OBJECTIVE the organisation of long-term medicine and geriatric medicine has undergone many changes during the last 15 years. The aim of this study is to gain an overall perspective of the present organisation of geriatric medicine in Sweden. DESIGN questionnaire survey. METHODS The Swedish Society for Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, in collaboration with the Federation of County Council...

OBJECTIVE to investigate whether the benefits related to a geriatric day hospital programme exceeded the costs, using a cost-benefit analysis based on changes in functional autonomy. DESIGN a quasi-experimental design with a historical cohort as comparison group. SETTING the geriatric day hospital programme at the Sherbrooke Geriatric University Institute in the Province of Quebec, Canada. ...

introduction: this survey was undertaken to assess self-reported oral health behaviour, oral and systemic conditions among functionally independent population in talash, north of iran. the question is whether there are any relationships between these variables. materials and methods: a total of 203 elderly subjects enrolled in this study 125 (61.5%) were males and 78 (38.4%) were females. all s...

BACKGROUND Geriatric assessment is a multidisciplinary diagnostic process that evaluates the older adult's medical, psychological, social, and functional capacity. No systematic review of the use of geriatric assessment in oncology has been conducted. The goals of this systematic review were: 1) to provide an overview of all geriatric assessment instruments used in the oncology setting; 2) to e...

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...

Screaming in Dementia Nages Nagaratnam, MD, FRCP, FRACP, FRCPA, FACC, Consultant Physician in Geriatric Medicine, Formerly of Department of Geriatric Medicine, Blacktown-MtDruitt Health, Blacktown, NSW, AUS. Kujan Nagaratnam, MB, FRACP, Consultant Physician in Geriatric Medicine, Department of Geriatric Medicine, Blacktown-Mt Health, Blacktown, NSW, AUS. DEMENTIA

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Glycemic control in geriatric patients with type 2 diabetes (T2DM) remains clinically challenging. The objective of this study was to compare the safety and efficacy of insulin lispro in patients C65 years (geriatric) to those\65 years (non-geriatric), using a metaanalysis of randomized controlled clinical trials (RCT). METHODS This is a retrospective analysis of predefine...

The aim of this study was to develop a framework for comprehensive specialist geriatric assessment in rural settings. A protocol that used a number of standardised assessment instruments was developed and applied routinely. Data from two rural centres in South Australia over a two-year period were analysed. Study results offer important insights and have implications for clinical practice and p...

Previous studies found a relationship between geriatric depression and social deprivation. However, most studies did not include environmental factors in the statistical models, introducing a bias to estimate geriatric depression risk because the urban environment was found to have significant associations with mental health. We developed a cross-sectional study with a binomial logistic regress...