Geriatrics

Ethical Patient Care: A Casebook for Geriatric Health Care Teams is designed to teach effective and responsible group decision making to clinicians working in teams to treat older patients.

This text offers assistance in developing and maintaining residential care environments that maximize quality of life and personal well-being in the presence of declining physical and emotional resources that are associated with the vicissitudes of living into advanced aging.

This book is an invaluable source that provides reference information on the myriad issues related to aging faced by the elderly and their healthcare providers.

The most complete, authoritative guide available on the diagnosis and treatment of disorders affecting the elderly.

Writing in accessible language, using case studies to illustrate how policies translate to everyday lives, and applying lessons from the practice of geriatric medicine, Cassel makes a powerful argument for reforming and modernizing Medicare. She offers a new vision of what healthy aging could be and delineates what is needed to reach this vision, including changes in the medical sector, in the policy arena, and in our cultural beliefs about aging.

The Oxford American Handbook of Geriatric Medicine is the essential ready-reference to effective geriatric practice.