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Table of Contents:

Foreword
Introduction
List of Contributors
1 Pharmacoepidemiology and the Elderly 1
2 Drug Use and Older People: Sociological Perspectives 21
3 Economic Aspects of Drugs and Older People 36
4 Pharmacokinetics 58
5 Pharmacodynamics 90
6 Adverse Drug Reactions 109
7 Drug Regimen Compliance 124
8 Prescribing for Older People in General Practice 145
9 Optimising Drug Therapy in Hospital 163
10 Drugs and the Developing World 187
11 Cardiovascular 193
12 Drugs and the Lung - COPD, Asthma, Interstitial Lung Disease 240
13 Psychopharmacology 275
14 Alcohol and the Older Person 304
15 Drugs in Stroke 337
16 Epilepsy 378
17 The Drug Treatment of Parkinson's Disease in the Elderly 399
18 The Gastrointestinal System 420
19 Diabetes Mellitus and Common Endocrine Conditions in the Elderly 453
20 Bone Disease 532
21 Drugs and Arthritis 554
22 Pain Relief 580
23 Cancer 601
24 Continence 652
25 Conclusions: Issues in Drug Development and Clinical Trials in Older People in the 21[superscript st] Century 671
Index 693