Diagnostic approach to the confused elderly patient

By Chris Dennis

Old Age medicine is a new medicine. It concerns all doctors and health personnel. New, it is evolving faster than the
"Old" disciplines medical. We must put an end to the denial of the disease in the elderly. Age alone does not explain any deficit or handicap. Any disability that appears with age is the consequence of illness, which means that the impairments and handicaps of aging can be prevented, even cured, if not improved or delayed, compensated if not accompanied. The doctor always has mething do for his patient. Medicine for the elderly is no longer limited to passive defectology, a rearguard fight. It is a medicine for screening, prevention and forecasting. No one can ignore it anymore. No one can, on the pretext of age, leave an increasing proportion of his patients without care.
How to accept care without knowing? Are we not endangered by insufficient knowledge, by an offer of care that ignores the needs of this population? The doctor must know how to recognize the disease behind the atypical symptom, not stop at the first diagnosis which seems obvious. Each symptom can have several causes. One diagnosis can hide another as the diseases can be multiple.
Neither can the doctor be omniscient, he must know when to wave a hand and to whom to pass it. Getting the advice of a referrer in good time makes it easieryour monitoring of the elderly patient.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B09L2XW9JS
• ISBN13: 9798759753001
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"