Drug Therapy in Old Age Book

	List of contributors
	Preface
1	Medicine taking by elderly people: an overview	1
2	Ageing physiology	23
3	Pharmacokinetics	39
4	Biochemical pharmacology of ageing	47
5	Pharmacodynamics	59
6	Adverse drug reactions in the elderly	73
7	The ethics of biomedical research in the elderly	87
8	Ischaemic heart disease	99
9	Chronic heart failure	125
10	Hypertension	149
11	Peripheral vascular disease	175
12	Cardiac arrhythmias	187
13	Infective endocarditis	201
14	The prevention of stroke	215
15	The acute management of stroke	227
16	Dementia	243
17	Confusion	265
18	Pharmacotherapy of idiopathic parkinsonism	277
19	Depression	285
20	Psychoses and the elderly	303
21	Anaesthesia	315
22	Pain management	333
23	Epilepsy	351
24	Metabolic bone disease	365
25	Arthritis	387
26	Airways obstruction	401
27	Thromboembolism	413
28	Infections of the airways and lungs	423
29	Drugs and the ageing mouth	437
30	Dyspepsia and peptic ulcer disease	449
31	Nausea, vomiting and gastrointestinal motility problems	469
32	Drugs affecting large bowel motility	479
33	Hepatobiliary and pancreatic disease	487
34	Thyroid	511
35	Drug therapy for the aged diabetic	517
36	Hormone replacement therapy	529
37	The prostate	541
38	Incontinence	557
39	Urinary tract infection	569
40	Vertigo	585
41	Glaucoma	591
42	Cytotoxic chemotherapy for elderly patients with solid tumours	601
43	Chemotherapy of haematological malignancies	623
44	Terminal care	639
	Index	655