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Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, 2017
The number of people living beyond 65 years of age is increasing rapidly, and they are at increased risk of falls. Falls-related injuries and hospitalizations are steadily increasing. Falls can lead to fear of falling, loss of independence, institutionalization, and death, inevitably posing a significant burden to the health care system.
Khow, K., Visvanathan, R.
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The number of people living beyond 65 years of age is increasing rapidly, and they are at increased risk of falls. Falls-related injuries and hospitalizations are steadily increasing. Falls can lead to fear of falling, loss of independence, institutionalization, and death, inevitably posing a significant burden to the health care system.
Khow, K., Visvanathan, R.
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Aging in a ‘healthy’ population
Social Science & Medicine, 1986A five-year project, building on an ongoing epidemiological study of menopause in 2500 women, will examine the aging process in middle-aged and older men, women, and couples in Massachusetts. While past research on aging has usually focused on disease and has drawn on a self-selecting, usually clinical population, our study will examine healthy ...
S M, McKinlay, J B, McKinlay
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Mortality and population ageing
European Journal of Population, 1990The authors examine the effects of mortality trends on age structure and how fertility and migration affect demograpnic aging. "Computations are done for both France and Italy on population ageing during the last 30 years as well as until the end of the official population projections around 2040.
G, Caselli, J, Vallin
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Counting (on) an Aging Population
Computing in Science & Engineering, 2006The population in developed countries is rapidly aging, which explains why demography-the scientific study of human population dynamics-has become such a hot topic for science and the mass media. Technical progress with respect to computing power has helped alleviate population research-in fact, most contemporary research wouldn't have been possible ...
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Current Treatment Options in Neurology, 2002
Older adults pose special challenges when seizures or epilepsy occur. Increased risk for seizures is often unrecognized. Older adults may have milder epilepsy, and may not require or tolerate standard doses of anti-epileptic drugs (AEDs). Polypharmacy and drug interactions are potential problems, and altered protein binding, hepatic function, renal ...
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Older adults pose special challenges when seizures or epilepsy occur. Increased risk for seizures is often unrecognized. Older adults may have milder epilepsy, and may not require or tolerate standard doses of anti-epileptic drugs (AEDs). Polypharmacy and drug interactions are potential problems, and altered protein binding, hepatic function, renal ...
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The Senior Care Pharmacist
The United Nations states that population aging will become one of the most significant social transformations of the 21st century, with implications for almost all sectors of society, as well as family structures and intergenerational ties. For pharmacists, senior care pharmacy has always been part of our profession, simply because the majority of our
Demetra, Antimisiaris +1 more
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The United Nations states that population aging will become one of the most significant social transformations of the 21st century, with implications for almost all sectors of society, as well as family structures and intergenerational ties. For pharmacists, senior care pharmacy has always been part of our profession, simply because the majority of our
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The Lancet, 2012
www.thelancet.com Vol 379 April 7, 2012 1295 Submissions should be made via our electronic submission system at http://ees.elsevier.com/ thelancet/ agenda, there are worrying signs of discrimination against older people. Background documents from the UN High-Level Meeting in September, 2010, describe the deaths of people younger than 60 or 70 years as “
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www.thelancet.com Vol 379 April 7, 2012 1295 Submissions should be made via our electronic submission system at http://ees.elsevier.com/ thelancet/ agenda, there are worrying signs of discrimination against older people. Background documents from the UN High-Level Meeting in September, 2010, describe the deaths of people younger than 60 or 70 years as “
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Prospects for an ageing population
Nature, 1985The ageing populations of industrialized societies are more likely to be encumbered by increased morbidity than some optimistic arguments would suggest.
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MEDICINE AND THE AGING POPULATION
Journal of the American Medical Association, 1958The medical study of aging concerns abnormal processes and different diseases in different age categories. The biology of aging has become a major subject for investigation by the medical sciences. The average life span has been the best index of the health of the people.
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