This new edition of a critically-acclaimed resource, completely revised and updated, offers practical and comprehensive coverage of the diseases, common problems and medical care of older persons. It presents a new approach, focusing on Evidence-Based Medicine, with chapters including: Physiology of Aging, Clinical Strategies of Prescribing for Older Adults, Chronic Disease Management, Prevention, Doctor-Patient Communication Issues, Sources of Suffering in the Elderly and many others. This will be an all-encompassing, authoritative volume on geriatric medicine, needed more than ever because the over-80 population is the fastest growing age group in the country.

Christine K. Cassel, MD
Professor and Dean
Oregon Health & Science University, School of Medicine
Portland, Oregon

Rosanne M. Leipzig, MD, PhD
Vice-Chair for Education
Gerald and May Ellen Ritter Professor of Geriatrics
Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Adult Development, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
New York, New York

Harvey Jay Cohen, MD
Director
Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development
Chief, Geriatrics Division, Duke University Medical Center; Director, Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center, Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Durham, North Carolina

Eric B. Larson, MD, MPH
Director
Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperatives; Professor of Medicine, University of Washington Medical Center
Seattle, Washington

Diane E. Meier, MD
Director, Hertzberg Palliative Care Institute; Catherine Gaisman Professor of Medical Ethics; Professor, Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Adult Development, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York

Carol F. Capello, PhD