Oxford Textbook of Geriatric Medicine by Jgrimley Evans

Oxford Textbook of Geriatric Medicine by Jgrimley Evans

This new edition of the Oxford Textbook of Geriatric Medicine substantially improves on its predecessor. It is the definitive international reference book on an emerging and inescapable medical discipline. There are three new international editors, and many new contributors. Whereas the first edition was designed to complement general textbooks of medicine, this edition stands alone as a reference on all aspects of the medical care of older persons. There is more detailedclinical information on every disease, and this information is given with reference to the changes that take place with ageing, and the resultant appropriate guidance on management and prevention in older patients. There are major sections on common problems in older patients such as incontinence, falls,and delirium. The coverage of ethics, outcomes, legal issues, long-term institutional care, communication, the provision of services, community-orientated support services, and the contribution of non-medical specialists to theory and practice in the care of older people has been strengthened. There are outstanding new sections on autonomic dysfunction, nutrition, back pain, measurement of quality of life, healthy life- expectancy, arterial disease, failure to thrive, sexuality, perioperativecare, special problems such as elder abuse, and driving, and 'useful information', containing various tests and scales. The sections on stroke, memory, cardiovascular disease, the respiratory system, nephrology and the genitourinary system, and neurology and psychiatry, have been substantiallyrevised and updated. The need to balance, for the individual patient, the potential for benefit from modern technology with the risks of ill-effects is central to the practice of medicine in an ageing society. Fortunately, there is a growing literature with evidence for the appropriate management of older persons. The contributors give clear guidance on management, based on a review of the available evidence and emphasizing where these data are limited; and all chapters have been edited byclinicians actively involved in the day-to-day problems of caring for older people. The Oxford Textbook of Geriatric Medicine has an international perspective, with specialist contributors from nine countries. It will provide every physician involved in the care of older patients with acomprehensive resource on all the clinical problems they are likely to encounter, as well as on related psychological, philosophical, and social issues.

Overall, the second edition of the Oxford Textbook of Geriatric Medicine is a pleasure to read: it has been skilfully edited and professionally producedWhatever your specialty, you will benefit from referring to this book often. The Lancet, May 2001 "This is a powerful reference work for all physicians with older patients." Hospital Doctor, October 2000 "A wonderful resource for anyone and everyone interested in ageing, old age and the questions of life and death." Biogerontology, 2001

Jean-Pierre Michel, Professor of Medicine, Geneva Medical School and University Hospitals, University of Geneva, Switzerland, and Past President, European Union Geriatric Society, B. Lynn Beattie, Professor Emeritus, University of British Columbia Division of Geriatric Medicine, Gordon and Leslie
Diamond Health Care Centre, Vancouver BC, Canada, Finbarr C. Martin, Emeritus Consultant Geriatrician and Professor of Medical Gerontology, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and King's College London, UK, and President-Elect, European Union Geriatric Society, Jeremy D. Walston, Co-Director,
Biology of Healthy Aging Program, Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Johns Hopkins Asthma and Allergy Center, Baltimore, MD, USA

Dr Michel is Emeritus Professor of Medicine, former head of the academic Geriatric Department, Geneva University, and honorary professor in France, China and Quebec. He co-founded the European, Middle-East, Latin-America and Asian Academy for Medicine of Ageing and the European Interdisciplinary
Council on Ageing. He is past President of the European Union Geriatric Medicine Society and editor-in-chief of European Geriatric Medicine.

Dr Michel is also a full board member of the French Academy of Medicine and has received an IAGG World Award for his life-time and global achievements in Geriatrics. He is an ongoing World Health Organization expert for the 'Aging and Life course' program, and contributed to the 1st WHO report on
Healthy Ageing in 2015. He has also authored 430 peer reviewed papers and numerous book chapters.

B Lynn Beattie is Professor Emeritus, Division of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine, UBC. Her current clinical interest is practise at the UBC Hospital Clinic for Alzheimer Disease and Related Disorders (UBCH CARD) where she is the Medical Director. She is on the Board of the Alzheimer
Society of Canada as Chair of the Research Policy Committee and has completed two terms as Secretary Treasurer of C5R, the Consortium of Canadian Centres for Clinical Cognitive Research. Professor Beattie also started and was the first Head of the Division of Geriatric Medicine at UBC, initially
based at Shaughnessy Hospital and in later years at Vancouver Coastal UBC/VGH. She was Director of the Clinic for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders from its inception until 2005, and again from 2009 to date, and is Past President of the American Geriatrics Society and the Canadian Geriatrics
Society.

Professor Finbarr C. Martin trained in geriatric medicine at Hammersmith Hospital, London, and was appointed consultant physician in general and geriatric medicine at St Thomas' Hospital in 1984. He has worked in a broad range of services for older people in acute hospitals and in community
settings. He has led national audit programmes on falls and fragility fractures, and is co-chair of the DH funded but clinically led National Hip Fracture Database. He was the elected president of the British Geriatrics Society between 2010 and 2012.

Dr Jeremy Walston is a professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His area of clinical expertise is geriatric medicine. At the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Dr Walston is co-director of the Biology of Healthy Aging Program in the Division of Geriatric Medicine and
Gerontology as well as deputy director of the division, and the Raymond and Anna Lublin Professor of Geriatric Medicine. Dr Walston plays a leading role in setting the national ageing research agenda through his leadership and participation in committees of the American Geriatrics Society and on
study sections and review panels for the National Institute on Aging. He has won numerous awards for his research, including the American Geriatrics Society New Investigator Award, a Brookdale National Leadership Fellowship and Paul Beeson Physician Faculty Scholars recognition.

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ISBN 13	9780192628305
ISBN 10	0192628305
Title	Oxford Textbook of Geriatric Medicine
Author	Jgrimley Evans
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Year published	2000-06-01
Number of pages	1280
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