Reichel's Care of the Elderly: Clinical Aspects of Aging

Christine Arenson (MD, Jefferson Medical College) is Associate Professor of Family and Community Medicine, Director of the Division of Geriatric Medicine, and Co-Director of the Jefferson Center for Interprofessional Education at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Dr Arenson is also the Director of the Eastern Pennsylvania-Delaware Geriatric Education Center. Dr Arenson practises family and geriatric medicine at Jefferson Family Associates at the Philadelphia Senior Center.

Jan Busby-Whitehead (MD, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston) is Associate Director for Clinical Affairs and Co-Director of the Carolina Program for Healthcare and Aging at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. She is also a Professor of Medicine and Director of the Center for Aging and Health there.

Kenneth Brummel-Smith (MD, University of Southern California School of Medicine) is Charlotte Edwards Maguire Professor and Chair of the Department of Geriatrics at Florida State University College of Medicine. Dr Brummel-Smith is past president of the American Geriatrics Society.

James G. O'Brien (MB, University College, Dublin, Ireland) is Professor and Margaret Dorward Smock Endowed Chair in Geriatric Medicine, and Medical Director of the Geriatric Medicine Center at the University of Louisville School of Medicine, Kentucky.

Mary H. Palmer (PhD, Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health; BSN, University of Maryland School of Nursing), is Professor and Helen W. and Thomas L. Umphlet Distinguished Professor in Aging at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill School of Nursing. Dr Palmer is also Co-Director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Aging Research: Uniting Scientists at the University of North Carolina.

William Reichel, MD, is Editor Emeritus and Consultant Editor of Reichel's Care of the Elderly: Clinical Aspects of Aging, 6th ed. Dr Reichel is an affiliated scholar of the Center for Clinical Bioethics at the Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC. Dr Reichel has published extensively on geriatric and family medicine and is a pioneer of the study of aging.