Geriatrics and Neurology.

Geriatrics / Gériatrie Why Geriatrics ?

Why geriatric medicine ? Many have asked this question... residents considering specialization; specialists reluctant to acknowledge change in their aging patients; and anxious patients narrowly defining geriatric medicine as end-of-life care. All have wondered how caring for older patients differs from that of younger adults. The difference, in fact, is immense. The transition from a disease-f...

Geriatrics

This overview covers several topics related to the management of frequent problems in elderly persons. Several studies have shown that treatment of neuropsychiatric symptoms of dementia with psychotropic medication is modestly effective and could increase the risk of adverse events, including death. Influenza vaccination in long term care residents was shown to be effective in a systematic revi...

XV. Geriatrics

Community Geriatrics

In 1971 negotiations were started with various General Practitioners and Medical Officers of Health to investigate the possibility of establishing regular asssssment clinics in various Health Centres for elder'y patients in the geriatric department's catchment 2one. The Southmead Geriatric Department catchment area is some 30 miles long stretching from Berkeley to Clevedon and some five miles w...

NEUROLOGY AND MEDICINE Neurology and the liver

Neurological syndromes commonly occur in patients with liver disease. A neurological syndrome associated with a liver disease may be a complication of the disease, it may be induced by a factor that also contributes to the disease—for example, alcohol—or it may have no relation to the presence of the liver disease. Neurological deficits associated with liver disease may aVect the CNS, the perip...