Reichel's Care of the Elderly

Christine Arenson (MD, Jefferson Medical College) is Associate Professor of Family and Community Medicine, Director of the Division of Geriatric Medicine, and Co-Director of the Jefferson Center for Interprofessional Education at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Dr Arenson is also the Director of the Eastern Pennsylvania-Delaware Geriatric Education Center. Dr Arenson practises family and geriatric medicine at Jefferson Family Associates at the Philadelphia Senior Center. Jan Busby-Whitehead (MD, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston) is Associate Director for Clinical Affairs and Co-Director of the Carolina Program for Healthcare and Aging at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. She is also a Professor of Medicine and Director of the Center for Aging and Health there. Kenneth Brummel-Smith (MD, University of Southern California School of Medicine) is Charlotte Edwards Maguire Professor and Chair of the Department of Geriatrics at Florida State University College of Medicine. Dr Brummel-Smith is past president of the American Geriatrics Society. James G. O'Brien (MB, University College, Dublin, Ireland) is Professor and Margaret Dorward Smock Endowed Chair in Geriatric Medicine, and Medical Director of the Geriatric Medicine Center at the University of Louisville School of Medicine, Kentucky. Mary H. Palmer (PhD, Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health; BSN, University of Maryland School of Nursing), is Professor and Helen W. and Thomas L. Umphlet Distinguished Professor in Aging at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill School of Nursing. Dr Palmer is also Co-Director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Aging Research: Uniting Scientists at the University of North Carolina. William Reichel, MD, is Editor Emeritus and Consultant Editor of Reichel's Care of the Elderly: Clinical Aspects of Aging, 6th ed. Dr Reichel is an affiliated scholar of the Center for Clinical Bioethics at the Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC. Dr Reichel has published extensively on geriatric and family medicine and is a pioneer of the study of aging.

1. Essential principles in the care of the elderly; 2. Practical geriatric assessment; 3. Prevention for older adults; 4. Common complaints in the elderly; 5. Appropriate use of medications in the elderly; 6. Nutrition and aging; 7. Exercise for older patients; 8. Diabetes mellitus, obesity, and the metabolic syndrome in the elderly patient; 9. Lipid abnormalities in older people; 10. Hypertension in the elderly; 11. Diagnosis and management of heart disease in the elderly; 12. Peripheral vascular disease in the elderly; 13. Stroke in the older adult; 14. Neurologic problems in the elderly; 15. Recognition and management of delirium; 16. Evaluation and management of dementia; 17. Clinical geropsychiatry, including chronic mental illness; 18. Alcohol and other drug abuse in older patients; 19. Aging in adults with developmental disabilities; 20. Pulmonary problems in the elderly; 21. Gastroenterologic disease in the aged; 22. Infections of the elderly; 23. HIV infection in older people; 24. Principles of fluid and electrolyte balance and renal disorders in the older patient; 25. Urologic problems of the elderly; 26. Urinary incontinence; 27. Geriatric gynecology; 28. The endocrinology of the aging; 29. Osteoporosis and other metabolic disorders of the skeleton in aging; 30. Musculoskeletal disorders in the elderly; 31. Musculoskeletal injuries in the elderly; 32. Foot health for the elderly; 33. Geriatric dermatology; 34. Pressure ulcers: practical considerations in prevention and management; 35. Anemia and other hematologic problems of the elderly; 36. Cancer in elderly patients; 37. Eye problems of the aged; 38. Geriatric ear, nose, and throat problems; 39. Geriatric dentistry; 40. Surgical principles in the aged; 41. Rehabilitation of the older person; 42. Community-based long-term care; 43. Institutional long-term care; 44. Care near the end of life: palliative care and hospice; 45. Evaluation of capacity; 46. Accidents in the elderly; 47. Mistreatment of older adults; 48. Driving and the older adult 49. Complementary or alternative medicine in the care of the elderly 50. Optimal aging: strategies for healthy aging; 51. Cell biology and the physiology of aging; 52. Implications of population aging for geriatric health; 53. Ethnic diversity in aging; 54. Retirement; 55. Sexuality Lisa Granville and; 56. The elderly, their families, and their caregivers; 57. Preventing errors in the care of the elderly; 58. Health care organization and planning; 59. Advance care planning; 60. Ethical issues in the care of the elderly, with case studies.