Edited by Raymond Tallis MA BM BCh FRCP DLitt Professor Department of Geriatric Medicine University of Manchester England Honorary Consultant Physician Department of Care of the Elderly Hope Hospital Salford England Howard Fillit MD Corporate Medical Director Medicare NYLCare Healthplans Inc Clinical Professor Departments of Geriatrics and Medicine Mount Sinai School of Medicine of the City University of New York New York NY and JC Brocklehurst CBE MD MSc FRCP Lond Edin Glas Professor Emeritus University of Manchester Medical School Manchester England Geriatric Medicine Gerontology 5e