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(0)Henry Woodford
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Description
This fourth edition has been comprehensively updated and expanded, and now includes over 200 questions and answers throughout the text in the 'best of five' format. The textbook specifically focuses on the key aspects of elderly care, spanning both general medicine and the particular problems encountered in geriatrics.
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Publisher
CRC Press
Pub. Date
2015
Description
This practical book describes the key features of high-quality care for frail elderly patients in acute hospital settings. With chapters on assessment and the characteristic non-specific ways that patients tend to present. As well as common medical and surgical conditions, it also covers medication management, elder abuse, pressure ulcers and hypothermia, including the physiological changes seen in ageing and ways to define frail patients.