Comprehensive geriatric assessment and multi-disciplilary care approach
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Autonomous Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment
This paper presents the MARIO’s CGA (Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment) module for the Kompaı̈ platform that aims at autonomously performing and managing the execution of specific tests required in the CGA process. The application relies on the CGA ontology, which is part of the Mario Ontology Network (MON), as a support to the execution of the assessment process and a reference model for stori...
متن کاملComprehensive geriatric assessment - UpToDate
"Geriatric syndrome" is a term that is often used to refer to common health conditions in older adults that do not fit into distinct organ-based disease categories and often have multifactorial causes. The list includes conditions such as cognitive impairment, delirium, incontinence, malnutrition, falls, gait disorders, pressure ulcers, sleep disorders, sensory deficits, fatigue, and dizziness....
متن کاملThe contribution of comprehensive geriatric assessment to primary care physicians
BACKGROUND To provide quality care to the growing number of older patients, primary care physicians (PCPs) will require support from geriatric specialists. Multidisciplinary comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) has been found to improve outcomes in older people. This study explored the contribution of CGA to the management of older patients by their PCPs; PCP attitudes to CGA; and PCP satis...
متن کاملComprehensive geriatric assessment in oncology.
The incidence of cancer increases with advanced age and the majority of cancer deaths are in patients aged ≥ 65. The geriatric population is a heterogeneous group and a patient's chronologic age does not always correlate with underlying physiologic status. Oncologists need to be able to obtain information on physiologic and functional capacity in older patients in order to provide safe and effe...
متن کاملComprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA): The Best Integrated Care Approach against Frailty
When frailty is detected in an older person at any clinical setting, early interventions or an integrated assessment should be provided promptly [4] as frailty can increase the risks of all negative outcomes: recurrent hospitalisation, institutionalization, disability and death in old age [4,5]. At this stage the main task is to determine the kind of intervention that is best for frail older pe...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Nippon Ronen Igakkai Zasshi. Japanese Journal of Geriatrics
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0300-9173
DOI: 10.3143/geriatrics.49.569