Abstract
Skin Disorders in the Elderly, edited by B. E. Monk, R. A. C. Graham-Brown, and I. Sarkany, 340 pp, with illus, $115, Boston, Mass, Blackwell Scientific Publications; Chicago, III, Year Book Medical Publishers Inc, distributor, 1988. Geriatrics suddenly is flourishing, not because of a small increase in the proportion of elderly in the US population, but because of the much more impressive increase in their political clout with the US Congress. A large leap in expectations for better medical care has occurred in all segments of our population, but most notably among the geriatric set. Unhappily, no comparable leap has happened in the basic biosciences relevant to improving dermatologic geriatrics. Geriatrics is much more about costs, insurance, access, safe medications, unnecessary surgery, well-proven therapeutics, home care, custodial care, hospice care, and, in general, overall excellent management, than it is about new bioscience or clinical medicine. Books like these two are
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