Lecture Notes: Elderly Care Medicine, 7th Edition

by Claire Nicholl (Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge); Jane Wilson (Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge); Stephen Webster (Addenbrooke's Hospital)

• ISBN13: 9781405157124
• ISBN10: 1405157127
• Edition: 7th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-01-01
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Lecture Notes: Elderly Care Medicine is the perfect choice for those in search of a textbook which discusses the physiological changes of ageing and how this affects the presentation and treatment of disease in the elderly patient. This tried and trusted handbook, now in its seventh edition, can be used as a core text, a revision aid and a quick reference guide for medical students, junior doctors and other health professionals.Extensively revised and updated to reflect recent advances in knowledge and developments in management, Lecture Notes: Elderly Care Medicine now features: new information on health and social care for the elderly useful appendices covering questionnaires and examination criteria for use on the wards key point boxes and mnemonics to aid learning and revision.

Author Biography

Dr Claire G Nicholl BSc FRCP
Consultant Physician & Clinical Director, Medicine for the Elderly
Addenbrooke's Hospital
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Jane Wilson
Consultant Physician, Medicine for the Elderly
Addenbrooke's Hospital
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Stephen Webster MA MD FRCP
Formerly of Addenbrooke's Hospital
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
List of abbreviations	p. ix
The world grows old	p. 1
Health and social care for elderly people in the UK	p. 10
Special features of medicine in the elderly	p. 24
Old age psychiatry	p. 33
Falls and immobility	p. 45
Bones, muscles and joints	p. 53
Stroke made simple	p. 63
Other diseases of the nervous system	p. 73
Cardiovascular disorders	p. 86
Respiratory disease	p. 98
Gastrointestinal disease and nutrition	p. 105
Disorders of homeostasis and metabolism	p. 119
Genitourinary disease	p. 127
Blood and bone marrow	p. 135
Eyes, ears and skin	p. 145
Legal and ethical aspects of medical care of elderly people	p. 158
Palliative care	p. 167
Appendices
Standards for long-term care	p. 173
The Barthel Scale	p. 174
CAGE questionnaire for alcohol problems	p. 175
The Abbreviated Mental Test (AMT)	p. 176
The Geriatric Depression Score (GDS)	p. 177
Fitness to fly	p. 178
Respiratory function in the elderly	p. 179
Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool (MUST)	p. 180
Index	p. 181
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