Type and course of symptoms demonstrated in the terminal and dying phases by people with dementia in nursing homes.

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：UNLABELLED:The main objective of the study was to examine the prevalence of problems and resources of an unselected cohort of nursing home residents. The sample includes residents (n=769) of an urban area in Southern Germany. The assessment definitions were used according to the Minimum Data Set of the Resident Assessm...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Becker C,Eichner B,Lindemann B,Sturm E,Rissmann U,Kron M,Nikolaus T

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first chapter gives a brief overview of dominant perspectives on reminiscence and life review in aging research since the 60s. The scepticism of most age researchers against personal history as a dominant concern of the aged in the late 60s was replaced by a more optimistic view which corresponded with a new Zeitg...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Coleman PG

更新日期：1997-09-01 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:The number of patients with a cognitive disorder will increase significantly in the coming years due to demographic changes. The number of patients from this group requiring stationary treatment will inevitably increase in all medical specialties. The aim of our survey was to examine how hospitals are prepar...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Schütz D,Füsgen I

更新日期：2013-04-01 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

authors： Werner B,Leopold D

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An enhanced inflammatory state - i.e. "inflammatory/pathogen burden" - in the elderly on the one hand results from physiological immunosenescence and on the other hand is modified by the individual immune history: the latter is determined by sequential infectious/pathogenic events ("multiple hits"). Immunosenescence m...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Müller-Werdan U

更新日期：2007-10-01 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：:As the results of the structural reform policy regulating the health care sector, the paper presents the possible path of increasing intrasectoral risk selection and intersectoral risk externalization (especially between the law of health care insurance, the law of statutory nursing insurance, and the German poverty l...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Schulz-Nieswandt F

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experience and behavior of dying people are on a lot of variables. Age, cultural background, human relations, personality and environment are some of these determinants. For an appropriate care for the dying it is necessary to perceive and realize the expectations and requirements of the dying person. The human relati...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Howe J

更新日期：1995-07-01 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 purpose of the study was to measure the prevalence of difficulties in elderly inpatients in opening a range of common commercial drug packagings, in breaking a bar-scored tablet, and in reading medication instructions. Sixty-seven patients (female: 47; male: 20, mean age: 81.6 +/- 6.1) who reported that they had m...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Nikolaus T,Bach M,Oster P,Schlierf G

更新日期：1995-11-01 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：:Rural areas are challenged differently by demographic change than urban areas. Prognostic data for the newly formed German states illustrate very clearly that the safeguarding of sustenance in rural areas requires redirection in order to maintain vivid municipalities that are prepared for the future. Civic engagement ...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Klie T,Marzluff S

更新日期：2012-12-01 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：: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：:In Germany, there clearly appears to be a gap between care carried out at home and in in-patient settings (residential nursing care). Numerous innovative projects of alternatively structured care, like for instance shared flats or group care units for people with dementia are placed in between the traditional, either ...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Klie T,Pfundstein T,Eitenbichler L,Szymczak M,Strauch M

更新日期：2005-04-01 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：BACKGROUND:The number of multiple chronically ill older people is increasing and multimorbidity is associated with high utilization of health services. Integrated care management is increasingly used to address this problem; however, there is a substantial lack of reliable data on its effectiveness in this target group...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Göhner A,Bitzer EM,Dreher E,Farin-Glattacker E,Heimbach B,Kohler K,Maun A,Metzner G,Voigt-Radloff S

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Strengthening cognitive resources of residents in nursing homes is an important goal of preventive activities. The aim of this systematic review was to answer the question which intervention is most effective for nursing home residents to strengthen their cognitive resources. METHOD:A systematic literature ...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Wöhl C,Siebert H,Blättner B

更新日期：2020-12-01 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：: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：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：: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：: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 number of elderly patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphomas (NHL) is continuously increasing. The diagnostic and staging procedures should be carried out in elderly patients as careful as in younger patients. Furthermore, for treatment decisions geriatric assessment and the patient's preferences concerning therapy are...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Späth-Schwalbe E

更新日期：2001-08-01 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：BACKGROUND:The aim of this project was to obtain information about drug therapy in geriatric units. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Members of the geriatrics in Bavaria database (GiB-DAT) collected data on discharge medication and transferred them to the database. A total of 88,840 data sets of geriatric rehabilitation clinics a...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Gaßmann KG,Tümena T,Schlee S,GiB-DAT-Studiengruppe.,Garner C,Kieslich B,Kraft J,Schwab M,Sieber C,Stobbe A,Trögner J

更新日期：2012-08-01 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

authors： Lindner R,Foerster R,von Renteln-Kruse W

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00