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This new edition of Brocklehurst's Textbook of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology builds on the structure and content of previous editions. Four sections cover gerontology, clinical geriatric medicine, problem-based geriatrics, and health systems and geriatric medicine. The most important feature of this new edition is the increased emphasis on clinical practice - practicing geriatricians will be able to turn to Brocklehurst's Sixth Edition and easily find the answer to both common and rarer clinical problems. Summary boxes at the end of each chapter highlight key points. Investigations for specific disorders are summarized in either table form or flow chart. Management of illness is emphasized with further recommendations. "Summary of Management Options" boxes indicate management plans. Includes a chapter on technology and the future. New chapters on: Productive Aging, Successful Aging, Depression, Alzheimer's Disease, Vascular Dementia, Techniques and Therapy of Rehabilitation, and Managed Care.… (more)
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Epidemiology of aging -- Future of aging: changing perceptions and realities -- Theories and general principles of aging -- Aging and connective tissues -- Immunology of aging -- Psychology of aging: introduction -- Normal and pathological age differences in memory -- Personality and its attributes -- Sleep in normal and pathological aging -- Pharmacology in aging -- Introduction: presentation of disease in old age -- Multidimensional geriatric assessment -- Social assessment of geriatric patients -- Atherosclerosis and lipid metabolism -- Pathology of the aging heart -- Chronic cardiac failure in the elderly -- Diagnosis and management of ischemic heart disease in the elderly -- Hypertension -- Valvular heart disease in old age -- Cardiac arrhythmias -- Vascular surgery in old age -- Venous thrombotic disease -- neuropathology of old age -- Cerebral blood flow and autoregulation in the elderly -- Neurochemistry of the aging brain and dementia -- Neurological signs in old age -- Headache and facial pain -- Falls in the elderly -- Dementia and delirium in old age.
Functional mental disorders of the elderly -- Stroke -- Disorders of the autonomic nervous system -- Parkinsonism and other movement disorders -- Disorders of neuromuscular transmission -- Aging in the peripheral nerves and peripheral neuropathy -- Epilepsy -- Intracranial tumors -- Disorders of the spinal cord and nerve roots -- Infections of the central nervous system -- Aging and disorders of the eye -- Disorders of hearing -- Aging and the oro-facial tissues -- Upper gastrointestinal tract -- Pancreas -- Liver -- Diseases of the gallbladder -- Diseases of the small bowel -- Large bowel -- Nutrition: considerations for the elderly -- Aging kidney -- Bladder -- Prostate -- Gynecological disorders in the elderly: sexuality and aging -- Aging and the endocrine system -- Disturbances of homeostasis -- Pituitary and adrenal disorders in old age -- Disorders of the thyroid -- Disorders of the parathyroid -- Diabetes and aging -- Diabetes: management in old age -- Aging and the respiratory system -- Bone aging, osteoporosis, and osteomalacia -- Paget's disease of bone.
(cont) Aging of articular cartilage and joints -- Joint disease in old age -- Aging and neuromuscular disease -- Aging and the blood -- Blood disorders and their management in old age -- Skin aging -- Pressure sores: etiology and prevalence -- Pressure sore management and prevention -- Carcinoma of the breast -- Surgery and anesthesia in old age -- Elderly in society -- Elderly in society: an international perspective -- Care of the aged in the United States of America -- American nursing home -- Geriatric service and the day hospital in the United Kingdom -- Psychogeriatric services -- Promotion of health in old age -- Prevention and anticipatory care -- Rehabilitation -- Care of the dying -- Ethical issues in geriatric medicine.