5th Edition

The Care of the Older Person

Edited By Ronald Caplan Copyright 2023
    364 Pages 17 Color & 9 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    364 Pages 17 Color & 9 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    364 Pages 17 Color & 9 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    The fifth edition of this widely used book by caregivers brings to you updated and revised content, built on the basic understanding that medicine does not work in a vacuum, but rather alongside other disciplines to provide the environment for a healthy and fulfilling long life. Edited by alumni and senior faculty at McGill University, with international contributions, this book advocates the achievement of better, longer, satisfying, and more productive lives for older persons. It is a helpful resource for physicians, professional caregivers, therapists, students, and residents in medical and nursing disciplines, who care for our burgeoning older population and need to know what to look for and when to consult specialists.
    Key Features:
    1. Follows a uniform structure with many chapters having a hypothetical vignette for instructional purposes and with the clinical chapters detailing the features and diagnosis of given conditions, along with possible management protocols specific to afflicted older individuals.
    2. Builds on the success of the previous four editions to provide high-quality content from international experts for physicians and other caregivers in the field.
    3. Provides possible management for pressing problems, including the nursing home challenge, pandemics such as COVID, and precision therapy for cancer.

    DISCLAIMER
    EDITORS/CONTRIBUTORS
    CONTRIBUTORS

    HELPING 
    1. Introduction
    Jose A. Morais
    2. Caring for the older person
    Abraham Fuks
    3. Frailty
    Sathya Karunananthan and Howard Bergman
    4. Physical activity as a countermeasure to frailty
    Guy Hajj Boutros and Antony D. Karelis
    5. Doctor, my spouse is getting forgetful
    Serge Gauthier
    6. Update on Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis and management
    Serge Gauthier
    7. Navigating the journey of dementia as a caregiver
    Claire Webster
    8. How to diagnose and manage delirium
    Haibin Yin
    9. Why does my patient have gait & balance disorders?
    Olivier Beauchet
    10. Could my patient be malnourished?
    Jose A. Morais
    11. Dental care in older persons
    Michael Wiseman
    12. Eating, drinking and swallowing problems of vulnerable older adults
    Heather C. Lambert

    VULNERABILITY
    13. Architecture and the aging
    Julia Gersovitz and Boris Morin-Defoy
    14. Are the immunizations of my patient up to date?
    Dominique Tessier
    15. Management of older patients in the emergency department: this man is old, but is it an emergency?
    Cyrille Launay
    16. Critical care of the older person
    Astrid F. Pilgrim and Michael R. Pinsky
    17. COVID-19 in long-term care
    Julia Chabot, Philippe Desmarais and Michael Stiffel

    CARING
    18. Arthritis in the older person
    Linda Yue, Kevin Yip and Joseph A. Markenson
    19. Stroke prevention in the elderly
    Liam Durcan
    20. Advances in cardiac care for older persons
    P. David Myerowitz
    21. Could my patient be at risk of orthostatic hypotension?
    Eric T. Hedge and Carmelo Mastrandrea
    22. The care of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in older adults
    Bryan Ross and Jean Bourbeau
    23. How do I manage my patient with peripheral arterial disease?
    Oren K. Steinmetz and Anna Eva Kinio
    24. How to manage type 2 diabetes in frail elderly patients
    Young-Sang Kim and José A. Morais
    25. Hepatobiliary considerations, including cancer
    Erica C. Roth, Sunil S Karhadkar and Antonio di Carlo
    26. Abdominal organ transplantation in the older person
    Antonio di Carlo and Sunil Karhadkar

    CANCER
    27. Cancer in older adults
    Doreen Wan-Chow-Wah
    28. Cancer screening in the older adult
    Catalina Hernandez Torres and Tina Hsu
    29. Diagnosis and management of bowel cancer
    Jessica Holland and Barry L Stein
    30. Precision Medicine and Care of the Older Patient
    Anne Croudass and Donald White
    31. Psycho oncology: living with the fear of death
    Norman Straker

    CONSIDERATIONS
    32. Incontinence in older adults
    Samer Shamout and Lysanne Campeau
    33. Sleep disorders in older persons
    Shachi Tyagi
    34. Polypharmacy and deprescribing in the elderly
    Louise Mallet
    35. After the menopause
    Ronald M. Caplan
    36. The senior adult eye
    Peter M. Odell
    37. Hearing loss and aging
    Joseph J. Montano
    38. Skin care of the older person: the skin and its associated changes
    Aziz Khan and Hao Feng
    39. Caring for the older person undergoing plastic surgery
    Subhas Gupta and Erin O’Rorke

    UNDERSTANDING, PROTECTING
    40. Elder abuse
    Mark J. Yaffe
    41. Late-life anxiety
    Jess Friedland, Paulina Bajsarowicz and Philippe Desmarais
    42. An overview of late-life depression
    Artin Mahdanian and Silvia Monti De Flores
    43. Assessment of decision-making capacity
    Catherine Ferrier
    44. How can older people be protected?
    Randy S. Perskin
    45. Financial guidance for seniors
    Karen C. Altfest
    46. The role of religious belief in the end-of-life care of older persons
    A. Mark Clarfield

    MEDICAL TERMS
    Medical terms and their meaning: Glossary
    Ronald M. Caplan

    Bibliography & Supplemental Bibliography

    Biography

    Dr Ronald M. Caplan is Clinical Associate Professor Emeritus at Weill Cornell Medical College. He is an Obstetrician Gynecologist and medical author. He is a founding Editor of The Care of the Older Person, along with distinguished McGill Faculty members Olivier Beauchet,MD; Howard Bergman, MD; Abraham Fuks, MD; Serge Gauthier, MD, Phil Gold, MD and Jose Morais, MD.

    A readable, engaging and thought-provoking book that offers a broad overview of ageing and aged care,while at the same time providing detailed and relevant clinical information.

    Glenn Duns, MDCM, FRACGP,MPH, Melbourne

    The new Fifth edition of The Care of the Older Person, written by eminent experts, details stumbling blocks and disease processes encountered by older people, including frailty and loss of mental acuity. Strategies to mitigate, and even avoid, such conditions, including possible changes in lifestyle, which I have spent a lifetime advocating, are detailed, as well as how to care for persons who are living with such conditions.

    Joe De Sena, Founder and CEO of Spartan

     

    The fifth edition of The Care of the Older Person, edited by Ronald Caplan, MD, and authored by McGill faculty, is an excellent resource for the improvement of health and nutrition and the diagnosis and treatment of disease in the geriatric patient. Brief clinical vignettes solidify the principles covered in each chapter and highlight differences in this population. As we enter the “older person” age group, I greatly appreciate the authors’ and editor’s careful attention to all the elements of patient care, from assessment with the frailty index to application of care pathways ensuring optimal outcomes despite multiple comorbidities, impaired physiologic reserve and functional status. Ethical issues and patient values are also well incorporated into decision-making. I recommend this book to all those interested in the care of this vulnerable population-physicians, advanced care providers, nurses and students.

    Mary C. McCarthy, MD, FACS, MAMSE
    Professor Emeritus
    Wright State University School of Medicine

     

    The Care of the Older Person is a remarkable book on many levels. In addition to being clearly written, it explores areas that do not even appear on the average practitioner’s radar. There is an entire chapter on the many aspects of building a residence for older people; there is another chapter on the relative merits of cancer screening for this and that condition; there is a chapter on the psychology of getting older, becoming disabled, and obviously, coming closer to dying. These are topics that many practitioners would rather leave to others. Yet, as the saying goes, no snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible. All practitioners (except perhaps pediatricians) need a passing knowledge of the information in this book. I can well see this work becoming part of medical school curricula.

    Ronald Grelsamer, Clinical Associate Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, Icahn School of Medicine at the Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY.

    The book is much more than a typical medical textbook. It delves deeper and wider into the important question of what can be done to improve all aspects of the lives of older persons in our world today. The latest edition of this comprehensive textbook offers a wealth of current information. It should be available to all who care for older persons.

     David E. Wesson, MD, Emeritus Professor of Surgery Baylor College of Medicine