THE DEFINITIVE TEXT ON THE PRINCIPLES AND CLINCAL PRACTICE OF NURSING HOME CARENursing Home Care is a practical textbook designed to serve as a rich evidence-based resource to provide physicians and other practitioners with the information and knowledge to advance nursing home care. It states and explains the principles underpinning safe, personalized, and dignified nursing home practice using an integrated, cooperative approach. In addition, it provides the medical know...

Clinical Trials in Older Adults is the first book to consider the methodological issues underlying the evaluation of new treatments in older people.Provides information on the methodology, monitoring and regulations for those planning to conduct a clinical trials involving older adultsContains examples of ongoing trials involving older adults, and presents the main characteristics of many recently publishedDepicts how the issues regarding older adults in c...

Pathy’s PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF GERIATRIC MEDICINEThe latest edition of the gold standard in geriatric medicine referencesPathy’s Principles and Practice of Geriatric Medicine, Sixth Edition delivers a comprehensive overview of the subject, offering up-to-date, evidence-based, information about the many, and varied, problems suffered by ageing patients.In this latest edition, the authors take a refreshed approac...

Cet ouvrage aborde tous les aspects de la nutrition de la personne âgée, de son équilibre nutritionnel et des répercussions sur ses capacités fonctionnelles et son autonomie. Cet outil indispensable met à la disposition du lecteur toutes les informations, médicales et sociales, nécessaires pour : - faire un bilan de l'état nutritionnel du patient âgé ; détecter les situations à risques ; - identifier les situations cliniques particulières (anorexie, diabète, refus alimentaire, hydratation,...

This new edition of the comprehensive and renowned textbook Principles and Practice of Geriatric Medicine offers a fully revised and updated review of geriatric medicine. It covers the full spectrum of the subject, features 41 new chapters, and provides up-to-date, evidence-based, and practical information about the varied medical problems of ageing citizens.The three editors, from UK, USA and France, have ensured that updated chapters provide a global perspective of geria...