Oxford Case Histories in Geriatric Medicine

Sanja Thompson is Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at the University of Oxford and consultant geriatrician at the Departments of acute general medicine and geratology, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK. She is also Foundation Training Programme Director, Oxford Foundation School and a senior fellow at HEA.Nicola Lovett is Specialist registrar in general (internal) medicine and geratology, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford and Clinical Research Fellow, Stroke Prevention Research Unit, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, UK.Sir John Grimley Evans is a Professor Emeritus of Clinical Geratology at the University of Oxford. He studied at St John's College Cambridge and Balliol College, Oxford and has been awarded a number of honours and distinctions including the British Geriatrics Society Dhole Eddlestone Memorial Prize for contributions to research in geriatric medicine, Knight Bachelor for services to medicine, Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences, and Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Society of Medicine.Sarah T Pendlebury is Associate Professor in Medicine and Old Age Neuroscience in the Stroke Prevention Research Unit, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford and the Oxford NIHR Biomedical Research Centre and Consultant Physician in acute general medicine and geratology, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

The well thought out discussions of elder abuse, advance care planning and decision-making capacity are valuable for all clinicians