Clinical Trials in Older Adults

Clinical Trials in Older Adults is the first book to consider the methodological issues underlying the evaluation of new treatments in older people.<br /><br /> <ul> <li>Provides information on the methodology, monitoring and regulations for those planning to conduct a clinical trials involving older adults</li> <li>Contains examples of ongoing trials involving older adults, and presents the main characteristics of many recently published</li> <li>Depicts how the issues regarding older adults in clinical trials could be properly addressed with the appropriate study design and conduct</li> <li>Identifies key issues in performing clinical trials in older patients with common geriatric conditions, i.e. Alzheimer’s dementia, depression, low muscle mass, cancer</li> </ul>