Louise Walter, Anna Chang

Current Diagnosis and Treatment

Geriatrics, 3/e

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The definitive guide to safe, effective care of older adults-updated with important new content and streamlined for quick access A Doody's Core Title for 2024 & 2023! * Covers the complete range of topics in geriatric care, including theory and fundamentals, assessment, conditions, diseases, symptoms, policies, and societal issues that affect older patients * Provides a framework for using the functional and cognitive status, prognosis, and social context of patients to guide diagnosis and treatment of medical conditions * Delivers essential information on important topics such as delirium, cognitive impairment, dementia, falls and mobility disorders, Parkinson disease and other movement disorders, sleep disorders, and arthritis * Includes guidance on care in all settings - clinic, home, hospital, and long-term care, as well as pre- and post-operative settings * New content on technology to enhance geriatric care, caregiving support, the unique needs of older immigrants, Medicare and Medicaid, legal issues and conservatorship, aid in dying, assisted living care, short-stay rehabilitation, prostate cancer, marijuana use, syncope, and driving safety

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McGraw-Hill Education
• 3 ed
• Seitenzahl: 736
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 191mm x 39mm
• Gewicht: 1064g
• ISBN-13: 9781260457087
• ISBN-10: 1260457087
• Artikelnr.: 59645227

Autorenporträt

Louise Walter, MD, Professor and Chief, Division of Geriatrics, University of California San Francisco Anna Chang, MD, Professor, Division of Geriatrics, University of California San Francisco Rebecca Conant, MD, Professor, Division of Geriatrics, University of California San Francisco Pei Chen, MD, Assistant Professor, Division of Geriatrics, University of California San Francisco Daphne Lo, MD, MAEd, Assistant Professor, Division of Geriatrics, University of California San Francisco G. Mike Harper, MD, Professor, Division of Geriatrics, University of California San Francisco Josette Rivera, MD, Associate Professor, Division of Geriatrics, University of California San Francisco Michi Yukawa, MD, Professor, Division of Geriatrics, University of California San Francisco

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Section1. Principles of Geriatric Assessment and Care
1. Introduction to the Care of Older Persons: Knowledge, Skills & System
Change
2. Guiding Principles
3. Overview of Geriatric Assessment (6)
4. Geriatric Assessment in Primary Care
5. Teams
6. Patient Goals
7. Prognosis
8. Functional Assessment
9. Falls & Gait Impairment
10. Vision Impairment
11. Hearing Impairment
12. Dementia
13. Incontinence
14. Depression
15. Nutrition
16. Medication Use
17. Caregiver Support
18. Financial, Environmental and Social Resources
19. Abuse
20. Preventive Services
21. The Interprofessional Team (5)
22. Key Definitions & Context
23. Innovations in Geriatric Interprofessional Teams
24. Evidence for Interprofessional Teams
25. Barriers to Teamwork
26. Resources and Tools for Teamwork
27. Goals of Care and Consideration of Prognosis (3)
28. Guide to Goals of Care Discussions
29. Importance of Surrogate Decision Makers
30. Prognostication
31. Prognosis Related to Specific Diseases
32. Communicating Prognosis to Patient or Surrogate
33. Functional Assessment & Functional Decline (2)
34. Epidemiology of Func