Preface
About the editor
About the contributors
Abbreviations
Introduction
Gideon Caplan
PART I OVERVIEW
Chapter 1 The biology of ageing
David G Le Couteur, Vasikaran Naganathan, Victoria C Cogger, Stephen J Simpson, & Rafael de Cabo
Chapter 2 Comprehensive geriatric assessment
Lisa Kelly and Gideon Caplan
Chapter 3 Multidisciplinary teamwork
Stephanie Ward and Barbara Workman
Chapter 4 Community services for older people in Australia
Gideon Caplan
Excerpt from Morituri salutamus
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
PART II THE GIANTS OF GERIATRIC MEDICINE
Chapter 5 Delirium
Catherine McVeigh and Gideon Caplan
Chapter 6 Dementia
Dina Lo Giudice and Leon Flicker
Chapter 7 Frontotemporal dementias and related dementia syndromes
Olivier Piguet, Cristian Leyton, and John R Hodges
Chapter 8 Behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia
Michael Woodward
Chapter 9 Managing urinary incontinence in older people
David Fonda and Catherine DuBeau
Chapter 10 Mobility, gait, and falls
Jacqueline C T Close and Stephen R Lord
Chapter 11 Syncope
Mary Anne Kulh
Chapter 12 Frailty
Sarah N Hilmer and Danijela Gnjidic
Chapter 13 Parkinsonism and related conditions
Robert Iansek
Chapter 14 Malnutrition in older people
Renuka Visvanathan
Chapter 15 Osteoporosis in older persons
Oddom Demontiero and Gustavo Duque
Chapter 16 Wound care
Jeff Rowland and Colin Kennett
Chapter 17 Prescribing medications to older people
Vasikaran Naganathan and David G Le Couteur
When You Are Old
William Butler Yeats
PART III CARE IN CONTEXT
Chapter 18 Care for older people in general practice
Catherine Regan and Dimity Pond
Chapter 19 Care of residents in residential aged care facilities
Penny Harvey
Chapter 20 Rehabilitation for older people
Susan Kurrle and Ian D Cameron
Chapter 21 End-of-life care
Colleen Cartwright and Kelly Shaw
Chapter 22 Acute care of the older person
Richard I Lindley
Chapter 23 Post-acute care
Kwang Lim
Chapter 24 Medical care for older people undergoing surgery
Christopher Etherton-Beer
Chapter 25 Legal aspects of geriatric medicine
Peteris Darzins and Julian Gariner
Chapter 26 Ageing in Australia’s Indigenous and culturally diverse communities
Anna L Howe and Philippa Cotter
Chapter 27 Economics of ageing
Gideon Caplan
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
Dylan Thomas
Index
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