Professional caregivers' knowledge in dermatology : Improving knowledge and communication to dermatologists in geriatric facilities.

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：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：: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：:According to Antonovsky, the sense of coherence (SOC) determines health and wellbeing. This life orientation is shaped up to the age of 30 and is supposed to remain constant up to senior age. In a field study, in which the SOC, psycho-social resources and subjective health were assessed at three points in time, it cou...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Wiesmann U,Rölker S,Ilg H,Hirtz P,Hannich HJ

更新日期：2006-04-01 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：: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：:Further education in practical, clinical and scientific-theoretical gerontology is of great importance either for the global care of the elderly or to increase the knowledge concerning the problems of aging. In this paper we try to evaluate critically activities referring to this, to furthermore develop in internation...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Niedermüller H

更新日期：1997-03-01 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：: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: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：:This paper reports a qualitative study in which the aim was to examine older peoples' beliefs and risk perceptions regarding the use of innovative health technologies in end-of-life care and to relate these beliefs to their ideas about 'natural death'. Pictures, story boards and media extracts were used during intervi...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Seymour J

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While hemiendoprothesis has been established in the treatment of hip fractures of aged people because of less operative trauma, better effectiveness and satisfying functionality, surgical management of trochanteric fractures is still in discussion. In our study, we found no severe difference of living conditions or mo...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Reich I,Herrwerth V,Marintschev I,Gebert L

更新日期：1997-01-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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: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：:In China, fundamental changes in population development have occurred during the past 50 years. The demographic transition in China required only a few years, while in most European countries this process took several decades. The fertility and mortality rates have declined very quickly, like in Japan and South Korea....

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Liu T,Flöthmann EJ

更新日期：2013-07-01 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：: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：: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：:Elderly patients often suffer from postoperative cognitive deficits (POCD) after serious surgical operations. The reasons for this are not well understood. We investigated the influence of the invasiveness of the operation and the duration of the operation as well as the patient's preoperative physical status on measu...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Müller SV,Krause N,Schmidt M,Münte TF,Münte S

更新日期：2004-12-01 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：: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：:Decubitus is one appropriate quality indicator in health care. Quality- or risk-management in the field of decubitus prevention is of interest for all involved professions. Nursing, medical and administrative staff are equally responsible. Data collection, evaluation and feedback aiming at the highest achievable benef...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Leffmann CJ

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Depression in old age is common and also dangerous due to somatic comorbidity and suicide; however, it is often not recognized and not adequately treated. Psychotherapy is almost never offered to the elderly. However, clinical experience, single-case studies and some controlled trials show effectiveness--at least to t...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Wächtler C

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) has become an important cause of severe infection in hospitalized patients all over the world. In Germany a significant increase of nosocomial infections due to MRSA has occurred during the last 10 years. Especially elderly patients with chronic illnesses are at increased risk of...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Albert S,Wichelhaus TA,Schäfer V

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sufficient denture hygiene is very important in particular for immunocompromised and bedridden patients to reduce the risk posed by the aspiration of pathogenic microorganisms. In addition to mechanical cleansing, chemical denture cleansers are suitable for daily use at home. However, they continue to be seen as probl...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Blankenstein FH,Peroz I

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00