An elderly patient in general medical practice. Guide for doctors. Avalueva E.B., Bakulin I.G., Belousova L.N.

The management includes the most necessary information for general practitioners, district therapists (family doctors) who assist people of the elderly and senile age. The structure of the book is built on the principle of an integrated approach to assessing the condition of an elderly person. Geriatric syndromes, methods for their diagnosis, as well as the most common diseases in older people are discussed in detail. The applications preserve the most frequently used questionnaires and questionnaires to identify geriatric syndromes and assess their severity. As illustrations for some chapters, videos are offered, in which clinical examples or the main provisions for the diagnosis and treatment of diseases and syndromes are presented.

Guide is intended for doctors working with elderly people at the primary stage of medical care, including including general practices (family doctors), doctors-therapists, and can also be used by students in subdigrine education.