Overview
- Editors:
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Robert A. Norman
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Dermatology Healthcare, Tampa, USA
- First aging skin differential diagnostic reference for physicians and students of dermatology
- Highly illustrated reference
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Table of contents (23 chapters)
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- Robert A. Norman, Robyn Menendez
Pages 5-10
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- Anusuya A. Mokashi, Noah S. Scheinfeld
Pages 11-25
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- Marcia Ramos-e-Silva, Tania Cestari, Cristiane Benvenuto-Andrade
Pages 39-60
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- Marcia Ramos-e-Silva, Claudio de Moura–Castro Jacques, Sueli Coelho Carneiro
Pages 61-75
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- Margaret I. Aguwa, Marcy Street
Pages 87-98
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- Sadia Saeed, Elizabeth Sagatys, Justin R. Wasserman, Michael B. Morgan
Pages 123-150
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- Amor Khachemoune, Carlos RodrÃguez
Pages 161-173
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- Robert R. Haight, Robert A. Norman
Pages 193-203
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About this book
The population is aging rapidly, even faster than demographers envisioned two decades ago. Longevity, especially for women, has nearly doubled, since the beg- ning of the twentieth century, now approaching 85. People over 80 are the fastest growing segment in the aging epidemic. Remarkably every day now 1,000 Ame- cans will celebrate their 100th birthday! Today, many 70-year-old persons, who have aged successfully, have about the same degree of health and vigor as people 50 years old, a generation ago. Despite these gains, it is an inescapable truism that increasing age is associated with increasing physiologic losses, which negatively affect the quality of life. P- sons in their eighties and nineties may be taking as many as 10 different medicines daily to control and moderate age-dependent disorders such as arthritis, diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, Alzheimer’s. Textbooks of geriatric medicine recognize and give each of these the space they deserve. By contrast, age-associated cutaneous disorders are given short shrift in geriatric texts. Skin disorders, when mentioned at all, are inadequately presented. This do- grading of cutaneous disorders occurs despite the ndings of national health surveys which showed that people over 70 years of age had at least one skin disorder w- thy of medical attention. Startlingly, the same rigorously conducted epidemiologic survey showed that the number and diversity of skin problems increased proporti- ately with advancing age. Some older persons had as many as 10 problems which were deemed to be worthy of medical attention.
Reviews
From the reviews:
"This book … covers various topics in general dermatology pertaining to aged skin. … The audience is geriatricians. … it may be a good introductory book for geriatricians who want a better understanding of their patients’ skin problems." (Patricia Wong, Doody’s Review Services, December, 2008)
Editors and Affiliations
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Dermatology Healthcare, Tampa, USA
Robert A. Norman
About the editor
Robert Norman is an experienced geriatric dermatologist and has published several dermatology textbooks.
