Advanced Geriatric Medicine: v. 7

The chapters in this volume are based on presentations given in the Advanced Geriatric Medicine Course held in Oxford in the autumn of 1987. Topics covered include cardiology and epilepsy in the elderly, joint replacement and the response to injury. One of the other themes explored is the applicability of "high technolgy medicine" in the care of older people and the work suggests that therapeutic rather than prosthetic interventions should be considered with geriatic patients. Several contributions in the work cover this topic and contend that there is a need to make the approach to the increasing numbers of elderly patients both more rational and more humane. Other topics included are concerned with clinical problems in later life and age-associated changes in physiology. The final contribution brings the study of ageing into the heartland of contemporary medicine by addressing the question of the molecular basis of intrinsic ageing.