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Elderly Care Medicine Lecture Notes: A Comprehensive Guide for Healthcare Professionals and Caregivers. This essential resource provides a robust introduction to the complexities of elderly care, addressing the unique characteristics and needs of elderly patients. The eighth edition of this indispensable guide is meticulously updated to incorporate the latest advances in geriatrics, ensuring that you stay informed on critical topics such as stroke management, dementia care, delirium, and cancer treatment.
Highlighted by user-friendly formatting, this book includes more treatment tables and quick-reference boxes to facilitate rapid access to crucial information and revision. It offers an in-depth look at polypharmacy and appropriate prescribing techniques, ensuring safe and effective medication management for older adults.
In addition to medical insights, this edition emphasizes the importance of emotional support, counseling, and spirituality in elderly care, acknowledging the holistic needs of aging patients. Readers will benefit from practical advice on breaking bad news, navigating end-of-life care, and addressing ethical and legal considerations in geriatric medicine.
Access supplementary resources through a dedicated companion website, featuring clinically relevant appendices, key revision points for each chapter, further reading suggestions, and extended content aimed at specialty training in geriatrics. Whether you are a seasoned healthcare professional or a caregiver seeking to enhance your knowledge, Elderly Care Medicine Lecture Notes is vital for your practice.
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled. Condition: BRAND NEW. ISBN: 9780470654545. Year: 2012. Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (UK). Pages: 264.
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled.
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780470654545
Year: 2012
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (UK)
Pages: 264
Description:
Elderly Care Medicine Lecture Notes provides all the
necessary information, within one short volume, for a sound
introduction to the particular characteristics and needs of elderly
patients.
Presented in a user-friendly format, combining readability
with high-quality illustrations, this eighth edition has been
thoroughly revised to reflect advances in knowledge on how disease
presents in elderly people, and changes in management practice,
particularly regarding stroke, dementia, delirium, and cancer.
New for this edition, Elderly Care Medicine Lecture
Notes also features:
More treatment tables and boxes throughout for rapid access
and revision
Expansion of material on polypharmacy and prescribing
Discussion of emotional support, counselling and
spirituality
Advice for doctors on breaking bad news and end-of-life
care
Consideration of ethical and legal issues
A companion website at www.lecturenoteseries.com/elderlycaremed
features appendices which can be used as guidelines in a clinical
setting, key revision points for each chapter, further reading
suggestions, and extended content for specialty training in
geriatrics.
Not only is this book a great starting point to support initial
teaching on the topic, but it is also easy to dip in and out of for
reference or revision at the end of a module, rotation or final
examsWhether you need to develop or refresh your knowledge
of geriatrics, Elderly Care Medi
Highlighted by user-friendly formatting, this book includes more treatment tables and quick-reference boxes to facilitate rapid access to crucial information and revision. It offers an in-depth look at polypharmacy and appropriate prescribing techniques, ensuring safe and effective medication management for older adults.
In addition to medical insights, this edition emphasizes the importance of emotional support, counseling, and spirituality in elderly care, acknowledging the holistic needs of aging patients. Readers will benefit from practical advice on breaking bad news, navigating end-of-life care, and addressing ethical and legal considerations in geriatric medicine.
Access supplementary resources through a dedicated companion website, featuring clinically relevant appendices, key revision points for each chapter, further reading suggestions, and extended content aimed at specialty training in geriatrics. Whether you are a seasoned healthcare professional or a caregiver seeking to enhance your knowledge, Elderly Care Medicine Lecture Notes is vital for your practice.
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled. Condition: BRAND NEW. ISBN: 9780470654545. Year: 2012. Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (UK). Pages: 264.
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled.
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780470654545
Year: 2012
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (UK)
Pages: 264
Description:
Elderly Care Medicine Lecture Notes provides all the
necessary information, within one short volume, for a sound
introduction to the particular characteristics and needs of elderly
patients.
Presented in a user-friendly format, combining readability
with high-quality illustrations, this eighth edition has been
thoroughly revised to reflect advances in knowledge on how disease
presents in elderly people, and changes in management practice,
particularly regarding stroke, dementia, delirium, and cancer.
New for this edition, Elderly Care Medicine Lecture
Notes also features:
More treatment tables and boxes throughout for rapid access
and revision
Expansion of material on polypharmacy and prescribing
Discussion of emotional support, counselling and
spirituality
Advice for doctors on breaking bad news and end-of-life
care
Consideration of ethical and legal issues
A companion website at www.lecturenoteseries.com/elderlycaremed
features appendices which can be used as guidelines in a clinical
setting, key revision points for each chapter, further reading
suggestions, and extended content for specialty training in
geriatrics.
Not only is this book a great starting point to support initial
teaching on the topic, but it is also easy to dip in and out of for
reference or revision at the end of a module, rotation or final
examsWhether you need to develop or refresh your knowledge
of geriatrics, Elderly Care Medi