August 21st is National Senior Citizens Day! Help us celebrate and honor our senior citizens by taking a look at Himmelfarb Library’s top geriatric e-books!
- Hazard’s Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology: This definitive comprehensive text combines gerontology principles with clinical geriatrics, offering a holistic approach to this ever-expanding area of medicine. This 7th edition is divided into five parts: principles of gerontology, principles of geriatrics, geriatric syndromes, principles of palliative medicine, and organ systems and diseases.
- Integrative Geriatric Medicine: This work, authored by GW SMHS faculty member Mikhail Kogan, summarizes a patient-centered, holistic approach to the medical care of the elderly. This text is deeply rooted in lifestyle interventions such as nutrition, movement therapies, and mind-body and spirituality approaches to geriatric patient care.
- Geriatric Physical Therapy: This book offers a comprehensive presentation of geriatric physical therapy science and practice. Topics covered include age-related changes in function, the impact of these changes on patient examination and evaluation, and intervention approaches that maximize optimal aging. A print copy is also available in our basement level stacks (call number: RC953.8 .P58 G47 2012).
- Geriatrics at Your Fingertips: This reference book provides quick and easy to access information needed to make decisions about the care of older adults. New sections added to this edition include radiological imaging, sleep disturbances in dementia, and chronic urinary retention. We also have a 2019 print edition available in our stacks.
- Brocklehurst’s Textbook of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology: This leading reference text in the field of geriatric care offers a contemporary, global perspective for today’s gerontologists, internal medicine physicians, and family doctors. This edition includes an increased focus on frailty, coverage of key issues in gerontology, disease-specific geriatrics, and complex syndromes specific to the elderly. A print edition is also available in our stacks.
- Adult-Gerontology Practice Guidelines: This comprehensive resource for health care practitioners presents adult-gerontology practice guidelines for primary care. Structured in three sections, section one provides current guidelines, section two discusses 18 procedures, and section three presents 140 patient teaching guides on a variety of topics. A 2016 print edition is also available in our stacks.
- Essentials of Clinical Geriatrics: This engagingly written, up-to-date introductory guide to the core topics in geriatric medicine aims to help clinicians do a better job of caring for their older patients. This classic text features a strong focus on must-know concepts and provides the most current updates on the assessment and management of geriatric care. A print edition is also available in our stacks.
- Current Diagnosis and Treatment - Geriatrics: This text provides a framework for using a person’s functional and cognitive status, prognosis, and social context to guide the diagnosis and treatment of medical conditions. This edition applies the principles of geriatric medicine in different care settings to address common conditions and diseases and manage common symptoms and concerns encountered by clinicians in the care of older patients. A 2014 print edition is also available in our stacks.
In addition to the great titles listed above, Himmelfarb also provides access to Geriatrics Review Syllabus and Geriatric Nursing Review Syllabus. Geriatrics Review Syllabus is a comprehensive geriatric medicine reference with prevailing evaluation and management strategies in geriatrics medicine and includes 400 case-oriented, multiple-choice questions with answers, critiques, and references. Geriatric Nursing Review Syllabus provides the same great material but has been adapted for advanced practice geriatric nurses.
Accessing these e-books from anywhere is easy! Check out our Off-Campus Access Guide for tips and instructions on accessing these books from off-campus. Or reach out to our reference staff with off-campus access questions.
