[Geriatric assessment--description of functional deficits and follow-up assessment of elderly stroke patients].

abstract：:The present investigation aimed to assess the health-related QoL (HRQoL) of elderly people living in two settings: (i) rural community and (ii) homes for the elderly in a district of South India. The data are drawn from elderly (>60 years of age) sampled from both settings. The short form 36-item health survey (SF-36)...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Varma GR,Kusuma YS,Babu BV

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study is to bring into focus the living conditions of the older adults in Turkey by using quality of life (QoL) criteria through which to highlight dimensions relating to their QoL status in comparison to other age cohorts. Are there specific QoL issues among older adults that would indicate that they ...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Arun Ö,Cakıroğlu-Çevik A

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this review, studies on number processing and calculation in demented patients are summarized. Single cases, group studies and our own examinations all show that acalculia is a frequent symptom of dementia and correlates with severity of dementia. While calculation and numeral transcoding deficits are often promine...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Kalbe E,Kessler J

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 25 patients (10 male, 15 female) with systemic sclerosis aged between 28 and 79 years the biological age was determined. Alterations in the sense of "premature aging" were observed in the mean and developed stronger in male patients. They have to be counted in a greater part on the real process of disease. Compared...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Sauer I,Ries W,Mittag M,Haustein UF

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:According to Antonovsky, the sense of coherence (SOC) determines health and wellbeing. This life orientation is shaped up to the age of 30 and is supposed to remain constant up to senior age. In a field study, in which the SOC, psycho-social resources and subjective health were assessed at three points in time, it cou...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Wiesmann U,Rölker S,Ilg H,Hirtz P,Hannich HJ

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of age-related modifications of the heart, lung, and circulation, several cardiopulmonary parameters present altered normal and reference values with increasing age. Other parameters, for example, arterial blood pressure, change only insignificantly with age. In older age groups it is more difficult to establi...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Gassmann KG,Lang E

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A large number of published overview and original articles provide evidence and declare the need for immediate, appropriate preventive lifestyle measures to prevent the development of dementia and Alzheimer's disease (AD). However, despite this, there are great difficulties in drafting effective guidelines in this fie...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Polidori MC,Pientka L

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Clinically relevant posttraumatic stress disorders are almost always associated with physical symptoms, which are, on the one hand, classified as somatoform and, on the other hand, may also present as somatic comorbidities. The psychological, neurobiological, endocrinological and immunological correlations a...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Noll-Hussong M

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although viewed critically in geriatrics, benzodiazepine use is still common among old people. Before reducing the dosage the following questions must be considered: 1. Are there indications for benzodiazepine treatment and will discontinuation cause relevant rebound symptoms of the initial disorder treated? 2. To wha...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Wolter DK

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For a period of 3 consecutive years, all fall events were prospectively recorded in geriatric hospital in-patients by using a standardized protocol. The incidence was 9.1 fall events/1000 hospital days in 5946 patients, and 41.0/1000 hospital days in 1015 patients (17.0%) who actually had falls. The fall rate varied b...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： von Renteln-Kruse W,Krause T

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of diabetes has increased in the recent years. Diabetes is characterized by increased sugar concentrations in the blood. Due to this dysregulation, more carbohydrate-induced modification of proteins - so-called advanced glycation end products (AGEs) - are formed endogenously by non-enzymatic reactions. T...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Simm A,Navarrete-Santos A,Hofmann B,Bushnaq H,Nass N

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept of active ageing comprises the maintenance of societal participation throughout the life span into old age. "Good" ageing in line with this activity paradigm develops into a starting point of social inequality rather than being its result. Based on the German Ageing Survey (DEAS) we investigated access to ...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Simonson J,Hagen C,Vogel C,Motel-Klingebiel A

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aging of the Italian population is an emerging public health priority. In 2025 Italy is expected to have the highest world median age with nearly half of the population over 50 years old. To avoid an unbearable burden of disease and disability on future generations, we must identify areas for intensive disease and...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Baggio G

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Even though the effects of cultural activities on active and positive ageing have been extensively examined, spatial aspects have hardly been considered by research in this field. OBJECTIVES:Instead of understanding active ageing as a result of cultural education, this article focuses on practices of (activ...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Gallistl V,Parisot V

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cholinesterase inhibitor tacrine exerts a marked therapeutic effect only at a dose which is not tolerated by many patients because of the gastrointestinal side effects and hepatotoxicity of the drug. In patients who tolerate a high dose of tacrine the mean increase in cognitive abilities is roughly equivalent to t...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Kurz A,Marquard R,Mösch D

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The European Academy for Medicine of Ageing was founded in 1995 by a nucleus group of European professors: Duursma (Utrecht, NL), Evans (Oxford, GB), Michel (Geneve, CH) and Stähelin (Basel, CH). The aim was to get an adequate postgraduate training under the auspices of an international faculty. A whole curriculum con...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Nikolaus T

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The quantifying of care needed is an important issue of the long-term care insurance act in Germany. In the last three decades limits of self-sufficiency have been defined in the context of law, medicine, social science and nursing science. Following these approaches this study distinguishes between determining the li...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Cappell E

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three strategies are followed in handling the key issue within the field of action of care an services for the elderly: securing the material needs of those requiring care, creating appropriate care structures, and providing an effective counselling back-up to alleviate interface problems. Those latter, process-orient...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Wissert M

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:World War II (WWII) is probably the most distressing and fatal historical event in Europe's recent past. Research on mental and physical health sequelae of these traumatic experiences from WWII has only started recently. OBJECTIVES:An overview on the findings from several population-based studies investigat...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Glaesmer H

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with Graves' or Plummer's disease have usually definitively been treated by surgery or radioiodine. If, however, the patient does not accept either form of treatment or the risk of surgery or the inconveniences of the radioiodine treatment by far out-weight the expected benefit for the patient, alternative th...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Herrmann J

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing evidence in managing polypharmacy in the growing elderly population with a higher prevalence of multiple chronic disease is the basis for this paper. Poor adherence, drug-drug interactions, drug-disease interactions, and inappropriate medication challenge the prescriptions of health care providers in this g...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Dovjak P

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The paper reviews the present state of gerontological research in South Africa and provides examples of relevant studies. So far, most of the research has focused on socioeconomic conditions, e.g, financial status, living arrangements, and intergeneration family relations. During recent years another topic has gained ...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Sagner A

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Up to now, images of ageing are considered unilaterally from an individualising perspective in which the cause for negative images as well as the starting point for potential change is localised in cognitive attitude patterns. In this contribution we plead for a conceptual extension of the research on images of ageing...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Amrhein L,Backes GM

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Programmes containing health-enhancing physical exercise should be evaluated using standards that are just as rigorous as those required for drug development. In contrast to new medicines, exercise programmes are highly complex. This has to be taken into account when designing the research plan. In order to illustrate...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Hinrichs T,Brach M,Bucchi C,Moschny A,Wilm S,Thiem U,Platen P

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experience and behavior of dying people are on a lot of variables. Age, cultural background, human relations, personality and environment are some of these determinants. For an appropriate care for the dying it is necessary to perceive and realize the expectations and requirements of the dying person. The human relati...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Howe J

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic or repeated stress can induce a damage of neurons, especially in hippocampus, by which the degree of damage differs in various species. Sapolski has reported that there is a correlation between hippocampal degeneration, disturbed feedback reaction, and hypersecretion of glucocorticoids. The aim of this study w...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Martin R,al-Scheibani AH,Martin H

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Scabies is a frequent ectoparasitosis the prevalence of which also seems to increase in older patients. Correct and timely diagnosis of scabies in older age is hampered by atypical clinical manifestations, the potential lack of pruritus and a variety of differential diagnoses. Scabies crustosa, a highly contagious sub...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Hamm H,Stoevesandt J,Sunderkötter C

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interdisciplinary symposium of the working group "anemia in the aged" on the occasion of the annual conference of the German Society of Geriatrics focused this year on vitamin B12 deficiency in aged patients. Experts from hematopathology, clinical geriatrics and geriatric hematology presented the case of a 78-year...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Röhrig G,Gütgemann I,Kolb G,Leischker A

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Results of a longitudinal study about the transition to retirement are presented. 329 persons were interviewed three times (quantitative study) and 20 persons conducted a semi-structured diary (qualitative study), covering in both groups a two-year period (from half a year before retirement to one and a half years aft...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Mayring P

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The causes of pain must always be clarified, as long as it can be justified. In dementia the placebo effect can be lacking. A treatment on demand is difficult to implement. Correctly applied nonmedicinal treatment has few unwanted effects but mostly needs constant support by personnel. Medications with anticholinergic...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Schuler M

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00