Geriatric Physical Therapy Textbook 2026-2027

Know How Hard to Push the Patient in Front of You

Geriatric physical therapy is defined by narrowed physiologic reserve rather than by a body region or a diagnosis, and the decision that most often determines an older adult’s outcome is the dose. Twenty-eight chapters build examination, prescription, and condition-specific management around that decision, grounding each in the physiology of reserve loss and in the patient’s own measured capacity. Written for physical therapist student…