Introduction: Oral and maxillofacial tissue status has a significant impact on the systemic health of elderly patients. Elderly patients without oral diseases are rare to find by dentists. Literature Review: Prevention treatment for caries periodontal should be done patients, except in particular conditions when its not worth risks treatments. Although relationship between is still controversia...

Building therapeutic nurse-patient relationships is pivotal to the provision of optimum nurse care management for geriatric home health care (HHC) patients. However, little is known about which strategies most effectively treat older adult HHC patients with concomitant depression and disability. This qualitative descriptive study was conducted in two parts to explore the issue further. The firs...

BACKGROUND Recommendations from international task forces on geriatric assessment emphasize the need for research including validation of cancer-specific geriatric assessment (C-SGA) tools in oncological settings. This study was to evaluate the feasibility of the SAKK Cancer-Specific Geriatric Assessment (C-SGA) in clinical practice. METHODS A cross sectional study of cancer patients ≥65 year...

Every clinician who prescribes antiviral drug during COVID-19 should be very careful and needs to assess following factors such as hepatic renal function status, specialized population Geriatric, Pediatric etc, co morbidities of patient, allergic history drug, severity clinical evidence in management duration therapy COVID-19.

Aims and objectives: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of Progressive Muscular Relaxation Exercise program on elderly patients in quality of life, functional capacity and the objectives are to identify the level of stress. To test the effect of stress management among elderly persons in the rehabilitation setup. Methodology: Inclusion criteria: geriatric patient, Age group 60...

OBJECTIVE This study aims to investigate the demographic, toxicological characteristics of the mad honey intoxication at ages 65 and above, to analyze the electrocardiographic parameters, and to compare with the mad honey intoxication at ages below 65 years. PATIENTS AND METHODS Eighty-two patients, who had been treated and followed-up between June 2013 and November 2014 in the Emergency Serv...

objectives: according to growing of aged population in iran and also high prevalence of psychiatric disorders in this group, assessment of demographical and epidemiological studies of psychiatric disorders in subjects 59 years or older in ekbatan district of tehran was the aim ofthis study. methods & materials: the subjects were chosen randomly from 1422 subjects 59 years or older, who were liv...

results from a total of 319 patients, 78% (n = 249) were female and 22% (n = 70) were male, with the mean age of 83.6 years. seventeen percent of the patients suffered from heart failure, 23% from diabetes, and 19% from renal insufficiency. time to surgery averaged one day postinjury. average operative time skin-to-skin was 50 minutes. seventy-three percent of the patients could mobilize indepe...

objectives: the aim of the current study was to determine the depression status of the elderly and it's related factors. methods & materials: this was a cross sectional study. sample unit was based on the elderly of isfahan city in 2007. 248 elderly aged 60 and older (125 men and 123 women) were selected randomly according to clusters related to the families that are under coverage of isfa...