Geriatric Resources

Assessment Instruments

ADL's/IADL's (English) ADL's/IADL's (Spanish)	Mini-COG
CLOX	Mini-Mental State Examination
Geriatric Depression Scale	Pain Management Guide Card
FAST Scale	Tinetti Gait & Balance Score

 

Guidelines

• CHART: Parenteral Drugs for Treatment of Hypertensive Emergencies

 

Geriatric Recommended Readings

Medicine

Anticoagulation Guidelines

• "Warfarin Therapy : Evolving Strategies in Anticoagulation", Jon D. Horton, PharmD. and Bruce M. Bushwick,MD.; York Hospital, York, Pennsylvania.

Coronary Disease

• COMMENTARY: "Approach to symptomatic coronary disease in the elderly: Time to change?", The Lancet, Volume 358, September 22, 2001.

Dehydration

• "Hyponatremia and Hypernatremia in the Elderly", John P. Kugler, Col, MC, USA and Thomas Hustead, CPT, MC, USA. Dewitt Army Community Hospital, Fort Belvoir, Virginia. AAFP's America Family Physician, Vol. 61/No. 12, June 15, 2000.

Hypertension

• "Treatment of Hypertension in Patients 80 Years of Age or Older", Nigel S. Beckett, M.B., Ch.B., Ruth Peters, Ph.D., Astrid E. Fletcher, Ph.D., Jan A. Staessen, M.D., Ph.D., Lisheng Liu, M.D., Dan Dumitrascu, M.D., Vassil Stoyanovsky, M.D., Riitta L. Antikainen, M.D., Ph.D., Yuri Nikitin, M.D., Craig Anderson, M.D., Ph.D., Alli Belhani, M.D., Françoise Forette, M.D., Chakravarthi Rajkumar, M.D., Ph.D., Lutgarde Thijs, M.Sc., Winston Banya, M.Sc., and Christopher J. Bulpitt, M.D., for the HYVET Study Group; The New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 358: No. 18, May 1, 2008.

Osteoporosis

• "Osteoporosis", Lee S. Simon,MD; Harvard Medical School, Beth Isreal Deaconess Hospital, 330 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
  
  
• "Osteoporosis in elderly: Prevention and Treatment", Manish Srivastava, MD (a), Chad Deal, MD (b) ; (a) Section of Geriatric Medicine, A91 Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 9500 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland OH 44195, USA; (b) Center for Osteoporosis and Metabolic Bone Disease, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, A50, 9500 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA.

Parkinson's Disease

• " Parkinsonian Features, When Are They Parkinson Disease?", Irene Litvan, MD; Contempo 1998, Updates Linking Evidence and Experience.
  
  
• "Upate on Parkinson's Disease", Rosabel Young, MD, MS; King-Drew Medical Center, Los Angeles, California. AAFP's America Family Physician, Vol. 59/No. 8, Apr. 15, 1991.

Polymyalgia Rheumatica and TA

• "Polymyalgia Rheumatica and Giant Cell Arteritis", Carlos Alvarani, MD,; Fabrizio Cantini, MD; Luigi Boiardi, MD, PhD; and Gene G. Hunder, MD.

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GERIATRIC SYNDROMES

• "Geriatric Syndromes: Clinical, Research, and Policy Implications of a Core Geriatric Concept", Sharon K. Inouye, MD, MPH, Stephanie Studenski, MD, Mary E. Tinetti, MD and George A. Kuchel, MD. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, MAY 2007–VOL. 55, NO. 5; 780-791.

Polypharmacy

• Antipsychotics in Elderly :"Pharmacological Treatment of Neuropsychiatric Symptoms of Dementia, A Review of Evidence", Kaycee M. Sink, MD; Karen F. Holden, MD; Kristine Yaffe, MD.
  
  
• "Updating the Beers Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in Older Adults", Donna M. Fick, PhD, RN; James W. Cooper, PhD, RPh; William E. Wade, PharmD, FASHP, FCCP; Jennifer L. Waller, PhD; J. Ross Maclean, MD; Mark H. Beers, MD. Arch Intern Medicine 2003; 163:2716-2724.
  
  
• "Approaches to Appropriate Drug Prescribing for the Older Adult", Kim Petrone, MD, Paul Katz, MD, CMD; St. Ann’s Community, 1600 Portland Avenue, Rochester, NY 14621, USA, University of Rochester School of Medicine, Monroe Community Hospital, 435 East Henrietta Road, Rochester, NY 14620, USA. Primary Care Clinics in Office Practice 32 (2005); 755-775.

Delirium

• "Delirium", Ondria C. Gleason, MD, University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
  
  
• "Delirium in Hospitalized Older Patients", Sharon K. Inouye, MD, MPH, Acute Hospital Care, Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, Volume 14, No. 4, November 1998.

Dementia

• "Early Diagnosis of Dementia", Karen S. Santacruz, MD and Daniel Swagerty, MD, MPH, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas. AAFP's America Family Physician, Vol. 63/No. 4, Feb. 15, 2001.
  
  
• "Initial Evaluation of the Patient with Suspected Dementia", Alan M. Adelman, MD, MS and Mel P. Daly, MD. AAFP's American Family Physician, Vol. 71/No.9, May 1, 2005.
  
  
• "Dementia with Lewy Bodies: An emerging Disease", Doug Neef, MD and Anne D. Walling, MB, CH.B. AAFP's America Family Physician, Vol. 71/No. 9, May 1, 2005.
  
  
• "Mild Cognitive Impairment in older people", Alistari Burns, Michael Zaudig.

Failure to Thrive

• "Geriatric Failure to Thrive", Russell G. Robertson, MD and Marcos Montagnini, MD, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. AAFP's American Family Physician, Vol. 70/No. 2, July 15, 2004.

Falls in the Elderly

• "Falls in the Elderly", George F. Fuller, Col, MC, USA, White House Medical Clinic, Washington, DC. AAFP American Family Physician, Vol6/No 7, April 1, 2000.

• "Preventing Falls in Elderly Persons", Mary E. Tinetti, MD. The New England Journal of Medicine, 348;1, January 2, 2003.
  
  
• "Prevention of Falls in Older Patients", Shobha S. Rao, MD, University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, TX; AAFP's American Family Physician, Vol. 72/No. 1, July 1, 2005.

Incontinence

• "Diagnostic Evaluation of Urinary Incontinence in Geriatric Patients", Barry D. Weiss, MD; University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas. AAFP's American Family Physician, Vol. 57/No. 11, June 1998.

Pressure Ulcers

• "Diabetic Foot Ulcers: Pathogenics and Management", Robert G. Frykberg, DPM, MPH; Des Moines University, Des Moines, Iowa. AAFP's America Family Physician, Vol. 66/No. 9, Nov. 1, 2002.
  
  
• "Pressure Ulcer Prevention & Management", Courtney H. Lyder, MD.

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FUNCTION

Frailty

• "Frailty in older adults: Insights and Interventions", Sara Espinoz, MD and Jeremy D. Walston, MD; Cleveland Clinical Journal of Medicine, Vol. 72/No. 12, December 2005.

Preventable Injuries

• "Preventable Medical Injuries in Older Patients", Jeffery M. Rothschild, MD, MPH; David W. Bates, MD, MSc; Lucian L. Leape, MD.

Principles of Rehabilitation

• "Principles of Rehabilitation in Older Patients", Stephanie A. Studenski; Pamela Duncan; Joseph H. Maino.

 

END OF LIFE

• "Cultural Diversity at the End of Life: Issues and Guidelines for Family Physicians", H. Russell Searight, PhD, MPH and Jennifer Gafford, PhD; Forest Park Hospital Family Medicine Residency program, St. Louis, Missouri. AAFP's America Family Physician, Vol. 71/No. 3, Feb. 1, 2005.
  
  
• "Making Decisions with Families at the End of Life", Forrest Lang, MD; East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN and Timothy Quill, MD; University of Rochester School of Medicine and Denistry, Rochester, NY. AAFP's America Family Physician, Vol. 70/No. 4, Aug. 15, 2004.
  
  
• "Can the Patient Decied? Evaluating Patient Capaciy in Practice", Marc Tunzi, MD; Natividad Medical Center, Salinas, California. AAFP's America Family Physician, Vol. 64/No. 2, July 15, 2001.
  

INPATIENT CARE

• "Delirium in Hospitalized Older Patients", Sharon K. Inouye, MD, MPH, Acute Hospital Care, Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, Volume 14, No. 4, November 1998.

 

LONG TERM CARE

Fever Eval uation Guidelines

• "Practice Guideline for Evaluation of Fever and Infection in Long-Term Care Facilities", David M. Bentley; 1 Suzanne Bradley; 2 Kevin High; 4 Stephen Shoenbaum; 3,7 George Taler; 5 and Thomas T. Yoshikawa 6.

Nursing Home Care

• "Nursing Home Care", Joseph G. Ouslander; John F. Schnelle.

Subacute Skilled Nursing Facilty Care

• "Subacute Care", Catherine H. Messick.

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