Elderly Care Medicine Lecture Notes 8Ed

Description

Elderly Care Medicine Lecture Notes provides all the necessary information, within one short volume, for a sound introduction to the particular characteristics and needs of elderly patients. Presented in a user-friendly format, combining readability with high-quality illustrations, this eighth edition has been thoroughly revised to reflect advances in knowledge on how disease presents in elderly people, and changes in management practice, particularly regarding stroke, dementia, delirium, and cancer.
New for this edition, Elderly Care Medicine Lecture Notes also features:

• More treatment tables and boxes throughout for rapid access and revision
• Expansion of material on polypharmacy and prescribing
• Discussion of emotional support, counselling and spirituality
• Advice for doctors on breaking bad news and end-of-life care
• Consideration of ethical and legal issues

Table of Contents

Preface, vi
Abbreviations, vii
1 The world grows old, 1
2 Health and social care for elderly people in the UK, 11
3 Special features of medicine in the elderly, 30
4 Old age psychiatry, 44
5 Falls and immobility, 63
6 Bones, joints and muscles, 77
7 Stroke made simple, 91
8 Other diseases of the nervous system, 105
9 Cardiovascular disorders, 119
10 Respiratory disease, 137
11 Gastrointestinal disease and nutrition, 148
12 Disorders of homeostasis and metabolism, 169
13 Genitourinary disease, 178
14 Blood and bone marrow, 191
15 Eyes, ears, mouth and skin, 203
16 Legal and ethical aspects of medical care of elderly people, 220
17 Palliative care, 231
Index, 241

Author Information

Claire G. Nicholl is Consultant Physician and Associate Lecturer, Department of Medicine for the Elderly, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge
K. Jane Wilson is Consultant Physician and Associate Lecturer, Department of Medicine for the Elderly, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge
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