BROCKLEHURST’S TEXTBOOK

OF GERIATRIC MEDICINE AND

GERONTOLOGY
SEVENTH EDITION

Howard M. Fillit MD
Clinical Professor of Geriatrics and Medicine
The Mount Sinai Medical Center
Executive Director
The Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation and the Institute for the
Study of Aging
New York, New York

Kenneth Rockwood MD MPA FRCPC FCAHS FRCP

Professor of Medicine
Division of Geriatric Medicine
Dalhousie University
Geriatrician
Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Canada

Kenneth Woodhouse MD FRCP FHEA

Pro Vice-Chancellor
Professor of Geriatric Medicine
Cardiff University
Cardiff, Wales
United Kingdom