Evidence-Based Geriatric Medicine (eBook, ePUB)

A Practical Clinical Guide
Redaktion: Holroyd-Leduc, Jayna; Reddy, Madhuri

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The latest addition to the Evidence-Based Book series, Evidence-Based Geriatric Medicine provides non-geriatrician clinicians an overview of key topics central to the care of the older patient. This guide focuses on the management of common problems in the elderly taking into account their life situations as well as treatment of specific conditions. Leading geriatricians with expertise in evidence-based medicine utilize the best available evidence and present this information in a concise, easy-to-use, question-based format. Evidence-Based Geriatric Medicine is a unique guide to the optimum management of older patients.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118281819
• Artikelnr.: 37352631

Autorenporträt

Dr. Jayna Holroyd-Leduc is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She received her medical degree at the University of Toronto, Canada. She completed residency training in Internal Medicine and Geriatrics at the University of Toronto, before completing a research fellowship in Geriatrics and Quality Improvement at the San Francisco VA Medical Centre and the University of California, San Francisco. Her research interests include systematic reviews, knowledge translation, clinical decision support and improving care provided to older patients. She is the University of Calgary Geriatric Medicine Training Program Director and the Department of Medicine QI Lead. Madhuri Reddy MD MSc is an Internist and Geriatric Medicine specialist. She is currently Director of the Wound Healing Clinic at the Hebrew Rehabilitation Center in Boston, Massachusetts. She has published several original research papers, been editor or on the editorial board of several publications, has written book chapters for clinicians, as well as a book for patients and their caregivers on the care of chronic wounds (Healing Wounds, Healthy Skin). Dr Reddy completed her Geriatric Medicine training at the University of Toronto in Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Contributors Foreword C. Seth Landefeld 1 Function and Frailty: The
Cornerstones of Geriatric Assessment Kenneth Rockwood and Paige K.
Moorhouse 2 Computer-Based Clinical Decision Support Systems in the Care of
Older Patients Marina Martin and Mary K. Goldstein 3 Simplifying the Pill
Box: Drugs and Aging Sudeep S. Gill and Dallas P. Seitz 4.1 Breathing
Easier: Respiratory Disease in the Older Adult Salahaddin Mahmudi-Azer 4.2
Breathing Easier: An Approach to Heart Failure in a Patient with an Aging
Heart Jayna M. Holroyd-Leduc, Madhuri Reddy and Anita Asgar 5 Clarifying
Confusion: Prevention and Managing Delirium Ranjani Aiyar and Jayna M.
Holroyd-Leduc 6 Preserving the Memories: Managing Dementia Dallas P. Seitz,
Philip E. Lee, Sudeep S. Gill and Paula A. Rochon 7 Enjoying the Golden
Years: Diagnosing and Treating Depression Stuart Carney and Jane Pearce 8 A
Balancing Act: Preventing and Treating Falls& Emily Kwan and Sharon Straus
9 Keeping Dry: Managing Urinary Incontinence Cara Tannenbaum 10 Keeping
Things Moving: Preventing and Managing Constipation Shabbir Alibhai and Dov
Gandell 11 Preventing and Treating Pressure Ulcers Madhuri Reddy, Sudeep S.
Gill, Sunila R. Kalkar, Wei Wu, and Paula A. Rochon 12 Elder Abuse Erik J.
Lindbloom, Landon D. Hough, and Karli R. Echterling Urban 13 A Good Death:
Appropriate End of Life Care Cari Levy and Jean Kutner Index