Geriatric Medicine in Practice: A Decision-Based Guide to Older Patient Care Across All Settings [Print Replica] Kindle Edition

Most medical textbooks teach you about diseases. This one teaches you about people. Somewhere right now, a physician stands outside a hospital room reviewing a chart that lists multiple diagnoses, medications, and a high fall-risk score. What the chart does not show is the person inside — an 83-year-old woman who once ran a school, still writes letters by hand, and has told her family she does not want the end of her life defined by hospital beds. That gap between what the chart shows and what the patient truly needs is what this book was written to close. Geriatric Medicine in Practice is a practical, decision-based guide to caring for older adults across hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, and home settings. Built around the Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA), it explores frailty, falls, dementia, polypharmacy, and multimorbidity while integrating updated evidence such as STOPP/START v3, AGS Beers Criteria, and Age-Friendly Health Systems. Every chapter begins with a patient—because medicine works best when we remember who we are treating. Read more