89 Osteoporotic Fracture90 Polymyalgia Rheumatica; 91 Rheumatoid Arthritis in Older Adults; 92 Osteomyelitis in Older Adults; 93 Herpes Zoster in Older Adults; 94 HIV/AIDS; 95 Skin Cancer; 96 Colorectal Cancer; 97 Head and Neck Cancer; 98 Breast Cancer; 99 Prostate Cancer; 100 Lung Cancer; 101 Leukemia; 102 Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma; 103 Intracranial Malignancies; Section viThe Interdisciplinary Team; 104 Clinical/Counseling Psychologist; 105 Complementary and Alternative Practitioners; 106 Registered Dietitian; 107 Licensed Massage Therapist; 108 Music Therapist; 109 Nursing
Summary
The growing geriatric population in the United States has created an increasing need for palliative medicine services across the range of medical and surgical specialties. Yet, palliative medicine lacks the resources to carry such a workload itself. Geriatric Palliative Care addresses this need by encouraging individual specialties to ""own"" the management of elderly with the same vigor as they ""own"" other key management competencies within their specialty. This clinically focused and highly practical handbook, which compliments the more comprehensive text Geriatric Palliative Care by Sean