The incidence of multiple chronic diseases affecting a single individual is high among elderly patients. This incidence is believed to be associated with a decline in many health outcomes, including quality of life, mobility, functional ability, increased frequency of hospitalizations, psychological distress, mortality and the use of health care resources. Health in elderly patients can fluctuate significantly, thus prompting the need for proper integration of comprehensive geriatric care. An increasing amount of data gained from research programs is making it clear that a geriatric assessment identifies many problems in older people with chronic diseases, adds prognostic information, and might improve the outcomes of these patients. This volume reviews research on the value of geriatric programs in different subspecialties of internal medicine. Chapters of this book cover different chronic diseases (coronary artery disease, kidney disease, diabetes, osteoporosis etc.) separately and present new findings in these areas. Readers – both medical students and researchers – will find the book an essential for understanding requirements and nuances of specialized geriatric programs in the healthcare sector.

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Chronic Diseases in Geriatric Patients
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GeriatricsTable of contents
- Welcome
- Table of Contents
- Title Page
- BENTHAM SCIENCE PUBLISHERS LTD.
- PREFACE
- Conundrums in the Care of Older Adults with Coronary Artery Disease
- Treating the “Young at Heart”: Management of Heart Failure in the Older Population
- Updates on Treating Hypertension in Older People
- Crossing New Frontiers in the Care of Older Adults with Diabetes Mellitus
- Halting the Decline in Cognition: New Insights into Alzheimer’s Disease
- New Horizons in Ischaemic Stroke among Older People
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in Older People: Breathing Deeper with Age
- Cancer in Older Adults: To Treat or Not to Treat?
- Overcoming Osteoarthritis in Old Age
- Towards Unbreakable Old Bones: Osteoporosis in Older Adults
- Keep the Kidneys Functioning Till the End: Chronic Kidney Disease in the Older Population
- End of Life Care in Older People
- Closing Remarks: Chronic Diseases In Geriatric Medicine
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