Geriatrics in Serbia nowadays

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...

ABRs in Geriatrics Monkeys

1 Age-related changes of auditory brainstem responses in non-human primates 2 3 Running Head: ABRs in Geriatric Monkeys 4 5 Authors and author addresses: 6 Chi-Wing Ng, Xochi Navarro, James R. Engle, Gregg H. Recanzone 7 8 Center for Neuroscience 9 Univ. of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA 10 11 Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute 12 Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721, USA 13 14 Department of N...

Geriatrics in Industrial Medicine *

This has been called the Century of the Common Man. But since the common manis living longer and has aspirations of living to be a hundred, we might more appropriately call it, as someone has suggested, the Century of the Centenarian.1 Today the common man's life expectancy at birth is 65 years or more. In some areas of Florida and California every fifth person is over 65.1 It is estimated that...

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