Diabetes in Old Age, 4th Edition

This new edition of the popular and market-leading Diabetes in Old Age features up-to-date and comprehensive information about the key aspects of managing older people with diabetes, predominantly type 2 diabetes.
With a strong evidence-based focus throughout, the entire range of issues surrounding diabetes and its many complications are covered, each with a clear focus on how they relate directly to the older patient. Varying approaches to optimizing diabetes care in the community, primary care and secondary care health care arenas are presented, and   the importance of comprehensive functional assessment is emphasized. Coverage of areas unique to an ageing population of older people with diabetes such as falls management, frailty and sarcopenia, and cognitive dysfunction form a key cornerstone of the book.  In every chapter, best practice points and key learning outcomes are provided, as well as published evidence bases for each major conclusion.

Diabetes in Old Age, 4^th edition is essential reading for diabetologists and endocrinologists, diabetes specialist nurses, primary care physicians, general physicians and geriatricians, podiatrists and dieticians with an interest in diabetes, as well as all health professionals engaged in the delivery of diabetes care to older people.

Table of Contents

Section A: pathophysiology, screening and diagnosis
Chapter 1 Pathophysiology Of Diabetes In Older People
Chapter 2 Type 1 Diabetes In Older Age
Chapter 3 Preventative Strategies
Chapter 4 Diagnosis And Screening
Chapter 5 Assessment Procedures Including Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment

Section B: vascular risk factors and complications
Chapter 6 Peripheral Arterial Disease
Chapter 7 Coronary Heart Disease
Chapter 8 Chronic Kidney Disease Related To Diabetes In Older Patients
Chapter 9 Visual Loss In People With Diabetes In Old Age,
Chapter 10 Diabetes Foot Disease
Chapter 11 Diabetes, Neuropathy, And Old Age
Chapter 12 Sensory Disabilities In People With Diabetes
Chapter 13 Sexual Health And Wellbeing
Chapter 14 Ehealth And Diabetes: Designing A Novel System For Remotely Monitoring Older Adults With Type 2 Diabetes

Section C: treatment and care issues
Chapter 15 Insulin Resistance And The Metabolic Syndrome
Chapter 16 Diabetes And Functional Limitation: The Emergence Of Frailty And Disability
Chapter 17 Metabolic Decompensation In Older People
Chapter 18 Nutrition Management
Chapter 19 Physical Exercise Management
Chapter 20 Medicines, Pharmacovigilance, And The Importance Of Undertaking Comprehensive Assessments And Regular Medicine Reviews
Chapter 21 Glucose‐Lowering Drugs
Chapter 22 Insulin Therapy
Chapter 23 Hypertension In Older Diabetic Patients
Chapter 24 Hypoglycemia
Chapter 25 Diabetes In Care Homes
Chapter 26 Primary And Community Care Of Diabetes In Older People
Chapter 27 Inpatient Diabetes Care And Admissions Avoidance In Older People With Diabetes

Section D: management of assoc
Chapter 28 Diabetes And Co乚morbidities
Chapter 29 Diabetes And Cognitive Dysfunction
Chapter 30 Mood Disorders
Chapter 31 Falls And Diabetes
Chapter 32 Managing Pain
Chapter 33 Palliative And End乚of乚life Care

Section E: optimizing diabetes ca
Chapter 34 Diabetes Education And The Older Adult
Chapter 35 Supporting The Family And Informal Carers
Chapter 36 Public Health Issues And Community Impact
Chapter 37 Providing Cost乚effective Diabetes Care
Chapter 38 Clinical Trials In Older People
Chapter 42 Epilepsies In Children
Chapter 43 Epilepsy In Adults
Chapter 44 Multiple Sclerosis
Chapter 45 Movement Disorders
Chapter 46 Dementia
Chapter 47 Central Nervous System Infections
Chapter 48 Neurologic Complications In Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
Chapter 49 Inherited Metabolic Neurologic Disorders
Chapter 50 Spinal Cord Disorders
Chapter 51 Peripheral Neuropathy
Chapter 52 Myopathy
Chapter 53 Disorders Of The Neuromuscular Junction
Chapter 54 Therapy Of Migraine, Tension-Type, And Cluster Headache
Chapter 55 Chronic Pain
Chapter 56 Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
Chapter 57 Primary Central Nervous System Tumors
Chapter 58 Nervous System Complications Of Cancer
Chapter 59 Neurotoxicology
Chapter 60 Sleep Disorders
Chapter 61 Dizziness And Vertigo
Chapter 62 Neurologic Diseases In Pregnancy
Chapter 63 The Abcs Of Neurologic Emergencies
Chapter 66 Infections In Sickle Cell Disease
Chapter 67 Anthrax
Chapter 68 Plague
Chapter 69 Smallpox
Chapter 70 Tularemia
Chapter 71 Hantavirus
Chapter 72 Ebola Virus Disease
Chapter 73 Zika Virus
Chapter 74 Zoonotic Influenza (Novel Influenza A, Including Avian And Swine Influenza A Virus Infections)
Chapter 75 Methicillin- Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (Mrsa)
Chapter 76 Enterococci
Chapter 77 Extended Spectrum Beta- Lactamase