[Post-retirement activity in Germany].

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

authors： Wiest M,Hoffmann M,Widany S,Kaufmann K

更新日期：2018-12-01 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:Current Swiss politics concerning age and ageing are orientated towards the principle "out-patient before in-patient". As part of new regulations, in 2011 all communities were required to set up information offices to answer questions about out-patient and in-patient care. OBJECTIVES:The aim of this qualita...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Abraham A,Huber H,Baumann-Hölzle R

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Northern Germany Nursing Research Network (Pflegeforschungsverbund Nord) has dedicated itself to developing management instruments intended to optimize the nursing process. It is coordinated by the administrative office of the Institute of Public Health and Nursing Research (Institut für Public Health und Pflegefo...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Görres S,Reif K,Biedermann H,Borchert C,Habermann M,Köpcke S,Meyer G,Rothgang H

更新日期：2006-06-01 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：: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

authors： Kirchberger MC,Erfurt-Berge C

更新日期：2020-10-01 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：: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：: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 their...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Martin H

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although internet usage among older adults is steadily increasing, there is still a digital divide between generations. Younger internet users seem to be more open towards new media. Recent studies showed the negative influence of computer anxiety on internet usage. It is not known how older adults deal with...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Haesner M,Steinert A,O'Sullivan JL,Steinhagen-Thiessen E

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The trial "Outpatient Geriatric Rehabilitation (AMBRA)" has been launched to compare two outpatient rehabilitation models close to their place of residence or at home: a mobile rehabilitation team based at a geriatric hospital department and a community-based outpatient rehabilitation center run by GPs. Primary analys...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Meinck M,Freigang K,John B,Keitel C,Puls E,Robra BP

更新日期：2002-10-01 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：: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：: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：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:Since the mid-1990s, supervised shared-housing arrangements (SHA; assisted living facilities) have developed as a specific type of small-scale living facility for elderly care-dependent persons with dementia in Germany, offering services different than those in residential care. Neither a uniform and binding...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Wolf-Ostermann K,Worch A,Meyer S,Gräske J

更新日期：2014-11-01 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

authors： Martin H,Langenhan K,Huth M,Sauer I,Weisbrich C

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well known that problems with compliance rise exponentially when more that 4 drugs are prescribed. The rising use of prescription medicine forces the GP to balance the benefit of evidence group-based appropriate drug use against the problems arising when medication is given to older people and to consider differ...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Vass M,Hendriksen C

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of palliative care is to help people with a progressive, probably fatal disease to achieve the highest possible quality of life. Any treatment is radically oriented towards the needs of the affected persons and their relatives. Although nursing institutions for seniors are the second most frequent pl...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Frewer-Graumann S,Teichmüller AK

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Composition of staff and therapeutic offers of day-hospitals principally are identical with those of geriatric hospitals. But there are peculiarities in their working: They offer a well balanced combination of somato-, physio-, psycho- and sociotherapy which individually must be planned, perpetually controlled and if ...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Schütz RM

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prolonged suboptimal intake of micronutrients leads via a series of mechanisms to impairment of cognitive performance. Supplementation can correct these deficits. Malnutrition impairs cognitive performance only when micronutrient levels fall below certain critical thresholds. Malnutrition in the elderly is commonly th...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Stähelin HB

更新日期：1999-07-01 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：: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：: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

abstract：:In the following article, two of the increasingly important public health scientific disciplines of care for the elderly are compared under systematic aspects - gerontopsychiatry and nursing science - with the aim of determining the similarities and differences of both disciplines. There follows a discussion of social...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Schaeffer D

更新日期：2004-08-01 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

authors： Meyer-Kühling I,Eckardt R,Makrantonaki E

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of chronic respiratory diseases (e.g., chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, COPD) and interstitial lung diseases (e.g., pneumonia and lung fibrosis) increases with age. In addition to immune senescence, the accumulation of senescent cells directly in lung tissue might play a critical role in the increa...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Bartling B

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The treatment and care of individuals with dementia, who are admitted to general hospitals due to somatic diseases, often leads to crisis situations which not only compromise the therapeutic benefit, but also can be followed by avoidable institutionalization in nursing homes or psychiatric hospitals. With the model pr...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Kirchen-Peters S

更新日期：2008-12-01 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：: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