Algorithm for anticoagulation management in geriatric hip fracture patients--Surgeons save Blood.

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 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：:The mortality in elderly patients over the age of 80 years with peptic ulcers in the case of complications, such as bleeding and perforation is higher than in the general population. Duodenal ulcers are associated with Helicobacter pylori infections in 90% of cases and in 70% of gastric ulcers. The treatment of elderl...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Dovjak P

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A correlation between asymmetry in electroencephalographs (EEG) and depression has been demonstrated in many studies. To the best of our knowledge there are no studies including oldest old geriatric patients. OBJECTIVE:The objective of this study was to evaluate whether frontal and parietal alpha asymmetry ...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Kaiser AK,Doppelmayr M,Iglseder B

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sleep disorders are common among nursing home residents. However, the possible involvement of psychological factors has been given little attention up until now. We investigated nursing home residents' perspective on psychological factors and sleep disorders within the nursing home environment. MATERIALS AN...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Herrmann WJ,Flick U

更新日期：2014-04-01 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：:In a prospective study 104 patients >or=65 years with distal radius fractures (DRF; n=52) and proximal forearm fractures (PHF; n=52) were followed up for a period of 4 months after injury. As an inception- cohort study, influence on treatment pattern was not part of the examination. A total of 53% of the DRF and 74% o...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Einsiedel T,Becker C,Stengel D,Schmelz A,Kramer M,Däxle M,Lechner F,Kinzl L,Gebhard F

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of chronic pain increases with age. The awareness of pain in geriatric patients is more difficult than in younger people because of various reasons. The occupational groups of the geriatric team might be different in respect of discerning symptoms of pain. 126 geriatric patients were enrolled in this st...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Schuler M,Neuhauser T,Hauer K,Oster P,Razus D,Hacker M

更新日期：2001-10-01 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：: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：: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：: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:The hierarchical assessment of balance and mobility (HABAM) is an internationally established clinical mobility test which has good psychometric properties, allows an easy assessment of mobility and the graphical illustration of change over time in geriatric patients. The aims of this study were the translat...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Braun T,Rieckmann A,Grüneberg C,Marks D,Thiel C

更新日期：2016-07-01 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：BACKGROUND:It has been questioned by researchers in robotics as well in the general public to what extent companion-type robots can support the elderly with the fulfillment of their psychological and social needs. Although these robots have already been used in care settings in Germany, research has referred little to ...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Baisch S,Kolling T,Rühl S,Klein B,Pantel J,Oswald F,Knopf M

更新日期：2018-01-01 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 existence of a so-called "vitauct process" is discussed by means of the glucocorticoid-induced stimulation of tyrosine aminotransferase activity. Own experiments show that the highest possible stimulation of the enzyme by cortisol and stress in the liver of old Wistar rats is not lower than in young-adult animals....

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Martin H,Benedix M,Dörfelt G,Martin R

更新日期：1996-07-01 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

authors： Dias N,Kempen GI,Todd CJ,Beyer N,Freiberger E,Piot-Ziegler C,Yardley L,Hauer K

更新日期：2006-08-01 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：: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：:The NaCl content of the culture medium of human fibroblasts (WI-38) was elevated from 0.12 M to 0.23 M. Previously it had been shown that exposure of fibroblasts to such high NaCl conditions resulted in a rise of both glycolysis and respiration ("energetic stress"), mainly due to increased demands of energy for active...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Steinkamp M,Schachtschabel DO

更新日期：2001-12-01 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：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

authors： Kiel S,Zimak C,Schmidt CO,Chenot JF

更新日期：2020-08-01 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：: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：: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：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：: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：: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

authors： Singler K,Biber R,Wicklein S,Heppner HJ,Sieber CC,Bail HJ

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The geriatric screening according to AGAST (Arbeitsgruppe Geriatrisches Basisassessment) contains functional and diagnosis related items, and risk indicators of prognostic relevance, particularly in hospitalized patients. In a retrospective, cohort study, we compared the screening results in 250 consecutive patients o...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： von Renteln-Kruse W,Ebert D

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00