Informa Healthcare - web catalogue

Geriatric Diabetes covers screening, diagnosis, and treatment, as well as presentations and challenges associated with diabetes in the elderly.

Key features:

• recommendations for clinicians
• physical, social, emotional, and cognitive issues, and their impact on disease management
• pathophysiology, diagnosis, dosage and side-effects of medications, dietary requirements, exercise strategies, and the impact on quality-of-life
• conditions affecting elderly diabetes patients in acute and chronic care settings such as cardiovascular, cerebrovascular, and ophthalmic complications; kidney dysfunction; and foot ulcers and infection
• the prevalence of diabetes and its complications in different ethnic groups and management strategies for these populations
• co-morbidities such as depression, dementia, and weight loss
• the newest medications, monitoring systems, and studies on stem cell research and pancreatic transplantation.