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Medicine of older adults

Medicine of older adults

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Acute illness in frailtyOpen chapter →Acute kidney injury and hydration in frailtyOpen chapter →Adult safeguarding in older peopleOpen chapter →Advance care planning in frailtyOpen chapter →Alzheimer diseaseOpen chapter →Anticholinergic burden and sedative medicinesOpen chapter →Atypical presentation of illness in older adultsOpen chapter →Behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementiaOpen chapter →Bereavement and family supportOpen chapter →Capacity and best-interest decisions in frailtyOpen chapter →Care-home medicineOpen chapter →Carer strain and respite supportOpen chapter →Clinically assisted nutrition and hydrationOpen chapter →Cognitive, mood and sensory screeningOpen chapter →Comprehensive geriatric assessmentOpen chapter →Delirium: non-drug and drug managementOpen chapter →Delirium: recognition, causes and preventionOpen chapter →Dementia assessment and reversible causesOpen chapter →Deprescribing and medicines optimisationOpen chapter →Depression, anxiety and loneliness in later lifeOpen chapter →Diabetes targets in older adultsOpen chapter →Discharge planning and transfer of careOpen chapter →Driving, cognition and mobilityOpen chapter →Faecal incontinence and constipationOpen chapter →Falls assessment and multifactorial preventionOpen chapter →Fear of falling and rehabilitationOpen chapter →Fragility fracture and secondary preventionOpen chapter →Frailty recognition and scoringOpen chapter →Functional assessment and activities of daily livingOpen chapter →Gait assessment and mobility aidsOpen chapter →Goals of care and shared prioritiesOpen chapter →Hearing and visual impairmentOpen chapter →Heart failure and chronic lung disease in frailtyOpen chapter →Hip fracture perioperative pathwayOpen chapter →Intermediate care and hospital at homeOpen chapter →Lewy body and Parkinson disease dementiaOpen chapter →Long-term care placement decisionsOpen chapter →Multidisciplinary rehabilitationOpen chapter →Multimorbidity and treatment burdenOpen chapter →Nutrition, weight loss and malnutritionOpen chapter →
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