Description
Book SynopsisThe fifth edition of this widely used book by caregivers brings to you updated and revised content, built on the basic understanding that medicine does not work in a vacuum, but rather alongside other disciplines to provide the environment for a healthy and fulfilling long life. Edited by alumni and senior faculty at McGill University, with international contributions, this book advocates the achievement of better, longer, satisfying, and more productive lives for older persons. It is a helpful resource for physicians, professional caregivers, therapists, students, and residents in medical and nursing disciplines, who care for our burgeoning older population and need to know what to look for and when to consult specialists.
Key Features:
1. Follows a uniform structure with many chapters having a hypothetical vignette for instructional purposes and with the clinical chapters detailing the features and diagnosis of given conditions, along with possible management protocol
Trade ReviewA readable, engaging and thought-provoking book that offers a broad overview of ageing and aged care,while at the same time providing detailed and relevant clinical information.
Glenn Duns, MDCM, FRACGP,MPH, Melbourne
The new Fifth edition of The Care of the Older Person, written by eminent experts, details stumbling blocks and disease processes encountered by older people, including frailty and loss of mental acuity. Strategies to mitigate, and even avoid, such conditions, including possible changes in lifestyle, which I have spent a lifetime advocating, are detailed, as well as how to care for persons who are living with such conditions.
Joe De Sena, Founder and CEO of Spartan
The fifth edition of The Care of the Older Person, edited by Ronald Caplan, MD, and authored by McGill faculty, is an excellent resource for the improvement of health and nutrition and the diagnosis and treatment of disease in the geriatric patient. Brief clinical vignettes solidify the principles covered in each chapter and highlight differences in this population. As we enter the “older person” age group, I greatly appreciate the authors’ and editor’s careful attention to all the elements of patient care, from assessment with the frailty index to application of care pathways ensuring optimal outcomes despite multiple comorbidities, impaired physiologic reserve and functional status. Ethical issues and patient values are also well incorporated into decision-making. I recommend this book to all those interested in the care of this vulnerable population-physicians, advanced care providers, nurses and students.
Mary C. McCarthy, MD, FACS, MAMSEProfessor Emeritus
Wright State University School of Medicine
The Care of the Older Person is a remarkable book on many levels. In addition to being clearly written, it explores areas that do not even appear on the average practitioner’s radar. There is an entire chapter on the many aspects of building a residence for older people; there is another chapter on the relative merits of cancer screening for this and that condition; there is a chapter on the psychology of getting older, becoming disabled, and obviously, coming closer to dying. These are topics that many practitioners would rather leave to others. Yet, as the saying goes, no snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible. All practitioners (except perhaps pediatricians) need a passing knowledge of the information in this book. I can well see this work becoming part of medical school curricula.
Ronald Grelsamer, Clinical Associate Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, Icahn School of Medicine at the Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY.
The book is much more than a typical medical textbook. It delves deeper and wider into the important question of what can be done to improve all aspects of the lives of older persons in our world today. The latest edition of this comprehensive textbook offers a wealth of current information. It should be available to all who care for older persons.
David E. Wesson, MD, Emeritus Professor of Surgery Baylor College of Medicine
Table of ContentsDISCLAIMER
EDITORS/CONTRIBUTORS
CONTRIBUTORS
HELPING
1. Introduction
2. Caring for the older person
3. Frailty
4. Physical activity as a countermeasure to frailty
5. Doctor, my spouse is getting forgetful
6. Update on Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis and management
7. Navigating the journey of dementia as a caregiver
8. How to diagnose and manage delirium
9. Why does my patient have gait & balance disorders?
10. Could my patient be malnourished?
11. Dental care in older persons
12. Eating, drinking and swallowing problems of vulnerable older adults
VULNERABILITY
13. Architecture and the aging
14. Are the immunizations of my patient up to date?
15. Management of older patients in the emergency department: this man is old, but is it an emergency?
16. Critical care of the older person
17. COVID-19 in long-term care
CARING
18. Arthritis in the older person
19. Stroke prevention in the elderly
20. Advances in cardiac care for older persons
21. Could my patient be at risk of orthostatic hypotension?
22. The care of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in older adults
23. How do I manage my patient with peripheral arterial disease?
24. How to manage type 2 diabetes in frail elderly patients
25. Hepatobiliary considerations, including cancer
26. Abdominal organ transplantation in the older person
CANCER
27. Cancer in older adults
28. Cancer screening in the older adult
29. Diagnosis and management of bowel cancer
30. Precision medicine and care of the older patient
31. Psycho oncology: living with the fear of death
CONSIDERATIONS
32. Incontinence in older adults
33. Sleep disorders in older persons
34. Polypharmacy and deprescribing in the elderly
35. After menopause
36. The senior adult eye
37. Hearing loss and aging
38. Skin care of the older person: the skin and its associated changes
39. Caring for the older person undergoing plastic surgery
UNDERSTANDING, PROTECTING
40. Elder abuse
41. Late-life anxiety
42. An overview of late-life depression
43. Assessment of decision-making capacity
44. How can older people be protected?
45. Financial guidance for seniors
46. The role of religious belief in the end-of-life care of older persons
MEDICAL TERMS
Medical terms and their meaning: Glossary
Bibliography & Supplemental Bibliography
