Elderly care medicine.
Material type: TextSeries: Lecture notesPublisher: Oxford : Blackwell, 2007Edition: Seventh edition / Claire Nicholl, K. Jane Wilson, Stephen WebsterDescription: xi, 196 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781405157124 (pbk.) :
- 1405157127 (pbk.) :
- Lecture notes on geriatric medicine
- 618.9'7 22
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Previous ed.: published as Lecture notes on geriatric medicine. 2004.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The world grows old -- Health and social care for elderly people in the UK -- Special features of medicine in the elderly -- Old age psychiatry -- Falls and immobility -- Bones, muscles and joints -- Stroke made simple -- Other diseases of the nervous system -- Cardiovascular disorders -- Respiratory disease -- Gastrointestinal disease and nutrition -- Disorders of homeostasis and metabolism -- Genitourinary disease -- Blood and bone marrow -- Eyes, ears and skin -- Legal and ethical aspects of medical care of elderly people -- Palliative care.
How and why does dealing with older people differ from the treatment of younger age groups? This volume explains how and why the physiological changes of aging affect the presentation and treatment of disease, and addresses the role of rehabilitation.
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