Evidence-Based Geriatric Medicine: Clinical Foundations and Practice in Whole-Person Assessment, Frailty, Deprescribing, and Goal-Directed Care for Ol (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798255877461)

Your patient is 82, takes fourteen medications, and just presented with confusion, a fall, and a blood pressure that looks fine sitting but drops forty points when she stands. The guideline says one thing. Her body says another. What do you do?

Every day, clinicians apply disease-specific protocols designed for younger adults to older patients whose altered pharmacokinetics, narrowed physiological reserve, and competing comorbidities turn standard care into iatrogenic harm - the prescribing cascade nobody traced, the delirium nobody screened for, the hip fracture that started with an antihypertensive nobody reassessed.

Evidence-Based Geriatric Medicine gives you the clinical reasoning framework to manage the whole older adult - not just the disease list - from the first assessment to the last conversation that matters.

INSIDE THIS BOOK:

- The Geriatric 5Ms applied at the bedside - a decision-making architecture that restructures how you approach every complex older patient
- Pharmacokinetic precision for aging bodies - why the standard dose is the wrong dose, which agents to avoid, and how to deprescribe what no longer earns its place
- Frailty measured and modified - Fried phenotype, EWGSOP2 sarcopenia criteria, and the exercise and protein prescriptions that reverse the trajectory
- Atypical presentations decoded - the MI without chest pain, the sepsis without fever, the PE that mimics pneumonia, the delirium that mimics dementia
- Anticoagulation in the patient who falls - the 295-falls calculation, the agent selection, and the shared decision framework that replaces reflexive withholding
- Goals-of-care conversations structured with REMAP - so the question becomes what matters most, not which procedures to authorize
- Person-centered care from diagnosis to death - advance planning, symptom management, hospice timing, and the follow-up call that families never forget

Written for geriatricians, internists, hospitalists, family physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, pharmacists, residents, and students who treat older adults and refuse to do it on autopilot.

Your next older patient deserves a clinician who sees the person behind the problem list. Start here.

Author: Eric M. Braun
ISBN-13: 9798255877461
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 04/10/2026
Pages: 520
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.63lbs
Size: 11.00h x 8.50w x 1.05d