Brocklehurst's textbook of geriatric medicine and gerontology / [edited by] Howard M. Fillit, Kenneth Rockwood, Kenneth Woodhouse.

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Book
Language
English
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7th ed.
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Philadelphia, PA : Saunders/Elsevier, [2010], ©2010.
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xxviii, 1119 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm.

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    Subject(s)
    Series
    Expert consult. Online and print. [More in this series]
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Sect. I. Gerontology
    • 1. Introduction: Aging, Frailty, and Geriatric Medicine / Howard M. Fillit, Kenneth Rockwood and Kenneth Woodhouse
    • 2. The Epidemiology of Aging / Norman Vetter
    • 3. The Future of Old Age / Kenneth G. Manton
    • Biological Gerontology
    • 4. Evolution Theory and the Mechanisms of Aging / Thomas B. L. Kirkwood
    • 5. Methodological Problems of Research in Older People / Antony Bayer
    • 6. Biology of Aging / Huber R. Warner, Felipe Sierra and LaDora V. Thompson
    • 7. Genetic Mechanisms of Aging / Chao-Qiang Lai, Laurence D. Parnell and Jose M. Ordovas
    • 8. Cellular Mechanisms of Aging / Robert Santer
    • 9. Physiology of Aging / Edward J. Masoro
    • 10. A Clinico-Mathematical Model of Aging / Kenneth Rockwood and Arnold Mitnitski
    • 11. The Premature Aging Syndrome Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria: Insights Into Normal Aging / Leslie B. Gordon
    • Medical Gerontology
    • 12. Connective Tissues and Aging / Nicholas A. Kefalides and Zahra Ziaie
    • 13. Clinical Immunology: Immune Senescence and the Acquired Immune Deficiency of Aging / Mohan K. Tummala, Dennis D. Taub and William B. Ershler
    • 14. Effects of Aging on the Cardiovascular System / Susan E. Howlett
    • 15. Age-Related Changes in the Respiratory System / Gwyneth A. Davies and Charlotte E. Bolton
    • 16. Neurologic Signs in the Elderly / Rawan Tarawneh and James E. Galvin
    • 17. Geriatric Gastroenterology: Overview / Richard C. Feldstein, Robert E. Tepper and Seymour Katz
    • 18. Aging of the Urinary Tract / Phillip P. Smith and George A. Kuchel
    • 19. Bone and Joint Aging / Celia L. Gregson
    • 20. Aging and the Endocrine System / Harvinder S. Chahal and William M. Drake
    • 21. Aging and the Blood / Michael A. McDevitt
    • 22. Aging and the Skin / Emma C. Veysey and Andrew Y. Finlay
    • 23. The Pharmacology of Aging / David R. P. Guay
    • 24. Antiaging Medicine / John E. Morley, Ligia J. Dominguez and Mario Barbagallo
    • Neurogerontology
    • 25. The Neurobiology of Aging: Free Radical Stress and Metabolic Pathways / Tomohiro Nakamura, Malene Hansen, Sean M. Oldham and Stuart A. Lipton
    • 26. Allostasis and Allostatic Overload in the Context of Aging / Bruce S. McEwen
    • 27. Neuroendocrinology of Aging / Roberta Diaz Brinton
    • 28. Normal Cognitive Aging / Jane Martin and Michelle Gorenstein
    • 29. The Aging Personality and Self: Diversity and Health Issues / Julie Blaskewicz Boron, K. Warner Schaie and Sherry L. Willis
    • Social Gerontology
    • 30. Successful Aging: The Centenarians / Thomas T. Perls
    • 31. Social Gerontology / Paul Higgs and James Nazroo
    • 32. Productive Aging / Robert N. Butler
    • 33. Social Vulnerability in Old Age / Melissa K. Andrew
    • Sect. II. Geriatric Medicine
    • Evaluation of the Geriatric Patient
    • 34. Presentation of Disease in Old Age / Sonja Rosen, Brandon Koretz and David B. Reuben
    • 35. Multidimensional Geriatric Assessment / Laurence Z. Rubenstein and Lisa V. Rubenstein
    • 36. Laboratory Medicine in Geriatrics / Alexander Lapin
    • 37. Social Assessment of Geriatric Patients / Rosalie A. Kane
    • 38. Surgery and Anesthesia in Old Age / D. Gwyn Seymour
    • 39. Measuring Outcomes of Multidimensional Interventions / Paul Stolee
    • Cardiovascular System
    • 40. Chronic Cardiac Failure / Neil D. Gillespie, Miles D. Witham and Allan D. Struthers
    • 41. Diagnosis and Management of Coronary Artery Disease / Wilbert S. Aronow
    • 42. The Frail Elderly Patient with Heart Disease / George A. Heckman and Kenneth Rockwood
    • 43. Hypertension / John F. Potter
    • 44. Valvular Heart Disease / Wilbert S. Aronow
    • 45. Cardiac Arrhythmias / Wilbert S. Aronow
    • 46. Syncope / Rose Anne Kenny
    • 47. Vascular Surgery / Arnab Bhowmick and Charles N. McCollum
    • 48. Venous Thromboembolism in the Elderly / Hamsaraj G. M. Shetty, Ian A. Campbell and Philip A. Routledge
    • The Respiratory System
    • 49. Asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease / Sidney S. Braman and Muhanned Abu-Hijleh
    • 50. Nonobstructive Lung Disease and Thoracic Tumors / Katie Pink and Ben Hope-Gill
    • The Nervous System
    • 51. Dementia Diagnosis / Richard Camicioli and Kenneth Rockwood
    • 52. Presentation and Clinical Management of Dementia / Antony Bayer
    • 53. Neuropsychology in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Dementia / Margaret C. Sewell, Andrew Vigario and Mary Sano
    • 54. Alzheimer's Disease / Martin R. Farlow
    • 55. Vascular Cognitive Impairment / Paige A. Moorhouse and Kenneth Rockwood
    • 56. Frontotemporal Dementia / Kristel Sleegers and Christine Van Broeckhoven
    • 57. Functional Psychiatric Illness in Old Age / Cornelius Katona, Gill Livingston and Claudia Cooper
    • 58. The Older Adult with Intellectual Disability / John M. Starr
    • 59. Epilepsy / Khalid Hamandi
    • 60. Headache and Facial Pain / Gerry J. F. Saldanha
    • 61. Stroke: Epidemiology and Pathology / Amanda G. Thrift and Velandai K. Srikanth
    • 62. Stroke: Clinical Presentation, Management and Organization of Services / Velandai K. Srikanth and Thanh G. Phan
    • 63. Disorders of the Autonomic Nervous System / Horacio Kaufmann and Italo Biaggioni
    • 64. Parkinsonism and Other Movement Disorders / Jolyon Meara
    • 65. Neuromuscular Disorders / Timothy J. Doherty and Michael W. Nicolle
    • 66. Intracranial Tumors / David H. Rosenbaum, Michael L. Gruber and Mary V. MacNeil
    • 67. Disorders of the Spinal Cord and Nerve Roots / Sean D. Christie and Richard A. Cowie
    • 68. Infections of the Central Nervous System / Steven L. Berk and James W. Myers
    • Musculoskeletal System
    • 69. Metabolic Bone Disease / Roger M. Francis
    • 70. Arthritis in the Elderly / David L. Scott
    • 71. Connective Tissue Diseases / Anthony J. Freemont
    • 72. Orthopedic Geriatrics / Robert Victor Cantu and Kenneth J. Koval
    • 73. Sarcopenia / Yves Rolland and Bruno Vellas
    • 74. Podiatry / Katherine Ward, Mark A. Kosinski and Bryan Markinson
    • Gastroenterology
    • 75. Geriatric Dentistry: Maintaining Oral Health in the Geriatric Population / Andrea Schreiber and Robert Glickman
    • 76. The Upper Gastrointestinal Tract / David A. Greenwald and Lawrence J. Brandt
    • 77. The Pancreas / Ceri Beaton and Malcolm C. A. Puntis
    • 78. The Liver / Joanna Hurley and John Trevor Green
    • 79. Biliary Tract Diseases / Elias Xirouchakis and Andrew K. Burroughs
    • 80. The Small Bowel / Christopher A. Rodrigues
    • 81. The Large Bowel / Arnold Wald
    • 82. Nutrition in Aging / C. Shanthi Johnson and Gordon Sacks
    • 83. Obesity / Krupa Shah and Dennis T. Villareal
    • The Urinary Tract
    • 84. Diseases of the Aging Kidney / Latana A. Munang and John M. Starr
    • 85. Disorders of Water, Electrolyte, and Mineral Ion Metabolism / M. Shawkat Razzaque
    • 86. The Prostate / Nicholas J. R. George
    • Women's Health
    • 87. Gynecologic Disorders in the Elderly / Tara K. Cooper and Oliver Milling Smith
    • 88. Cancer of the Breast in the Elderly / Lodovico Balducci
    • Endocrinology
    • 89. Adrenal and Pituitary Disorders / Paul E. Belchetz and Peter Hammond
    • 90. Disorders of the Thyroid / Myron Miller
    • 91. Disorders of the Parathyroid Glands / Jane Turton, Michael Stone and David E. C. Cole
    • 92. Diabetes Mellitus / Alan J. Sinclair and Simon C. M. Croxson
    • Hematology and Oncology
    • 93. Blood Disorders in the Elderly / Bindu Kanapuru and William B. Ershler
    • 94. Geriatric Oncology / Margot A. Gosney
    • Skin and Special Senses
    • 95. Skin Disease and Old Age / Gopal A. Patel, Gangaram Ragi, W. Clark Lambert and Robert A. Schwartz
    • 96. Aging and Disorders of the Eye / Scott E. Brodie
    • 97. Disorders of Hearing / Barbara E. Weinstein
    • Sect. III. Problem-Based Geriatric Medicine
    • Prevention and Health Promotion
    • 98. Health Promotion for the Community-Living Older Adult / Maureen F. Markle-Reid, Heather H. Keller and Gina Browne --
    • 99. Preventive and Anticipatory Care / James T. Pacala
    • 100. Sexuality in Old Age / Robert N. Butler and Myrna I. Lewis
    • 101. Exercise for Successful Aging / William J. Evans
    • 102. Injury in Older People / Mujtaba Hasan
    • 103. Rehabilitation: Therapy Techniques / Valerie M. Pomeroy and Marion F. Walker
    • 103B. Rehabilitation: General Principles Available online only at www.expertconsult.com / John Young
    • Geriatric Syndromes
    • 104. Geriatric Pharmacotherapy and Polypharmacy / Joseph T. Hanlon, Steven M. Handler, Robert L. Maher and Kenneth E. Schmader
    • 105. Impaired Mobility / Ruth E. Hubbard, Eamonn Eeles and Kenneth Rockwood
    • 106. Falls / Stephanie A. Studenski
    • 107. Delirium / Eamonn Eeles and Ravi S. Bhat
    • 108. Constipation and Fecal Incontinence in Old Age / Danielle Harari
    • 109. Urinary Incontinence / Adrian Wagg
    • 110. Pressure Sores / Bryan D. Struck
    • 111. Sleep, Aging, and Late-Life Insomnia / Holly J. Ramsawh, Harrison G. Bloom and Sonia Ancoli-Israel
    • 112. Malnutrition in Older Adults / Larry E. Johnson and Dennis H. Sullivan
    • 113. The Mistreatment and Neglect of Older People / Anthea Tinker, Simon G. Biggs and Jill Manthorpe
    • 114. Pain in the Older Adult / Patricia Bruckenthal
    • 115. Palliative Medicine for the Elderly Patient / Ilora Finlay and Margred Capel
    • 116. Ethical Issues in Geriatric Medicine / Soren Holm
    • Sect. IV. Health Systems and Geriatric Medicine
    • 117. The Elderly in Society: An International Perspective / Robert N. Butler and Oleg Volkov
    • 118. Geriatrics in Europe / Peter Crome
    • 119. Geriatrics in North America / David B. Hogan
    • 120. Geriatrics in the Rest of the World / Jean Woo
    • 121. Geriatrics in Latin America / Jorge H. Lopez and Renato Maia Guimaraes
    • 122. Long-Term Care in the United Kingdom / Clive Bowman
    • 123. Institutional Long-Term Care in the United States / Luis F. Samos, Enrique Aguilar and Joseph G. Ouslander
    • 124. Education in Geriatric Medicine / Ruth E. Hubbard
    • 125. Improving Quality of Care in the United Kingdom / David A. Black
    • 126. Preserving Medicare Through a "Quality" Focus / Richard G. Stefanacci
    • 127. Managed Care for Older Americans / Richard G. Stefanacci
    • 128. Telemedicine Applications in Geriatrics / Stuti Dang, Adam G. Golden, Herman S. Cheung and Bernard A. Roos.
    Other title(s)
    • Textbook of geriatric medicine and gerontology
    • Geriatric medicine and gerontology
    ISBN
    • 9781416062318
    • 1416062319
    LCCN
    2009008517
    OCLC
    312625374
    RCP
    C - S
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