The role of family physicians in older people care [electronic resource] / Jacopo Demurtas, Nicola Veronese, editors.
This book provides family doctors with a wealth of evidence-based indications and tips regarding geriatric medicine and approaches for the management of older patients, to be applied in daily practice. After discussing old and new features of healthy ageing and the approaches required in Family Medi...
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| Language: | English |
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Cham, Switzerland :
Springer,
2022.
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| Series: | Practical issues in geriatrics.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Family Doctors and the Silver Tsunami: how to face the storm
- Scales and Scores for comprehensive geriatric assessment in primary care
- Nutritional issues of older people in primary care
- Frailty and sarcopenia in primary care: current issues
- The older patient with cognitive impairment in primary care
- The older patient with psychiatric illness
- The older patient at home
- Managing incontinence
- Intermediate care in older population: the role of the Family Doctor
- The older patient in nursing home
- The role of caregivers in older people
- Red Flags in elderly care
- Vaccinations in older people
- The Geriatric Team: clinical and social aspects
- Elder Abuse and Domestic Violence
- Polipharmacy and overtreatment
- Quaternary Prevention and Deprescribing
- Quality or quantity of life? Supportive and palliative approach to the elderly
- Dying at home
- Dying in 4D (or more)
- Integrating spiritual care in the frame
- Dignity Therapy
- Conclusions.