Essentials of Geriatric Medicine

A Focused Clinical Resource for Falls, Cognition, Frailty, and Care Coordination

von Elodie T. Fenbarrow, Sarina M. Keldmere, Weston J. Rookvale

442 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Falls. Forgetfulness. Slower recovery. A discharge plan that works on paper but fails at home. In geriatric medicine, these are rarely isolated events.ESSENTIALS OF GERIATRIC MEDICINE is a focused clinical resource for the problems that can quickly change an older adult's safety, function, and ability to remain independent. It brings falls, cognitive change, frailty, and care coordination into the same clinical conversation, helping readers see how one concern can uncover another-and how several modest problems can combine into substantial risk.The emphasis is practical: recognize the signal, look for contributing factors, decide what deserves attention first, and build a plan that can actually be carried forward. A fall may point toward medication effects, impaired balance, deconditioning, or environmental hazards. New confusion may reflect acute illness rather than progressive cognitive decline. Frailty can alter the expected benefit of procedures, medications, and rehabilitation. A safe transition between care settings may depend as much on communication, caregiver capacity, and follow-up as on the treatment provided.Rather than approaching these concerns as separate checklists, the book supports connected reasoning across everyday geriatric practice. Readers are encouraged to consider mobility, functional decline, medication burden, cognitive and behavioral change, multimorbidity, caregiver involvement, and transitions of care as interacting parts of the same clinical picture.The objective is not to pursue every abnormality with equal intensity. It is to identify what may be reversible, what is placing function at risk, what could be causing avoidable harm, and what requires coordination before the patient moves into the next phase of care. This approach is particularly useful when several reasonable options exist but the best choice depends on resilience, support, priorities, and the likely consequences for daily life.Designed for physicians, residents, medical students, advanced practice clinicians, and other professionals caring for older adults, this resource supports learning, review, and practical decision-making across outpatient care, hospital medicine, rehabilitation, and transitions back into the community.Older adults do not experience falls, cognition, frailty, medications, and care transitions in separate compartments. The strongest clinical plan is the one that connects them.Use ESSENTIALS OF GERIATRIC MEDICINE to recognize important changes earlier, organize competing concerns more clearly, and coordinate care around safer function, fewer avoidable setbacks, and better-supported independence.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798176325645
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 23.09.2026
• Größe: 279 x 216 mm
• Verlag: Independently published