Geriatrics & Gerontology: Textbooks

Describes clinical competencies, specific challenges, and applications in providing services to the elderly and their caregivers.

Provides an account of the fundamental changes associated with ageing, which are essential to our understanding and management of the elderly sick population.

Features an interdisciplinary perspective to provide team-oriented knowledge on the best diagnosis, treatment, and management strategies available to address the complex needs of older adults. Contains a new chapter on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) Medicine in Older Adults, as well as completely revised or rewritten chapters on rehabilitation, infectious disease, and urinary incontinence.

Explains 100 major medical disorders that most affect the lives of adult men and women.

Provides a framework for using the functional and cognitive status, prognosis, and social context of patients to guide diagnosis and treatment of medical conditions. In this edition, authors apply the principles of geriatric medicine, in different care settings to address common clinical scenarios and common geriatric conditions encountered by clinicians in the care of older adults.

Introductory guide to the core topics in geriatric medicine.

Comprehensive text combines gerontology principles with clinical geriatrics, offering a holistic approach to this area of medicine.

Chapters provide details of what this form of dementia is, how it can be diagnosed, managed and prevented making it ideal for those with limited experience in dealing with these patients. Includes information on mental state examinations, functional assessments, special investigations and the available drug treatments.

Provides consumer health information about symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of Alzheimer disease and other dementias, along with tips for coping with memory loss and related complications and advice for caregivers.

Offers a unique and thorough perspective on the challenges that older adults present and the most effective ways to integrate nutritional approaches into their care. Nutritional therapies included here improve patient quality of life via noninvasive, lower cost care and reduce systemic dependencies in a growing demographic.