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EIGHTH EDITION

HOWARD M. FILLIT, MD

Founding Executive Director and Chief Science Officer

Alzheimers Drug Discovery Foundation

Clinical Professor of Geriatric Medicine, Palliative Care and Neuroscience

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

New York, New York

KENNETH ROCKWOOD, MD, FRCPC, FRCP

Professor of Geriatric Medicine & Neurology

Kathryn Allen Weldon Professor of Alzheimer Research

Department of Medicine

Dalhousie University;

Consultant Physician

Department of Medicine

Nova Scotia Health Authority

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada;

Honorary Professor of Geriatric Medicine

University of Manchester

Manchester, United Kingdom

JOHN YOUNG, MBBS(Hons), FRCP

Professor of Elderly Care Medicine

Academic Unit of Elderly Care and Rehabilitation

University of Leeds, United Kingdom;

Honorary Consultant Geriatrician

Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Bradford, United Kingdom

1600 John F. Kennedy Blvd.

Ste 1800

Philadelphia, PA 19103-2899

BROCKLEHURST'S TEXTBOOK OF GERIATRIC MEDICINE AND GERONTOLOGY, EIGHTH EDITIONISBN: 978-0-7020-6185-1

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Fillit, Howard M., editor. | Rockwood, Kenneth, editor. | Young, John, 1953- , editor.

Title: Brocklehurst's textbook of geriatric medicine and gerontology / [edited by] Howard M. Fillit, Kenneth Rockwood, John Young.