Highly Commended in the Medicine category at the BMA Book Awards This brand new edition has been fully updated to ensure it remains an invaluable guide for trainees, consultant geriatricians, medical students, and everyone caring for older patients. The handbook has been refreshed throughout to reflect the latest advances in geriatric medicine, as well as changes in working practices and environments. It provides a succinct, targeted approach to the field and covers significant developments including a new chapter on Frailty, Covid and its impact, delirium screening, evolution of the Geriatrician's role, Deprivation of Liberty and Liberty Protection Safeguards, and changing models of care with rapid assessment in the emergency ward. Using clinical vignettes and how-to boxes to provide practical advice on common problems, this is a relevant, accessible, and essential resource for all medical staff. Taking a clinical, evidence-based approach, written by experts, and presented in a clear, practical, bullet-point style for rapid reference, this handbook will be a friendly, experienced, and knowledgeable companion at your side. 'The book gives a very good overview of the main and most common areas of elderly care ... it has a really good, user-friendly layout and covers a wide range of conditions in a simplified way.' --BMA reviewing panel, BMA Medical Book Awards 2019 Lesley Bowker , Clinical Skills Director, Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, UK, Alexandra Montagu, Consultant in Geriatric and Acute General Medicine, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK, Kunal Shah , Consultant in Geriatric and Acute General Medicine, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK, Sarah Smith , Consultant in Geriatric and Acute General Medicine, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK