Practical Guide To The Care Of The Geriatric Patient

This pocket manual provides quick access to important information specific to geriatric patient care. It combines a straight-forward description of the most common situations encountered during rotations, residencies, and daily practice with the essentialdiagnostic and therapeutic aspects of each condition. Topics are limited to the elderly and those conditions that present differently in the geriatric patient.

* Begins with practical information such as commonly used abbreviations and routine maintenance procedures. * Uses tables and illustrations throughout to help make answers and explanations easier to find. * Limits topics to the elderly and those conditions that present differently in the geriatric patient.

Fred Ferri is a Clinical Professor of Community Health at the Alpert Medical School, Brown University and author of over 30 medical books. He has been the best-selling medical author in the United States over the past 25 years and is also well known and respected internationally. He has been a visiting Professor at other medical schools and many of his books have been translated in several languages. In addition to his numerous publications, he has had a distinguished academic career at Brown University where he has received several awards for his dedication to teaching including the Brown University Excellence in Teaching award and Dean’s teaching Award, and with the American College of Physicians where he was inducted as a Fellow in the ACP and has been a recipient of the Irving Addison Beck Award from the Rhode Island Chapter of the American College of Physicians. Dr. Ferri is a practicing physician at Ocean State Medical, a group primary care practice that he established in 1984 and still runs along with two other partners and his two sons.