Geriatric Medicine: A Person Centered Evidence Based Approach

ISBN-13: 9783030747190 / Angielski / Twarda / 2024 / 1500 str.

Michael Wasserman; Debra Bakerjian; Sunny Linnebur

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Part I. What’s Different About Geriatric Medicine

1) The Geriatric Approach to Care: the 5M’s

2) Person centered care: Appropriate goal setting in older adults

3) Caring for patients in an evidence-limited world: Evidence-based medicine and geriatrics

4) Principles of pharmacology: Prescribing and Deprescribing

5) Social Determinants of Health

6) Medico-legal issues in the care of older adults

7) Ethical and policy issues in the care of older adults

 

Part II. Geriatric Assessment

8) Assessment instruments

9) Comprehensive geriatric assessment

10) Healthy aging and the annual wellness visit

11) Neuropsychological testing

12) Determination of decision-making capacity

 

Part III. Care along the continuum

13) Primary Care

14) Acute hospital care

15) Surgical care

16) Care in the Community

17) Nursing home care

18) Palliative care

 

Part IV. Age-Related Diseases and Disorders

19) Cardiovascular disease

20) Endocrine disease

22) Hematologic disorders and malignancies

25) Nephrology/fluid and electrolyte disorders

26) Dermatologic and Mucocutaneous Disorders

27) Changes and diseases of the aging eye

28)Otologic changes and disorders

29) Aging and the oral cavity

30) Rheumatologic and Bone Disorders

31) Sexuality and the Genitourinary system

32) Cancer in the elderly: An overview

33) Disorders of the Brain

 

Part V. Diagnosis and Management of Geriatric Syndromes

34) Depression, Anxiety and other mood disorders

35) Delirium

36) Pain

37) Pressure injury and chronic wounds

38)Gait disorders and falls

39) Chronic dizziness and vertigo

40) Sleep and sleep disorders

41) Elder mistreatment and abuse

42) Frailty

 

Part VI. Systems Approaches to Geriatric Care

43) Population health for older adults

44) Mechanisms of paying for health care

45) Interdisciplinary Care and Care Coordination

46)Quality assurance and performance improvement (QAPI)

 

Part VII. The Science of Aging

47) The demography and epidemiology of aging

48) Molecular and biologic factors in aging

49) Physiology of aging

50) Immunology of aging

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Doctor Michael Wasserman is a geriatrician who has devoted his career to serving the needs of older adults.  He has been a tireless advocate for vulnerable older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic, with multiple peer reviewed publications and television appearances. He is a member of the Board of Directors of AMDA—The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine and Chairs the Public Policy Committee for the California Association of Long Term Care Medicine. He presently serves on the Infrastructure workgroup for the National Advisory Committee on Seniors and Disasters. He served as a member of the National Academy of Science’s “A Framework for Equitable Allocation of Vaccine for the Novel Coronavirus” Committee and was a member of California’s Community Vaccine Advisory Committee.  He is Editor-in-Chief of Springer’s upcoming textbook, Geriatric Medicine: A Person-Centered Evidence-Based Approach.  He previously served as Chief Executive Officer overseeing the largest nursing home chain in California.  Prior to that, he was the Executive Director, Care Continuum, for the CMS contracted Quality Improvement Organization for California. In 2001 he co-founded Senior Care of Colorado, which became the largest privately owned primary care geriatrics practice in the country, before selling it in 2010.  Springer published his books, “The Business of Geriatrics,” and “Primary Care for Older Adults:  Models and Challenges” in 2016 and 2017.  In the 1990’s he was President and Chief Medical Officer for GeriMed of America, a Geriatric Medical Management Company, and developed GeriMed’s Clinical Glidepaths in conjunction with Drs. Flaherty and Morley of St. Louis University’s School of Medicine Geriatric Division. In 1989, in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, Doctor Wasserman published "Fever, White Blood Cells and Differential Count in Diagnosing Bacterial Infection in the Elderly,” the findings of which are now part of the McGeer Criteria, used widely in nursing homes to evaluate residents for infections.

 

Dr. Wasserman is a graduate of the University of Texas, Medical Branch.  He completed an Internal Medicine residency at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and a Geriatric Medicine Fellowship at UCLA.  He spent five years with Kaiser-Permanente in Southern California where he founded Kaiser's first outpatient Geriatric Consult Clinic.  Dr. Wasserman was a co-founder and owner of Common Sense Medical Management (CSM2), a case management company that helped manage high risk beneficiaries of Cover Colorado.  He was formerly a Public Commissioner for the Continuing Care Accreditation Commission.  He has served on several CMS Technical Expert Panels.

 

Dr. Wasserman was a co-founder of MESA (Medicare Experts and Senior Access) a multiyear grant from the Colorado Health Foundation to train primary care physicians in how to effectively care and bill for Medicare patients.  He has served on the Thousand Oaks Council on Aging and was the lead delegate from the State of Colorado to the 2005 White House Conference on Aging.  He also co-chaired the Colorado Alzheimer’s Coordinating Council.  Dr. Wasserman has previously served on the Boards of Wish a Lifetime From AARP, The Denver Hospice, and the American Geriatrics Society’s Foundation for Health in Aging.

Blurb

The fifth edition of this text presents a comprehensive and state-of the-art update that incorporates existing literature, clinical experience, and over 40 new peer-reviewed chapters.  Written by interdisciplinary and interprofessional experts in geriatric medicine, this book serves as an unparalleled resource for all clinicians serving the needs of aging patients, the most rapidly increasing demographic across all nations. 

 The book begins with a brief review of the basic science before delving into the most common symptoms, diseases, and syndromes as they present in older patients.  With a new focus on patient centered care, this edition guides professionals of all specialties who may or may not be familiar with the unique needs of aging patients.  The book covers the topics most vital to the previous edition—acute and chronic pain, home care, frailty, and others—while also including as well as new concepts of equal importance, such as deprescribing, concepts in person centered and integrated care, and multimorbidity.

 Geriatric Medicine, Fifth Edition, serves as the ultimate guide for all medical professionals encountering older patients, including those with or without training in geriatric medicine, general practitioners, subspecialists, hospitalists, nurses and all others.