Principles and Practice of Geriatric Medicine: Evidence-Based Strategies for Frailty, Cognitive Decline, Polypharmacy, and Complex Care in Older Adults

What if caring for an older adult requires more than simply treating the diagnoses on the chart?

Older adults rarely fit neatly into a single diagnosis or treatment pathway. Frailty, cognitive changes, functional decline, polypharmacy, multimorbidity, and personal goals can completely change what the best clinical decision looks like.

Principles and Practice of Geriatric Medicine provides a function-first, frailty-aware framework for navigating that complexity with greater clarity and confidence.

Rather than treating conditions in isolation, it shows clinicians how to connect medical decisions with function, independence, dignity, and individualized goals.

INSIDE, READERS WILL EXPLORE:

• The biology and physiology of aging

• Comprehensive geriatric assessment

• Frailty identification and clinical implications

• Polypharmacy, deprescribing, and medication safety

• Cognitive decline, delirium, and dementia

• Falls, mobility, and rehabilitation

• Mental health in later life

• Multimorbidity and care coordination

• Care transitions and palliative care

• Ethics, decision-making capacity, and family-centered care

• Telemedicine, remote monitoring, and the future of geriatric medicine

Designed for geriatricians, internists, family physicians, hospitalists, residents, advanced practice clinicians, nurses, pharmacists, social workers, and other professionals caring for older adults, this book turns complex geriatric principles into a coherent approach to clinical reasoning.

If you care for older adults and want to make decisions that go beyond treating disease to protecting function, independence, and dignity, this book provides the framework to help you do it with greater confidence and compassion.

Build a stronger foundation for thoughtful geriatric care. Add Principles and Practice of Geriatric Medicine to your professional library today and strengthen your ability to care for older adults with knowledge, clarity, and purpose.