Pharmaceutical care of a geriatric patient. New technologies facilitating pharmacotheraphy control for geriatric patient

Orthopaedic Care of the Geriatric Patient

It is estimated that, by the year 2000, fifty percent of the population in the United States will be over age sixty. The "baby boomers" will have reached their "golden age." This situation will have far-reaching ramifications for society in general and will also cause the medical profession to evaluate critically its treatment of the elderly. In light of this, Dr. Sculco's text is a timely effo...

Progressive patient care in the geriatric unit.

IT is not many years since the old-fashioned chronic wards of a hospital' were thought to have an entirely custodial function. They existed to provide care and attention for elderly patients when nothing further could usefully be done. With a rapidly ageing population this custodial approach proved inadequate, and since it was not possible to provide and staff an ever increasing number of chron...

Reframing the geriatric patient.

The Geriatric Psittacine Patient

This article addresses the aging pet psittacine population’s geriatric disease conditions. Over the past twenty five years, avian husbandry and medicine have undergone drastic changes, including a significant increase in domestically raised pet birds and major advances in avian nutrition. Despite the potentially adverse psychological affects of incubator hatching and handraising (which is a sep...

Geriatric Fever Score: A New Decision Rule for Geriatric Care

BACKGROUND Evaluating geriatric patients with fever is time-consuming and challenging. We investigated independent mortality predictors of geriatric patients with fever and developed a prediction rule for emergency care, critical care, and geriatric care physicians to classify patients into mortality risk and disposition groups. MATERIALS AND METHODS Consecutive geriatric patients (≥65 years ...