Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment

From Evidence to Clinical Practice
2. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-3-032-35921-6
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland AG

Buch, Englisch, 293 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Practical Issues in Geriatrics

This second edition offers an important update on the principles and practice of multidimensional assessment and management of the older individual, which represent the cornerstone of modern clinical practice in older people.

During the last eight years a great number of scientific data and clinical experiences have consolidated the information on the usefulness of a CGA-based multidimensional approach to older people in different clinical settings and with specific clinical conditions. Moreover, during this period important innovations have occurred in this scientific and clinical area, i.e. i)  the recognition that CGA is a key clinical method for the assessment and management of the older people in geriatric and also in non-geriatric setting; ii) the publication (in 2023 and 2024) of the first Guidelines on CGA by the National Health Authorities of Italy and Germany; iii) the implementation in clinical practice of ICT and digital technologies (including AI) that can potentially modify assessment tools and interpretation of CGA in clinical practice.

For all these reasons the publication of an updated second edition is fundamental.

In this 2nd new Edition of the Book all chapters have been updated with five chapters completely renewed by new authors. In addition four completely new chapters have been included in the Book that now includes 19 chapters (instead of 15 chapters of the first edition).   

The book, written by the best known and widely published experts in their respective fields, will be relevant to students, scholars and a wide range of clinicians.

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pilotto, Alberto

Martin, Finbarr C.

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Geriatrie, Gerontologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Allgemeinmedizin, Familienmedizin
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Onkologie, Krebsforschung
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Nephrologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Chirurgie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Section I Key concepts 1 Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment and Geroscience.- 2 The Different Domains of the Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment.- 3 Systematic assessment to support CGA: uses and abuses of tools and scales.- Section II Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment in different clinical settings 4 Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment in Primary Care and the Community.- 5 Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment in the Emergency Department.- 6 Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment in the Hospital.- 7 Applying the principles of CGA in care homes.- Section III CGA in specific clinical conditions 8 Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment in Cancer Patient.- 9 Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment in Orthogeriatrics.- 10 Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment in Patients with Organ Failure and infectious diseases.- 11 Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment in Perioperative Medicine.- 12 Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment in Patients with Cognitive Decline.- Section IV CGA in clinical practice.- 13 Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment and Clinical Decision-Making: The Multidimensional Prognostic Index.- 14 From Assessment to clinical interventions: shared decision making and multidisciplinary teams.- 15 Clinical Guidelines on  Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment.- 16 Teaching Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment.- 17 Economic aspects: costs and cost-effectiveness of Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA).- Section V Future directions 18 Comprehensive geriatric assessment and personalized medicine: the role of artificial intelligence.- 19 The WHO model on Healthy Aging: from intrinsic capacity assessment to  Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment.

Über Autor(innen)

Alberto Pilotto, is General Secretary of the European Interdisciplinary Council on Ageing (EICA). Involved in geriatric in-hospital clinical practice for over four decades, he was Director of Geriatrics Units and Clinical Departments at Galliera Hospitals, Genoa (2015-2024), Sant’Antonio Public Hospital, Padua (2011-2015) and the Scientific Institute for Research and HealthCare (IRCCS) “Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza”, San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy (2002-2011). Full Professor of Geriatrics at the University of Bari, Italy (2019-2024), he was Professor at the Postgraduate Schools in Geriatrics and Gastroenterology at the Universities of Padua (1998-2009) and Parma (2000-2008), Italy and Magdeburg, Germany (2000-2002). Coordinator and Principal Investigator of research projects co-funded by EU and National Health’s Ministery, he focused his research activities on Geriatric Gastroenterology, Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) and Gerontechnology. Scientific Director (2011-2019) and President (2020-2023) of the Italian Geriatric Society Hospital and Community (SIGOT). Member of the Academic Board (2012-2014) and co-leader of the Special Interest Group on CGA (2016-2025) of the European Geriatric Medicine Society (EuGMS), he was co-chairmen of the National Guidelines on CGA of the Older People published in 2023 by the Italian National Institute of Health. Prof Pilotto has published over 400 articles in international peer-reviewed journals, over 80 book chapters and co-edited five books for Piccin Nuova Libraria, Karger AG and Springer Nature. Awarded “Top Italian Scientist” in Clinical Sciences he is ranked among the “World’s Top Scholars” for the topics Medicine/Geriatrics and Gastrointestinal Diseases. Currently he is co-chair of the European Guideline on CGA promoted by EICA (2026).

Finbarr Martin is an emeritus NHS consultant geriatrician and professor of Medical Gerontology in the Department of Population Health Sciences, at King's College London, UK. From 1984 to 2016 he was a Consultant Geriatrician at Guys and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London. He worked in a broad range of acute and community services and his department developed and evaluated several novel service models for older people, generally based upon comprehensive geriatric assessment technology. He was acting national clinical advisor on older people to the England Department of Health from 2008 to 2010, president of the British Geriatrics Society from 2010 to 2012, and a non-executive director of the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) from 2013-16 and was president of EUGMS in 2018-2019. He has over 200 over articles in international peer-reviewed journals and is co-editor of the Oxford Textbook of Geriatric Medicine 3rd edition (published in 2018, 4th edition due 2027).