Current Diagnosis and Treatment: Geriatrics, 3/e

Title: Current Diagnosis and Treatment: Geriatrics, 3/e
Author: Anna Chang, Louise Walter
ISBN: 1260457087 / 97812604570
Format: Soft Cover
Pages: 736
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Year: 2020
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The definitive guide to safe, effective care of older adults—updated with important new content and streamlined for quick access

Doody's Core Titles for 2023!

  • Covers the complete range of topics in geriatric care, including theory and fundamentals, assessment, conditions, diseases, symptoms, policies, and societal issues that affect older patients
  • Provides a framework for using the functional and cognitive status, prognosis, and social context of patients to guide diagnosis and treatment of medical conditions
  • Delivers essential information on important topics such as delirium, cognitive impairment, dementia, falls and mobility disorders, Parkinson disease and other movement disorders, sleep disorders, and arthritis
  • Includes guidance on care in all settings – clinic, home, hospital, and long-term care, as well as pre- and post-operative settings
  • New content on technology to enhance geriatric care, caregiving support, the unique needs of older immigrants, Medicare and Medicaid, legal issues and conservatorship, aid in dying, assisted living care, short-stay rehabilitation, prostate cancer, marijuana use, syncope, and driving safety

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Chapter 1 : Introduction to the Care of Older Persons: Knowledge, Skills & System Change
Chapter 2 : Overview of Geriatric Assessment (6)
Chapter 3 : The Interprofessional Team (5)
Chapter 4 : Goals of Care and Consideration of Prognosis (3)
Chapter 5 : Functional Assessment & Functional Decline (2)
Chapter 6 : Falls & Mobility Impairment (25)
Chapter 7 : Managing Vision Impairment (61)
Chapter 8 : Managing Hearing Impairment (62)
Chapter 9 : Cognitive Impairment & Dementia (22)
Chapter 10 : Urinary Incontinence (39)
Chapter 11 : Sexual Health & Dysfunction (46)
Chapter 12 : Depression & Other Mental Health Issues (45)
Chapter 13 : Defining Adequate Nutrition (68)
Chapter 14 : Principles of Prescribing & Adherence (9)
Chapter 15 : Addressing Multimorbidity (10)
Chapter 16 : Atypical Presentations of Illness (7)
Chapter 17 : Caregiving and Caregiving Support (new)
Chapter 18 : The Social Context (4—delete Medicare and include legal issues—conservatorship, etc. )
Chapter 19 : Detecting, Assessing & Responding to Elder Mistreatment (72)
Chapter 20 : Prevention & Health Promotion (8)
Chapter 21 : Ethics & Informed Decision Making (12)
Chapter 22 : Geriatric Palliative Care (11) 
Chapter 23 : Assessing Therapies for Longevity & the Biology of Aging (56—rename for John N)
Chapter 24 : Applying Evidence-Based Care to Older Persons (74)
Chapter 25 : Ambulatory Care & Care Coordination (14—look at content)
Chapter 26 : Transitions of Care (13)
Chapter 27 : Emergency Department Care (15)
Chapter 28 : Hospital Care (16)
Chapter 29 : Perioperative Care for Older Surgical Patients (17)
Chapter 30 : Home-Based Care (19)
Chapter 31 : Residential Care and Assisted Living Care (new)
Chapter 32 : Nursing Home Care & Rehabilitation (18)
Chapter 33 : Technology to Enhance Geriatric Care (new)
Chapter 34 : Osteoarthritis (26)
Chapter 35 : Osteoporosis & Hip Fractures (27)
Chapter 36 : Delirium (21)
Chapter 37 : Parkinson’s Disease & Essential Tremor (24)
Chapter 38 : Cerebrovascular Disease (23)
Chapter 39 : Coronary Artery Disease (28)
Chapter 40 : Heart Failure & Heart Rhythm Disorders (29)
Chapter 41 : Hypertension (30)
Chapter 42 : Valvular Disease (31)
Chapter 43 : Peripheral Arterial Disease & Venous Thromboembolism (32)
Chapter 44 : Anticoagulation (55)
Chapter 45 : Chronic Venous Insufficiency, Stasis Ulcers & Lymphedema (33)
Chapter 46 : Chronic Lung Disease (replaces COPD chap 34)
Chapter 47 : Gastrointestinal Disease (35)
Chapter 48 : Fluid & Electrolyte Abnormalities (37)
Chapter 49 : Chronic Kidney Disease (38)
Chapter 50 : Thyroid, Parathyroid & Adrenal Gland Disorders (41)
Chapter 51 : Diabetes (42)
Chapter 52 : Anemia (43)
Chapter 53 : Common Cancers (44)