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Oxford Textbook of Geriatric Medicine
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Oxford Textbook of Geriatric Medicine
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by J.Grimley Evans, T.Franklin Williams, Lynn Beattie, and Michel Jean-Pierre
Sales Rank: 2348245
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$433.04
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Paperback: 1280 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press; New Ed edition July 31, 2003
ISBN-10: 0198528094
ISBN-13: 978-0198528098
Product Description
The Oxford Textbook of Geriatric Medicine is the definitive international textbook on a medical discipline of ever-increasing importance. It provides a reference on all aspects of the medical care of older persons. There is detailed clinical information al every disease, given with reference to the changes that take place with ageing, and the resultant appropriate management and prevention in older patients. There are major sections on common problems such as falls, incontinence, and delirium. There is full coverage of ethical issues, outcomes, long-term institutional care, communication with patients, the provision of services, community-orientated support services, and the contribution of non-medical specialists to the care of old people. There are outstanding sections on autonomic dysfunction, nutrition, back pain, measurement of quality of life, healthy life expectancy, arterial disease, failure to thrive, sexuality, perioperative care, special problems such as elder abuse, driving, and a 'useful information' section containing tests and scales. The need to balance, for the individual patient, the potential for benefit from modern technology with the risk of ill-effects is central to the practice of medicine in an ageing society. The contributors give clear advice on management, based on a review of the available evidence and emphasizing where data are limited, and all chapters have been edited by clinicians actively involved in the day-to-day problems of caring for older people. The Oxford Textbook of Geriatric Medicine takes a fully international perspective, with specialist contributors from many countries. It will provide every physician involved in the care of older patients with a comprehensive resource on all the clinical problems they are likely to encounter, as well as on related psychological, philosophical and social issues.
Book Info
Univ. of Oxford, UK. Covers the unique issues that doctors caring for elderly people need to know in addition to their training in general (internal) medicine. The range of subject matter and authorship has been enlarged from the first edition, and the style has been relaxed. Halftone illustrations appear throughout text. Previous edition: c1992.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Customer Reviews & Comments
This review is from: Oxford Textbook of Geriatric Medicine (Oxford Textbooks) (Hardcover)
I'm a Mexican Geriatritian and I was waitting for this book many years, the first one was excellent, and I think this is better. Is a very useful tool for the people who works with elderly people.
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