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  • Book
    Prasun Chatterjee.
    Summary: This open access book takes a multidisciplinary approach to provide a holistic understanding of late old age, and situates the aged person within the context of family, caregivers, clinical and other institutions. All through the book, the author discusses preparedness for an aging individual as well as the society in the Indian context. The book highlights inevitable but mostly neglected health issues like depression, dementia, fall, and frailty and provides detailed analyses of solutions that are practicable in low resource settings. It also brings up intergenerational differences and harmony in the context of holistic care of older Indians. Alongside clinical perspectives, the book uses narratives of elderly patients to dwell on the myriad of problems and issues that constitute old age healthcare. Demonstrating cases that range from the most influential to the most underprivileged elderly in India, the book enlightens multiple caregivers--doctors, nurses, and professional caregivers, but also family members--about the dynamic approach required in dealing with complex issues related to late old age. The narratives make the book relatable and interesting to non-academic readers, with important lessons for gerontological and geriatric caregiving. It is also of use to older adults in preparing for active aging. -- Provided by publisher.

    Contents:
    Understanding frailty : the science and beyond
    Living with failing memory : a caregiver's perspective
    Panorama of cancer
    Meaningful engagement : an option or not
    Constipation : more than just "a symptom"
    Fall : a geriatric syndrome with endless agony
    Stroke, premorbid status and resilience
    Discussion about sexual health : is it age inappropriate?
    To treat or not to treat
    Successful aging : an opportunity and responsibility for all.
    Digital Access Springer 2019
  • Article
    Henschler D.
    Environ Health Perspect. 1977 Dec;21:61-4.
    Chlorinated ethylenes are metabolized in mammals, as a first step, to epoxides. The fate of these electrophilic intermediates may be reaction with nucleophiles (alkylation), hydrolysis, or intramolecular rearrangement. The latter reaction has been studied in the whole series of chlorinated epoxiethanes. The rearrangement products found were: acyl chlorides (tetrachloro-, trichloro-, and 1,1-dichloroethylenes), or chlorinated aldehydes (1,2-dichloroethylenes, cis- and trans-, vinyl chloride). The metabolities found in vivo are identical with, or further derivatives of these rearrangment products, with one important exception: trichloroethylene. With this compound, in vivo rearrangement yields chloral exclusively. The mechanism of the different rearrangement has been identified as a Lewis acid catalysis. All chlorinated ethylenes have been investigated in a tissue-mediated mutagenicity testing system. The prominent molecular feature of those with mutagenic effects (trichloro-, 1,1-dichloro-, and monochloroethylene) is unsymmetric chlorine substitution which renders the epoxides unstable, whereas symmetric substitution confers relative stability and nonmutagenic property.
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