Geriatric Palliative Care
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated; Oxford University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 560
ISBN-13: 9780195389319
Subjects: Older people; Therapeutics; Terminal care; Medical personnel
Description: The growing geriatric population in the United States has created an increasing need for palliative medicine services across the range of medical and surgical specialties. Yet, palliative medicine lacks the resources to carry such a workload itself. Geriatric Palliative Care addresses this need by encouraging individual specialties to "own" the management of elderly with the same vigor as they "own" other key management competencies within their specialty.