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.

Provides information on the methodology, monitoring and regulations for those planning to conduct a clinical trials involving older adultsContains examples of ongoing trials involving older adults, and presents the main characteristics of many recently publishedDepicts how the issues regarding older adults in clinical trials could be properly addressed with the appropriate study design and conductIdentifies key issues in performing clinical trials in older patients with common geriatric conditions, i.e. Alzheimer’s dementia, depression, low muscle mass, cancer