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Gender Resource Gap in Caregiving of Older Adults in India
Gender resource gap (GRG) impacts girls and women in all stages of life as they primarily perform care roles more so at the older age when they...
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Community-Based Healthcare of the Elderly
The elderly mainly access hospitals for their health care needs. However, hospitalization often results in many unwanted adverse effects such as...
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The Economic-Adjusted Age Dependency Ratio in India: A New Measure for Understanding Economic Burden of Aging
The rising share of the elderly in the population has several economic implications, including alterations in workforce participation and economic...
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Constructing the Laboring Body: An Exploration of Early Hysterectomies, Premature Menopause, and Aging Among Women Laborers in Rural India
In this chapter, through a life-course perspective, I outline the possibility of viewing aging through the lens of intersecting complexities of...
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Aging in the Middle East with Special Focus on Iran
In recent decades, Iran has experienced significant demographic changes, with a shift toward urbanization and changes in family size and structure,...
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Evidence of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy-Based Therapies for Insomnia
There is evidence that Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) can be applied to a range of disorders, including insomnia. This chapter presents the...
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Mental Health and Virtual Companions: The Example of Replika
This chapter continues to explore the applied aspects of MHapps and extends the arena to include technologies that use artificial intelligence (AI)....
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Introducing Mental Health Apps
Mental health apps (MHapps) are designed to provide digital tools and techniques for self-managing psychological forms of distress (e.g. stress and...
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Self-tracking in Mental Health Apps
In this chapter, we discuss the role of self-tracking in the everyday use of MHapps. Self-tracking is a prominent feature of many MHapps and relates...
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Building a Patient Engagement Strategy
This chapter provides an overview of a subset of health psychology models to support the development and formulation of interventions to improve...
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Analysing and Evaluating Patient–Practitioner Interaction About Chronic Pain: A Workshop for Pain Rehabilitation Practitioners
The treatment of chronic pain requires patients to participate actively in their encounters with their rehabilitation practitioners. Therefore,...
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Evaluation and Retrospective Measurements
Assessment is crucial for the effective treatment of insomnia and should be conducted at various stages throughout the treatment process. This...
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Insomnia: Its Comorbidities and Differential Diagnosis
Insomnia is a common medical problem highly comorbid with medical and psychiatric conditions. It may represent a risk factor, and a bad predictor for...
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Insomnia
Insomnia is the most common sleep complaint in the general population. The condition can manifest itself in several ways and can be triggered in...
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Effects of Sleep Deprivation
This chapter aims to inform the professional about the effects of sleep deprivation on the individual’s health, quality of life, and performance. In...
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Introduction
This chapter introduces the reader to the topic of “ACT for Insomnia” by first highlighting the importance of treating insomnia and then addressing...
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Growing Old Without Growing Rich: Informality and Access to Social Security in India
As India gradually ages, its window of demographic dividend is narrowing down and the share of its dependent population will be on the rise. With a...
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