Practical management of the elderly
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Practical management of the elderly
Blackwell Scientific, 1989
5th ed
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Description
The aim of this book, now in its fifth edition, is to provide in detail for those who are in daily contact with elderly patients, such as doctors on geriatric wards, nurses, social workers and professional care staff, the practical management of diseases which afflict elderly people: the preventive as well as the curative aspects. This book has evolved as a result of 35 years of clinical experience in the health care of the elderly in the community and hospital settings. From the information imparted in the text, the authors hope to stimulate the interest of and identify the difficulties facing all those professionals engaged in this challenging specialty.
Table of Contents
- Old age
- The preventive approach
- Problems in diagnosis
- Drug therapy
- Gastrointestinal diseases
- Heart disease
- Disorders of blood pressure
- Respiratory diseases
- Blood diseases
- Endocrine disease
- Diseases of the kidney and prostrate
- Diseases of the bladder and urinary incontinence
- Stroke
- Other common neurological disorders
- Mental disorders
- Musculoskeletal disorders
- Accidental hypothermia
- Nutrition
- Eye diseases
- Skin diseases
- Care of the dying
- Organization of a geriatric service. Appendixes : Services available for old people
- Training of physicians in geriatric medicine
- Useful addresses
- American drugs equivalent to those mentioned in text.
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