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Table of Contents:

List of contributors
Preface
1 Medicine taking by elderly people: an overview 1
2 Ageing physiology 23
3 Pharmacokinetics 39
4 Biochemical pharmacology of ageing 47
5 Pharmacodynamics 59
6 Adverse drug reactions in the elderly 73
7 The ethics of biomedical research in the elderly 87
8 Ischaemic heart disease 99
9 Chronic heart failure 125
10 Hypertension 149
11 Peripheral vascular disease 175
12 Cardiac arrhythmias 187
13 Infective endocarditis 201
14 The prevention of stroke 215
15 The acute management of stroke 227
16 Dementia 243
17 Confusion 265
18 Pharmacotherapy of idiopathic parkinsonism 277
19 Depression 285
20 Psychoses and the elderly 303
21 Anaesthesia 315
22 Pain management 333
23 Epilepsy 351
24 Metabolic bone disease 365
25 Arthritis 387
26 Airways obstruction 401
27 Thromboembolism 413
28 Infections of the airways and lungs 423
29 Drugs and the ageing mouth 437
30 Dyspepsia and peptic ulcer disease 449
31 Nausea, vomiting and gastrointestinal motility problems 469
32 Drugs affecting large bowel motility 479
33 Hepatobiliary and pancreatic disease 487
34 Thyroid 511
35 Drug therapy for the aged diabetic 517
36 Hormone replacement therapy 529
37 The prostate 541
38 Incontinence 557
39 Urinary tract infection 569
40 Vertigo 585
41 Glaucoma 591
42 Cytotoxic chemotherapy for elderly patients with solid tumours 601
43 Chemotherapy of haematological malignancies 623
44 Terminal care 639
Index 655