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Preparing this fifth edition has once again demonstrated how fast the field of geriatric medicine is
moving forward. The basic purpose of the book remains the same: to teach those health professionals
practicing primary care (physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants), the currently
recommended approaches to the problems elders and their carers face, to disease prevention and health promotion, and to the reduction and postponement of morbidity and dependency, using a case-based text, with the patients and families cast in the settings of primary care - the office, the emergency room, the hospital, the nursing home, and the patient’s own place: home, the best place to get a realistic impression of how the person’s life really is, and how the patient, family and carers are handling
the difficulties they face. All the authors and editors in this new edition are, as before, experienced in clinical primary care, yet also prepared to take an evidence-based approach, utilizing the best possible evidence for all recommendations. It is great to welcome two further editors to the team in Marie Bernard, whose enthusiasm for “our” book attracted us, and who has been zealous in keeping to deadlines and guidelines, and has shepherded in a large number of new authors and subjects, and Ellen Flaherty, our lively nursing colleague, who has similarly been responsible for new authors, new subjects and fresh approaches.
