LINKING GEROSCIENCE AND INTEGRATED CARE TO REINFORCE PREVENTION

Geroscience: Linking Aging to Chronic Disease

Mammalian aging can be delayed with genetic, dietary, and pharmacologic approaches. Given that the elderly population is dramatically increasing and that aging is the greatest risk factor for a majority of chronic diseases driving both morbidity and mortality, it is critical to expand geroscience research directed at extending human healthspan.

Linking Typologies to Managed Care

The proliferation of managed health care systems as a means of controlling rising health care costs has stimulated efforts to subdivide the heterogeneous population of alcoholics into more homogeneous subgroups based on their needs for specific levels of treatment. The American Society of Addiction Bedicine (ASAB) has developed a set of criteria aimed at helping clinicians select from four leve...

Geroscience approaches to increase healthspan and slow aging.

For decades, researchers in the biology of aging have focused on defining mechanisms that modulate aging by primarily studying a single metric, sometimes described as the "gold standard" lifespan. Increasingly, geroscience research is turning towards defining functional domains of aging such as the cardiovascular system, skeletal integrity, and metabolic health as being a more direct route to u...

Integrated approach to prevent functional decline in hospitalized elderly: the Prevention and Reactivation Care Program (PReCaP)

BACKGROUND Hospital related functional decline in older patients is an underestimated problem. Thirty-five procent of 70-year old patients experience functional decline during hospital admission in comparison with pre-illness baseline. This percentage increases considerably with age. METHODS/DESIGN To address this issue, the Vlietland Ziekenhuis in The Netherlands has implemented an innovativ...

Creating the Right Sort of Ship to Achieve Integrated Care: A Response to Recent Commentaries