This new edition of a best-selling and critically-acclaimed text, completely revised and updated, offers practical and comprehensive coverage of the diseases, common problems, and medical care of older persons. Subjects tackled include womens health issues, geriatric assessment, context of care in geriatric medicine, common cancers in the elderly, ethics and health policy issues, and neurologic and psychiatric disorders. Building on the second edition, this comprehensive and authoritative volume is the standard reference in the field.

1. Basics of Gerontology.- 1. Molecular and Biologic Factors in Aging: The Origins, Causes, and Prevention of Senescence.- 2. The Demography of Aging.- 3. Epidemiology and Aging.- 4. Social and Psychological Characteristics.- 5. Principles of Pharmacology.- 2. Contexts of Care in Geriatric Medicine.- 6. Contexts of Care.- 7. Long-Term Care.- 8. The Physician and the Care of the Nursing Home Patient.- 9. Home Care.- 10. Acute Hospital Care.- 11. Geriatric Emergencies.- 3. Clinical Approach to the Geriatric Patient.- 12. Clinical Approach: An Overview.- 13. Instruments to Assess Functional Status.- 14. Neuropsychological Testing.- 15. Preoperative Assessment and Perioperative Care.- 16. Determination of Decision-Making Capacity.- 17. Rehabilitation.- 4. Medical Disorders.- 18. Screening for Cancer.- 19. The Science of Neoplasia.- 20. Breast Cancer.- 21. Colon Cancer and Other Gastrointestinal Malignancies.- 22. Lung Cancer.- 23. Prostate Cancer.- 24. Gynecologic Cancers.- 25. Hematologic Malignancies.- 26. Cardiovascular Disease.- 27. Hypertension.- 28. Management of Peripheral Vascular Disease.- 29. Osteoporosis and Other Disorders of Skeletal Aging.- 30. Orthopedic Problems.- 31. Rheumatologic Diseases.- 32. Treatment of Diabetes.- 33. Thyroid Disorders.- 34. Changes in Male Sexual Function.- 35. Menopause/Female Sexual Function.- 36. Gynecologic and Urologic Problems of Older Women.- 37. Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia.- 38. Nephrology/Fluid and Electrolyte Disorders.- 39. Changes in Immunologic Function.- 40. Infectious Diseases.- 41. Hematologic Problems.- 42. Gastroenterologic Disorders.- 43. Pulmonary Disease.- 44. Dermatologic Diseases and Problems.- 45. Changes and Diseases of the Aging Eye.- 46. Otologic Changes and Disorders.- 47. Aging and the Oral Cavity.- 48. Urinary Incontinence.- 49. Syncope.- 50. Pressure Ulcers.- 51. Falls.- 52. Nutrition.- 53. Exercise.- 54. Sleep and Sleep Disorders.- 55. Herpes Zoster.- 56. Elder Abuse.- 57. Pain and Pain Management.- 58. Care Near the End of Life.- 5. Neurologic and Psychiatric Disorders.- 59. Dementia.- 60. Delirium.- 61. Cerebrovascular Disease and Stroke.- 62. Abnormalities of Posture and Movement.- 63. Depression, Anxiety, and Other Affective Disorders.- 6. Ethics and Health Policy Issues for Older Adults.- 64. Overview of Ethical Issues.- 65. Justice and the Allocation of Health Care Resources.- 66. Medical Treatment and the Physician's Legal Duties.- 67. Patient's Advance Directives for Health Care in Case of Incapacity.- 68. Ethical Challenges to Research.- 69. The Value of Achieving a Peaceful Death.