Principles and practice of geriatric medicine / editors, M.S. John Pathy, Alan J. Sinclair, John E. Morley.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Communication disorders in dementia -- Delirium -- Memory clinics -- Cellular changes in alzheimer's disease -- Clinical apsects of alzheimer's disease -- Mild cognitive impairment -- Vascular dementia -- Other dementias -- Treatment of behavioral disorders -- Geriatric psychiatry -- Organization of services in geriatric psychiatry -- Depression in late life: etiology, diagnosis and treatment -- The older patient with down's syndrome -- Drug misuse and the older person: a contradiction in terms? -- Disorders of the eye -- The epidemiology of hearing in aging population -- Auditory system -- Disorders of the vestibular system -- Smell and taste -- Age-related changes in calcium homeostasis and bone loss -- Paget's disease of bone -- Epidemiology of osteoporosis -- Osteoporosis and its consequences: a major threat to the quality of life in the elderly -- Gait, balance, and falls -- Foot problems in the elderly -- Hip fracture and orthogeriatrics -- Diseases of the joints -- Back pain -- Water and electrolyte balance in health and disease -- Endocrinology of aging -- The pituitary gland -- Thyroid disorders -- Ovarian and testicular function -- Type 2 diabetes mellitus in senior citizens -- Gynecology and the older patient -- The aging bladder -- Prostate diseases -- Urinary incontinence -- Renal diseases -- Cancer and aging -- Oncological emergencies and urgencies -- Breast cancer in the elderly -- Multidimensional geriatric assessment -- Function assessment scales -- Frailty -- Rehabilitation -- Skin disorders in the elderly -- Pressure ulceration -- Perioperative and postoperative medical assessment -- Anesthesia in older people -- Health issues in the aging female -- Antiaging -- Ethical issues -- Restraints and immobility -- Centenarians -- Diagnostic imaging and interventional radiology -- Infectious diseases -- Tuberculosis -- Infective endocarditis in the elderly -- Infections of the central nervous system -- Geriatric medicine education in Europe -- Education in geriatric medicine in the United Kingdom -- The contribution of family doctors to the primary care of older people: lessons from the British experience -- Carers and the role of the family -- Nurisng home care -- Clinical audit of health care -- Improving quality of care -- Resident assessment instrument/minimum data set -- Nursing (UK) -- Geriatric occupational therapy: focus on participation in meaningful daily living -- Systems of health care: the United Kingdom, the United States, and Australia -- Geriatric day hospitals -- Health and care for older people in the United Kingdom -- Geriatrics in the United States -- Geriatrics and gerontology in Japan -- Care of the elderly in Israel: old age in young land -- Geriatric medicine in China -- Aging in developing countries -- Geriatrics from the European union perspective -- Delivery of health care in India -- Geriatrics in Latin America -- Management of the dying patient.

Historical perspectives -- A biological perspective on aging -- Immunity and aging -- Physiology of aging -- Aging of the brain -- Psychological aspects of aging -- Neurochemistry of aging -- Neuropathology of aging -- The demography of aging -- Social and community aspects of aging -- Sexuality and aging -- Physical fitness and exercise -- Transportation, driving, and older adults -- Smoking in the elderly -- Alcohol use and abuse -- On the evolution of all-cause and cause-specific mortality in the age class 75-84 years: a worldwide overview -- Elder abuse -- Smart homes -- Preventive geriatrics -- Polypharmacy, is this another disease? -- The problem-orientated approach to geriatric medicine -- Oral health -- Oral disease -- Epidemiology of nutrition and aging -- Absorption of nutrients -- The anorexia of aging -- Weight loss in older adults -- Dehydration -- Vitamins and minerals in the elderly -- Obesity in the elderly -- Changes in gastrointestinal motor and sensory function associated with aging -- Gastrointestinal bleeding -- Liver and gall bladder -- Sphincter function -- Constipation -- Diseases of the pancreas -- Anemia in older persons -- Disorders of hemostasis -- Disseminated intravascular coagulation -- Anticoagulants in the elderly -- Myelodysplasia -- Management of leukemia in the elderly -- Epidemiology of heart disease -- Cardiac aging and systemic disorders -- Arrhythmias in the elderly -- Ischemic heart disease in elderly persons -- Valvular disease in the elderly -- Hypertension -- Mechanisms of heart failure -- Heart failure in the elderly -- Management of acute cardiac emergencies and cardiac surgery -- Cardiac surgery in the elderly -- Pathogenesis of atherosclerosis -- Peripheral vascular disease in elderly persons -- Venous thromboembolism -- Cardiac cachexia -- Cardiac rehabilitation in older people -- Epidemiology of respiratory infection -- The effect of aging on the respiratory skeletal muscles -- Aspiration pneumonia -- Respiratory disease in the elderly -- Pulmonary rehabilitation -- Sleep disorders in elderly people -- Neurological signs of aging -- Headache in the elderly -- Parkinson's Disease and parkinsonism in the elderly -- Non parkinsonian movement disorders in the elderly -- Normal pressure hydrocephalus -- Epidemiology of stroke -- Management of carotid artery stenosis -- Acute stroke -- Secondary stroke -- Communication disorders and dysphagia -- Stroke rehabilitation -- Clinical psychology in physcial rehabilitation -- Epilespy -- Syncope and nonepileptic attacks -- Peripheral neuropathy -- Disorders of the neuromuscular junction -- Sarcopenia and sarcopenic-obesity -- Muscle disorders -- Motor neurone disease -- Abnormalities of the autonomic nervous system -- Control of chronic pain -- Cervical and lumbar spinal canal stenosis -- Spinovascular insufficiency -- Subarachnoid hemorrhage -- Acute and chronic subdural hematoma --

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