Geriatric medicine : an evidence-based approach /

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chapter 1: From gut feeling to evidence base: drivers and barriers to the development of health care for older people -- Chapter 2: Re-thinking care in later life: the social and the clinical -- Chapter 4: Service models -- Chapter 5: Therapeutics in older people -- Chapter 6: Dementia and memory clinics -- Chapter 7: Frailty: challenges and progress -- Chapter 8: Incontinence, the sleeping geriatric giant: challenges and solutions -- Chapter 9: Depressions in later life: heterogeneity and co-morbidities -- Chapter 10: Substance misuse and older people: a question of values -- Chapter 11: Sleep in older people -- Chapter 12: Assessment and management of pain in older adults -- Chapter 13: Stroke units: research in practice -- Chapter 14: Stroke care: what is in the black box? -- Chapter 15: Involving older people in the design and conduct of clinical trials -- Chapter 16: Under-representation of older people in clinical trials -- Index.