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Home care of the frail elderly

Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, 2004
Statistics indicate that as the population ages, there will be an increased need for home care. Despite this increased need and the legal, clinical, and ethical obligations for physicians to participate, little training is available to physicians in the area of home care.
Anna U, Loengard, Jeremy, Boal
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Housing for frail elderly people

Public Health, 1992
A national survey followed by an evaluation has recently been undertaken of very sheltered housing for elderly people. This enhanced sheltered housing usually provides 24-hour warden cover, meals and help with domiciliary and personal tasks. It is increasingly being provided by local authorities and housing associations.
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Antimicrobial Stewardship in the Frail Elderly

British Journal of Hospital Medicine
Antimicrobial therapy is essential to modern healthcare practice. However, years of injudicious use has contributed to the development of population and individual level harm from antimicrobial resistance. The frail elderly are particularly at risk from infection as well as antimicrobial adverse effects due to multimorbidity, polypharmacy and declining
Catherine, Wilson, Ronald Andrew, Seaton
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Integrated Care for the Frail Elderly

HealthcarePapers, 2011
Chronic disease management initiatives have thus far focused on single disease entities. The challenge of an aging population is the occurrence of multiple diseases, complicated by geriatric syndromes, in the same person. The term frailty is used to denote such persons, who are more vulnerable to poor health outcomes when challenged by a health ...
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[Frail elderly].

Revista de enfermeria (Barcelona, Spain), 2004
The author analyzes diverse perspectives about old age throughout our history in order to define the concept of "the fragile elderly person". The author explains what this term means, its characteristics and some useful instruments nurse need be aware of in order to provide better care.
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Th Elderly Frail:

Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 1987
Case management for the elderly can narrowly target those entering nursing homes; or it can widely target community frail who would benefit from services to maintain themselves at home. This paper describes a Case Management Model Project serving a wide population of moderately frail elderly.
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The Frail Are Not Always Elderly

Journal of Clinical Oncology, 2005
The oncology community has failed, until recently, to develop adequate studies addressing important issues in adult patients with special needs. Before addressing in more detail the two excellent articles appearing in this issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology, let us consider the general issue of the elderly patient, and of patients who have very ...
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Immunomodulatory effect of in vitro calcitriol in fit and frail elderly

International Immunopharmacology, 2021
Aulia Rizka, Siti Setiati
exaly  

Disasters and the Frail Elderly

2014
Disasters are characterized as random natural occurrences and as acute events affecting societies and individuals in unpredictable ways. In all disasters, there are components that are managed by humans that help determine the ability and capacity of communities and individuals to absorb the impact from any disasters.
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Current treatment options for aggressive non-Hodgkin lymphoma in elderly and frail patients: practical considerations for the hematologist

Therapeutic Advances in Hematology, 2021
Reinhard Marks
exaly