Recently, the geriatric population in Korea has grown to comprise approximately 10% of the total population, and anemia has become a significant problem among elderly patients. Many elderly patients have anemia due to nutritional deficiency, chronic inflammation, or comorbid diseases; however, in a significant fraction of the patients with anemia, the cause remains obscure. Anemia of any degree...

The aging of the US population poses one of the greatest future challenges for family practice residency graduates. At a time when our discipline should be strengthening geriatric education to address the needs of our aging population, the Group on Geriatric Education of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine believes that recent guidelines from important family medicine organizations sugge...

BACKGROUND the debate about measures of chronic comorbidity in the elderly is mainly due to the lack of consensus on pathogenetic models. OBJECTIVE the aim of the present study was to compare the concurrent validity of a number of measures of chronic comorbidity assuming different pathogenic models, versus disability in elderly patients. SETTING the Geriatric Evaluation and Rehabilitation U...

Background It is estimated that, in Italy, by 2050 almost 35% of the population will be older than 65 years and 14% will be older than 80 years. As the elderly population grows, the fraction of geriatric trauma patients seen in trauma centers is rapidly increasing. Traumatic injuries in the elderly often represent a major medical and surgical challenge. Even a condition as simple as an isolated...

BACKGROUND General practitioners (GPs) deal with the multiple health needs of older patients. During patient encounters GPs are often only able to manage a limited number of problems and tend to focus on single diseases resulting in fragmented and overloaded care. A systematic approach that considers multiple health problems simultaneously and sets priorities for treatment is necessary. AIM T...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to examine the incidence of adverse events in elderly patients who required inpatient admission after sustaining an ankle fracture and to consider these data in relation to geriatric hip fracture and other geriatric patient admissions. METHODS A retrospective cohort study of patients admitted with an ankle fracture, a hip fracture, or any other diagnos...

INTRODUCTION Geriatric hip fracture places an increasing burden to health care systems around the world. We studied the latest epidemiology trend of geriatric hip fracture in Hong Kong, as well as the excess mortality for patients who had undergone surgery for hip fracture. METHODS This descriptive epidemiology study was conducted in the public hospitals in Hong Kong. All patients who underwe...

BACKGROUND Dizziness/vertigo is one of the most common complaint and handicapping condition among patients aged 65 years and older (Geriatric patients). This study was conducted to assess the impact of dizziness/vertigo on the quality of life in the geriatric patients attending a geriatric outpatient clinic. SETTINGS AND DESIGN A cross-sectional study was performed in a geriatric outpatient c...

Demographic Trends NEARLY half the patients admitted to general wards of hospitals today are over the age of 60 (Lancet, I963); the average age of patients admitted to Geriatric Units varies between 75 and 80, and in the Sunderland Geriatric Unit over onethird of all the admissions are over 80 years. The number of operations performed on patients of 60 and over (excluding orthopaedic and urolog...

380 peer reviewed Introduction Our veterinary patients are better cared for now than ever before and therefore, rather like human beings, they are living longer. In addition, the range of medical and surgical interventions is forever increasing, so most small animal veterinary surgeons will anaesthetise several geriatric patients every week. There are two main causes of increased anaesthetic mo...