[Interventional gerontology in German-speaking countries: a social and behavioral science assessment].

abstract：BACKGROUND:Even though the effects of cultural activities on active and positive ageing have been extensively examined, spatial aspects have hardly been considered by research in this field. OBJECTIVES:Instead of understanding active ageing as a result of cultural education, this article focuses on practices of (activ...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Gallistl V,Parisot V

更新日期：2020-08-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:This contribution refers to the 2009 Council of Experts Report on health system development and discusses the special care requirements of old people. This includes the geriatric phenomenon of multimorbidity, polypharmacy in old people with multiple diseases, and the need for care. The probability and complexity of mu...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Kuhlmey A

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The European Academy for Medicine of Ageing was founded in 1995 by a nucleus group of European professors: Duursma (Utrecht, NL), Evans (Oxford, GB), Michel (Geneve, CH) and Stähelin (Basel, CH). The aim was to get an adequate postgraduate training under the auspices of an international faculty. A whole curriculum con...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Nikolaus T

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:"Rehabilitation instead of nursing care" is one of the most important entitlements of the social welfare legislation to long-term care. In Germany 1.2 million evaluations per year are done by the experts of the medical review boards of the health insurance funds. As a part of those evaluations the experts also have to...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Lürken L

更新日期：2001-05-01 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：:Due to the combined effects of a persistent low birth rate, the forthcoming retirement of the "baby-boom generation" and an increasing life expectancy, the German system of "social security" will face severe challenges in the coming decades. The foreseeable doubling of the ratio between pensioners and employees by 205...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Scherl H

更新日期：2003-04-01 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：: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：: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

abstract：BACKGROUND:A large number of older acutely ill patients with cognitive impairment are treated in geriatric care units. Since 1990 some geriatric departments in Germany have established special care units (SCU) for this patient population. In 2010 the first inventory of SCUs in Germany was carried out, which was not bas...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Zieschang T,Bauer J,Kopf D,Rösler A

更新日期：2019-10-01 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 obvious increase of human age even up to above one hundred years in nearly all civilised countries leeds the autor to discuss the following actual gerontologic problems: the needs for further splitting of categories of high age, the reasons for the rapid increase of the oldest-old group and the predicted "mushroom...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Franke H

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nutritional problems and deficiencies are widespread in geriatric institutions. On the other hand, benefits of different interventions to improve the nutritional situation of elderly people--from amelioration of mealtime ambience to the use of artificial nutrition--have been shown in many studies. In recent years, sev...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Volkert D

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Basic research on aging has moved well beyond describing the aging of physiological systems and developing theories of aging, to the pursuit of mechanistic answers to questions such as: Why do we age? Why do individuals within a population age differently? Why do different species have such different life spans? How d...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Warner HR

更新日期：2001-12-01 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：:For a period of 3 consecutive years, all fall events were prospectively recorded in geriatric hospital in-patients by using a standardized protocol. The incidence was 9.1 fall events/1000 hospital days in 5946 patients, and 41.0/1000 hospital days in 1015 patients (17.0%) who actually had falls. The fall rate varied b...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： von Renteln-Kruse W,Krause T

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From its origin to its death the human organism is submitted to functional, material, and morphological changes that are perceptible. These changes permit classifying an individual as young, adult, old, active or infirm. But this estimation is not always correct. Some appear younger, some older than expected from thei...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Martin P

更新日期：2000-01-01 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：: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：:Using the method of multistate life-tables, the article presents results on active life expectancy on the basis of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) and the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). The transitions into and out of active life are based on event-history analysis and are calculated for different coho...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Klein T,Unger R

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Results of a longitudinal study about the transition to retirement are presented. 329 persons were interviewed three times (quantitative study) and 20 persons conducted a semi-structured diary (qualitative study), covering in both groups a two-year period (from half a year before retirement to one and a half years aft...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Mayring P

更新日期：2000-04-01 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：BACKGROUND:Since the mid-1990s, supervised shared-housing arrangements (SHA; assisted living facilities) have developed as a specific type of small-scale living facility for elderly care-dependent persons with dementia in Germany, offering services different than those in residential care. Neither a uniform and binding...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

authors： Wolf-Ostermann K,Worch A,Meyer S,Gräske J

更新日期：2014-11-01 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：: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：: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