Older adults deserve care built around them, not around a checklist.

Yet most clinical training leaves physicians, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, and allied health professionals unprepared for the syndromes that actually define aging: frailty, polypharmacy, cognitive decline, and fragmented goals of care.

This 2026 edition of Foundations of Geriatric Medicine closes that gap with a person-centered framework you can use on your very next patient encounter.

Comprehensive geriatric assessment, step by step
Frailty phenotyping and functional decline
Deprescribing algorithms for polypharmacy and high-risk drug classes
Delirium, dementia, and falls prevention
Palliative care, advance care planning, and shared decision-making
Perioperative, hospital, and long-term care transitions

Every chapter opens with a clinical vignette, closes with key points and a clinical pearl, and is illustrated with original clinical figures designed for teaching. A companion video course of over 100 curated lectures is included via QR code, giving readers a full multimedia study path alongside the text.

Written by a practicing geriatrician for the entire care team, this is the reference clinicians reach for when a patient's age changes everything about the plan.