Elderly care medicine : lecture notes /
- Eighth edition.
- xi, 249 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Lecture notes series .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The world grows old -- Health and social care for elderly people in the UK -- Special features of medicine in the elderly -- Old age psychiatry -- Falls and immobility -- Bones, joints and muscles -- Stroke made simple -- Other diseases of the nervous system -- Cardiovascular disorders -- Respiratory disease -- Gastrointestinal disease and nutrition -- Disorders of homeostasis and metabolism -- Genitourinary disease -- Blood and bone marrow -- Legal and ethical aspects of medical care of elderly people -- Palliative care -- Index.