Full Description
Highly Commended in the Medicine category at the BMA Book Awards
This brand new edition has been fully updated to ensure it remains an invaluable guide for trainees, consultant geriatricians, medical students, and everyone caring for older patients. The handbook has been refreshed throughout to reflect the latest advances in geriatric medicine, as well as changes in working practices and environments.
It provides a succinct, targeted approach to the field and covers significant developments including a new chapter on Frailty, Covid and its impact, delirium screening, evolution of the Geriatrician's role, Deprivation of Liberty and Liberty Protection Safeguards, and changing models of care with rapid assessment in the emergency ward.
Using clinical vignettes and how-to boxes to provide practical advice on common problems, this is a relevant, accessible, and essential resource for all medical staff. Taking a clinical, evidence-based approach, written by experts, and presented in a clear, practical, bullet-point style for rapid reference, this handbook will be a friendly, experienced, and knowledgeable companion at your side.
Contents
1: Ageing
2: Organizing geriatric services
3: Clinical assessment of older people
4: Rehabilitation
5: Falls and funny turns
6: Drugs
7: Neurology
8: Stroke
9: Psychiatry
10: Cardiovascular
11: Chest medicine
12: Gastroenterology
13: Renal medicine
14: Homeostasis
15: Endocrinology
16: Haematology
17: Musculoskeletal system
18: Pressure injuries
19: Genitourinary medicine
20: Incontinence
21: Ears
22: Eyes
23: Skin
24: Infection and immunity
25: Malignancy
26: Death and dying
27: Ethics
28: Finances
29: Peri-operative medicine
