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Edited by Jeffrey B. Halter, Joseph G. Ouslander, Mary E. Tinetti, Stephanie Studenski, Kevin P. High, and Sanjay Asthana
6th ed, 1634 pp, $210.95
New York, NY, McGraw-Hill Inc, 2009
ISBN-13: 978-0-0714-8872-3

JAMA. 2009;302(16):1813.

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The worldwide increase in life expectancy and in the number of older persons in developed and developing countries has resulted in the evolution of geriatric medicine as a specialized field. Although geriatric medicine as a specialty was developed and nurtured decades earlier in Great Britain, the publication of the first edition of the Principles of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology in 1985 served as a catalyst for the development of geriatrics as a scientifically based medical discipline in the United States. The 5 editions published over the next 2 decades firmly established this textbook as a fundamental and well-respected reference for all clinicians caring for older patients.

The sixth edition has been eagerly anticipated, because the fifth edition (2003) had become somewhat outdated and no longer represented the rapid changes in the field. This new edition brings with it many interesting changes and new features. The title now includes the name . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Tzvi Dwolatzky, MD, Reviewer
Department of Health Sciences
Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Beersheva, Israel
tzvidov@bgu.ac.il

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