This book aims to be a single point of reference for advances in the care of geriatric populations across medical and surgical specialties. The aging population is a unique demographic with its own health challenges. Geriatricians are specifically trained to address these challenges but few medical students or residents enter geriatrics, even as the demand for geriatric expertise increases. The practices of many medical and surgical specialists are dominated by older patients who may themselves see many specialists but rarely visit geriatricians. This updated edition elucidates the most common medical conditions seen in aging patients and translates approaches to those conditions for physicians across specialties. Divided into three sections that assemble crosscutting issues, medical specialties, and surgical and related specialties, this book serves as a guide for clinicians of all backgrounds who will work with older patients as the demographic ages further.
This second edition of Geriatrics for Specialists expands the number of specialist chapters to reflect growth in research in aging and clinical care for older people in dermatology, plastic surgery, and behavioral neurology. All original chapters from the first edition are extensively revised and updated to reflect the rapid growth of new knowledge in the field.
Frailty.- Delirium.- Preoperative Evaluation.- Psychiatric Disorders in
Older Adults.- Medication Management.- Palliative Care and End-of-Life
Issues.- Hospital Medicine.- Screening Tools for Geriatric Assessment by
Specialists.- Cardiothoracic Surgery.- Emergency Medicine.- Geriatric Trauma
and Emergency General Surgery.- Special Evidence-Based Considerations in
Geriatric Gynecologic Care: Pelvic Floor Disorders.- Geriatric Cross-Cutting
Issues in Ophthalmology.- Geriatric Orthopaedic
Surgery.- Rehabilitation.- Urology.- Vascular
Surgery.- Rheumatology.- Cardiovascular
Disease.- Endocrinology.- Gastroenterology.- Infection and Immunity in Older
Adults.- Kidney Disease.- A Geriatric Perspective on Oncology
Care.- Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine.- Behavioral
Neurology.- Geriatric Dermatology.
Andrew G. Lee
Houston Methodist Hospital
Chair, Department of Ophthalmology
Professor of Ophthalmology, Neurology and Neurosurgery
Professor of Ophthalmology, Weill Cornell Medical College
New York, NY
USA
Jane F. Potter
Professor of Medicine
Division of Geriatrics, Gerontology and Palliative Care
Home Instead Center for Successful Aging
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, NE
USA
G. Michael Harper
Professor of Medicine
Division of Geriatrics
University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine
Staff Physician, San Francisco VA Health Care System
San Francisco, CA
USA
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