Handbook of Geriatric Assessment by Joseph J. Gallo, Terry Fulmer, Gregory J. Paveza, Terry Fulmer, Hillary R. Bogner

From the Publisher

Our health care system continues to undergo change, driven, in part, by the pressures of caring for a growing population of older adults. To address these changing needs and to provide better patient care, Aspen announces the new Third Edition of the Handbook of Geriatric Assessment. Completely revised and updated, it presents assessment and evaluation technology used by health care professionals, social workers, and researchers working with a wide variety of elderly populations including hospitalized elderly, nursing home residents, and those receiving home care services. Emphasis on the multidimensional approach in the care of older persons and the inclusion of new chapters on ethnicity, assessment, driving evaluation, and pain assessment keep this book on the cutting edge of health care trends.

Designed for:

• Family Physicians
• Geriatricians
• Educators and Medical School Course Directors
• Nurse Clinicians
• Physical Assistants
• Doctors of Osteopathy
• Social Workers
• Neurologists
• Rehabilitative Therapists.

  Features:

  • Includes the latest cutting edge assessment techniques
  • Contains dozens of ready-to-use test, charts, and guidelines
  • Shows easy-to-understand models you can put into practice quickly
  • Hear from two distinguished medical ethicists on methods used to assess values of the well or ill older adult.

  Jeannine Forrest

  This handbook is a guide for clinicians on how to integrate multidimensional assessments for primary care of older adults. Select tools and questionnaires highlight domains that provide significant information for geriatric care. Extensive reference lists enrich each chapter. This book was previously published in 1995. The intent in this third edition is to foster multidimensional assessment of older adults with practical applications across primary care settings for all clinicians involved in geriatric care. These objectives are essential in promoting a unique approach in delivering care to elderly patients. The editors and contributors come close to meeting these ambitious objectives. This book is designed to be read by all healthcare professionals in geriatric care. The content is targeted toward practicing clinicians in primary care settings. Familiar aspects of geriatric evaluation are featured in great depth and substance, with multiple examples of tools for mental, social, functional assessments, health promotion, and disease prevention. Additional topics such as ethnicity, advanced directives, and the older driver identify emerging areas in geriatric care. The text is limited by unevenness in depth and examples of clinical assessment tools among various chapters. The chapter on pain leaves the reader wanting more concrete illustrations of tools that are better utilized by elderly patients. In addition, contributors discuss the importance of an interdisciplinary team, yet focus quite heavily on the geriatrician in conducting these multidimensional assessments. This book is a worthwhile resource that targets essential areas of assessment for the elderly. Compared toother texts such as Fordyce's Geriatric Pearls (F.A. Davis Company Publishers, 1999), it serves as a more useful guide in focusing the clinician's attention toward multidimensional assessment as a unique approach in the delivery of care to the elderly. Additions in this updated text are valuable in highlighting new research in geriatric care.

  Doody Review Services

  Reviewer:Jeannine Marie Forrest, Ph.D., R.N.(University of Illinois at Chicago College of Nursing)
  Description:This handbook is a guide for clinicians on how to integrate multidimensional assessments for primary care of older adults. Select tools and questionnaires highlight domains that provide significant information for geriatric care. Extensive reference lists enrich each chapter. This book was previously published in 1995.
  Purpose:The intent in this third edition is to foster multidimensional assessment of older adults with practical applications across primary care settings for all clinicians involved in geriatric care. These objectives are essential in promoting a unique approach in delivering care to elderly patients. The editors and contributors come close to meeting these ambitious objectives.
  Audience:This book is designed to be read by all healthcare professionals in geriatric care. The content is targeted toward practicing clinicians in primary care settings.
  Features:Familiar aspects of geriatric evaluation are featured in great depth and substance, with multiple examples of tools for mental, social, functional assessments, health promotion, and disease prevention. Additional topics such as ethnicity, advanced directives, and the older driver identify emerging areas in geriatric care. The text is limited by unevenness in depth and examples of clinical assessment tools among various chapters. The chapter on pain leaves the reader wanting more concrete illustrations of tools that are better utilized by elderly patients. In addition, contributors discuss the importance of an interdisciplinary team,yet focus quite heavily on the geriatrician in conducting these multidimensional assessments.
  Assessment:This book is a worthwhile resource that targets essential areas of assessment for the elderly. Compared to other texts such as Fordyce's Geriatric Pearls (F.A. Davis Company Publishers, 1999), it serves as a more useful guide in focusing the clinician's attention toward multidimensional assessment as a unique approach in the delivery of care to the elderly. Additions in this updated text are valuable in highlighting new research in geriatric care.

  Booknews

  Instructs clinicians on the evaluation of the older person, covering assessment of mental status, function, social situation, physical examination, and health promotion and disease prevention. Discusses ethnicity in geriatric assessment, the older driver, and assessment in special settings, and presents a case study of a geriatric assessment program at a university hospital. This third edition contains a new chapter on social and economic aspects of care. Gallo is affiliated with the department of family practice and community medicine and the department of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Product Details

• ISBN: 0763730564
  
• ISBN-13: 9780763730567
• Format: Textbook Hardcover, 473pp
• Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers, Inc.
• Pub. Date: September 2005
• Edition Description: REV
• Edition Number: 4
• Sales Rank: 326,594

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