Textbook of geriatric medicine and gerontology,4th ed

Epidemiology of aging -- Future of aging: changing perceptions and realities -- Theories and general principles of aging -- Aging and connective tissues -- Immunology of aging -- Psychology of aging: introduction -- Normal and pathological age differences in memory -- Personality and its attributes -- Sleep in normal and pathological aging -- Pharmacology in aging -- Introduction: presentation of disease in old age -- Multidimensional geriatric assessment -- Social assessment of geriatric patients -- Atherosclerosis and lipid metabolism -- Pathology of the aging heart -- Chronic cardiac failure in the elderly -- Diagnosis and management of ischemic heart disease in the elderly -- Hypertension -- Valvular heart disease in old age -- Cardiac arrhythmias -- Vascular surgery in old age -- Venous thrombotic disease -- neuropathology of old age -- Cerebral blood flow and autoregulation in the elderly -- Neurochemistry of the aging brain and dementia -- Neurological signs in old age -- Headache and facial pain -- Falls in the elderly -- Dementia and delirium in old age. Functional mental disorders of the elderly -- Stroke -- Disorders of the autonomic nervous system -- Parkinsonism and other movement disorders -- Disorders of neuromuscular transmission -- Aging in the peripheral nerves and peripheral neuropathy -- Epilepsy -- Intracranial tumours -- Disorders of the spinal cord and nerve roots -- Infections of the central nervous system -- Aging and disorders of the eye -- Disorders of hearing -- Aging and the oro-facial tissues -- Upper gastrointestinal tract -- Pancreas -- Liver -- Diseases of the gallbladder -- Diseases of the small bowel -- Large bowel -- Nutrition: considerations for the elderly -- Aging kidney -- Bladder -- Prostate -- Gynaecological disorders in the elderly: sexuality and aging -- Aging and the endocrine system -- Disturbances of homeostasis -- Pituitary and adrenal disorders in old age -- Disorders of the thyroid -- Disordfers of the parathyroids -- Diabetes and aging -- Diabetes: management in old age -- Aging and the respiratory system -- Bone aging, osteoporosis, and osteomalacia -- Paget's disease of bone. (cont) Aging of articular cartilage and joints -- Joint disease in old age -- Aging and neuromuscular disease -- Aging and the blood -- Blood disorders and their management in old age -- Skin aging -- Pressure sores: aetiology and prevalence -- Pressure sore management and prevention -- Carcinoma of the breast -- Surgery and anaesthesia in old age -- Elderly in society -- Elderly in society: an international perspective -- Care of the aged in the United States of America -- American nursing home -- Geriatric service and the day hospital in the United Kingdom -- Psychogeriatric services -- Promotion of health in old age -- Prevention and anticipatory care -- Rehabilitation -- Care of the dying -- Ethical issues in geriatric medicine.