Oxford Textbook of Geriatric Medicine - 3rd edition

The third edition of the definitive international reference book on all aspects of the medical care of older persons 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.

List of contents

• Section 1: Ageing population and policy


• 1: David E. Bloom, Elizabeth Mitgang, and Benjamin Osher: Demography of Global Ageing


• 2: Emily M Grundy and Michael Murphy: Population ageing in Europe


• 3: Eileen M. Crimmins, Hiram Beltran-Sanchez, Lauren Brown and Yongjie Yon: Ageing in North America: Canada and the United States


• 4: Carlos M. Paixao Junior, Roberto A. Lourenço and Morales-Martinez: Population ageing in south and central America


• 5: Bilkish Cassim and Isabella Aboderin: Population ageing in sub-Saharan Africa


• 6: Du Peng and Cao Ting: Population ageing in Asia


• 7: Abla Mehio Sibai and Anthony Rizk: Population Ageing in Arab countries


• 8: Leon Flicker and Ngaire Kerse: Population Ageing in Oceania


• 9: Jean-Marie Robine and Carol Jagger: Health expectancies


• 10: Ruth Bell and Michael Marmot: Life course approach to understanding inequalities in health in later life


• 11: John R Beard, Anne Margriet Pot, and Geeske Peeters: Implications of population ageing for societies and governments


• 12: Andrew Mason and Ronald Lee: Economic implications of Population Ageing


• 13: Alexandre Sidorenko and Alan Walker: Policy options for responding to population ageing


• Section 2: Key Concepts in care of older adults


• 14: H E Syddall and A A Sayer: A lifecourse approach for understanding later life sustainability


• 15: Barbara Gryglewska, Karolina Piotrowicz and Tomasz Grodzicki: Ageing, multimorbidity and daily functioning


• 16: Alberto Pilotto and Francesco Panza: Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment: Evidence


• 17: George Heckman and Pálmi V. Jónsson: Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment: The Specific Assessment Technology of InterRAI


• 18: Angela Coulter: Engaging older patients in their treatment and care


• 19: Kaisu Pitkala, John Gladman and Martin Connolly: Models of health care for older people


• 20: José M Ribera-Casado: History Taking And Physical Examination


• 21: Rebecca Allwood, Rowan H Harwood: Communication


• 22: Ellen Flaherty and Terry Fulmer: Interprofessional Team Building and Case Management


• 23: Lisa Warth, Alana Margaret Officer, John Roland Beard and Norah Keating: Age-friendly environments and their role in supporting Healthy Ageing


• 24: David G Le Couteur, Andrew J McLachlan and Sarah N Hilmer: Principles Of Medication Management


• 25: Denis O Mahony: Optimizing Pharmacotherapy for Older Patients


• 26: Antonio Cherubini and Graziano Onder: Limitations in the evidence for safe and effective medications for older people


• 27: Torgeir Bruun Wyller and Erik Bautz-Holter: General principles of recovery and rehabilitation


• 28: Jonathan Martin, Caroline Nicholson and Rob George: The approach of dying and death, and the mourning process of the survivors


• 29: Reijo Tilvis: Legal and ethical issues in care of older adults


• Section 3: Principles and organisation of care


• 30: Alfonso J. Cruz-Jentoft: Integrating geriatrics principles into primary care


• 31: Gideon Caplan: Clinical Interventions in home care


• 32: Don Melady and Barry J. Goldlist: Geriatric Patients in the Emergency Department


• 33: Maria E. Carlo, Kwame Frimpong and E. Wesley Ely: Critical Illness and Intensive Care


• 34: Roger Wong: Older People Presenting to Acute Care Hospitals


• 35: Liang-Kung Chen: Postacute Care and Intermediate Care


• 36: Jugdeep Dhesi and Judith Partridge: Pre-operative assessment and peri-operative management


• 37: Jos M. G. A. Schols and Adam Gordon: Residential and nursing home care; from the past to the future


• 38: Rebecca Palm and Sabine Bartholomeyczik: Dementia specialist care units


• 39: Elizabeth Gundersen, Benjamin A. Bensadon and Joseph G. Ouslander, M.D.: Transitions between Care Settings Till Death


• Section 4: Age-related biological changes, altered physiology and vulnerability to diseases and chronic conditions


• 40: Why do organisms agea


• 41: Fabbri Elisa, Zoli Marco and Ferrucci Luigi: Age-related Physiologic Declines


• 42: Fabbri Elisa, Zoli Marco and Ferrucci Luigi: The Emergence of Ageing Phenotypes and Multi-system decline


• 43: Arun S Karlamangla and Teresa E Seeman: Environment and ageing biology


• 44: Jintang Wang and Sean X. Leng: Inflammation and its role in ageing and disease


• 45: Graham Pawelec, Ludmila Müller, Tamas Fülöp: Immune system changes and immunosenescence


• 46: Emanuele Marzetti, Francesco Landi, Francesca Martini, Christiaan Leeuwenburgh, Riccardo Calvani: Mitochondrial Decline and Chronic Conditions of Older Adults


• 47: Kevin Horgan, Fergus Shanahan, Paul W. O Toole and Deborah Dunn-Walters: Biological significance of gut microbiota changes associated with ageing


• Section 5: Geriatric syndromes in clinical practice


• 48: Marcel Olde Rikkert: Conceptualizing Geriatric Syndromes


• 49: Alasdair MacLullich,Edward R. Marcantonio and David Meagher: Delerium


• 50: Clemens Becker, Jean Woo and Chris Todd: Falls


• 51: Adrian Wagg: Urinary Incontinence


• 52: Richard Savdie, Edmund CP and Mr Chidi Molokwu: Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia and Prostate Cancer


• 53: Cindy Kiely and Magdalena Pupiales: Pressure ulcers in the ageing population


• 54: José A. Morais: Sarcopenia Definitions and Epidemiology


• 55: Townsend Benard and Roger A. Fielding: Pathophysiology of Sarcopenia


• 56: Luis Miguel F. Gutiérrez Robledo and Mario Ulises Perez Zepeda: Sarcopenia: assessment, management and outcomes


• 57: Jeremy Walson: Frailty in older adults


• Section 6: Nutrition and metabolism


• 58: Maria Isabel Toulson Davisson Correia and Simone de Vasconcelos Generoso: Epidemiology of malnutrition in different care settings


• 59: Francesco Landi, Anna Maria Martone, Riccardo Calvani and Emanuele Marzetti: Anorexia of Ageing


• 60: Jürgen M. Bauer and Rebecca Diekmann: Protein and energy requirements in health and illness


• 61: Heike A. Bischoff-Ferrari: Vitamin D: Its role in health and disease in older people


• 62: Cédric Annweiler and Olivier Beauchet: Micronutrients: their roles in health and diseases in older people


• 63: Gianfranco Gioia, Alessio Molfino, Filippo Rossi Fanelli, and Maurizio Muscaritoli: From nutritional screening to assessment and nutritional plan in community, acute and long term care


• 64: Mauro Zamboni, Francesco Fantin and Gloria Mazzali: Obesity


• 65: Stefania Maggi and Gaetano Crepaldi: Metabolic syndrome


• 66: Leocadio Rodríguez Mañas, Marta Castro Rodríguez and Alan J. Sinclair: Management of Diabetes in Older Adults.


• Section 7: Mobility disorders: prevention, impact and compensation


• 67: Stephanie Studenski and Jessie Van Swearingen: Gait Disorders: Clinical Significance and Approach to Evaluation and Management


• 68: René Rizzoli: Osteoporosis in the oldest old: epidemiology, assessment and management


• 69: Hiroshi Hagino and Akiko Kondo: Common fractures in older adults: Epidemiology and outcomes


• 70: V. Ana Sanguineti, Jason R. Wild, Bellal Joseph and Mindy J. Fain: Management of Common Fractures in Older Adults


• 71: Tahir Masud and Paul J. Mitchell: Secondary prevention of fragility fractures: case finding, fracture liaison, falls reduction, injury prevention.


• 72: Francisco J Blanco: Osteoarthritis


• 73: Kieran O Sullivan, Kjartan Vibe Fersum, Wim Dankaerts and Peter O Sullivan: Low back pain in older adults: From red flags to functional rehabilitation


• 74: Alexis Régent and Loïc Guillevin: Vasculitides In The Elderly


• 75: James B Galloway and David L Scott: Management of common types of arthritis in older adults


• 76: Hylton B. Menz: Foot Problems


• 77: Tomasz Kostka and Joanna Kostka: Injuries in sports activities in elderly people


• 78: Jacqueline Close: Orthogeriatrics


• Section 8: Infections in Older Adults: Epidemiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis and management


• 79: Michel Moutschen, Henri Martens and Vincent Geenen: Immunosenescence and Infectious Diseases


• 80: Gaëtan Gavazzi, Thibaut Fraisse, Benoit de Wazières: Epidemiology of infection in elderly populations in various settings


• 81: Adamantia Liapikou and Antoni Torres: Pneumonia and respiratory tract infections


• 82: Aparajit Ballav Dey and Ramesh Kandel: Tuberculosis in old age


• 83: Werner Zimmerli and Parham Sendi: Bone and Periprosthetic Joint Infections in Older Adults


• 84: Ursula Müller-Werdan and Karl Werdan: Infective endocarditis


• 85: Amy Justice: Ageing with HIV


• 86: Benedikt Huttner and Stephan Harbarth: Health care associated infections and emergence of antibiotic resistance


• 87: Pascal Astagneau, Elise Seringe and Francois Bricaire,: Healthcare-associated infections and infection control


• 88: Janet E. McElhaney: Vaccines against viral infections


• 89: Jean-Pierre Michel, Pierre-Olivier Lang and Richard Aspinall: Vaccination in older adults needs to be included a life-course programme


• Section 9: Cancer: Epidemiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis and management


• 90: Tamas Fulop, Vladimir N. Anisimov, Francis Rodier and Martine Extermann: Cell biology and carcinogenesis in the elderly


• 91: Shane O'Hanlon and Margot Gosney: Epidemiology of cancers in older adults


• 92: Anne M Horgan and Shabbir MH Alibhai: Screening for Cancer


• 93: Nicolò Matteo Luca Battisti and Martine Extermann: Multidisciplinary management, including chemotherapy of solid tumors (lung, breast and colon)


• 94: Roberto Mina, Alessandra Larocca and Antonio Palumbo: Haemopoietic diseases: Leukemias and Myelomas


• Section 10: Vascular diseases: Epidemiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis and management


• 95: Hidetaka Ota and Masahiro Akishita: Cardiac and Vascular Ageing


• 96: Hidenori Arai: Dyslipidemias and other cardio-metabolic risk factors In Older Adults


• 97: Junichiro Hashimoto, Michael F. O'Rourke: Physical factors in arterial ageing


• 98: Chung S Lim, Sarah Onida and Alun H Davies: Peripheral Vascular Disease in Older Adults: Diagnostic and Treatment Considerations


• 99: Gino Gemayel and Afksendiyos Kalangos: Aneurysmal Diseases


• 100: Simone Wärntges, Katrin Schäfer and Stavros V. Konstantinides: Pulmonary thromboembolism


• 101: Hiromi Rakugi, and Tatsuo Kawai,: Hypertension in older adults


• 102: R. A. Kenny and Conal Cunningham: Syncope and neurocardiovascular instability


• 103: Mark ONeill, John Whitaker, Jonathan Birns, and Matthew Wright: Management of Atrial Fibrillation and Anticoagulant Therapies


• 104: James L Harrison and Mark D O Neill: Management of Bradyarrhythmias


• 105: James L Harrison and Mark D O Neill: Management of Bachyarrhythmias


• 106: Martina Rafanelli, Francesco Orso and Niccolò Marchionni: Ischemic Heart Disease


• 107: Alain Cribier and Helene Eltchaninoff: Valvular Heart Disease State of the Art and Treatment Perspectives


• 108: John Cleland and John Baxter: Heart Failure - Definitions, Investigation and Management


• 109: Andrew Maiorana, Lis Neubeck, Sian Williams and Keith Hill: Cardiac Rehabilitation


• 110: Esther M.M. van de Glind, Barbara C. van Munster and Marije E. Hamaker: Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation: Outcomes and Decision Making Processes for Older Adults


• Section 11: Neurologic Disorders: Epidemiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis and management


• 111: Henry J. Woodford and James George: Examining the nervous system of an older patient


• 112: Stéphane Mathis, Pierre Bouche, Jean-Michel Vallat: Peripheral neuropathies and motor neuron disorders


• 113: Mark Weatherall: Headaches and Facial Pain


• 114: Abdullah Bin Zahid and Uzma Samadani: Traumatic brain injury and subdural hematoma


• 115: Steven C. Schachter: Seizure disorders and management


• 116: John V. Hindle, Sion Jones and Glesni Davies: Parkinsonism, Parkinson s disease and related conditions


• 117: Uy Hoang, Abdel Douiri, Salma Ayis, Yanzhong Wang, Anthony Rudd and Charles Wolfe: Stroke: Epidemiology, different types of strokes


• 118: L. Manning, M. Y. Lam, and T. G. Robinson: Primary and secondary prevention of stroke


• 119: Jonathan Birns and Ajay Bhalla: Management of acute stroke within the stroke pathway and stroke clinics


• 120: J.S. K. Kwan, M. M. Y Tse and L. S. W. Li: Neurological Rehabilitation


• Section 12: Cognitive decline and dementia in older adults: Epidemiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis and management


• 121: John Starr: Normal cognition and ageing: Structure and function, Cognitive reserve


• 122: Jean François Dartigues, Leslie Grasset, Maturin Tabue-Tiguo, Alexandra Foubert, Karine Pérès, Catherine Helmer and Hélène Amieva: Epidemiology of Alzheimer s Disease: a relevant challenge for long term follow-up of population-based cohort.


• 123: Francesca Mangialasche , Tiia Nganduand Miia Kivipelto: Cognitive impairment Risk Factors and Prevention


• 124: H. Tuokko and C. Smart: Neuropsychological evaluation of cognition


• 125: Pieter Jelle Visser, Nienke Legdeur, Mara ten Kate and Daniela Bertens: Mild Cognitive Impairment


• 126: Bruno Dubois, Massimo Filippi and Gunhild Waldemar: The Diagnosis of Alzheimer s Disease: Assessment and Criteria


• 127: Chiadi U. Onyike: Assessment and diagnosis of the non-Alzheimer dementias


• 128: Jacques Hugon and Claire Paquet: Pharmacological interventions in mild cognitive impairment (mci) and dementia


• 129: Michelle C. Carlson and Vijay R. Varma: Non-pharmacologic Behavioral Activity Interventions to Prevent Dementia


• 130: Gabriel Gold and Dina Zekry,: Management of co-morbidities in demented patients


• 131: Anne Corbett, Clive Ballard and Byron Creese: Evidence-based management of behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia


• 132: Emma Reynish, Nicola Thomson and Jane Roberson: Caregivers in dementia: Role and Empowerment


• 133: Yohko Maki, Takashi Sakurai and Kenji Toba: A new model of care for patients with dementia: The Japanese Initiative for Dementia Care


• Section 13: Mental health of older adults


• 134: Renzo Rozzini and Marco Trabucchi: Mental health: Epidemiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis and management


• 135: Yohannes Endeshaw and Donald L. Bliwise: Sleep disorders


• 136: Christine M. Ulbricht, Jacob Hunnicutt, Anne Hume, Camilla B. Pimentel, Jennifer Tjia and Kate L. Lapane: Mood and Anxiety Disorders


• 137: Luis Agüera-Ortiz: Functional psychoses


• 138: Ilana Crome and Rahul (Tony) Rao: Older people with substance problems


• 139: Peter Crome and Amit Arora: Elder Abuse


• Section 14: Management of Common medical conditions: epidemiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis and management


• 140: Simon Conroy and Rosa McNamara: Common geriatric emergencies


• 141: Natalie Ebert and Elke Schaeffner: Management of acute kidney injury and chronic kidney disease


• 142: Michael I Macentee: Oral Health and Mouth Diseases.


• 143: Silvia Carrión and Pere Clavé: Gastrointestinal disease in the older population


• 144: Philippe Ducrotte and Philippe Chassagne: Malabsorption


• 145: Philippe Chassagne and Frédéric Roca: Constipation and faecal incontinence


• 146: Chang Won Won and Sunyoung Kim: Age-associated breathlessness


• 147: Ammon M. Fager and Harvey Jay Cohen: Anaemia


• 148: Alexis McKee and John E. Morley: Endocrinology of Ageing


• 149: Marcello Maggio, Fulvio Lauretani and Gian Paolo Ceda: Sexuality in Older Persons


• 150: Christophe Trivalle and Daniel Wallach: Skin diseases more common in older adults


• 151: Jacqueline Chua, Ching-Yu Cheng and Tien Yin Wong: Common age-related eye diseases and visual impairment


• 152: Sara K. Mamo, Theresa H. Chisolm and Frank R. Lin: Hearing impairments and their treatments


• 153: Declan Lyons, Avril Bierne and Joanna Lawson: Dizziness and Vertigo


• Section 15: Palliative medicine and end of life care


• 154: Why, when, and where do older people diea


• 155: Viviana Forte and Giovanni Gambassi: Prognostication and Recognition of dying


• 156: Nele Van Den Noortgate and Elizabeth Sampson: Pain assessment and management in cognitively intact and impaired patients


• 157: Nele Van Den Noortgate and Elizabeth Sampson: Symptom assessment and management at the end of life


• 158: Finbarr C Martin, Abdul Abyad, Hidenori Arai, Marcel Arcand, Hashim Hasan Balubaid, B Lynn Beattie, Yitshal N. Berner, Rajiv Mohan Kaushik, Pedro Paulo Marín, Yasuyoshi Ouchi, Marwan Ramadan and Paulina Taboada: Eating and Drinking in Later Life


• 159: Rehabilitation: additional palliative care approaches


• 160: Aline De Vleminck and Luc Deliens: Advance Care Planning for Older People


• Section 16: Healthy ageing


• 161: Sebastiano Collino, Blandine Comte, Estelle Pujos Guillot, Claudio Franceschi, Antonio Nuñez Galindo, Loïc Dayon and Martin Kussmann: Healthy Ageing Phenotypes and Trajectories


• 162: Ina Voelcker and Alexandre Kalache: Empowerment of the ageing population: a contribution to active ageing


• 163: Timo E. Strandberg: Midlife risk factors of diseases and geriatric syndromes


• 164: Stephen D. Anton, Duane Corbett and Todd Manini: Optimizing Physical Activity Across the Lifespan


• 165: Tommy Cederholm and Mai-Lis Hellénius: Nutrition, ageing and longevity


• 166: Nicoletta Berardi, Alessandro Sale and Lamberto Maffei: Optimizing cognition in older adults: lifestyle factors, neuroplasticity, cognitive reserve.


• 167: Osvaldo P. Almeida: Preserving Mental Health and Well-Being


• 168: Allyson K. Palmer and James L. Kirkland: Clinical Translation of Interventions that Target Ageing: Toward a Longevity Dividend


• 169: Benjamin Shapiro and L. Jaime Fitten,: Driving, transportation and mobility in the older adult


• 170: James Podrebarac, Joel Edin, Erik J. Suuronen, Emilio I. Alarcon and May Griffith: Nanosciences and the Medicine of Ageing


• 171: Tilak Dutta, Babak Taati, Pam Holliday, Yue Li, Steve Pong, Alex Mihailidis and Geoffrey Fernie: Gerontechnology


• 172: Gunnar Akner: Personalized Medicine for Older Adults


• 173: Jean-Pierre Michel, B. Lynn Beattie, Finbarr C. Martin and Jeremy Walston: What next for Geriatric Medicine?


• Index

About the author

Dr Michel is Emeritus Professor of Medicine, former head of the academic Geriatric Department, Geneva University, and honorary professor in France, China and Quebec. He co-founded the European, Middle-East, Latin-America and Asian Academy for Medicine of Ageing and the European Interdisciplinary Council on Ageing. He is past President of the European Union Geriatric Medicine Society and editor-in-chief of European Geriatric Medicine.

Dr Michel is also a full board member of the French Academy of Medicine and has received an IAGG World Award for his life-time and global achievements in Geriatrics. He is an ongoing World Health Organization expert for the 'Aging and Life course' program, and contributed to the 1st WHO report on Healthy Ageing in 2015. He has also authored 430 peer reviewed papers and numerous book chapters.

B Lynn Beattie is Professor Emeritus, Division of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine, UBC. Her current clinical interest is practise at the UBC Hospital Clinic for Alzheimer Disease and Related Disorders (UBCH CARD) where she is the Medical Director. She is on the Board of the Alzheimer Society of Canada as Chair of the Research Policy Committee and has completed two terms as Secretary Treasurer of C5R, the Consortium of Canadian Centres for Clinical Cognitive Research. Professor Beattie also started and was the first Head of the Division of Geriatric Medicine at UBC, initially based at Shaughnessy Hospital and in later years at Vancouver Coastal UBC/VGH. She was Director of the Clinic for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders from its inception until 2005, and again from 2009 to date, and is Past President of the American Geriatrics Society and the Canadian Geriatrics Society.

Professor Finbarr C. Martin trained in geriatric medicine at Hammersmith Hospital, London, and was appointed consultant physician in general and geriatric medicine at St Thomas' Hospital in 1984. He has worked in a broad range of services for older people in acute hospitals and in community settings. He has led national audit programmes on falls and fragility fractures, and is co-chair of the DH funded but clinically led National Hip Fracture Database. He was the elected president of the British Geriatrics Society between 2010 and 2012.

Dr Jeremy Walston is a professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His area of clinical expertise is geriatric medicine. At the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Dr Walston is co-director of the Biology of Healthy Aging Program in the Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology as well as deputy director of the division, and the Raymond and Anna Lublin Professor of Geriatric Medicine. Dr Walston plays a leading role in setting the national ageing research agenda through his leadership and participation in committees of the American Geriatrics Society and on study sections and review panels for the National Institute on Aging. He has won numerous awards for his research, including the American Geriatrics Society New Investigator Award, a Brookdale National Leadership Fellowship and Paul Beeson Physician Faculty Scholars recognition.

Summary

The third edition of the definitive international reference book on all aspects of the medical care of older persons 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.

Foreword

Highly Commended in the BMA Book Awards 2018

Additional text

I regard this book as an essential tool for the practising geriatrician. Twenty-six sections cover the whole breadth of the practice of geriatric medicine and there are many outstanding contributions. The editors have gone for active young contributors and have produced some outstanding chapters.

Product details

• Authors: Jean-Pierre Michel, Jean-Pierre (EDT)/ Beattie Michel, Jean-Pierre (Professor of Medicine Michel, Jean-Pierre Beattie Michel
• Assisted by: B Lynn Beattie (Editor), B. Lynn Beattie (Editor), Finbarr C Martin (Editor), Finbarr C. Martin (Editor), Jean-Pierre Michel (Editor), Jeremy Walston (Editor), Jeremy D Walston (Editor), Jeremy D. Walston (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9780198701590
• ISBN: 978-0-19-870159-0
• No. of pages: 1392
• Dimensions: 230 mm x 282 mm x 60 mm
• Series: Oxford Textbook; Oxford Textbooks
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine