Geriatric Palliative Care

• Section 1 Overview: The Social & Cultural Context of Old Age & Frailty 1: John E. Wennberg, MD, MPH, and Susan W. Tolle, MD: Variability in End-of-Life Care in the United States 2: Robert N. Butler: Developmental Challenges and Opportunities for "Growth": The Inner Life at the End of Life 3: J. Randall Curtis, MD, MPH, and Donald L. Patrick, PhD, MSPH: Assessing Quality of Life and Quality of Dying in the Elderly: Implications for Clinical Practice of Palliative Medicine 4: Stephen G. Post: The Place of Love in the Care of Persons with Advanced Dementia 5: Colleen Christmas, MD and Tom Finucane, MD: Artificial Nutrition and Hydration 6: Daniel Callahan, PhD, and Eva Topinkova, MD, PhD: Age, Rationing, and Palliative Care 7: Linda Emanuel, MD, PhD, Madelyn A. Iris, PhD, and James R. Webster, MS, MD: Ethical Aspects of Geriatric Palliative Care 8: Marion Danis, MD, and Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, MD: Respecting Diversity in Geriatric Palliative Care Disease and Syndrome-Specific Aspects of Palliative Care 9: Jeremy D. Walston, MD, and Linda P. Fried, MD, MPH: Frailty and its Implication for Care 10: Julia M. Addington-Hall, PhD, honMFPHM, Angie Rogers, MSc, Anne McCoy, MSc, J. Simon R. Gibbs, MD, FRCP: Heart Disease 11: Natalie R. Sacks, MD, and Janet L. Abrahm, MD: Cancer 12: Steven R. Flanagan, MD and Stanley Tuhrim, MD: Stroke: Prognosis, Treatment, and Rehabilitation 13: Ellen Olson, MD: Dementia and Neuro-Degenerative Diseases 14: John P. Kremarik, MD, Thomas J. Predergast, MD, E. Wesley Ely, MD, and James R. Runo, MD: Chronic Lung Disease and Lung Cancer 15: Lewis M. Cohen, MD, Michael Germain, MD, and Maura Brennan, MD: End Stage Renal Disease and Discontinuation of Dialysis Symtom Distress in Older Patients 16: Bruce A. Ferrell, MD and Elizabeth Whiteman, MD: Pain 17: Cynthia X. Pan, MD: Dyspnea 18: Nigel P. Sykes, MA, BM, BCh, FRCGP: Gastrointestinal Syptoms 19: Deborah Witt Sherman, PhD, RN, ANP, CS and Marianne LaPorte Matzo, PhD, RN, GNP, CS: Fatigue 20: Elizabeth Goy, PhD, and Linda Ganzini, MD: Delirium, Anxiety, and Depression Communication 21: Joan M. Teno, MD, MS: Advance Care Planning for Frail, Older Persons 22: James A. Tulsky, MD: Doctor-Patient Communication 23: Timothy E. Quill, MD and Robert McCann, MD: Decision-Making for the Cognitively Impaired Structures of Care for the Chronically Ill with Palliative Care Needs 24: Janice Lynch, MFA, Sarah Myers, MPH, Susan K. Rogers, MS, BSN,CHPN, Susan Emmer, Esq., and Joanne Lynn, MD: Can We Make the Health-Care System Work? 25: John M. Carter, MD and Eileen Chichin, PhD: Palliative Care in the Nursing Home 26: Carol Levine, MA: Family Caregivers: Burdens and Opportunities 27: Knight Steel, MD and Caroline Vitale, MD: Home Care for Frail Older Adults 28: Daniel Fischberg, MD and Diane Meier, MD: Hospital-Based Palliative Care

This book should be of great value to geriatricians as they strive to deliver optimal care for their patients. but I think it will also be very useful for palliative care professionals. Many of the patients we look after are older adults and this book provides useful insights as to how we might improve their overall care. It will certainly be on the library shelf at my palliative care service.