From the Back Cover
This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the unique clinical entities of diseases in older patients. The book arranges the organ systems in 21 sections, which include over 100 collective chapters on various age-related diseases in these organ systems. The text is specifically designed for ease-of-use and include learning tools that include multiple choice, short answer, and extended matching questions, case vignettes, self-assessments, and rich tables and illustrations. Each section includes a review of the anatomy, physiology and pathology that are specific to aging patients. The text covers the complex factors that present diagnosis challenges, including the interaction of the disease process with co-existing morbidities, aged- related physiological changes and pre-existing functional challenges and psychosocial circumstances. The text also works with the previously published text Diseases in the Elderly: Age-Related Changes and Pathophysiology, which is tailored to complement this resource.
Written by experts in the field, Geriatric Diseases: Clinical Expression, Management and Impact is the ultimate guide on clinical expression and management of diseases in the elderly for medical students, residents, fellows, geriatricians, gerontologists, primary care physicians, internal medicine specialists, emergency room physicians, specialist nurses, and all other physicians and medical professionals treating older patients.
Nages Nagaratnam, MD, OAM FRACP, FRCPA, FRCP, FACC, FCCP is Clinical Associate Professor at the Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney and Conjoint Associate Professor in the School of Medicine, College of Health and Science at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. He graduated and obtained the Doctorate in Medicine from the University of Ceylon and was for many years Consultant Physician in Internal Medicine in Sri Lanka and Senior Physician at the General Hospital, Colombo, the premier teaching hospital. He is a founding Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences of Sri Lanka and was President Section A of the Sri Lanka Association for the Advancement of Science. In Australia he was Consultant Physician in Geriatric and Internal Medicine at the Blacktown-Mount Druitt and Westmead Hospitals. He has an almost lifelong commitment to the training and guiding the careers of generation of young doctors. He has authored more than 200 scientific publications in both national and international journals. His interests spanned themes from many fields of medicine with continuous clinical research over several years. In the last two decades his interests are in geriatrics, rehabilitation, stroke and stroke rehabilitation.
Kujan Nagaratnam MBBS (UNSW), FRACP graduated in Medicine from the University of New South Wales in 1988. He did his internal medical training and Advanced Training in Geriatric Medicine and Stroke Medicine at Westmead and Royal Prince Alfred Hospitals, Sydney. He obtained his Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP) in 1997. He held Senior Staff Specialist appointments in General, Geriatric Medicine and Stroke Medicine at Westmead Hospital and Blacktown- Mt Druitt Hospitals until 2012. He is also Visiting Consultant Physician at The Norwest Private and Westmead Private Hospitals in Sydney. He is currently the Chairman and Head of the Department of Geriatric Medicine and Stroke Medicine, Norwest Private Hospital, Sydney. His academic interests includes teaching both undergraduate and postgraduate medical students. He is a Clinical Senior Lecturer in Medicine at The University of Sydney. His special interests are Stroke Medicine, Cognitive Impairment and Dementia, Neurological Diseases in the Elderly and Post-operative medical management of elderly patients.
Gary Cheuk BS(UNSW), FRACP graduated from the University of New South Wales In 1985 with honours. He commenced basic physician training in Dunedin (New Zealand) and St George Hospital (Sydney). Hr underwent advance training in Geriatric Medicine at Concord and Westmead Hospitals and was granted Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians in 1993. In the following year he became Director of Rehabilitation and Aged Care Service at Blacktown-Mt Druitt Hospital, a position he still occupies. Dr Cheuk has been involved in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching for many years. Service planning and development are areas of interest for Dr Cheuk and he was instrumental in the establishment of the Stroke Unit at Blacktown Hospital and the building of the Rehabilitation Hub at Mt-Druitt Hospital. His clinical interests include Dementia care Parkinson's disease and related disorders, Stroke Medicine and Musculo-skeletal diseases in the older persons.
