Abstract:
:This article presents previous experiences regarding the study course Social Gerontology (bWSG) at the University of Dortmund. After a short historical outline the focus will be on a critical examination of the success of the study course. Finally, new developments at the University of Dortmund will be presented, among others the concept development of a new master programme "Ageing Societies" (working title).
journal_name
Z Gerontol Geriatrjournal_title
Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrieauthors
Weidekamp-Maicher M,Naegele Gdoi
10.1007/s00391-007-0497-4subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2007-12-01 00:00:00pages
417-22issue
6eissn
0948-6704issn
1435-1269journal_volume
40pub_type
杂志文章,评审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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00391-020-01715-4
更新日期:2020-03-18 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Cooperation between psychosomatic and geriatric medicine is still sporadic and rarely institutionally integrated. At the same time, however, nearly half of geriatric inpatients suffer from psychopathological symptoms of clinical relevance. The patterns of interactions between patients and professionals of th...
journal_title:Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00391-012-0381-8
更新日期:2013-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::The results of the determination of hematologic values from 262 men and 242 women, participants of an aging study and half of each group 44.4 +/- 0.9 and 63.0 +/- 0.9 (men) and 44.4 +/- 0.9 and 62.8 +/- 0.8 years old (women), respectively, are compared. In men, one analyte (hemoglobin decreasing) and four indices show...
journal_title:Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s003910170062
更新日期:2001-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::The incidence of hip fractures increases with increasing age. Besides the actual trauma, it is mainly the comorbidities and an increased postoperative complication rate in old patients that lead to increased mortality in this patient population. Around 25% of patients who had previously been living independently conti...
journal_title:Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00391-011-0250-x
更新日期:2011-12-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00391-020-01767-6
更新日期:2020-07-31 00:00:00
abstract::The degree of Objective Health Burden (OHB) is an expert assessment of the impairment caused by somatic illnesses. It allows an overall clinical rating of the severity of a patient's somatic condition, considering all available information, not only the content or number of diagnoses. The rating on a five point scale ...
journal_title:Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s003910050111
更新日期:1999-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::The German version of the Falls Efficacy Scale-International Version (FES-I), which is presented, was developed for the documentation of fall-related selfefficacy in older persons by a EU-funded expert network (Prevention of Falls Network Europe ProFaNE). The FES-I represents a modification of the original Falls Effic...
journal_title:Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00391-006-0400-8
更新日期:2006-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::Selected activities of daily living are used to describe the micro-area (dwelling), mezzo-area (quarter) and exo-area (outside the quarter). In a survey of 115 elderly people, the five-year-changes from 1985/86 to 1990/91 in their areas of mobility in a working class district are documented. Special interest is given ...
journal_title:Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1995-09-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00391-005-1113-0
更新日期:2005-09-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Research on nonformal education often focuses on participation within employment. Participation of workers decreases with age; however, recent studies show an increase in participation in nonformal education of older workers. It remains, however, unclear if this trend spills over to retirement. OBJECTIVE:In...
journal_title:Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00391-017-1247-x
更新日期:2018-12-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Ambulatory geriatric rehabilitation (AGR) is a prevention program for multimorbid patients with the contractual agreement to prevent the need for care and hospital admissions and to promote self-sufficiency. It provides an opportunity to reduce the prevalence of polypharmacy and to discontinue potentially in...
journal_title:Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00391-019-01589-1
更新日期:2020-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::For the prevention and rehabilitation of fall-related fractures, not only functional status is important. It is necessary to describe the level of help and care needed at the time the fracture happened and its changes after a certain period. Investigations of the changes in the need of help and care after a fall-relat...
journal_title:Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00391-004-0257-7
更新日期:2004-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::After a pilot study in 2010 in segregated wards for patients with dementia in nursing homes (DWB) and in community-based living communities for older people with dementia (DWG), major differences in the proportion of mentally stressed employees were found (DWB: 57%, DWG: 26%) as well as in the proportion of employees ...
journal_title:Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1007/s00391-020-01709-2
更新日期:2020-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::This paper explores the role of the family and its contribution to quality of life in old age under a comparative perspective, looking at different European welfare states (Norway, Germany, Spain and Israel). The literature demonstrates a consistent association between well-being and social networks in old age. Interg...
journal_title:Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00391-002-0107-4
更新日期:2002-08-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1007/s00391-020-01751-0
更新日期:2020-08-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00391-013-0500-1
更新日期:2013-06-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1007/s00391-018-1410-z
更新日期:2018-06-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00391-019-01669-2
更新日期:2020-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::Geriatric patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation (AF) are increasingly being treated with novel oral anticoagulants (NOAC) to prevent ischemic stroke. This article highlights the outcome of an expert meeting on the practical use of NOAC in elderly patients. An interdisciplinary group of experts discussed the c...
journal_title:Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1007/s00391-016-1027-z
更新日期:2016-04-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1007/s00391-019-01650-z
更新日期:2019-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::A structured geriatric assessment (GA) improves the quality of health care; however, the quality of GA guidelines has hardly been investigated. Eight guidelines were identified by systematically searching guideline databases, web sites of guideline developers, and PubMed. The methodological quality was assessed by two...
journal_title:Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00391-011-0219-9
更新日期:2012-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::Insects can serve as excellent models to show that the genetically determined life span of organisms as well as that of other traits is characterized by high phenotypic plasticity. Depending on different environmental conditions the life cycle strategy can therefore be highly variable. Thus developmental and aging pro...
journal_title:Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1007/s00391-004-0231-4
更新日期:2004-06-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:The N‑terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) has an important prognostic value in chronic renal insufficiency; however, most studies have been conducted in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD). In this study we evaluated the prognostic significance of NT-proBNP in very old patients with s...
journal_title:Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00391-017-1327-y
更新日期:2018-12-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00391-014-0624-y
更新日期:2014-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::Malignant wounds arise either primary or secondary in the context of a malignant transformation of already existing wounds. A plethora of skin tumors, such as basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, melanoma, lymphoma as well as cutaneous metastases of other malignancies can ulcerate and be the cause of maligna...
journal_title:Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1007/s00391-019-01629-w
更新日期:2020-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::The number of accidents caused by older car drivers increases annually in Germany. Typical errors of older drivers concern the right of way, changes of direction and conflicts with pedestrians at cross walks. These errors are attributed to deficient information gathering and processing caused by old age and illness. I...
journal_title:Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s003910050123
更新日期:1999-10-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00391-004-0204-7
更新日期:2004-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::The proportion of older prisoners increases with demographic change. The situation in prison and the release from prison are related with particular risks especially for elderly people. Systematically evaluated experiences and findings of the specific needs and requirements of elderly prisoners are rare. The Institute...
journal_title:Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00391-013-0487-7
更新日期:2013-06-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:
更新日期:1995-05-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Research regarding effective collaboration and communication between professional caregivers and dermatologists and the need for further education and training for caregivers in the field of geriatric dermatology still remains relatively scarce. OBJECTIVE:To document the state of knowledge of professional c...
journal_title:Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00391-016-1132-z
更新日期:2018-01-01 00:00:00