Section 1: Palliative care: introduction
Palliative care: Introduction
Changes in the world of palliative care
Section 2: Physical problems
Pain control
Interventional techniques for pain management in palliative care
Nausea and vomiting
Breathlessness in advanced disease
Psychiatric conditions in palliative medicine
Emergencies in palliative medicine
Palliative care in non-malignant disease
Orphan symptoms in palliative care
Care in the last hours and days of life
Section 3: Social and ethical issues
Spiritual and cultural issues at the end of life
Ethical issues in palliative care
Section 4: Reactions to loss
Reactions to loss
Section 5: Medicine in older adults
Principles of rehabilitation of older people
The physiology of ageing
Blackout and collapse
Delirium in hospitalized older adults
Diagnosis and management of dementia in older people
Dizziness in older adults
Falls
Identification and management of osteoporosis in older adults
Pain management in older adults
Practical advice for prescribing in old age
The frailty syndrome
Urinary incontinence in older people: an overview