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| About the Editors | |
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| List of Contributors | |
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| Preface to the Fourth Edition | |
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| Preface to the Fifth Edition | |
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| Foreword | |
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| Introduction: Historical perspectives | |
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| Ageing: Biological, Social and Community Perspectives | |
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| A biological perspective of ageing | |
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| The demography of ageing | |
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| The physiology of ageing | |
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| Psychological aspects of ageing | |
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| Ageing of the brain | |
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| Epidemiology of ageing and disability | |
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| Social and community aspects of ageing | |
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| The developmental origins of ageing | |
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| Sexuality and ageing | |
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| Physical fitness and exercise | |
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| Health literacy and cultural sensitivity | |
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| Medicine and Prescribing in Old Age | |
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| Preventive geriatrics | |
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| Polypharmacy | |
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| Patient safety | |
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| Eating Disorders and Nutritional Health | |
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| Epidemiology of nutrition and ageing | |
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| The anorexia of ageing | |
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| Weight loss | |
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| Dehydration | |
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| Vitamins and minerals | |
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| Obesity | |
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| Gastro Disorders | |
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| Changes in gastrointestinal motor and sensory function associated with ageing | |
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| Gastrointestinal bleeding | |
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| Liver and gall bladder | |
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| Sphincter function | |
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| Constipation | |
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| Management of diarrhoea | |
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| Diseases of the pancreas | |
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| Haematological Disorders | |
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| Anaemia | |
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| Disorders of haemostasis | |
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| Disseminated intravascular coagulation | |
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| Anticoagulants | |
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| Myelodysplasia | |
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| Management of myelodysplastic syndromes and acute leukaemia | |
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| Cardiovascular Diseases and Health | |
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| Epidemiology of heart disease | |
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| Cardiac ageing and systemic disorders | |
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| Arrhythmias | |
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| Ischaemic heart disease | |
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| Lipid management | |
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| Hypotension | |
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| Hypertension | |
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| Heart failure | |
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| Cardiac surgery | |
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| Peripheral arterial disease | |
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| Venous thromboembolism | |
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| Cardiac rehabilitation | |
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| Respiratory Diseases | |
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| Epidemiology of respiratory infection | |
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| Pneumonia | |
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| Aspiration pneumonia | |
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| Interstitial lung disease and lung cancer | |
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| Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma | |
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| Pulmonary hypertension | |
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| Pulmonary rehabilitation | |
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| CNS Disorders | |
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| Neurological signs of ageing | |
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| Sleep apnoea and sleep disorders | |
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| Headache | |
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| Normal pressure hydrocephalus | |
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| Acute stroke care and management of carotid artery stenosis | |
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| Stroke and stroke rehabilitation | |
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| Communication disorders and dysphagia | |
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| Acute and chronic subdural haematoma | |
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| Epilepsy | |
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| Syncope and non-epileptic attacks | |
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| Parkinson’s disease | |
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| Non-parkinsonian movement disorders | |
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| Diabetic neuropathy | |
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| Disorders of the neuromuscular junction | |
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| Muscle disorders | |
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| Motor neurone disease | |
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| Control of chronic pain | |
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| Multiple sclerosis | |
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| Appendix Function assessment scales, i | |
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| Index | |