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Current Diagnosis and Treatment: Geriatrics, Third Edition

by Louise Walter

A broad clinical reference for geriatric care

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    A Doody's Core Title for 2023, 2024 & 2026

    Named a Doody's Core Title for 2023, 2024, and 2026.

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A broad clinical reference for geriatric care

Louise Walter’s third edition organizes geriatric care across assessment, medical conditions, treatment, care settings, policy, and wider social concerns. It presents functional and cognitive status, prognosis, and social context as factors to consider when approaching diagnosis and treatment. Alongside topics such as dementia, falls, mobility disorders, sleep disorders, and arthritis, the book adds material on caregiving support, technology in care, older immigrants, Medicare and Medicaid, legal issues, and assisted living. Its coverage extends from clinic and home care to hospital, long-term care, and perioperative settings, giving the volume a wide-ranging clinical and systems-level scope.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Clinicians and healthcare professionals seeking a reference on care for older adults.
  • Readers studying geriatric assessment, common conditions, or care across clinical and residential settings.
  • Those interested in policy and social issues affecting older patients, including caregiving and access to care.

Themes

Geriatric assessment and treatmentCognitive and functional healthCare settings and support systemsPolicy, law, and social context

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Book overview

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 2023, 2024 & 2026!

  • 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

     

     

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