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Do Interest Groups Cultivate Interest? Trajectories of Geriatric Interest Group Members

Canadian Geriatrics Journal, 2020
Background Minimal exposure, misconceptions, and lack of interest have historically driven the shortage of health-care providers for older adults. This study aimed to determine how medical stu­dents’ participation in the National Geriatrics Interest ...
Andrew Perrella, Ari B. Cuperfain, Amanda B. Canfield, Tricia Woo, Camilla L. Wong   +4 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.
Shigeto, Morimoto, Hiroshi, Murai, Masayuki, Matsumoto, Shoushi, Takamoto, Shuichi, Saeki, Yasuaki, Yabumoto   +5 more
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Preparing a healthcare workforce for geriatrics care: an Interprofessional team based learning program

BMC Geriatrics, 2021
Background Improving the care of older adults in our healthcare system involves teams working together. As the geriatrics population rises globally, health science learners need to be prepared to work collaboratively to recognize and treat common ...
Shelley B. Bhattacharya, Stephen Jernigan, Myra Hyatt, Dory Sabata, Shane Johnston, Crystal Burkhardt   +5 more
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Provider Perspectives on the Influence of Family on Nursing Home Resident Transfers to the Emergency Department: Crises at the End of Life. [PDF]

, 2015
Background. Nursing home (NH) residents often experience burdensome and unnecessary care transitions, especially towards the end of life. This paper explores provider perspectives on the role that families play in the decision to transfer NH residents to
Bui, Nhat, Halifax, Elizabeth, Harrington, Charlene, Lee, Sei J, Ritchie, Christine, Shim, Janet, Stephens, Caroline   +6 more
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Undergraduate Teaching in Geriatrics and Pediatrics in Portuguese Medical Schools: An Observational Study

Acta Médica Portuguesa, 2016
Introduction: Motivated by the contracting nature of the Portuguese age pyramid, and thereby the ever increasing geriatric population, the aim of this study was to compare the number of European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System Credits dedicated ...
Mariana Amaral, Filipa Matias, Lígia Massena, Nuno Cardoso   +3 more
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Geriatrics in Serbia nowadays [PDF]

Biomedicinska istraživanja, 2018
The first hospital department for the treatment of elderly people in the world was founded by Laza Lazarević in Belgrade in 1881. The Division of Geriatrics of the Department of Internal Medicine at the City Hospital in Belgrade was founded in 1963, as
Mladen Davidović, Milan Ivanović
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‘Managing pieces of a personal puzzle’ — older people’s experiences of self-management falls prevention exercise guided by a digital program or a booklet [PDF]

, 2019
Background: Exercise is effective in order to prevent falls in community-dwelling older people. Self-management programs have the potential to increase access and reduce costs related to exercise-based fall prevention.
Helena Lindgren, Helena, Janols, Rebecka, Lundin-Olsson, Lillemor, Pettersson, Beatrice, Sandlund, Marlene, Skelton, Dawn, Wiklund, Maria   +6 more
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Which older people decline participation in a primary care trial of physical activity and why: insights from a mixed methods approach [PDF]

, 2014
This article is available through the Brunel Open Access Publishing Fund. Copyright 2014 Rogers et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http ...
Alison Woodcock, Annabelle Rogers, BA Golomb, BA Lawton, BW Penninx, Carole Beighton, Christina Victor, D Chao, Department of Health, Derek G Cook, DG Ives, E Costello, Elizabeth Limb, Fredrika Adams, GS Brassington, IK Crombie, J Cohen-Mansfield, JA Sugden, Joint Health Surveys Unit, JW Creswell, LR Brawley, M Miles, M Noble, MA Tully, ME McMurdo, Michael Ussher, MJ van Heuvelen, National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, NHS Health Checks Programme, P Little, PC Hallal, Peter Whincup, Physical Activity Policy HIDDoH, R Brooks, RE Roberts, S Iliffe, Sally Kerry, Steve Iliffe, T Harris, TC Camacho, Tess Harris, TJ Harris, Ulf Ekelund, W Stevens   +43 more
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Specialist Physicians in Geriatrics— Report of the Canadian Geriatrics Society Physician Resource Work Group

Canadian Geriatrics Journal, 2012
Background At the 2011 Annual Business Meeting of the Canadian Geriatrics Society (CGS), an ad hoc Work Group was struck to submit a report providing an estimate of the number of physicians and full-time equivalents (FTEs) currently working in the ...
David B. Hogan, Michael Borrie, Jenny F.S. Basran, A. Maria Chung, Pamela G. Jarrett, José A. Morais, Eileen Peters, Kenneth J. Rockwood, Philip D. St. John, Anne L. Sclater, Timothy Stultz, Sarah Woolmore-Goodwin   +11 more
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The prevalence of severe depression in Iranian older adult:a meta-analysis and meta-regression [PDF]

, 2020
Background: Depression is one of the most common psychiatric disorders in the older adult and one of the most common risk factors for suicide in the older adult. Studies show different and inconsistent prevalence rates in Iran.
Abdi, Alireza, Daneshkhah, Alireza, Jalali, Rostam, Khaledipaveh, Behnam, Mohammadi, Masoud, Salari, Nader, Shohaimi, Shamarina, Vaisi-Raygani, Aliakbar   +7 more
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