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ISBN10: 1260457087 | ISBN13: 9781260457087

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The definitive guide to safe, effective care of older adults—updated with important new content and streamlined for quick access A Doody's Core Title for 2024 & 2023! Covers the complete range of topics in geriatric care, including theory and fundamentals, assessment, conditions, diseases, symptoms, policies, and societal issues that affect older patients Provides a framework for using the functional and cognitive status, prognosis, and social context of patients to guide diagnosis and treatment of medical conditions Delivers essential information on important topics such as delirium, cognitive impairment, dementia, falls and mobility disorders, Parkinson disease and other movement disorders, sleep disorders, and arthritis Includes guidance on care in all settings – clinic, home, hospital, and long-term care, as well as pre- and post-operative settings New content on technology to enhance geriatric care, caregiving support, the unique needs of older immigrants, Medicare and Medicaid, legal issues and conservatorship, aid in dying, assisted living care, short-stay rehabilitation, prostate cancer, marijuana use, syncope, and driving safety
Table of Contents
Section1. Principles of Geriatric Assessment and Care
- Introduction to the Care of Older Persons: Knowledge, Skills & System Change
- Guiding Principles
- Overview of Geriatric Assessment (6)
- Geriatric Assessment in Primary Care
- Teams
- Patient Goals
- Prognosis
- Functional Assessment
- Falls & Gait Impairment
- Vision Impairment
- Hearing Impairment
- Dementia
- Incontinence
- Depression
- Nutrition
- Medication Use
- Caregiver Support
- Financial, Environmental and Social Resources
- Abuse
- Preventive Services
- The Interprofessional Team (5)
- Key Definitions & Context
- Innovations in Geriatric Interprofessional Teams
- Evidence for Interprofessional Teams
- Barriers to Teamwork
- Resources and Tools for Teamwork
- Goals of Care and Consideration of Prognosis (3)
- Guide to Goals of Care Discussions
- Importance of Surrogate Decision Makers
- Prognostication
- Prognosis Related to Specific Diseases
- Communicating Prognosis to Patient or Surrogate
- Functional Assessment & Functional Decline (2)
- Epidemiology of Func
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