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Best Practice Recommendations for Geriatric Dysphagia Management with 5 Ws and 1H

, 2022
Background: Dysphagia is a geriatric syndrome. Changes in the whole body that occur with aging also affect swallowing functions and cause presbyphagia. This condition may progress to oropharyngeal and/or esophageal dysphagia in the presence of secondary ...
Bahat, Gulistan, Unlu, Zeliha, Umay, Ebru, Halil, Meltem, Eyigor, Sibel, Giray, Esra, Unsal, Pelin   +6 more
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Geriatric care in European countries where geriatric medicine is still emerging

, 2020
Purpose: Practicing geriatric medicine is a challenging task since it involves working together with other medical doctors while coordinating a multidisciplinary team.
Bahat, Gülistan, Sieber, Cornel,, Benetos, Athanase,, Petrovic, Mirko, Ekdahl, Anne W.,, Duque, Sofia,, Soulis, George,, Bahat, Gülistan,, Gouiaa, Radhouane, Duque, Sofia, Ekdahl, Anne W., Gouiaa, Radhouane,, Kotovskaya, Yulia, Benetos, Athanase, Kotovskaya, Yulia,, Soulis, George, Petrovic, Mirko,, Lund University., Sieber, Cornel, Cornel Sieber, Yulia Kotovskaya, George Soulis, Anne W. Ekdahl, Radhouane Gouiaa, Athanase Benetos, Mirko Petrovic, Sofia Duque, Gülistan Bahat   +27 more
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Geriatric Oncology in Portugal: Where We Are and What Comes Next—A Survey of Healthcare Professionals

, 2022
In keeping with the trend worldwide, in Portugal, more than 60% of newly diagnosed patients with cancer are aged 65 years or older, which makes older adults the most common population seen in an oncology practice.
Joana Marinho, Marinho, Joana, Sandra Custódio, Custódio, Sandra   +3 more
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Overview of studies related to geriatric syndrome in Taiwan

, 2011
Geriatric syndrome has become one of the most important concepts in modern geriatric medicine. With the baby boomer generation in Taiwan are becoming old, it is important to gain a better understanding what have been done related to geriatric syndromes ...
Ching-Yu Chen, Ching-I. Chang, Chih-Hsun Wu, Wu, CH;Chang, CI;Chen, CY   +3 more
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Geriatric syndrome and geriatric medicine

Nippon Ronen Igakkai Zasshi. Japanese Journal of Geriatrics, 2004
高齢者においては人生の終末期に, 原因は様々であっても, 痴呆, 寝たきり, 廃用症候群, 各種感染症易発症性, 合併症の重層的併発など, 比較的慢性に経過する共通の症候, すなわち老年症候群 (geriatric syndrome) を呈する場合がある. これら老年症候群に対しては, それぞれの原因疾患の鑑別診断と治療あるいは再発予防とともに, 医師のみではなく, 多種の医療職種のチームワーク医療が重要であり, 老年症候群例に対するこれら多職種の共通認識としての総合機能評価が必要となる.
Morimoto, Shigeto, Takamoto, Shoushi, Saeki, Shuichi, Yabumoto, Yasuaki, Murai, Hiroshi, Matsumoto, Masayuki   +5 more
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Determinants of Urinary Incontinence and Subtypes Among the Elderly in Nursing Homes

Frontiers in Public Health, 2021
Urinary incontinence (UI) is a common problem among older adults. This study investigated the prevalence of UI in nursing home residents aged ≥75 years in China and examined potential risk factors associated with UI and its subtypes.
Hongyan Tai, Shunying Liu, Haiqin Wang, Hongzhuan Tan   +3 more
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Effect of in-hospital comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) in older people with hip fracture : the protocol of the Trondheim Hip Fracture Trial [PDF]

, 2011
Background: Hip fractures in older people are associated with high morbidity, mortality, disability and reduction in quality of life. Traditionally people with hip fracture are cared for in orthopaedic departments without additional geriatric ...
Prestmo, Anders, Jorunn L Helbostad, Arild Aamodt, Olav Sletvold, Lamb, S. E. (Sallie E.), Saltvedt, Ingvild, Magnussen, Jon, Aamodt, Arild, Johnsen, Roar, Thingstad Pernille, Magnussen Jon, Sletvold Olav, Saltvedt Ingvild, Roar Johnsen, Helbostad, Jorunn L., Prestmo Anders, Johnsen Roar, Anders Prestmo, Aamodt Arild, Helbostad Jorunn L, Sletvold, Olav, Taraldsen, Kristin, Magnussen, Jon, Prof., Thingstad, Pernille, Kristin Taraldsen, Jon Magnussen, Ingvild Saltvedt, Sarah E Lamb, Taraldsen Kristin, Lamb Sarah E, Pernille Thingstad, Lamb, SE   +31 more
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The giants of education in geriatric medicine and gerontology.

, 2022
In 2014, the European undergraduate curriculum in Geriatric Medicine was published to cover the minimum requirements that a medical student should achieve by the end of medical school.
Romero-Ortuno, Roman, Stuck, Andreas, Masud, Tahir   +2 more
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The Future History of Geriatrics: Geriatrics at the Crossroads [PDF]

The Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, 2002
C ONTEXT Geriatrics has had a hard time deciding just what it wants to be when it grows up. An early concept of geriatrics equated it primarily with caring for persons in long-term care (1). A major effort to predict the need for geriatrically trained personnel envisioned geriatrics as primarily consisting of specialists who would handle complex cases ...
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A study of morbidity profile among geriatric population in Uttarakhand: A community based cross-sectional study

Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2020
Context: Population of elderly in India is growing day by day. Elderly population of India is 8.6% and in Uttarakhand it is 8.9%. Health needs of geriatric people differs from others.
Preeti Usha, Surekha Kishore, Mahendra Singh, Bhavna Jain, Deepak Kumar, Navuluri Kranthi Kumar Reddy, Abu Rehan, Satish Kumar Ranjan   +7 more
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