PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Rockwood, K.
TI  - Medical management of frailty: confessions of a gnostic
DP  - 1997 Oct 15
TA  - Canadian Medical Association Journal
PG  - 1081--1084
VI  - 157
IP  - 8
4099  - http://www.cmaj.ca/content/157/8/1081.short
4100  - http://www.cmaj.ca/content/157/8/1081.full
SO  - CMAJ1997 Oct 15; 157
AB  - Geriatric Medicine is concerned chiefly with the care of frail elderly people, especially when they become ill. Physicians face special challenges in dealing with such patients, who tend to have multiple interacting medical and social problems, impaired function, altered pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, atypical disease presentations and to be affected by polypharmacy. The joy of geriatrics is in systematically meeting each of these challenges, but the techniques that geriatricians use to do so must not be kept secret. More must be done to encourage all physicians to use these techniques in caring for frail elderly people who are ill.