Brocklehurst's textbook of geriatric medicine and gerontology /
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| Edition: | Eighth edition. |
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| Imprint: | Philadelphia, PA : Elsevier, [2017] ©2017 |
| Description: | 1 online resource ( xvii, 1143 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12732807 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : aging, frailty, and geriatric medicine
- The epidemiology of aging
- The future of old age
- Successful aging : the centenarians
- Evolution theory and the mechanisms of aging
- Methodologic challenges of research in older people
- Geroscience
- Genetic mechanisms of aging
- Cellular mechanisms of aging
- The premature aging syndrome : Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome--insights into normal aging
- The neurobiology of aging: free radical stress and metabolic pathways
- Allostasis and allostatic overload in the context of aging
- Neuroendocrinology of aging
- Frailty : the broad view
- Aging and deficit accumulation : clinical implications
- Effects of aging on the cardiovascular system
- Age-related changes in the respiratory system
- Neurologic signs in older adults
- Connective tissues and aging
- Bone and joint aging
- Aging and the gastrointestinal system
- Aging of the urinary tract
- Endocrinology of aging
- Aging and the blood
- Aging and the skin
- The pharmacology of aging
- Antiaging medicine
- Normal cognitive aging
- Social gerontology
- Social vulnerability in old age
- The aging personality and self : diversity and health issues
- Productive aging
- Presentation of disease in old age
- Multidimensional geriatric assessment
- Laboratory diagnosis and geriatrics : more than just reference intervals for older adults
- Social assessment of older patients
- Surgery and anesthesia in the frail older patient
- Measuring outcomes of multidimensional geriatric assessment programs
- Chronic cardiac failure
- Diagnosis and management of coronary artery disease
- Practical issues in the care of frail older cardiac patients
- Hypertension
- Valvular heart disease
- Cardiac arrhythmias
- Syncope
- Vascular surgery
- Venous thromboembolism in older adults
- Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- Nonobstructive lung disease and thoracic tumors
- Classification of the dementias
- Neuropsychology in the diagnosis and treatment of dementia
- Alzheimer disease
- Vascular cognitive disorders
- Frontotemporal lobar degeneration
- Delirium
- Mental illness in older adults
- Intellectual disability in older adults
- Epilepsy
- Headache and facial pain
- Stroke : epidemiology and pathology
- Stroke : clinical presentation, management, and organization of services
- Long-term stroke care
- Disorders of the autonomic nervous system
- Parkinsonism and other movement disorders
- Neuromuscular disorders
- Intracranial tumors
- Disorders of the spinal cord and nerve roots
- Central nervous system infections
- Arthritis in older adults
- Metabolic bone disease
- Orthopedic geriatrics
- Sarcopenia
- The pancreas
- The liver
- Biliary tract diseases
- The upper gastrointestinal tract
- The small bowel
- The large bowel
- Nutrition and aging
- Obesity
- Diseases of the aging kidney
- Disorders of water and electrolyte metabolism.
- The prostate
- Aging males and testosterone
- Gynecologic disorders in older women
- Breast cancer
- Adrenal and pituitary disorders
- Disorders of the thyroid
- Disorders of the parathyroid glands
- Diabetes mellitus
- Blood disorders in older adults
- Geriatric oncology
- Clinical immunology : immune senescence and the acquired immunodeficiency of aging
- Skin disease and old age
- Aging and disorders of the eye
- Disorders of hearing
- Health promotion for community-living older adults
- Sexuality in old age
- Physical activity for successful aging
- Rehabilitation : evidence-based physical and occupational therapy techniques for stroke and Parkinson disease
- Geriatric pharmacotherapy and polypharmacy
- Impaired mobility
- Falls
- Podiatry
- Constipation and fecal incontinence in old age
- Urinary incontinence
- Pressure ulcers
- Sleep in relation to aging, frailty, and cognition
- Malnutrition in older adults
- Geriatric dentistry : maintaining oral health in the geriatric population
- Pain in the older adult
- The mistreatment and neglect of frail older people
- HIV and aging : current status and evolving perspectives
- Palliative medicine for the older patient
- Ethical issues in geriatric medicine
- Managing frailty : roles for primary care
- Geriatric emergency and prehospital care
- Acute hospital care for frail older adults
- Intensive care medicine in older adults : a critical age?
- Geriatric medicine in Europe
- Geriatric medicine in North America
- Geriatrics in Asia
- Geriatrics in Latin America
- Medical care for older long-term care residents in the United Kingdom
- Institutional long-term care in the United States
- Education in geriatric medicine
- Improving quality of care for older people in England
- Quality initiatives aimed at improving Medicare
- Managed care for older Americans
- Telemedicine applications in geriatrics
- Gerontechnology
- Optimizing the built environment for frail older adults
- Transcultural geriatrics.
