Main description:

This issue of Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, guest edited by Drs. Sidney S. Braman and Gwen S. Skloot, is devoted to Pulmonary Disease in the Aging Patient. Articles in this issue include: The Effects of Aging on Lung Structure and Function; Immunosenescence and the Lungs; Epidemiology of Lung Disease in the Elderly; The Evaluation of Dyspnea in the Elderly; Asthma in the Elderly; COPD in the Elderly Patient; Pulmonary Vascular Diseases in the Elderly; Granulomatous Lung Diseases in the Elderly; Lung Cancer in the Older Patient; Sleep Disorders in the Elderly; Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis in the Older Patient; and Co-morbidities of Lung Disease in the Elderly.

Contents:

Clinics in Geriatric Medicine

Pulmonary Disease in the Aging Patient

Preface: Pulmonary Disease in the Aging Patient

The Effects of Aging on Lung Structure and Function

Inflammaging and the Lung

Lung Diseases of the Elderly: Cellular Mechanisms

Epidemiology of Lung Disease in Older Persons

Evaluation of Dyspnea in the Elderly

Asthma in the Elderly

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in Elderly Patients

Pulmonary Vascular Diseases in the Elderly

Lung Cancer in the Older Patient

Sleep in the Elderly: Unanswered Questions

Comorbidities of Lung Disease in the Elderly