Filled with detailed work-ups, treatments, pearls, illustrations, differential diagnosis, references....Everything you ever needed to know about geriatric disorders, palliative care and death and dying issues in an easy to read and navigate format created specifically for the handheld device. Edited by multiple specialists. The perfect text for internists, family physicians, urgent care, residents, students and mid-level providers.
New in 2016 edition: Hyperlinked alphabetized index. Table of Contents. Now over 240 illustrations and color photo's.
A complete Geriatric medical text. Topics include: prevention, screening, dementia & delerium, leg ulcers, palliative & hospice care, advanced care, geriatric syndromes, incontinence, constipation, falling, hip fractures, menopause, Alzheimers Disease... Features: Detailed treatments and workups for a multitude of topics. Edited by a board certified Geriatrician.
This text contains numerous illustrations and is fully referenced. No other text on the market provides such a collection of succinct and clinically relevant material that can be accessed at the bedside.
CONTENTS: Intro | Approach | Prevention | Competency Driving | Exercise | Long-Term Care | Adaptive Equipment | *Geriatric SYNDROMES* | Nutrition | Delirium, Dementia; Memory | Skin Ulcers | Advanced Care | Palliative | Hospice | Dying Process | Bad News |
Life Expectancy | Aging Theories | Elderly Abuse | Fecal Incontinence | Urinary Incontinence | Constipation | Hearing Loss | Menopause | Osteoporosis | Hip Fx | Delirium | Dementia | Arthritis | Malnutrition | Wasting Syndrome | Functional Decline | Pressure Ulcers (Decubiti) | Frailty
| Alzheimer's Disease
Palliative Medicine: Comfort Care | Pain | Terminal Delirium | Bowels | Nausea | Withholding / Withdrawing Care | Terminal Sedation | Food-Hydration Withdrawal | Hospice | Talking to Family | Advanced Care Planning | Euthanasia | Spirituality | Dying Process | Coping with Death | Hospice Care | DNR Orders | Brain Death | Pronouncing Death | Futile Care |
New in 2016 edition: Hyperlinked alphabetized index. Table of Contents. Now over 240 illustrations and color photo's.
A complete Geriatric medical text. Topics include: prevention, screening, dementia & delerium, leg ulcers, palliative & hospice care, advanced care, geriatric syndromes, incontinence, constipation, falling, hip fractures, menopause, Alzheimers Disease... Features: Detailed treatments and workups for a multitude of topics. Edited by a board certified Geriatrician.
This text contains numerous illustrations and is fully referenced. No other text on the market provides such a collection of succinct and clinically relevant material that can be accessed at the bedside.
CONTENTS: Intro | Approach | Prevention | Competency Driving | Exercise | Long-Term Care | Adaptive Equipment | *Geriatric SYNDROMES* | Nutrition | Delirium, Dementia; Memory | Skin Ulcers | Advanced Care | Palliative | Hospice | Dying Process | Bad News |
Life Expectancy | Aging Theories | Elderly Abuse | Fecal Incontinence | Urinary Incontinence | Constipation | Hearing Loss | Menopause | Osteoporosis | Hip Fx | Delirium | Dementia | Arthritis | Malnutrition | Wasting Syndrome | Functional Decline | Pressure Ulcers (Decubiti) | Frailty
| Alzheimer's Disease
Palliative Medicine: Comfort Care | Pain | Terminal Delirium | Bowels | Nausea | Withholding / Withdrawing Care | Terminal Sedation | Food-Hydration Withdrawal | Hospice | Talking to Family | Advanced Care Planning | Euthanasia | Spirituality | Dying Process | Coping with Death | Hospice Care | DNR Orders | Brain Death | Pronouncing Death | Futile Care |
