada tres segundos se diagnostica una demencia en todo el mundo. En España las cifras van en aumento superando más de 800.000 casos en la actualidad (diagnosticados). La demencia es un síndrome generado por más de ochenta causas que afectan al cerebro. Dentro del variopinto tipo de enfermedades que pueden cursar con una demencia destaca especialmente, por ser la más frecuente, la demencia por enfermedad de Alzheimer. Pero no es la única. Conocer en profundidad las demencias más frecuentes, su etiología (desconocida aún en muchos casos), sintomatología y manifestaciones, los tratamientos, las complicaciones y comorbilidades y el impacto en calidad de vida tanto de la persona que la sufre como de su entorno son los ambiciosos objetivos de esta obra. A través de la mirada de profesionales que actualmente trabajan, investigan y exploran las situaciones de demencia, podremos acercarnos con rigurosidad, de forma minuciosa y detallada, al presente y futuro de las enfermedades más incapacitantes, especialmente para las personas mayores. Esta obra pretende acercar con mirada profesional una actualización extensa sobre las últimas evidencias, tanto desde el ámbito clínico como experimental, de todas las vertientes que configuran el abordaje interdisciplinar de cualquier demencia, atendiendo a los cuidados individualizados, holísticos, centrados en la persona y globales, como eje articulador de todo el proceso asistencial de la enfermedad. La filosofía del libro es generar una riqueza lo más amplia posible sobre la situación actual y las vertientes futuras del amplio campo de las demencias, desde enfoques interdisciplinares centrados especialmente en el cuidado y la persona con demencia, además de su entorno.

Las demencias son el principal problema de salud pública a nivel mundial. Según datos de la Organización Mundial de la Salud, cada tres segundos se diagnostica una demencia en todo el mundo. En España las cifras van en aumento superando más de 800.000 casos en la actualidad (diagnosticados). La demencia es un síndrome generado por más de ochenta causas que afectan al cerebro. Dentro del variopinto tipo de enfermedades que pueden cursar con una demencia destaca especialmente, por ser la más frecuente, la demencia por enfermedad de Alzheimer. Pero no es la única. Conocer en profundidad las demencias más frecuentes, su etiología (desconocida aún en muchos casos), sintomatología y manifestaciones, los tratamientos, las complicaciones y comorbilidades y el impacto en calidad de vida tanto de la persona que la sufre como de su entorno son los ambiciosos objetivos de esta obra.A través de la mirada de profesionales que actualmente trabajan, investigan y exploran las situaciones de demencia, podremos acercarnos con rigurosidad, de forma minuciosa y detallada, al presente y futuro de las enfermedades más incapacitantes, especialmente para las personas mayores. Esta obra pretende acercar con mirada profesional una actualización extensa sobre las últimas evidencias, tanto desde el ámbito clínico como experimental, de todas las vertientes que configuran el abordaje interdisciplinar de cualquier demencia, atendiendo a los cuidados individualizados, holísticos, centrados en la persona y globales, como eje articulador de todo el proceso asistencial de la enfermedad. La filosofía del libro es generar una riqueza lo más amplia posible sobre la situación actual y las vertientes futuras del amplio campo de las demencias, desde enfoques interdisciplinares centrados especialmente en el cuidado y la persona con demencia, además de su entorno.

In recent decades, reception history has become an increasingly important and controversial topic of discussion in biblical studies. Rather than attempting to recover the original meaning of biblical texts, reception history focuses on exploring the history of interpretation. In doing so it locates the dominant historical-critical scholarly paradigm within the history of interpretation, rather than over and above it. At the same time, the breadth of material and hermeneutical issues that reception history engages with questions any narrow understanding of the history of the Bible and its effects on faith communities. The challenge that reception history faces is to explore tradition without either reducing its meaning to what faith communities think is important, or merely offering anthologies of interesting historical interpretations. This major new handbook addresses these matters by presenting reception history as an enterprise (not a method) that questions and understands tradition afresh. The Oxford Handbook of the Reception History of the Bible consciously allows for the interplay of the traditional and the new through a two-part structure. Part I comprises a set of essays surveying the outline, form, and content of twelve key biblical books that have been influential in the history of interpretation. Part II offers a series of in-depth case studies of the interpretation of particular key biblical passages or books with due regard for the specificity of their social, cultural or aesthetic context. These case studies span two millennia of interpretation by readers with widely differing perspectives. Some are at the level of a group response (from Gnostic readings of Genesis, to Post-Holocaust Jewish interpretations of Job); others examine individual approaches to texts (such as Augustine and Pelagius on Romans, or Gandhi on the Sermon on the Mount). Several chapters examine historical moments, such as the 1860 debate over Genesis and evolution, while others look to wider themes such as non-violence or millenarianism. Further chapters study in detail the works of popular figures who have used the Bible to provide inspiration for their creativity, from Dante and Handel, to Bob Dylan and Dan Brown.

Gnosis means knowledge. But we are not referring to just any knowledge. Gnosis is knowledge which produces a great transformation in those who receive it. Knowledge capable of nothing less than waking up man and helping him to escape from the prison in which he finds himself. That is why Gnosis has been so persecuted throughout the course of history, because it is knowledge considered dangerous for the religious and political authorities who govern mankind from the shadows. Every time this religion, absolutely different from the rest, appears before man, the other religions unite to try to destroy or hide it again. Primordial Gnosis is the original Gnosis, true Gnosis, eternal Gnosis, Gnostic knowledge in its pure form. Due to multiple persecutions, Primordial Gnosis has been fragmented, distorted and hidden.

This book is the first of a new series which will present the proceedings of the newly established Nestlé Nutrition Workshop Series: Clinical & Performance Programme aimed at adult nutrition. Undernutrition is a common phenomenon in elderly people, and malnutrition reaches significant levels in those being in hospital, nursing homes or home care programs. Consequences of malnutrition often go unrecognised owing to the lack of specific validated instruments to assess nutritional status in frail elderly persons. The Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) provides a single, rapid assessment of nutritional status in the elderly of different degrees of independence, allowing the prevalence of protein-energy malnutrition to be determined and to evaluate the efficacy of nutritional intervention and strategies. Easy, quick and economical to perform, it enables staff to check the nutritional status of elderly people when they enter hospitals or institutions and to monitor changes occurring during their stay. Moreover, the MNA is predictive of the cost of care and length of stay in hospital. This publication will be of immense assistance to heads of geriatric teaching units, teachers in nutrition, clinicians general practitioners and dieticians, enabling them to better detect, recognise and start treatment of malnutrition in the elderly.

Geriatric medicine is an emerging field in the U.S., Canada, and Europe with Asia following not too far behind. And as the aging population increases worldwide, the field will continue to grow in importance. Keeping pace with this rapidly expanding field, Clinical Geriatrics provides the basic principles of geriatric medicine, including important aspects of patient evaluation and management in the hospital, nursing home, home, and other community settings. Unique in its simplicity of style, the book is based on material derived from standard international journals and the experience of the contributors. It presents information in an easy-to-find and easy-to-understand format, yet does not oversimplify the subject. The editors also cover topics not commonly found in texts on geriatrics including vitamin B12 deficiency, HIV disease in the elderly, and cutaneous skin infections. The combination of authoritative information and convenient format make Clinical Geriatrics the definitive text for teaching geriatric medicine and the ideal reference for primary health care providers.

This report considers the biological and behavioral mechanisms that may underlie the pathogenicity of tobacco smoke. Many Surgeon General's reports have considered research findings on mechanisms in assessing the biological plausibility of associations observed in epidemiologic studies. Mechanisms of disease are important because they may provide plausibility, which is one of the guideline criteria for assessing evidence on causation. This report specifically reviews the evidence on the potential mechanisms by which smoking causes diseases and considers whether a mechanism is likely to be operative in the production of human disease by tobacco smoke. This evidence is relevant to understanding how smoking causes disease, to identifying those who may be particularly susceptible, and to assessing the potential risks of tobacco products.