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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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Understanding sarcopenia as a geriatric syndrome
Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care, 2010Highly prevalent in the population older than 65 years and leading to poor outcomes (functional decline and its related consequences), sarcopenia does not benefit yet either of a clear understanding of its pathophysiology or of precise clinical or biological markers allowing its identification.The new scientific definition of 'geriatric syndromes ...
Cruz-Jentoft, Alfonso J. +3 more
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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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Understanding constipation as a geriatric syndrome
Geriatric NursingConstipation is common among older adults and significantly impacts their quality of life (QoL). Prior studies have extensively detailed constipation, but conceptualization of constipation as a geriatric syndrome is lacking. In this review, we provide an overview of constipation in the geriatric population and conceptualize constipation as a geriatric ...
C. Ray Cheever +7 more
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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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2021
In this chapter, we review some common geriatric medical syndrome including falls, pain, frailty, urinary incontinence, fecal incontinence, and constipation.
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In this chapter, we review some common geriatric medical syndrome including falls, pain, frailty, urinary incontinence, fecal incontinence, and constipation.
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2010
The geriatric patient population which utilizes health care is rapidly increasing with increasing life expectancy. Geriatrics syndrome is a term that is used very frequently in geriatrics and internal medicine, clinical practice and literature. It is important that health providers who encounter elderly patients have knowledge about geriatrics to take ...
S, Şahin, M, Cankurtaran
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The geriatric patient population which utilizes health care is rapidly increasing with increasing life expectancy. Geriatrics syndrome is a term that is used very frequently in geriatrics and internal medicine, clinical practice and literature. It is important that health providers who encounter elderly patients have knowledge about geriatrics to take ...
S, Şahin, M, Cankurtaran
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