Geriatric Medicine

Elderly Care Medicine Lecture Notes provides all the necessary information, within one short volume, for a sound introduction to the particular... more info

Demographic trends confirm what clinicians already know - they are spending increasing amounts of time dealing with older people. This new ABC... more info

This book is the British Medical Association’s statement on the ethics related to care of the elderly, written and reviewed by a panel of... more info

The latest addition to the Evidence-Based Book series, Evidence-Based Geriatric Medicine provides non-geriatrician clinicians an overview of key... more info

Dementia is increasingly and widely recognised as a serious health and social challenge, in the developed world as well as in the developing world.... more info

Arthritis affects millions of people throughout the world and while its treatment is usually medical or surgical, there exists an increasingly large... more info

Heart failure is effectively a disease of older people. Eighty percent of patients are over 65 years old, and the majority of these are over 75. This... more info

Sarcopenia is a major therapeutic challenge and a public health priority in both the US and Europe. More than two decades after the word was first... more info

This major work with an internationally famous list of contributors deals with the ways in which needs assessment, service, evaluation, and public... more info

As improvements in living conditions and advances in modern medicine lead to increased life expectancy and the number of older adults world-wide... more info

*A guide for doctors to quickly choose the right drugs in the right dose for the most important clinical problems in the elderly *Prescribing... more info

The era of therapeutic nihilism in dementia has ended, with the emergence of agents for symptomatic treatment, those that delay the course of the... more info