Textbook & Atlas of Geriatric Internal Medicine: Evidence-Based Clinical Reference on Neurology, Functional Decline, Pharmacology, Psychiatry, and ... Students (Internal Medicine Essentials) - Softcover

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The Complete Clinical Reference for the Care of Older Adults

A full textbook and a bedside quick-reference atlas in one volume.

Older patients rarely present the way the textbooks say they will. Fever is absent, chest pain is missing, and confusion may be the only sign of serious illness. Textbook & Atlas of Geriatric Internal Medicine is built around that reality. It gives physicians and medical students the reasoning behind geriatric care, and a fast, structured answer for the moment a patient is in front of them.

• 40 chapters in 8 parts: aging physiology, geriatric neurology and cognitive disorders, frailty and functional decline, pharmacology, psychiatry and behavioral health, palliative and end-of-life care, perioperative and acute care, and long-term and community care
• Dense, connected clinical prose in every chapter, with learning objectives, a Key Points box, and review questions
• Comprehensive geriatric assessment, delirium, dementia, and frailty explained in a way that changes what you do at the bedside
• Deprescribing, polypharmacy, and high-risk medication guidance, with a reference appendix of renal dosing, tapering, and perioperative timing tables
• Capacity assessment, elder abuse, goals of care, hospice, and end-of-life decisions
• A glossary of core terms across the whole book

TWO BOOKS IN ONE

The Textbook teaches the reasoning. The Atlas puts it to work: 64 quick-reference cards organized by presenting complaint, such as acute confusion, an unwitnessed fall, sudden behavioral change in dementia, or a suspected adverse drug reaction. Each card carries an urgency tag (emergent, urgent, or routine), a workup algorithm, key diagnostic criteria, a management framework, and common pitfalls.

Every chapter closes with review questions, and the book includes 400 board-style questions with answers and explanations organized by chapter, so you can test your understanding as you read. Chapters are fully self-contained, so you can read one on a busy rotation as easily as you can study the book cover to cover.

Evidence-based clinical reference on neurology, functional decline, pharmacology, psychiatry, and palliative care, written for the way older adults actually get sick.

For physicians and medical students who care for older adults, and want a reference they can trust when it counts.

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