[Nutritional guidelines and standards in geriatrics].

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

authors： Werner B,Leopold D

更新日期：2020-10-01 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

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dry mouth is a frequently occurrence in elderly people and causes numerous clinical and social problems. OBJECTIVE:To investigate the quality of life in geriatric patients living in nursing homes depending on the subjective sensation of dry mouth and associated oral parameters. MATERIAL AND METHODS:A total...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Herrmann G,Müller K,Behr M,Hahnel S

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Efforts to improve the quality of care mainly depend on sufficient capacities of staff qualifications. Professional training is of primary importance to prepare for new tasks and to reduce educational deficits. The results of an empirical study carried out by the Federal Department of Family Affairs and the Kuratorium...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Kühnert S,Gassmann R

更新日期：1997-03-01 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：: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：: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：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most frequent form of dementia worldwide. The increasing incidence of AD is due to the dramatic rise in life expectancy. Generally, AD shows a multifactorial etiology and manifests itself only at an older age. However, a small percentage of cases have a monogenic cause, are inherited as...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Honneth J,Nehen HG,Haseke J

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heating of food induces the formation of Maillard reaction products (MRPs) caused by the reaction of reducing sugars with proteins or amino acids. Analogous reactions occur in the human body, eventually forming "Advanced Glycation Endproducts" (AGEs). AGEs accumulate in aging tissues accelerating degenerative-inflamma...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Webster J,Wilke M,Stahl P,Kientsch-Engel R,Münch G

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence and prevalence of chronic renal disease (CKD) in elderly patients are continuously increasing worldwide. Loss of renal function is not only considered to be part of the aging process itself but also reflects the multimorbidity of many geriatric patients. Calculating the glomerular filtration rate using s...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Braun F,Brinkkötter PT

更新日期：2016-08-01 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：BACKROUND:Until recently public health and health services research has not been concerned with people suffering from dementia with a Turkish migration background as a priority. There is little evidence about the situation of this population; however, it is known that these individuals almost always live with their fam...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Mogar M,von Kutzleben M

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE:A relevant number of older persons with intellectual disability (ID) moves from residential settings in the disability sector to nursing homes. The study analyzes from the perspective of self-determination, which factors lead to moves to nursing homes and to what extent older persons with ID an...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Dieckmann F,Rodekohr B,Mätze C

更新日期：2019-05-01 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：: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：: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

authors： Emsbach M,Friedel B

更新日期：1999-10-01 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：BACKGROUND:Demographic changes result in a higher prevalence of patients suffering from dementia in hospital. In Germany, epidemiological data of this target group are scarce and prevalence rates from university hospitals (UH) are not available. The prevalence rates and distribution were analyzed on the basis of ICD-10...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Vogt B,Mai T,Feuchtinger J,Maucher H,Strohbücker B,Flechinger C,Alpers B,Roes M

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dementia may influence as a co-morbid condition the management of chronic obstructive airway disease. However, the frequency and the consequences of dementia in older people with chronic obstructive airway disease are largely unknown. PATIENTS AND METHODS:The frequency and the severity of dementia in geriat...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Frohnhofen H,Heuer HC,Willschrei HP,Falkenhahn C

更新日期：2011-08-01 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

authors： Gao P,Zhu Q,Bian S,Liu H,Xie H

更新日期：2018-12-01 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 prognosis for patients with diastolic heart failure--heart failure with preserved ejection fraction--has not improved in the last few decades despite improvement of prognosis for all patients with heart failure. Diastolic dysfunction is a typical finding in elderly patients with heart failure. The diagnostic proce...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Dovjak P

更新日期：2013-01-01 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 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：:During recent years, a discussion on work activity of retirees has commenced also in Germany. First, this contribution presents a survey of the North American phenomenon of bridge employment and, second, complements leadoff empirical results on individual motives and favored basic conditions in Germany. Individual and...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Deller J,Maxin LM

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Over the last 10 years the German pension system has undergone several reforms including the abandonment of early retirement policies and an increase in the statutory retirement age. Consequently, the average retirement age has increased and future retiree cohorts have adjusted the retirement expectations an...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Hess M

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonpharmacological treatments can improve the quality of life of people with dementia. The objective of this review is to evaluate the effects of nonpharmacological treatments on quality of life and to analyze corresponding instruments by performing a systematic review of the literature. Candidate studies were first i...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Weidekamp-Maicher M

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study aimed to investigate the effect exerted by teriparatide on the repair of femoral metaphyseal defect in ovariectomized rats. METHOD:Female Sprague-Dawley rats were ovariectomized and after 3 months a critically sized defect of 3 mm in diameter-a through-hole bone defect-was drilled into each distal...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Tao ZS,Lv YX,Cui W,Huang ZL,Tu KK,Zhou Q,Sun T,Yang L

更新日期：2016-07-01 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：: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