The Challenge of Geriatric Medicine

by Bernard Isaacs, Bernard Issacs, Bernard Issacs

This lucid work provides a distillation of the author's lifetime experience with and compassion for the elderly. The expression "Giants of Geriatrics", coined by the author, is used in medical language to describe the principle chronic disabilities of old age. These include immobility, instability, incontinence, and intellectual impairment. Chapters on each of these have been supplemented by chapters on five further chronic disabilities, which are...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192620223
• ISBN13: 9780192620224
• Release Date: March 1992
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.5"