Publisher's Synopsis
This current volume covers what is known about medicine-taking among the elderly in the UK with new information on drug distribution and metabolism. Also reviewing the extent and aetiology of adverse drug reactions in this age group, the text contains up-to-date accounts from a team of experts on common therapeutic problems which affect old people.;Topics which have been given special attention are: treatment of heart failure in the elderly; drug therapy for Parkinson's disease in the elderly; the treatment of post-herpetic neuralgia in the elderly; factors modifying the use of anaesthetic drugs in the elderly; pharmacokinetics in old age; control of pain in terminal cancer; hepatic drug metabolism and ageing. The assessment and treatment of airways disease in the elderly; the benefits of anti-hypertensive therapy in the elderly; large bowel problems; the treatment of classical manifestations of dementia and confusion; Pharmacological treatment of urinary incontinence; adverse drug reactions; drug therapy in patients with recent stroke; medicine taking in old age; pharmacodynamics; pain control and the use of non-steroidal drugs.
