[Possibilities and chances for using the internet by the elderly].

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to describe the course and outcome of rehabilitation using a national recommended assessment program (AGAST). In our study 162 patients with stroke were included. Nearly all patients had improvement of activities of daily living (Barthel Index) and mobility (Tinetti Gait and Balance Sc...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Harlacher R,Pientka L,Füsgen I

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional deficits of elderly patients are often not recognized during routine treatment in acute hospital care. In Germany, there are only limited experiences with the use of standardized assessment-scales in this health care setting. In this study, 112 patients were recruited for a very broad geriatric assessment f...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Pientka L,Scholten T,Füsgen I

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From its origin to its death the human organism is submitted to functional, material, and morphological changes that are perceptible. These changes permit classifying an individual as young, adult, old, active or infirm. But this estimation is not always correct. Some appear younger, some older than expected from thei...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Martin P

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to the excellent efficacy of antiretroviral treatment increasingly more people with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections survive to old age. The national and international definition of older people with HIV infections comprises those aged 50 years and older. Practitioners caring for these patients have t...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Bogner JR

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As part of a research project, a behavior therapy-oriented cognitive training program, designed to improve the cognitive ability of middle-aged employees (50 to 59 years), was implemented and evaluated. The goal of the training program was to analyze the cognitive, affective and behavior-related conditions of memory d...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Wagner S,Paulsen S,Bleichner F,Knickenberg RJ,Beutel ME

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Nursing and Living Quality Act (PfleWoqG) regulates the implementation of legally regulated quality inspections and publication of statutory quality inspection reports for residential nursing homes in Bavaria. In the currently valid version, the quality records have to be published but a decision of the ...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： König A,Erling R,Reuschenbach B

更新日期：2020-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The BRD social security system contains numerous regulations concerning the smoothness of regulating social security benefits between unemployment benefit to pension benefit. Raising the retirement age for unemployed will lead to long-term unemployment or to a decreasing pension payment in the case of early retirement...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Behrend C

更新日期：1996-09-01 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：BACKGROUND:Geriatric medicine in Germany is faced with an increasing demand for continuous documentation and evaluation of its effectiveness and efficiency. Hence, the Federal Association (FA) of Clinical Geriatric Departments (Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft der Klinisch-Geriatrischen Einrichtungen e.V.) has funded a workin...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Borchelt M,Vogel W,Steinhagen-Thiessen E

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

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：BACKGROUND:Activities of daily living (ADL), such as walking, often involve the added complexity of walking while doing other activities (i.e. dual task walking). A complex walking task may require a greater motor and mental capacity, resulting in decrements in gait performance not seen for simple walking tasks. AIM:T...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Schott N

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The regional impact of old age pension systems has received little attention. For example, the German statutory pension insurance ("gesetzliche Rentenversicherung", GRV) was hitherto to the greatest extent discussed in the context with the situation in West and East Germany. However, the benefits of old age pension sy...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Fachinger U,Stegmann M

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Frailty is associated with an increased risk of depressive syndromes. This review aims to summarize data on coincidence, clinical presentation, and diagnostic and therapeutic work-up of depression in frail patients. Depressive syndromes in geriatric patients are characterized by increased frequency and intensity of so...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Kopf D,Hummel J

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The object of our study is the evaluation of care needs of senior citizens and the adjustment of certain stage of care according to the German Health Care Act ("Pflegeversicherungsgesetz"). For assessment of care needs we developed a new rating scale (BPS). Factor analysis of the rating scale showed 5 dimensions: (1) ...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Gutzmann H,Metzler P,Schmidt KH

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to the combined effects of a persistent low birth rate, the forthcoming retirement of the "baby-boom generation" and an increasing life expectancy, the German system of "social security" will face severe challenges in the coming decades. The foreseeable doubling of the ratio between pensioners and employees by 205...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Scherl H

更新日期：2003-04-01 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：BACKGROUND:There is ongoing controversy whether patients show better functional outcomes when care is provided in acute geriatric (AG) or internal medicine (IM) departments. OBJECTIVE:This study compared the recovery of acutely ill patients concerning activities of daily living (ADL) and instrumental activities of dai...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Friedli M,Schuetz P,Conca A

更新日期：2020-08-01 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：BACKGROUND:Anemia and hypoalbuminemia (HA) are acknowledged independent risk factors for morbidity and mortality in geriatric patients and are associated with nutritional status and frailty. Data exist regarding the association between albumin and frailty, anemia and frailty as well as frailty and nutritional status; h...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Röhrig G,Becker I,Polidori MC,Schulz RJ,Noreik M

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Over the course of the demographic transition with an aging and shrinking work force, work participation of older employees becomes more and more important. Earlier investigations found social groups to be different in work-related and individual aspects, which were shown to be associated with motivation for...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： du Prel JB,Schrettenbrunner C,Hasselhorn HM

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This contribution deals with the question of how existing health care systems can be sufficiently and adequately adapted to ageing patients in general, and to patients with special needs for nursing care and assistance. Simultaneously, it advocates explicit consideration of the dimensions of social inequality and heal...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Naegele G

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The study of housing and living spaces has always played a central role in sociogerontological research. For example, living environments are seen as essential influencing factors on the quality of life and personal well-being (or the lack of it) of older people. The study of the relationship between space a...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Höppner G,Richter AS

更新日期：2020-08-01 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：BACKGROUND:The use of technological innovations can play a significant role in healthy aging and social participation in old age; however, it is not well understood how social contexts can influence or support older adults' use of technology. This study explored the associations between technology use, perceived techno...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Kamin ST,Beyer A,Lang FR

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A large number of older acutely ill patients with cognitive impairment are treated in geriatric care units. Since 1990 some geriatric departments in Germany have established special care units (SCU) for this patient population. In 2010 the first inventory of SCUs in Germany was carried out, which was not bas...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Zieschang T,Bauer J,Kopf D,Rösler A

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:National and international data networks for data transfer and communication are playing an increasingly important role in science and medicine. These networks already exist on a regional, national and international scale. The biggest international network, the Internet, offers more than 300 sites referring to "aging"...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Hager K

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Social inequality in Germany is discussed primarily with regard to educational or social welfare issues. There is a political consensus that more action should be taken to ensure equality of chances and fulfillment of basic needs for everyone. In long-term care these considerations have not yet taken place and there a...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Möller A,Osterfeld A,Büscher A

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to describe the pattern of service use (hospitals, homes, ambulatory services) in the year before death. The results are based on administrative data for the elderly inhabitants of the city of Mannheim, who died during one year (n = 2507), as well as on a survey of the next of kin of a...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Bickel H

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The age appropriateness of a pharmaceutical product for older patient populations is most important in achieving ease of use, administration, and adherence as well as the therapeutic benefit of the drug. Drug development is a lengthy and risky investment accompanied by extensive regulatory requirements to meet all the...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Stegemann S

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with dementia (PD) are a special challenge for the healthcare system. They are responsible for 5% of the expenditure in the German healthcare service. The disease-related deficits and the associated need for care leads to the fact that patients are not able to live in their own residence and rely on...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Lenz F,Schübel J,Neumann R,Bergmann A,Voigt K

更新日期：2020-03-18 00:00:00