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 adults
- Contains examples of ongoing trials involving older adults, and presents the main characteristics of many recently published
- Depicts how the issues regarding older adults in clinical trials could be properly addressed with the appropriate study design and conduct
- Identifies key issues in performing clinical trials in older patients with common geriatric conditions, i.e. Alzheimer’s dementia, depression, low muscle mass, cancer
