The Practical Clinical Guide to Geriatric Medicine 2026: A Comprehensive Handbook of Frailty, Falls, Dementia, Polypharmacy, and Complex Care for Older Adults - Softcover

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The Reasoning That Separates Geriatric Care From General Medicine

Guidelines are built one disease at a time for patients who have one disease. The person in your clinic has six, takes eleven medications, and was excluded from every trial that produced the recommendations you are being asked to follow. This handbook closes that gap. It is organised around the decision rather than the diagnosis, teaching the clinical reasoning that turns "individualize the target" from a slogan into a repeatable method you can apply in a real eighteen-minute appointment.

Every section pairs worked clinical reasoning with the exact figures you need at speed — doses, thresholds, tapering intervals, cut-offs, and ordered protocol steps surfaced in clean tables and checklists rather than buried mid-paragraph. Photorealistic clinical figures and colour-coded decision algorithms sit inline where the decision arises, each labelled sparingly against a single teaching point.

Clinical capability you will carry into your next shift:

• Estimate a defensible life-expectancy range and apply time-to-benefit reasoning to justify starting, continuing, or stopping any preventive therapy
• Execute deprescribing properly — drug-class tapering schedules, withdrawal syndromes, patient scripts, and post-withdrawal monitoring plans
• Detect hypoactive delirium, atypical infection, and silent myocardial infarction when fever, leukocytosis, and chest pain are all absent
• Complete a targeted geriatric assessment inside a real appointment and recognise which findings demand the full workup
• Build a falls intervention bundle from root-cause analysis instead of a generic checklist
• Deliver a dementia diagnosis, run a goals-of-care conversation, and document decisions that survive the next handoff
• Resolve conflicting specialist recommendations using patient priority, horizon, and treatment burden

Buy now and bring rigour, confidence, and clear judgement to the patients who need it most. The clinicians who master this reasoning are the ones families trust and colleagues consult.

Purpose-built for physicians, hospitalists, advanced practitioners, pharmacists, and trainees caring for older adults, this handbook replaces guesswork with method — so the next complex patient becomes a problem you solve rather than one you survive.

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