• 1. From gut feeling to evidence base: the development of health care for older people: drivers and barriers ; 2. Re-thinking care in later life: the social and the clinical ; 3. Health and social care services for older people: achievements, challenges and future directions ; 4. Service models ; 5. Therapeutics in older people ; 6. Dementia and memory clinics ; 7. Frailty: challenges and progress ; 8. Incontinence, the sleeping geriatric giant: challenges and solutions ; 9. Depressions in later life: heterogeneity and co-morbidities ; 10. Substance misuse and older people: a question of values ; 11. Sleep in older people ; 12. Assessment and management of pain in older adults ; 13. Stroke Units: research in practice ; 14. Stroke care: what is in the black box? ; 15. Involving older people in the design and conduct of clinical trials: what is patient and public involvement? ; 16. Under-representation of older people in clinical trials

Each chapter is succinct enough to provide an excellent overview of evidence and a platform for further reading. I have come away with a list of papers that I wish to read, and the book has challenged some of my understandings of clinical practice, service development and research. The book moves geriatric medicine beyond Isaacâs âgiantsâ and âsimply caring for the elderlyâ, into a complex and subtle specialty, backed by a wealth of evidence.