[Support in dying: orientation of expectations and needs of dying patients].

abstract：BACKGROUND:Aged skin is the sum of chronological und UV-induced aging. Light-exposed skin is unattractive, with irregular pigmentation, roughness und scaliness. The skin is often dry and itches. METHODS:The present paper provides an overview of diseases of aging skin and describes how to prevent or reduce disease by p...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Proksch E

更新日期：2015-06-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:This work is aimed at reviewing 20 years of gerontological intervention research within the social and behavioral domain in German speaking countries. Only controlled studies based on adequate measurement instruments are considered. Literature analyses reveal that the issue of cognitive intervention research is well-c...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Wahl HW,Tesch-Römer C

更新日期：1998-04-01 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：:Patients with Graves' or Plummer's disease have usually definitively been treated by surgery or radioiodine. If, however, the patient does not accept either form of treatment or the risk of surgery or the inconveniences of the radioiodine treatment by far out-weight the expected benefit for the patient, alternative th...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Herrmann J

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The degree of Objective Health Burden (OHB) is an expert assessment of the impairment caused by somatic illnesses. It allows an overall clinical rating of the severity of a patient's somatic condition, considering all available information, not only the content or number of diagnoses. The rating on a five point scale ...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Schneider G,Nehen HG,Heuft G

更新日期：1999-08-01 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：PURPOSE OF THE STUDY:In this study the relevance of sense of coherence (SOC) for coping with an illness was examined in subjects with Parkinson's disease. According to Antonovsky's model (1997) the sense of coherence is an important resource when it comes to dealing with stressors. To take into consideration the integr...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Pusswald G,Fleck M,Haubenberger D,Auff E,Weber G

更新日期：2009-06-01 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：: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：BACKGROUND:There is ongoing controversy whether patients show better functional outcomes when care is provided in acute geriatric (AG) or internal medicine (IM) departments. OBJECTIVE:This study compared the recovery of acutely ill patients concerning activities of daily living (ADL) and instrumental activities of dai...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Friedli M,Schuetz P,Conca A

更新日期：2020-08-01 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: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：AIM:The goal of this study was to perform a structured analysis of the treatment quality and acute complications of geriatric patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) cared for by nursing services and nursing home facilities. Secondly, structural problems and potentials for improvement in the care of multimorbid older peop...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Bahrmann A,Wörz E,Specht-Leible N,Oster P,Bahrmann P

更新日期：2015-04-01 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：:The HILDE project proceeds from a theoretical conception of quality of life which considers both the significance of objective living conditions claimed in the Swedish level of living approach and the significance of processes of subjective perceptions and judgements accentuated in the American quality of life approac...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Becker S,Kaspar R,Kruse A

更新日期：2006-10-01 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:Which deficits in cognitive performance indicate the onset of a pathological deterioration process in older persons? AIM AND OBJECTIVES:Based on an established dementia screening test in elderly adults, a differentiation can be made between healthy cognitive performance and the onset of pathological deficit...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Pauli L,Daseking M,Petermann F,Stemmler M

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM OF THE STUDY:Analysis of differences between oncologic and non-oncologic patients in the first German hospital-based special care unit for palliative geriatrics. METHODS:Systematic analysis of patients' records according to a standardized protocol. RESULTS:A total of 217 patients from a hospital-based special car...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Genz H,Jenetzky E,Hauer K,Oster P,Pfisterer MH

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The paper reviews the present state of gerontological research in South Africa and provides examples of relevant studies. So far, most of the research has focused on socioeconomic conditions, e.g, financial status, living arrangements, and intergeneration family relations. During recent years another topic has gained ...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Sagner A

更新日期：1998-02-01 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:Impairment of central auditory processing is a well-known symptom of neurodegenerative dementia; however, whilst numerous studies have examined verbal processing impairment, to date few have attempted to describe impairments of non-verbal, environmental sound recognition in patients with dementia. As these i...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Dietz B,Kohl S,Mayer J,Metzger C,Förstl H,Diehl-Schmid J

更新日期：2018-07-01 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：:The aging of the Italian population is an emerging public health priority. In 2025 Italy is expected to have the highest world median age with nearly half of the population over 50 years old. To avoid an unbearable burden of disease and disability on future generations, we must identify areas for intensive disease and...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Baggio G

更新日期：1999-12-01 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: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:Little is known about the prevalence of falls and the related risk factors in the general population of community-living older people in Germany. OBJECTIVES:To assess the prevalence and related predictors of different types of falls in a sample of community-dwelling 65 years and older people in Germany livi...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Gassmann KG,Rupprecht R,Freiberger E,IZG Study Group.

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00