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As populations live longer and the clinical needs of older adults become increasingly complex, effective geriatric care demands far more than the treatment of individual diseases. Clinicians must understand how aging physiology, multimorbidity, frailty, cognition, medications, functional capacity, social circumstances, and personal priorities interact to influence health, resilience, and recovery. This comprehensive, clinically grounded reference brings these dimensions together, connecting the science of aging with practical approaches to assessment, diagnosis, treatment, prevention, rehabilitation, and long-term care.


Structured to progress from foundational principles to complex clinical management, this Modern Principles and Practice of Geriatric Medicine provides an integrated exploration of contemporary geriatric care across the continuum of later life, with comprehensive coverage of the following key areas:


Foundations, Assessment, and Geriatric Syndromes explore:

• Biology, physiology, cellular mechanisms, and emerging science of aging
• Healthy aging, longevity, resilience, and age-related physiological change
• Comprehensive geriatric assessment and atypical presentations of disease
• Functional assessment, multimorbidity, prognosis, and individualized clinical decision-making
• Frailty, sarcopenia, falls, mobility impairment, functional decline, and major geriatric syndromes
• Cognitive aging, dementia, delirium, neurological disorders, and late-life mental health

Clinical Management and Specialized Geriatric Care provide in-depth guidance on:

• Cardiovascular, respiratory, endocrine, metabolic, renal, gastrointestinal, musculoskeletal, hematologic, oncologic, and infectious disorders
• Polypharmacy, age-related pharmacology, deprescribing, adverse drug events, and medication safety
• Nutrition, malnutrition, dysphagia, exercise, rehabilitation, and preservation of functional independence
• Acute illness, emergency care, hospitalization, critical care, trauma, and perioperative management
• Transitional, post-acute, home-based, residential, and long-term care
• Preventive care, palliative care, symptom management, advance care planning, and end-of-life care
• Ethics, decision-making capacity, safeguarding, social determinants of health, health equity, and caregiver support
• Digital health, telemedicine, artificial intelligence, geroscience, precision geriatrics, and emerging approaches to healthy longevity

Throughout the text, disease management is integrated with physiological reserve, cognition, mobility, medication burden, nutrition, prognosis, social circumstances, and personal goals. Practical assessment frameworks support individualized clinical decisions that prioritize safety, functional preservation, independence, dignity, and quality of life.


Written for geriatricians, physicians, residents, medical students, nurses, pharmacists, rehabilitation and allied healthcare professionals, and educators, this authoritative reference connects foundational science with practical clinical care. Add this Modern Principles and Practice of Geriatric Medicine to your professional library and strengthen your ability to deliver evidence-informed, person-centered care for older adults.