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ASSESSMENT OF THE GERIATRIC PATIENT
Clinics in Podiatric Medicine and Surgery, 1993In its final report, the 1981 White House Conference on Aging recommended that "Comprehensive foot care be provided for the elderly in a manner equal to care provided for other parts of the human body, to permit patients to remain ambulatory:Remove current Medicare exclusions which preclude comprehensive foot care." The ability to ambulate requires ...
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Hypodipsia in geriatric patients
The American Journal of Medicine, 1982Hypernatremia in elderly patients is most often due to the patients mental incapacity or physical inability to obtain water despite intact thirst sensation. Hypodipsia leading to hypernatremia is not often considered in alert, elderly subjects since hypodipsia is not a recognized consequence of nonaphasia-producing cerebrovascular accidents.
P D, Miller +3 more
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Rehabilitation and the Geriatric Patient
Nursing Clinics of North America, 1989The true challenge in the care of the elderly is to keep people at home, in the community, with a high degree of functional ability. This is beneficial to the individual and, from a financial point of view, to the community and public. Maintenance and restoration of function are best accomplished within a framework that considers the psychosocial and ...
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The geriatric patient in the office
The Journal of the American Dental Association, 1961Today, elderly patients are in stronger physical condition than their predeces sors, and are more apt to be office patients. Loss of teeth in the geriatric patient decreases the masticatory effect, is unpleasant cosmetically and contributes to a speech defect. The geriatric patient, by virtue of his seniority, should be treated with more than ordinary
M, BERNARD, W J, HOGAN
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Anaesthesia for the Geriatric Patient
Drugs, 1976Patients over the age of 65 years form a very significant part of anaesthetic practice. At present, about 10% of the population is in this geriatric group, and the population over 75 years of age is likely to increase by 20% in the next decade. Improved surgical management of degenerative disease will lead to an increasing number of operations on the ...
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Xerostomia and the Geriatric Patient
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2002Saliva is essential for the preservation of oralâpharyngeal health, and disorders of salivary physiology are associated with numerous oral and pharyngeal problems, particularly in older people. Although salivary function is remarkably intact in healthy aging, medical problems, medications, and head and neck radiotherapy can cause salivary dysfunction ...
Jonathan A, Ship +2 more
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Anaesthesia in Geriatric Patients
1997The WHO definition of the geriatric patient is a man or a woman above the age of 65 years. In 1980, elderly people made up about 16% of the European population. In the year 2000, around 20% of the population will be over 65, and in 2030 more than 30% will be above 65 years of age.
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Falls in the Geriatric Patient
Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, 2019Falls in older adults are multifaceted, and are caused by biologic, behavioral, environmental, and socioeconomic risk factors. An estimated 25% of older adults fall each year. With 10,000 people turning 65 each day, it is essential that those at highest risk receive intervention to decrease the risk and rate of falls. In addition, those older adults at
Deborah J, Bolding, Ellen, Corman
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Insomnia in the geriatric patient
Clinical Cornerstone, 2003Insomnia in the geriatric patient is unique and complex, requiring a comprehensive and careful evaluation. Insomnia is the most common sleep complaint reported by persons > 60 years. It is defined as the inability to initiate or maintain sleep, and the etiology can be multifactorial.
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DRUGS AND THE GERIATRIC PATIENT*
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 1971A bstract Reasons for caution in administering drugs to old people are discussed. A survey was made of the records of 33 elderly cardiac patients in a teaching hospital, 30 elderly ambulatory patients in the community, and 30 elderly patients in a geriatric hospital.
P P, Lamy, M E, Kitler
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