Geriatric Patients

Websites

Policy Statements/Practice Guidelines

• Guidelines & Recommendations (American Geriatrics Society)
• Swiss Medical Weekly
• American Geriatrics Society, British Geriatrics Society, and American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Panel on Falls Prevention. Guideline for the prevention of falls in older persons. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2001 May;49(5):664-72.
• American Geriatrics Society. Screening for cervical carcinoma in older women. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2001 May;49(5):655-7. No abstract available.
• Management of Dementing Disorders: Conclusions from the Canadian Consensus Conference Dementia (CMAJ)

Senior's Health 

• Aging and Seniors (Public Health Agency of Canada)
• Assessing Care of Vulnerable Elders (American College of Physicians/American Society of Internal Medicine)
  
• Geriatrics Resource Center (Medscape, registration required) 
• The Merck Manual of Geriatrics (Online Text) 

Consumer Resources

• Age UK
• American Association of Retired Persons (AARP)
• Centre for Policy on Ageing
• Health and Age
• Healthy Aging (Mayo Clinic)
• Old Age Security (OAS) Program (Service Canada)
• Seniors Health (Public Health Agency of Canada)
  

Professional Organizations

• Alzheimer Society of Canada
• American Geriatrics Society
• Australian & New Zealand Society for Geriatric Medicine
• British Geriatrics Society
• Canadian Continence Foundation
• Gerontological Society of America
• Parkinson's Disease Foundation
• Parkinson's Society Canada

Journals/Newsletters  

• Age and Aging - $
• American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry - $
• BMC Geriatrics - $
• Clinics in Geriatric Medicine - $
• Clinical Geriatrics (American Geriatrics Society)
• Drugs and Aging - $
• Geriatrics
• Geriatric Nursing - $
• Journal of the American Geriatrics Society - $

• Alternative Medicine for the Elderly (Cherniack & Cherniack, 2003) - $
• Applied Therapeutics: The Clinical Use of Drugs (Koda-Kimble et al. 9th ed. 2008) - see Geriatric Therapy - $
• Clinical Geriatric Psychopharmacology (Salzman, 4th ed. 2004) - $
•  Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties (CPS) - see Geriatrics, Clin Info Section - $
• Essentials of Clinical Geriatrics (Kane et al. 6th ed. 2008) - $
  
• Essentials of Geriatric Psychiatry (Blazer et al. 2012) - $
  
• Geriatric Dosage Handbook (Semla, 15th ed. 2010) - $
• Geriatric Medicine (Cassel et al. 4th ed. 2003) - $
• Geriatrics at Your Fingertips (Reuben, 12th ed. 2010) - $
  
• Handbook of Geriatric Drug Therapy (2000) - $
•  Hazzard's Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology (Halter et al. 6th ed. 2009) - $
• Understanding Dementia: A Primer of Diagnosis and Management (Rockwood & MacKnight, 2000) - $

$ - Resource is not freely available on the Internet
links to electronic resource available online for Dal-affiliated persons