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Women's Health, An Issue of Clinics in Geriatric Medicine
- 1st Edition, Volume 37-4 - October 5, 2021
- Editors: Elizabeth L. Cobbs, Karen Blackstone
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 3 5 8 2 - 4
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 3 5 8 3 - 1
In this issue of Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, guest editors Elizabeth Cobbs and Karen Blackstone bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Women’s Health.… Read more
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Request a sales quoteIn this issue of Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, guest editors Elizabeth Cobbs and Karen Blackstone bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Women’s Health.
- Provides in-depth, clinical reviews on the latest updates in Women’s Health, providing actionable insights for clinical practice.
- Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field; Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create these timely topic-based reviews.
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Forthcoming Issues
- Diabetes Mellitus in Older Women
- Key points
- Diagnosis
- Types
- Risk factors for diabetes development
- Epidemiology
- Aging and pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes mellitus
- Presentation
- Evaluation
- Prevention
- Management
- Multimorbidity with diabetes
- Long-term care facilities
- Palliative care and end-of-life care
- Clinics care points
- Coronavirus Disease 2019
- Key points
- Case 1
- Case 2
- Case 3
- Introduction
- Collateral damage
- What matters most: lessons learned from COVID-19
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Minority Women
- Key points
- Introduction
- Mobility and multicomplexity
- Mentation
- Medications
- What matters
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Aging and Women’s Health: An Update from the National Institute on Aging
- Key points
- Introduction
- Discussion
- Summary
- Clinics Care Points
- The Psychosocial Effects of Frailty on Women
- Key points
- Introduction
- Definition: the concept of frailty
- Current evidence: the psychosocial elements associated with frailty
- Concerns: the psychosocial effects on women
- Future directions
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Sexual Health
- Key points
- Background
- Vulvovaginal health and anatomy
- Syndrome of menopause
- Evaluation and management of sexual dysfunction
- Sexual health and comorbid medical conditions
- Sexual health and issues with partner
- Addressing sexual health as a health care provider
- Clinics care points
- Issues in the Lives of Older Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and/or Queer Women
- Key points
- Introduction
- Glossary
- Clinical care
- Women veterans
- Transgender issues
- Important aspects of the physical examination for transgender women
- Future research
- Areas for future research
- Summary
- Resources/community advocates
- Brain Health
- Key points
- Introduction
- Aging and cognition
- Alzheimer disease and related dementias
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Advance Care Planning
- Key points
- Demographics
- Advance care planning, a continual process
- Advance care planning components
- Advance care planning, the process
- Types of advance care planning documents
- Clinics care points
- Breast Cancer in Women Over 65 years- a Review of Screening and Treatment Options
- Key points
- Introduction
- Breast cancer characteristics in older women
- Breast cancer screening in older women
- Pretreatment considerations in older women
- Treatment considerations in older women with breast cancer
- Early stage cancer (stage I-III)
- Metastatic/recurrent breast cancer
- Supportive care considerations
- Clinics care points
- The Science of Frailty: Sex Differences
- Key points
- Definitions, incidence, and risk factors of frailty
- Pathophysiology of frailty
- Sex differences in frailty phenotype and the sex-frailty paradox
- Intervention for frailty incorporating the 5 Ms of geriatrics
- Summary and future directions
- Clinics Care Points
- Exercise as Medicine for Older Women
- Key points
- Introduction
- Exercise impacts on common conditions
- Exercise prevents functional decline
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Cardiovascular Disease in Older Women
- Key points
- Introduction
- Incidence and risk
- Pregnancy related
- Autoimmune diseases
- Breast cancer
- Polycystic ovary syndrome
- Menopause
- Traditional risk factors
- Diabetes
- Smoking and obesity
- Hyperlipidemia
- Hypertension
- Testing
- Exercise treadmill stress test
- Echocardiogram
- Myocardial perfusion imaging
- Cardiac MRI
- Cardiac computed tomography
- Therapeutics
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Sleep Disorders and Aging in Women
- Key points
- Introduction
- Background
- Clinical care points: sleep disorders in Women ages 65 and above
- Central disorders of hypersomnia evaluation
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Bone Health
- Key points
- Definitions
- Epidemiology
- Risk factors
- Prevention/screening
- Pathogenesis
- Signs and symptoms
- Downstream effects of osteoporosis
- Dysphagia/malnutrition
- Prevention—modifiable versus nonmodifiable
- Treatment
- Surveillance and management
- Future literature
- Clinics care points
- No. of pages: 240
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 37-4
- Published: October 5, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Hardback ISBN: 9780323835824
- eBook ISBN: 9780323835831
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Elizabeth L. Cobbs
Affiliations and expertise
George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, DCKB
Karen Blackstone
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor of Medicine, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences