CANADIAN GERIATRICS JOURNAL, VOLUME 18, ISSUE 1, MARCH 2015 Welcome to the first issue of the Canadian Geriatrics Journal for 2015! In this issue we explore an eclectic range of topics related to both geriatrics and gerontology. Dr. Cosco comments on the overlapping/opposing paradigms of successful aging and frailty, while Dr. Marshall et al. examines the use (and underuse) of a comprehensive g...

BACKGROUND While major clerkship blocks may have objectives related to specialized areas such as geriatrics, gay and lesbian bisexual transgender health, and palliative care, there is concern that teaching activities may not attend sufficiently to these objectives. Rather, these objectives are assumed to be met "by random opportunity".((1)) This study explored the case of geriatric learning opp...

BACKGROUND Geriatric syndromes are rarely detected in family medicine. Within the AGE program (active geriatric evaluation), a brief assessment tool (BAT) designed for family physicians (FP) was developed and its diagnostic performance estimated by comparison to a comprehensive geriatric assessment. METHODS This prospective diagnostic study was conducted in four primary care sites in Switzerl...

The medical care of hospitalized geriatric patients must differ from the care of younger adults. Because of reduced "reserve capacity," hospitalized older adults are at high risk of development of geriatric syndromes such as delirium and falls. Geriatric syndromes often lead to functional decline and dependence. Patients who experience geriatric syndromes in the hospital are more likely to have...

OBJECTIVES The present study assessed dental students' perceived barriers to geriatric dental care provision. METHODS Out of 512 dental students in Iranian dental schools were participated in the study 464 were completed the questionnaire. The mean age of the dental students was 25.5 ± 2.8 years; 67% were women. RESULTS Most of the participants (79%) did not have any training focused on ger...

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between serum cortisol and thyroid function tests in geriatric patients with psychiatric disorder. We assessed serum cortisol and thyroid function tests in newly admitted 35 geriatric age group patients in psychiatric ward and in 35 sexand age matched controls. Study group included geriatric patients with psychiatric disorder diagnosed b...

In the United States and around the world, effective, efficient, and reliable strategies to provide emergency care to aging adults is challenging crowded emergency departments (EDs) and a strained health care system. In response, geriatric emergency medicine (EM) clinicians, educators, and researchers collaborated with the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), American Geriatrics Soc...

One of the most difficult problems in health care policy is adjusting payment to activity. Particularly little is known about how resources are allocated to departments of geriatric care. To investigate whether departments of geriatric medicine in Stockholm, Sweden relate their costs to case-mix, one of the most well-known case-mix systems for geriatric care, the Resource Utilization Groups, ve...