Tag: Geriatric

Free Download The Aging Revolution: The History of Geriatric Health Care and What Really Matters to Older Adults by Michael J. Dowling, Charles Kenney, Maria Torroella Carney MD MACP
English | June 4, 2024 | ISBN: 1510778829 | 312 pages | PDF | 3.37 Mb
Ahistory of aging in the United Statesand an innovative blueprint for revolutionizingcare for older adultsfrom Northwell Health, New York’s largest health care system.

Free Download Geriatric Psychiatry: A Case-Based Textbook by Ana Hategan, James A. Bourgeois, Calvin H. Hirsch
English | March 30, 2024 | ISBN: 3031478010 | 961 pages | MOBI | 37 Mb
This textbook presents real-world cases and discussions that introduce the various psychiatric syndromes found in the aging population before delving into the core concepts covered by geriatric psychiatry curricula. The text follows each case study with the vital information necessary for physicians in training, including key features of each disorder and its presentation, practical guidelines for diagnosis and treatment, clinical pearls, and other devices that are essential to trainees in geriatric psychiatry. With the latest DSM-5-TR guidelines and with rich learning tools that include key points, review questions, tables, and illustrations, this text is the only resource that is specifically designed to train both US and Canadian candidates for specialty and subspecialty certification or recertification in geriatric psychiatry. It will also appeal to audiences worldwide as a state-of-the-art resource for practice guidance. The text meets the needs of the future head on with its straightforward coverage of the most frequently encountered challenges, including neuropsychiatric syndromes, psychopharmacology, elder care and the law, substance use disorders, psychiatric comorbidities in systemic medical illness, consultation-liaison psychiatry, palliative care, climate change and health, and equity/diversity/inclusion matters in the care of older adults.

Free Download Geriatric Home-Based Medical Care: Principles and Practice
English | 2024 | ISBN: 303168785X | 534 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 11 MB
Older adults are living longer with more chronic disease and functional impairment than at any other time in history. Office-based practice is inadequate to meet the needs of patients who have difficulty leaving their homes for routine or urgent visits, and health care clinicians must choose between trying to manage their problems via telehealth or sending them to the emergency room via ambulance. Indeed, many clinicians receive little or no training in home-based medical care and are unable to consider a home visit that might avert a health crisis or an emergency room visit. Other clinicians know that house calls are possible but may not know how to work them into day-to-day practice.

Free Download Robert A. Norman, "Geriatric Dermatology"
English | 2001 | pages: 175 | ISBN: 1850703116 | PDF | 607,5 mb
Over the past few years the world’s population has continued on its remarkable transition from a state of high birth and death rates to one characterized by low birth and death rates. Consequently, primary care physicians and dermatologists will see more elderly patients presenting age-related dermatological conditions. There has never been a better time for a book devoted entirely to skin care in the elderly.

Free Download Classic Papers in Geriatric Medicine with Current Commentaries By Robert J. Pignolo MD, PhD (auth.), Robert J. Pignolo MD, PhD, Monica K. Crane MD, Mary Ann Forciea MD (eds.)
2008 | 172 Pages | ISBN: 1588299988 | PDF | 13 MB
The field of geriatrics foundations is rooted in the classic papers of early descriptions of aging and age-related diseases. In Classic Papers in Geriatric Medicine with Current Commentaries, the authors chose the "classic" papers, providing a combination of expert opinion and objective assessment. The 15 areas in this volume represent the beginnings of practice and thoughts about the best ways to care for older patients. Each paper is introduced by a commentary describing the singular contributions of the chosen paper, with a short list of other important early papers in that area, and, in many cases, reflect on progress in that particular field. The commentaries are personal statements by the authors about the influence of the papers chosen; not meant to be exhaustive reviews of the clinical area in question. Classic Papers in Geriatric Medicine with Current Commentaries exemplifies the importance of a paper and its ability to retain its impact over time. While many of the classic papers in this collection have stood the test of time, others have gained classic status by virtue of their profound influence in relatively quick measure or because of timeliness in filling a void in knowledge.

Free Download Geriatric Ophthalmology: A Competency-based Approach By Gwen Sterns (auth.), Andrew G. Lee, Hilary A. Beaver (eds.)
2010 | 127 Pages | ISBN: 1441900098 | PDF | 2 MB
The elderly patient is not simply an "older adult." Geriatric patients have unique responses to treatment and disease: they often harbor co-morbidities that can impact evaluation, treatment, and prognosis. Often elderly patients may require specialized expertise or experience to deal with specific geriatric syndromes. It is not the goal of Geriatric Ophthalmology to make ophthalmologists into geriatricians. Rather, it is our hope that by applying a competency-based approach, we can improve awareness, increase understanding and encourage expertise about geriatric issues among eye care professionals. Among the topics of special interest to the ophthalmologist treating elderly patients, the editors have included diabetic retinopathy, age-related macular degeneration, cataracts, glaucoma, and low vision. As demographic trends demonstrate, the patient population of will continue to expand into the foreseeable future, making the competent and compassionate care of elderly patients an imperative for clinicians, public health officials, patients and families. Geriatric Ophthalmology: A Competency-Based Approach aims to provide the framework for quality patient care.

Free Download Biological Basis of Geriatric Oncology By Lodovico Balducci, Matti Aapro (auth.), Lodovico Balducci MD, Martine Extermann MD, PhD (eds.)
2005 | 258 Pages | ISBN: 0387239618 | PDF | 7 MB
Biological Basis of Geriatric Oncology highlights research issues that are specific to geriatric oncology in the field of carcinogenesis and cancer prevention and treatment, based on the biologic interactions of cancer and age. It illustrates the benefit of the principles of geriatrics in the management of cancer in the older individual.This volume provides a frame of reference for practicioners of any specialties involved in the management of older patients and for oncologists involved in the management of cancer of older individuals. It is a source for basic and clinical scientists exploring the interactions and emerging information of cancer and aging.

Free Download The Aging Revolution
by Dowling, Michael J.;Kenney, Charles;Torroella Carney, Maria;
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1510778829 | 240 pages | True EPUB | 5.81 MB

Free Download Christine Roffe, "Geriatric Medicine: an evidence-based approach"
English | ISBN: 0199689644 | 2014 | 180 pages | EPUB | 790 KB
People are living longer and the population over the age of 60 is burgeoning, with repercussions for health services and healthcare expenditure in developed countries. Crucially, disease aetiology, diagnosis, and treatment in older people differ from the general adult population. Older people often have complicated co-morbidities and respond to treatment in different ways compared to younger people. Evidence of efficacy of different treatments is often lacking because older people are under-represented in clinical trials, and the specific needs of older people are rarely discussed specifically in more general texts. Geriatric medicine: an evidence based approach is a clinical reference for health care professionals who manage older patients, and summarizes up-to-date research literature in a style that can be directly applied by busy healthcare professionals and provide a useful resource for reference.

Free Download Geriatric: Nutrition Handbook By Stephen Bartlett RD, Mary Marian MS, RD, CNSD, Douglas Taren PhD, Myra L. Muramoto MD (auth.)
1998 | 200 Pages | ISBN: 0412136414 | PDF | 5 MB
The older population, defined as those 65 years and older, has been steadily increasing as a percentage of the total population since 1900. Currently, it constitutes 13% of the population. The United States Bureau of the Census predicts that the elderly will represent 20% of the U.S. population by 2030. The older population itself is getting older, with greatest percentage increases in the subgroup of elderly over 85 years of age. This segment of the elderly is now 28 times greater in number than in 1900. The aging process is associated with unique medical problems-including declining functional capacities and pbysiological reserves-that have spawned specialization in geriatric medicine. While healthy, free-living elderly appear not much more at nutritional risk than the rest of the population, the elderly who suffer from illness or other stress have a much higher incidence of nutritional prob lems than the population as a whole. Elderly are also more heterogeneous than the general population, resulting in a greater variation in nutritional requirements which requires a better understanding of how nutrition and health interact. This brings nutritional assess ment and care to the forefront of geriatric medical practice.