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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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Dysphagia: a geriatric syndrome?
Gériatrie et Psychologie Neuropsychiatrie du Viellissement, 2016Dysphagia is a common condition in the elderly but often not systematically explored. The "geriatric syndromes" refer to the multifactorial health conditions that occur when the cumulative effects of functional disorders of multiple systems make an individual vulnerable to face the challenges of situations.
Thierry, Pepersack +3 more
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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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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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Treatments of geriatric syndrome
Geriatrics & Gerontology International, 2004Aging is often seen as disadvantageous in human history. However, longevity reduces medical costs of the whole life compared with that of short life. Therefore, in order to reduce medical costs, we have to take care of the elderly in order to promote health and longevity.
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2009
In recent years, clinicians and researchers have shown increasing interest in geriatric syndromes. Geriatric syndromes such as frailty, delirium, urinary incontinence, dizziness, falls, sleep problems, malnutrition, pain, self-neglect are multifactorial, and associated with substantial morbidity and poor outcomes in clinical practice.
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In recent years, clinicians and researchers have shown increasing interest in geriatric syndromes. Geriatric syndromes such as frailty, delirium, urinary incontinence, dizziness, falls, sleep problems, malnutrition, pain, self-neglect are multifactorial, and associated with substantial morbidity and poor outcomes in clinical practice.
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Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2007
Kenneth Rockwood, Arnold Mitnitski
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Kenneth Rockwood, Arnold Mitnitski
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