Diabetes in Older Adults, An Issue of Clinics in Geriatric Medicine
- 1st Edition, Volume 36-3 - June 26, 2020
- Editor: S. Sethu K. Reddy
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 7 6 0 6 2 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 7 6 0 6 3 - 8
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Request a sales quoteThis issue of Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, edited by Drs. Dan Blazer and Susan Schultz, will cover a number of important aspects of Geriatric Psychiatry. Topics in this issue include, but are not limited to: Delirium in the elderly, Depression and cardiac disease in later life, Schizophrenia in later life, Anxiety Disorders in later life, Neurological changes and depression, Behavioral Changes with Alzheimer’s Disease and Vascular Dementia, Palliative Care in Dementia and Chronic Mental Illness, Collaborative Care for the elderly with psychiatric disorders, and Post Traumatic Stress Disorders in the elderly.
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Clinics in Geriatric Medicine
- Preface
- Diagnosis of Diabetes Mellitus in Older Adults
- Key points
- Introduction
- Noninsulin Diabetes Therapies in Older Adults
- Key points
- Introduction
- Comprehensive medical evaluation and glycemic targets
- Lifestyle modifications
- Medications
- Goal-based therapy
- Hypoglycemia in Older Patients
- Key points
- Introduction
- Hypoglycemia in older patients: adverse effects, risk factors, and detection
- Summary and future vision
- Cognitive Dysfunction in Older Adults with Type 2 Diabetes: Links, Risks, and Clinical Implications
- Key points
- Introduction
- Diabetes and dementia: the link
- Diabetes and dementia: the risk
- Diabetes and dementia: clinical implications
- Summary
- Managing Diabetes and Dementia
- Key points
- Introduction
- Risk factors for cognitive dysfunction in diabetes
- How to identify cognitive dysfunction
- Impact of cognitive dysfunction on diabetes management
- Individualized glycemic goal setting
- Management of diabetes: clinical case Simulations
- Summary
- Renal Evaluation and Protection
- Key points
- Diabetes and Heart Failure: A Marriage of Inconvenience
- Key points
- The pathophysiology of heart failure in diabetes
- Summary
- Treating Dyslipidemias in the Primary Prevention of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease in Older Adults with Diabetes Mellitus
- Key points
- Introduction
- Diabetes mellitus and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease connections
- Summary
- Improving Adherence in Type 2 Diabetes
- Key points
- Introduction
- Definition of adherence
- Adherence in diabetes
- Adherence data in older adults
- Impact of nonadherence on health care
- Specific strategies to improve adherence
- Apps for medication adherence
- Interventions for adherence to anti–diabetes mellitus medications
- Future Considerations
- Management of Inpatient Hyperglycemia and Diabetes in Older Adults
- Key points
- Introduction
- Prevalence and economic burden
- Pathophysiology
- Assessment of older adults with diabetes in the inpatient setting
- Multidisciplinary teams and diabetes education in older adults
- Glycemic targets
- Inpatient hypoglycemia
- Management of hyperglycemia in the intensive care unit
- Management of hyperglycemia in non–critical care settings
- Inpatient use of non-insulin therapies for management of hyperglycemia
- Incretin-based therapies
- Sodium glucose co-transporter-2 inhibitors
- Advances in diabetes technology in the hospital
- Discharge planning
- Summary
- Artificial Intelligence and Digital Tools: Future of Diabetes Care
- Key points
- Introduction
- Artificial intelligence
- Areas of artificial intelligence use in diabetes
- Summary
- Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Implications for Older Adults with Diabetes
- Key points
- Introduction
- Epidemiology of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: roles of age and type 2 diabetes
- Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and main geriatric syndromes: sarcopenia, frailty, and dementia
- Hepatic complications of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in the geriatric age group
- Extrahepatic complications of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in the geriatric age group: spotlight on cardiovascular disease
- Management of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in the geriatric age group
- Summary
- No. of pages: 240
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 36-3
- Published: June 26, 2020
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Hardback ISBN: 9780323760621
- eBook ISBN: 9780323760638
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S. Sethu K. Reddy
Affiliations and expertise
Joslin Diabetes/Harvard