Reseña del libro "Clinical Geriatric Palliative Care (en Inglés)"
Caring for older adults with serious illness demands exceptional clinical judgment. Frailty, dementia, multiple chronic conditions, and changing treatment priorities create complex decisions in which medical expertise, compassionate communication, and individualized care must work together. Clinical Geriatric Palliative Care by Mark K. Howard offers a comprehensive, clinically grounded approach to managing serious illness in older adults. Combining the principles of geriatric medicine and palliative care, this full-color medical reference develops the knowledge and reasoning required to assess complex patients, relieve suffering, evaluate treatment options, and support informed decisions throughout advanced illness. Inside this professional medical textbook, readers will explore: Geriatric assessment and clinical complexity: Frailty, prognosis, cognitive impairment, dementia, delirium, multimorbidity, polypharmacy, nutrition, and functional decline. Advanced symptom management: Pain, breathlessness, agitation, gastrointestinal symptoms, fatigue, psychological distress, medication safety, and individualized therapeutic strategies. Palliative care across major diseases: Advanced heart and lung disease, kidney and liver failure, cancer, stroke, and progressive neurological conditions. Ethical decisions and end-of-life practice: Goals-of-care conversations, decision-making capacity, treatment limitations, hospice, family support, terminal care, and bereavement. Organized into 20 substantial chapters across five integrated parts, the book combines medical science, practical clinical reasoning, and original full-color educational diagrams to make complex subjects clear, accessible, and professionally relevant. Designed for physicians, geriatricians, palliative care clinicians, nurses, advanced practice professionals, and medical trainees, this volume provides a structured foundation for understanding the medical and human dimensions of serious illness in later life. Strengthen your clinical knowledge, refine your decision-making, and develop a more complete approach to caring for older adults with precision, confidence, and dignity.
