CLINICAL PRINCIPLES OF GERIATRIC MEDICINE: A Comprehensive Guide to Evidence-Based Care for the Aging Patient

When a 75-year-old and a 90-year-old walk into your clinic with identical symptoms, identical medications aren't the answer — and neither is treating them like younger patients with more birthdays.

Clinical Principles of Geriatric Medicine is the comprehensive, evidence-based guide clinicians need to practice medicine that actually fits the fastest-growing patient population in modern healthcare.

Written for medical students, residents, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and practicing clinicians, this textbook walks through every domain of geriatric care in a single, cohesive volume:

• The biology and physiology of normal aging — and how to tell it apart from disease
• Polypharmacy, the Beers Criteria, STOPP/START, and safe deprescribing
• Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA), frailty, and fall-risk frameworks
• Delirium and dementia, from recognition through long-term management
• Cardiovascular, neurological, endocrine, and psychiatric disease in older adults
• Hospital-associated disability, the 4Ms framework, and safe care transitions
• Long-term care, home-based geriatric medicine, and the PACE model
• Palliative care, hospice, goals-of-care conversations, and geriatric ethics

Every chapter closes with evidence-based management summaries and clinical decision-making frameworks you can apply at the bedside — not just theory, but a working model for the complex, multimorbid older patient in front of you.

Aging is not a diagnosis. It's a physiological reality that changes how disease presents, how drugs behave, and how much reserve a patient has left to draw on. This is the reference that prepares you to see it, measure it, and act on it.

Add this to your clinical library today — and start practicing geriatric medicine the way the evidence actually supports.