Geriatric Medicine in Practice: A Case Based Guide to Complex Decisions and Person Centered Care for Older Adults

Older adults rarely arrive with just one problem. A fall may involve medication effects, frailty, cognition, and the realities of living at home. A treatment that helps one condition may complicate another.

Geriatric Medicine in Practice helps practicing clinicians work through those decisions with a clear view of the whole person. Across 26 case-based chapters, Clifford B. Todd connects clinical assessment with function, treatment burden, caregiver support, and what matters most to the patient.

Inside you’ll find:

• Practical approaches to falls, delirium, dementia, pain, nutrition, and polypharmacy
• Guidance for decisions involving cardiovascular disease, diabetes, kidney disease, infection, and cancer
• Clinical cases, decision diagrams, and tables that clarify assessment and follow-up
• Chapters on hospital care, rehabilitation, long-term care, and transitions between settings
• Frameworks for capacity, surrogate decisions, advance care planning, and palliative care

Written for clinicians across outpatient, hospital, emergency, rehabilitation, and long-term care settings, this illustrated US-focused textbook offers a structured way to ask: What changed, what matters to this patient, and what plan can be carried out?