Main description:

Key Features

Provides practical therapeutic advice including deprescribing decisions for all medication types.

Presents statistics in more clinically meaningful ways - i.e. number needed to treat and no p-values, to aid the process of shared decision-making for clinicians and professionals.

Includes 200 revised questions and answers throughout the text in the 'best of five' format suitable for the SCE and similar higher-training exams.

Contents:

PART A: Healthcare for older people

1 Ageing

2 Care

3 Medications

4 Peri-operative medicine

5 Palliative care

Questions for Part A

PART B: Brain

6 Dementia

7 Delirium

8 Depression

9 Movement disorders

10 Stroke

Questions for Part B

PART C: Bladder and bowel

11 Urinary tract disorders

12 Bowel disorders

Questions for Part C

PART D: Falls and related topics

13 Dizziness

14 Falls

15 Syncope

16 Bones and fractures

Questions for Part D

PART E: Cardiovascular and respiratory

17 Heart failure

18 Hypertension

19 Atrial fibrillation

20 Acute coronary syndromes

21 Chest

Questions for Part E

PART F: Selected topics

Anaemia

Arthritis

Cancer

Epilepsy

Hypothermia

Leg ulcers

Motor neuron disease

Myopathy

Pressure ulcers

Type 2 diabetes

Questions for Part F

APPENDIX A: Rating scales

APPENDIX B: Abbreviations

APPENDIX C: Answers to questions