Ham's Primary Care Geriatrics: A Case-Based Approach (Expert Consult: Online and

If you are in school for (or are an) FNP or ANP(even the DO school at my university uses this text) this will give you Geriatric specific information to inform your current or future practice. It is very thorough and offers a download for your computer or tablet. Both are valuable resources. You can highlight and save points or information for quick reference.This is far from an exhaustive text. For more information specific to the general adult population, I suggest Goroll & Mulley "Primary Care Medicine: office evaluation and management of the adult patient" - also available at a reasonable price through Amazon. It also has a free download of the text to the device of your choice. Another less exhaustive but thorough text for primary care is CURRENT Medical Diagnosis & Treatment (2016) by Papadakis amd McPhee- again available from Amazon and with text download.Whether for class, clinic, or study... these are valuable to the primary care provider.As a note... the CURRENT text updates annually in late summer / early fall. The others come out with new editions less often.Best of luck on your endeavor to provide quality evidence based care to your patients.

haven't gone thru it all but high expectations given how well it was organized, researched, and soooo clearly written. A pleasure to read. helped me to actually remember, understood and apply what I read quickly, and it is a manageable size book that one can have as reference.

In my FNP program, we were assigned a general adult text (Current 2017), a pediatric text, a women's health text, a basic FNP text (Fenstermacher), and this geriatric text. I found that this text, Ham et al, generally provided more and better information from a more rudimentary standpoint than did other texts--i.e., other texts often assumed the reader has a certain level of understanding, but for a student, that assumption is unwarranted, and so Ham provides better information because it generally goes back to the basics. This book was also effective at stoking my interest in geriatrics, an area in which I had previously had zero interest.That said, there is the occasional serious typo or grammatical error. Most of the typos are minor enough that you can basically understand what they're trying to say. Others, not so much. For example: "Little clinical trial dietary modifications and physical exercise to prevent or treat constipation, especially in older adults." (p. 285). What?Overall, this was my favorite text in my program because it gave me the basic information I needed to understand what the heck the other texts were talking about. However, the typos and grammatical errors, which occur at least once in almost every chapter, prevent me from giving it the full 5 stars.

Great book

The book is comprehensive and it comes with Internet ebook code too. At least mine did

Concise and to the point.

The book arrive fast, the service was great. It was the correct book.

Very good book. I'm a MSN FNP student who took a theory class on the care of older adults. Often information on Medscape or Epocrates was more current, but this book was published in 2013 so that is not surprising. It did not have all topics I was looking for but most of them. It was very helpful for writing papers and doing presentations. We had two texts for this theory class and this was my preferred resource.

This is very helpful for NP!

Subject very relevant to my practice

As expected and described