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1. Clinical Implications of the Aging Process - Frailty
2. The Geriatric Patient: Demography and Health Services Utilization
3. Evaluation of the Geriatric Patient - Pre-op - Communicating with geriatric patients
4. Chronic Disease Management* - Multi-morbidity - Geriatric practice models - Person-centered care
5. Prevention in the Geriatric Population - Prevention of disability/exercise - physical, mental - Primary (vaccines, diet, etc), secondary, and tertiary - The role of calculating prognosis (e.g. ePrognosis) in deciding about preventive practices such as colonoscopy, breast screening) - Prevention of infections in LTC (we are lacking a focus on infections - major geriatric issue - can include in Nursing Home Care chapter as well)
6. Confusion: Delirium and Dementia - Hypoactive delirium
7. Depression
8. Incontinence
9. Falls - Role of environment
10. Immobility - Muscular and skeletal pain (include polymyalgia, DJD management) - Non-pharmacologic pain management - Complications - e.g. treatment of DVT - Update on osteoporosis, measuring Vitamin D, bone mineral density, and treatments
11. Cardiovascular Disease - BP SPRINT Trial - Overtreatment of HTN causing complications- risk vs. benefit - individualizing care - Effects - or lack thereof on treating HTN on cognition - Treatment of hyperlipidemia - Management of A Fib - with discussion of anticoagulation in patients at risk for falls and risks and benefits of newer anticoagulants
12. Frailty, Failure to Thrive, and Common Metabolic Problems - Assessing frailty ( 2 definitions) - Failure to thrive - Alcohol and substance abuse - Sarcopenia - Metabolic problems (sorting out all the new medications for diabetes, importance of preventing hypoglycemia; management of hypo and hyperthyroidism) - CKD (there are a lot of new data; should mention role of dialysis and transplant issues) - Neuropathy
13. Sensory Function and Impairment - Role of cochlear implants - Treatment of AMD
14. Drugs
15. High Value Health Services in the Geriatric Population - Quality/ACOVE - Value-based purchasing - Bundling - ACOs - Teams - HCBS - Caregivers
16. Nursing Home Care
17. Ethics - Neglect and abuse awareness
18. Palliative Care
Show moreMcGraw-Hill authors represent the leading experts in their fields and are dedicated to improving the lives, careers, and interests of readers worldwide
1. Clinical Implications of the Aging Process - Frailty
2. The Geriatric Patient: Demography and Health Services Utilization
3. Evaluation of the Geriatric Patient - Pre-op - Communicating with geriatric patients
4. Chronic Disease Management* - Multi-morbidity - Geriatric practice models - Person-centered care
5. Prevention in the Geriatric Population - Prevention of disability/exercise - physical, mental - Primary (vaccines, diet, etc), secondary, and tertiary - The role of calculating prognosis (e.g. ePrognosis) in deciding about preventive practices such as colonoscopy, breast screening) - Prevention of infections in LTC (we are lacking a focus on infections - major geriatric issue - can include in Nursing Home Care chapter as well)
6. Confusion: Delirium and Dementia - Hypoactive delirium
7. Depression
8. Incontinence
9. Falls - Role of environment
10. Immobility - Muscular and skeletal pain (include polymyalgia, DJD management) - Non-pharmacologic pain management - Complications - e.g. treatment of DVT - Update on osteoporosis, measuring Vitamin D, bone mineral density, and treatments
11. Cardiovascular Disease - BP SPRINT Trial - Overtreatment of HTN causing complications- risk vs. benefit - individualizing care - Effects - or lack thereof on treating HTN on cognition - Treatment of hyperlipidemia - Management of A Fib - with discussion of anticoagulation in patients at risk for falls and risks and benefits of newer anticoagulants
12. Frailty, Failure to Thrive, and Common Metabolic Problems - Assessing frailty ( 2 definitions) - Failure to thrive - Alcohol and substance abuse - Sarcopenia - Metabolic problems (sorting out all the new medications for diabetes, importance of preventing hypoglycemia; management of hypo and hyperthyroidism) - CKD (there are a lot of new data; should mention role of dialysis and transplant issues) - Neuropathy
13. Sensory Function and Impairment - Role of cochlear implants - Treatment of AMD
14. Drugs
15. High Value Health Services in the Geriatric Population - Quality/ACOVE - Value-based purchasing - Bundling - ACOs - Teams - HCBS - Caregivers
16. Nursing Home Care
17. Ethics - Neglect and abuse awareness
18. Palliative Care
Show more1. Clinical Implications of the Aging Process
- Frailty
2. The Geriatric Patient: Demography and Health Services Utilization
3. Evaluation of the Geriatric Patient
- Pre-op
- Communicating with geriatric patients
4. Chronic Disease Management*
- Multi-morbidity
- Geriatric practice models
- Person-centered care
5. Prevention in the Geriatric Population
- Prevention of disability/exercise – physical, mental
- Primary (vaccines, diet, etc), secondary, and
tertiary
- The role of calculating prognosis (e.g. ePrognosis)
in deciding about preventive practices such as colonoscopy, breast
screening)
- Prevention of infections in LTC (we are lacking a
focus on infections – major geriatric issue – can include in
Nursing Home Care chapter as well)
6. Confusion: Delirium and Dementia
- Hypoactive delirium
7. Depression
8. Incontinence
9. Falls
- Role of environment
10. Immobility
- Muscular and skeletal pain (include polymyalgia, DJD
management)
- Non-pharmacologic pain management
- Complications – e.g. treatment of DVT
- Update on osteoporosis, measuring Vitamin D, bone
mineral density, and treatments
11. Cardiovascular Disease
- BP SPRINT Trial
- Overtreatment of HTN causing complications– risk vs.
benefit – individualizing care
- Effects – or lack thereof on treating HTN on
cognition
- Treatment of hyperlipidemia
- Management of A Fib – with discussion of
anticoagulation in patients at risk for falls and risks and
benefits of newer anticoagulants
12. Frailty, Failure to Thrive, and Common Metabolic
Problems
- Assessing frailty ( 2 definitions)
- Failure to thrive
- Alcohol and substance abuse
- Sarcopenia
- Metabolic problems (sorting out all the new
medications for diabetes, importance of preventing hypoglycemia;
management of hypo and hyperthyroidism)
- CKD (there are a lot of new data; should mention role
of dialysis and transplant issues)
- Neuropathy
13. Sensory Function and Impairment
- Role of cochlear implants
- Treatment of AMD
14. Drugs
15. High Value Health Services in the Geriatric Population
- Quality/ACOVE
- Value-based purchasing
- Bundling
- ACOs
- Teams
- HCBS
- Caregivers
16. Nursing Home Care
17. Ethics
- Neglect and abuse awareness
18. Palliative Care
McGraw-Hill authors represent the leading experts in their fields and are dedicated to improving the lives, careers, and interests of readers worldwide
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