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 ethicsEvery 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.