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Current Diagnosis and Treatment: Geriatrics, 3/e de Louise Walter

Current Diagnosis and Treatment: Geriatrics, 3/e

Autor Louise Walter, Anna Chang
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 noi 2020
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The highly rated geriatrics guide has been updated and streamlined, getting you up to speed on everything you need to know—quickly and efficiently
One of the top-selling geriatrics guides in medicine, Current Diagnosis & Treatment:Geriatrics now covers the unique challenges clinicians are facing today,such as policies concerning special populations, care in collaboration with teams, and working within healthcare systems.
Presented by a top-ranked group of internationally renowned experts, this concise and authoritative guide delivers everything you need to know about assessment, care, conditions, diseases, and symptoms of geriatric patients; provides a new focus on policy, society, and the global environment;and includes new chapters on assisted-living settings, HIV and aging, and aid in dying.
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ISBN-13: 9781260457087
ISBN-10: 1260457087
Pagini: 736
Dimensiuni: 185 x 231 x 33 mm
Greutate: 1.04 kg
Ediția:3
Editura: McGraw Hill Education
Colecția McGraw Hill / Medical
Locul publicării:United States

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Table of Contents
Section1. Principles of Geriatric Assessment and Care
  1. Introduction to the Care of Older Persons: Knowledge, Skills & System Change
    1. Guiding Principles
  2. Overview of Geriatric Assessment (6)
    1. Geriatric Assessment in Primary Care
    2. Teams
    3. Patient Goals
    4. Prognosis
    5. Functional Assessment
    6. Falls & Gait Impairment
    7. Vision Impairment
    8. Hearing Impairment
    9. Dementia
    10. Incontinence
    11. Depression
    12. Nutrition
    13. Medication Use
    14. Caregiver Support
    15. Financial, Environmental and Social Resources
    16. Abuse
    17. Preventive Services
  3. The Interprofessional Team (5)
    1. Key Definitions & Context
    2. Innovations in Geriatric Interprofessional Teams
    3. Evidence for Interprofessional Teams
    4. Barriers to Teamwork
    5. Resources and Tools for Teamwork
  4. Goals of Care and Consideration of Prognosis (3)
    1. Guide to Goals of Care Discussions
    2. Importance of Surrogate Decision Makers
    3. Prognostication
    4. Prognosis Related to Specific Diseases
    5. Communicating Prognosis to Patient or Surrogate
  5. Functional Assessment & Functional Decline (2)
    1. Epidemiology of Functional Limitations
    2. Assessment of Functional Status
    3. Risk Factors for Functional Decline
    4. Prevention of Functional Decline
    5. Treatment of Functional Decline
  6. Falls & Mobility Impairment (25)
    1. Epidemiology of Falls
    2. Assessment of Fall Risk and Mobility
    3. Risk Factors for Falls
    4. Prevention of Falls
    5. Treatment of Mobility Impairment
  7. Managing Vision Impairment (61)
    1. Normal Changes in the Aging Eye
    2. Cataracts
    3. Age-Related Macular Degeneration
    4. Diabetic Retinopathy
    5. Glaucoma
    6. Systemic Effects of Eye Medications
    7. Visual Symptoms Indicating Need for Urgent Referral to an Eye-Care Specialist
  8. Managing Hearing Impairment (62)
    1. Age-related Hearing Changes
    2. How and when to test for Hearing Impairment
    3. Sensory Hearing Impairment
    4. Neural Hearing Impairment
    5. Conductive Hearing Impairment
    6. Treatment for Hearing Impairment
  9. Cognitive Impairment & Dementia (22)
    1. Age-related Cognitive Changes
    2. Screening for Cognitive Impairment
    3. Mild Cognitive Impairment
    4. Common types of Dementia
    5. Dementia-related Behaviors
    6. When to refer to subspecialty care
  10. Urinary Incontinence (39)
    1. Age-related Urogenital Changes
    2. Screening for Urinary Incontinence
    3. Common Causes, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Male-Sex Urinary Incontinence
    4. Common Causes, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Female-Sex Urinary Incontinence
  11. Sexual Health & Dysfunction (46)
    1. Age-related physiologic changes affecting sexual function
    2. Taking a Sexual History
    3. Sexually-transmitted Infections
    4. Common Causes, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Male-Sex Sexual Dysfunction
    5. Common Causes, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Female-Sex Sexual Dysfunction
  12. Depression & Other Mental Health Issues (45)
    1. Depression
    2. Suicide
    3. Bipolar Disorder
    4. Anxiety & Stress Disorders
    5. Schizophrenia & Psychotic Disorders
  13. Defining Adequate Nutrition (68)
    1. Assessment of Nutritional status in Older Adults
    2. Recommendation on Essential Nutrients, Vitamins and Minerals intake
    3. Definition and potential causes of involuntary weight loss
    4. Obesity in older adults
    5. Interaction of food and medications
    6. Types of nutrition deficiencies
    7. Nutrition in special populations
  14. Principles of Prescribing & Adherence (9)
    1. General Principles & Polypharmacy
    2. Drug Metabolism & Physiologic Effects
    3. Geriatric Therapeutics
    4. Prescribing for Older Adults
    5. Adherence
    6. Intervening to Reduce Polypharmacy
    7. Prescribing Across the Care Continuum
  15. Addressing Multimorbidity (10)
    1. Background and Definitions
    2. Multimorbidity & Health Outcomes
    3. Challenges to Managing Multimorbidity
    4. General Considerations in the Care of Multimorbid Older Adults
  16. Atypical Presentations of Illness (7)
    1. Defining Atypical Presentations
    2. Identifying Patients at Risk
  17. Caregiving and Caregiving Support (new)
    1. Defining Caregiving
    2. Caregiving in Context
    3. Interventions to support caregivers
    4. Caregiver resources
    5. Potential Outcomes from Caregiving
    6. Assessing for Caregiver Burden
    7. Responding to Caregiver Burden
  18. The Social Context (4—delete Medicare and include legal issues—conservatorship, etc. )
    1. Financial Issues Facing Older Persons
    2. Food Insecurity
    3. Legal Issues & Conservatorship (new)
    4. General Recommendations for Clinicians
  19. Detecting, Assessing & Responding to Elder Mistreatment (72)
    1. Detecting and Assessing Elder Mistreatment
    2. Responding to Elder Mistreatment
  20. Prevention & Health Promotion (8)
    1. General Principles of Screening & Prevention in Older Persons
    2. Screening for Geriatric Syndromes
    3. Assessment of Health-Related Behaviors
    4. Immunizations
    5. Screening for Endocrine Disorders
    6. Screening for Cardiovascular Disease
    7. Cancer Screening
  21. Ethics & Informed Decision Making (12)
    1. Ethical Issues in the Care of Older Persons
    2. Decision-Making Capacity & Informed Decision-Making
    3. Advance Care Planning & Advance Directives
    4. Surrogate Decision-Making
    5. Balancing Promotion of Independence & Patient Safety
  22. Geriatric Palliative Care (11)
    1. General Principles
    2. Psychological, Spiritual and Social Issues
    3. Aid in Dying (new)
    4. Challenges to Providing Palliative Care in Long-Term Care Settings
    5. Caring for Family Members: Grief & Bereavement
  23. Assessing Therapies for Longevity & the Biology of Aging (56—rename for John N)
    1. Add domains here
  24. Applying Evidence-Based Care to Older Persons (74)
    1. Challenges with Current Evidence
    2. Applying the Evidence to Older Persons
 
Section 2: Care Settings
  1. Ambulatory Care & Care Coordination (14—look at content)
    1. General Principles
    2. Models of Ambulatory Care
    3. Care Coordination and Integration Across Health Systems and Services
  2. Transitions of Care (13)
    1. General Principles
    2. Background & Definitions
    3. Adverse Events During Transitions
    4. Barriers to Successful Care Transitions
    5. Evidence-Based Interventions & Best Practices
    6. Innovations
    7. Future of Care Transitions
  3. Emergency Department Care (15)
    1. General Principles
    2. Models of Emergency Care
    3. Structural Enhancements
    4. Financing
    5. Clinical Care
    6. Future of Emergency Care
  4. Hospital Care (16)
    1. General Principles
    2. Hazards of Hospitalization
    3. Successful Models of Care
    4. Approach to the Hospitalized Older Person
    5. Therapy
    6. Prevention
    7. Transitioning from Hospital to Home
  5. Perioperative Care for Older Surgical Patients (17)
    1. General Principles
    2. Surgical Risk in Older Persons
    3. Clinical Care
    4. Models of Surgical Care
  6. Home-Based Care (19)
    1. General Principles
    2. Models of Medical House Calls (Home-Based Primary Care, Transitional Care, Hospital at Home, Home-Based Palliative Care)
    3. Models of Home Nursing & Rehabilitation
    4. Eligibility Requirements & Payment Denials
    5. Approach to Home Care & Assessments
    6. Innovations
  7.  Residential Care and Assisted Living Care (new)
    1. General Principles
    2. Models of Residential Care and Assisted Living Care
  8. Nursing Home Care & Rehabilitation (18)
    1. General Principles
    2. Institutional Long-Term Care
    3. Short-stay Rehabilitation (new)
    4. Consider Dementia locked unit care? Other domains?
  9. Technology to Enhance Geriatric Care (new)
    1. New technology for older adults in the community
    2. New technology for older adults in institution
    3. How to evaluate the efficacy and benefits of these new technology
    4. Potential list of reliable sites to rate these devices or services
    5. The Geriatric Care Industry
    6. Safety Enhancing technology
    7. Transportation Enhancing technology
 
Section 3: Common Conditions & Diseases inGeriatrics
  1. Osteoarthritis (26)
  2. Osteoporosis & Hip Fractures (27)
  3. Delirium (21)
  4. Parkinson’s Disease & Essential Tremor (24)
  5. Cerebrovascular Disease (23)
  6. Coronary Artery Disease (28)
    1. Acute Coronary Syndrome
    2. Chronic Coronary Artery Disease
  7. Heart Failure & Heart Rhythm Disorders (29)
    1. Heart Failure
    2. Bradyarrhythmias
    3. Tachyarrhythmias—Atrial Fibrillation & Atrial Flutter
    4. Ventricular Arrhythmias
    5. Decision-Making about Implantable Devices (new)
  8. Hypertension (30)
  9. Valvular Disease (31)
    1. Aortic Stenosis
    2. Aortic Insufficiency
    3. Mitral Stenosis
    4. Mitral Regurgitation
  10. Peripheral Arterial Disease & Venous Thromboembolism (32)
  11. Anticoagulation (55)
    1. Classes of Anticoagulant Therapy
    2. Management of Bleeding in Older Persons on Anticoagulants
  12. Chronic Venous Insufficiency, Stasis Ulcers & Lymphedema (33)
  13. Chronic Lung Disease (replaces COPD chap 34)
  14. Gastrointestinal Disease (35)
    1. Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease
    2. Dysphagia
    3. Motility Disorders
    4. Peptic Ulcer Disease
    5. Dyspepsia
    6. Diarrhea
    7. Diverticular Disease
    8. Inflammatory Bowel Disease
    9. Fecal Incontinence
    10. Colonic Ischemia
    11. Abdominal Pain
  15. Fluid & Electrolyte Abnormalities (37)
    1. Hyponatremia
    2. Hypernatremia
    3. Hypokalemia
    4. Hyperkalemia
    5. Nocturnal Polyuria
  16. Chronic Kidney Disease (38)
  17. Thyroid, Parathyroid & Adrenal Gland Disorders (41)
    1. Subclinical Hypothyroidism
    2. Subclinical Hyperthyroidism
    3. Hypothyroidism & Myxedema Coma
    4. Hyperthyroidism
    5. Nodular Thyroid Disease & Neoplasia
    6. Acute Adrenal Insufficiency
    7. Cushing Syndrome
    8. Hyperparathyroidism
  18. Diabetes (42)
  19. Anemia (43)
  20. Common Cancers (44)
    1. Breast Cancer
    2. Lung Cancer
    3. Colorectal Cancer
    4. Prostate Cancer (new)
    5. Pancreatic Cancer
    6. Ovarian Cancer