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The frailty syndrome: a critical issue in geriatric oncology
Critical Reviews in Oncology/Hematology, 2003 Evidence exists that the geriatric intervention guided by Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) has positive effects on a number of important health outcomes in frail older patients.
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Osteoarthritis and geriatric syndromes
Zhurnal nevrologii i psikhiatrii im. S.S. Korsakova, 2019To study the geriatric status of patients with osteoarthritis (OA) older than 60 years depending on the severity of frailty.The study included 201 patients with OA (mean age 75.84±8.09 years). The patients were divided into 3 groups: patients without frailty, patients with prefrailty and patients with frailty.
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Frailty: An Emerging Geriatric Syndrome
The American Journal of Medicine, 2007Frailty is a new and emerging syndrome in the field of geriatrics. The study of frailty may provide an explanation for the downward spiral of many elderly patients after an acute illness and hospitalization. The fact that frailty is not present in all elderly persons suggests that it is associated with aging but not an inevitable process of aging and ...
Nasiya, Ahmed +2 more
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Geriatric Physiology and the Frailty Syndrome
Anesthesiology Clinics, 2019Understanding geriatric physiology is critical for successful perioperative management of older surgical patients. The frailty syndrome is evolving as an important, potentially modifiable process capturing a patient's biologic age and is more predictive of adverse perioperative outcomes than chronologic age.
Kashif T, Khan +2 more
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Frailty Syndrome in Geriatric Medicine
The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, 2012Frailty syndrome is frequently encountered in elderly populations. Frailty has been defined as a geriatric syndrome of increased vulnerability to environmental factors. Although knowledge of this syndrome continues to develop, there are still many areas of uncertainty.
Marco, Ruiz, Charles, Cefalu, Tom, Reske
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Diabetes mellitus and geriatric syndromes
Geriatrics & Gerontology International, 2009Diabetes mellitus is associated with an increased prevalence and incidence of geriatric syndrome: functional disabilities, depression, fall, urinary incontinence, malnutrition and cognitive impairment. Geriatric syndrome not only leads to frailty, loss of independence and low quality of life, but also becomes a major obstacle in the treatment and care ...
Atsushi, Araki, Hideki, Ito
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What Is A Geriatric Syndrome Anyway?
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2003The term “Geriatric Syndrome” is commonly used but ill defined. In publications, authors claim that all sorts of conditions are a “Geriatric Syndrome”, including, but not limited to, delirium,1 dementia,1 depression,2 dizziness,3 emesis,4 falls,1 gait disorders,1 hearing loss,1 insomnia,1 urinary incontinence,1 language disorders,1 functional ...
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Geriatric oral and maxillofacial dysfunctions in the context of geriatric syndrome
Oral Diseases, 2017ObjectivesTo propose the application of the concept of geriatric syndrome for common geriatric oral and maxillofacial dysfunctions and to suggest the necessity of developing effective evaluation methods for oral and maxillofacial frailty.DesignThe concepts of frailty and geriatric syndrome based on multi‐morbidity and polypharmacy were applied to five ...
Y Nam, N‐H Kim, H‐S Kho
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Geriatric Sexuality Breakdown Syndrome
The International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 1981This paper focuses on the relationship between the social environment and the older individual. By utilizing the Social Breakdown Syndrome [1, 2] as a basis for examining this relationship, the author has proposed a cycle of events, the Geriatric Sexuality Breakdown Syndrome, in which an older individual is initially predisposed to diminished sexual ...
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Iatrogenesis, Frailty, and Geriatric Syndromes
Geriatric Nursing, 2010Older adults are at risk for iatrogenesis, especially if they are frail and have 1 or more geriatric syndromes. Iatrogenic events do not occur only in acute care; in nursing homes they affect 65% of residents annually. It is therefore likely that they are occurring in assisted living communities, though perhaps called by another name.
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