This second edition offers an important update on the principles and practice of multidimensional assessment and management of the older individual, which represent the cornerstone of modern clinical practice in older people.

During the last eight years a great number of scientific data and clinical experiences have consolidated the information on the usefulness of a CGA-based multidimensional approach to older people in different clinical settings and with specific clinical conditions. Moreover, during this period important innovations have occurred in this scientific and clinical area, i.e. i)  the recognition that CGA is a key clinical method for the assessment and management of the older people in geriatric and also in non-geriatric setting; ii) the publication (in 2023 and 2024) of the first Guidelines on CGA by the National Health Authorities of Italy and Germany; iii) the implementation in clinical practice of ICT and digital technologies (including AI) that can potentially modify assessment tools and interpretation of CGA in clinical practice.

For all these reasons the publication of an updated second edition is fundamental.

In this 2nd new Edition of the Book all chapters have been updated with five chapters completely renewed by new authors. In addition four completely new chapters have been included in the Book that now includes 19 chapters (instead of 15 chapters of the first edition).   

The book, written by the best known and widely published experts in their respective fields, will be relevant to a wide range of clinicians.

Alberto Pilotto, is General Secretary of the European Interdisciplinary Council on Ageing (EICA). Involved in geriatric in-hospital clinical practice for over four decades, he was Director of Geriatrics Units and Clinical Departments at Galliera Hospitals, Genoa (2015-2024), Sant’Antonio Public Hospital, Padua (2011-2015) and the Scientific Institute for Research and HealthCare (IRCCS) “Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza”, San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy (2002-2011). Full Professor of Geriatrics at the University of Bari, Italy (2019-2024), he was Professor at the Postgraduate Schools in Geriatrics and Gastroenterology at the Universities of Padua (1998-2009) and Parma (2000-2008), Italy and Magdeburg, Germany (2000-2002). Coordinator and Principal Investigator of research projects co-funded by EU and National Health’s Ministery, he focused his research activities on Geriatric Gastroenterology, Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) and Gerontechnology. Scientific Director (2011-2019) and President (2020-2023) of the Italian Geriatric Society Hospital and Community (SIGOT). Member of the Academic Board (2012-2014) and co-leader of the Special Interest Group on CGA (2016-2025) of the European Geriatric Medicine Society (EuGMS), he was co-chairmen of the National Guidelines on CGA of the Older People published in 2023 by the Italian National Institute of Health. Prof Pilotto has published over 400 articles in international peer-reviewed journals, over 80 book chapters and co-edited five books for Piccin Nuova Libraria, Karger AG and Springer Nature. Awarded “Top Italian Scientist” in Clinical Sciences he is ranked among the “World’s Top Scholars” for the topics Medicine/Geriatrics and Gastrointestinal Diseases. Currently he is co-chair of the European Guideline on CGA promoted by EICA (2026).

Finbarr Martin is an emeritus NHS consultant geriatrician and professor of Medical Gerontology in the Department of Population Health Sciences, at King's College London, UK. From 1984 to 2016 he was a Consultant Geriatrician at Guys and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London. He worked in a broad range of acute and community services and his department developed and evaluated several novel service models for older people, generally based upon comprehensive geriatric assessment technology. He was acting national clinical advisor on older people to the England Department of Health from 2008 to 2010, president of the British Geriatrics Society from 2010 to 2012, and a non-executive director of the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) from 2013-16 and was president of EUGMS in 2018-2019. He has over 200 over articles in international peer-reviewed journals and is co-editor of the Oxford Textbook of Geriatric Medicine 3rd edition (published in 2018, 4th edition due 2027).