Geriatric Medicine: an evidence-based approach

Edited by Frank Lally and Christine Roffe

A reference for health care professionals who manage older patients
Appeals to a large cross-section of health professionals in both primary and secondary care services such as geriatric medicine, stroke, therapeutics, pain management and palliative medicine
Summarizes up-to-date research literature in a style that has direct clinical application to busy healthcare professionals and provide a useful resource for reference
Authored by leading UK specialists in the subject with great experience in research publications on their specialty

Geriatric Medicine: an evidence-based approach

Edited by Frank Lally and Christine Roffe

Description

People are living longer and the population over the age of 60 is burgeoning, with repercussions for health services and healthcare expenditure in developed countries. Crucially, disease aetiology, diagnosis, and treatment in older people differ from the general adult population. Older people often have complicated co-morbidities and respond to treatment in different ways compared to younger people. Evidence of efficacy of different treatments is often lacking because older people are under-represented in clinical trials, and the specific needs of older people are rarely discussed specifically in more general texts. Geriatric medicine: an evidence based approach is a clinical reference for health care professionals who manage older patients, and summarizes up-to-date research literature in a style that can be directly applied by busy healthcare professionals and provide a useful resource for reference.

Geriatric Medicine: an evidence-based approach

Edited by Frank Lally and Christine Roffe

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

Geriatric Medicine: an evidence-based approach

Edited by Frank Lally and Christine Roffe

Author Information

Edited by Frank Lally, Institute for Science & Technology in Medicine, Keele University, Guy Hilton Research Centre, Stoke, UK, and Christine Roffe, Stroke Research Office, Royal Infirmary, Stoke, UK

Contributors:

Professor Paul Knight, Director of Medical Education (Associate Medical Director), Consultant Physician, Medicine for the Elderly, Royal Infirmary, Glasgow
Professor Finbarr Martin, Ageing and Health, St Thomas' Hospital, London, UK
Dr David Anderson, Associate Medical Director, Mersey Care NHS Trust, Liverpool, UK
Professor Stephen Jackson, Department of Clinical Gerontology, King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre, London, UK
Professor Ilana Crome, London, UK
Professor Lalit Kalra, Department of Neurosciences, Academic Neurosciences Centre, King's College London, UK
Professor Chrsitine Roffe, Stroke Research Offices, Royal Infirmary, Stoke-on-Trent, UK
Dr Roger Beech, Arthritis Research UK Primary Care Centre, Primary Care Sciences, Keele University
Keele, UK
Professor Gary Mills, Sheffield, UK
Dr Kate Wilde, North Staffs Combined Healthcare NHS Trust, Stoke-On-Trent, UK
Ms Zena Jones, NIHR Stroke Research Network, International Centre for Life, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Dr Adrian Wagg, Professor of Healthy Ageing, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Professor Alistair Burns, Institute of Brain, Behaviour and Mental Health, The University of Manchester,
Manchester, UK
Dr David Jolley, Honorary Reader, Personal Social Services Research Unit, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Dr Richard Atkinson, Consultant Psychiatrist for the Elderly, Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust, Bamber Bridge, UK
Sean Page, Consultant Nurse for Dementia & Senior Lecturer in Dementia Care Nursing, Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board & Bangor University, UK
Dr Joseph Harbison, Mercer's Institute for Successful Ageing, St James's Hospital, Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Professor Peter Crome, Professor of Geriatric Medicine and Consultant Geriatrician, North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust
Dr Frank Lally, Institute for Science & Technology in Medicine, Keele University, Stoke On Trent, UK
Professor Patricia Schofield, University of Greenwich, School of Health & Social Care, London, UK
Professor Christopher Phillipson, Bridgeford St. Building, Manchester, UK

Geriatric Medicine: an evidence-based approach

Edited by Frank Lally and Christine Roffe

Reviews and Awards

"Each chapter is succinct enough to provide an excellent overview of evidence and a platform for further reading. I have come away with a list of papers that I wish to read, and the book has challenged some of my understandings of clinical practice, service development and research. The book moves geriatric medicine beyond Isaacâs âgiantsâ and âsimply caring for the elderlyâ, into a complex and subtle specialty, backed by a wealth of evidence." - British Geriatrics Society

"This is a unique and clearly an important addition to the overall knowledge and understanding of geriatric medicine. It is a significant addition for every academic library." - Doody's Notes