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9781582120720

Geriatric Pharmacotherapy : A Guide for the Helping Professional

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  • ISBN13:

    9781582120720

  • ISBN10:

    1582120722

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2007-01-15
  • Publisher: Amer Pharmacists Assn
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Summary

Geriatric Pharmacotherapy: A Guide for the Helping Professional provides practical guidelines to help physicians, pharmacists, nurses, physician assistants, and other clinicians manage drug therapy in the elderly. The text hinges on the realization that geriatric care is an individualized art and all members of the health care team have drug therapy responsibilities

Table of Contents

Medication Needs of the Ambulatory Elderly
Enhancing Medication Adherence: An Opportunity to Improve Drug Therapy in the Elderly
Altered Pharmacokinetics in an Aging Population: A Silent Epidemic
Pharmacotherapy Issues Related to Cardiovascular Disease and the Elderly
Managing Diabetes Mellitus and Thyroid Disease in the Elderly
Issues Concerning Common Infections in Community-Dwelling
Issues in Geriatric Dermatology
Dealing with the Dread of Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease
Diagnosis and Treatment of Depression in the Geriatric Population
Pharmacotherapy Issues of Managing Chronic Pain in the Geriatric Population
Nutrition and Exercise in the Elderly
Natural Medicines Used by the Elderly: A Common Sense Dose of Reality
Ethical Prescribing in the Geriatric Patient
Improving Medication Use in the Elderly: Seven Prescriptions for the H.E.L.P.I.N.G. Professional
Index
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