Why geriatric medicine ? Many have asked this question... residents considering specialization; specialists reluctant to acknowledge change in their aging patients; and anxious patients narrowly defining geriatric medicine as end-of-life care. All have wondered how caring for older patients differs from that of younger adults. The difference, in fact, is immense. The transition from a disease-f...

This overview covers several topics related to the management of frequent problems in elderly persons. Several studies have shown that treatment of neuropsychiatric symptoms of dementia with psychotropic medication is modestly effective and could increase the risk of adverse events, including death. Influenza vaccination in long term care residents was shown to be effective in a systematic revi...

OBJECTIVES To examine geriatrics knowledge and attitudes of non-primary care house officers (HOs) before and after a multidisciplinary faculty development program. DESIGN Serial cross-sectional surveys. PARTICIPANTS HOs. SETTING A large midwestern academic medical center. INTERVENTION Faculty from seven surgical and six medical subspecialties participated in weekly seminars for 9 months...

SOPHIE PAUTEX1,∗, FRANÇOIS R. HERRMANN2, PAULETTE LE LOUS3, GABRIEL GOLD4 1Division of palliative medicine, Department of Rehabilitation and Geriatrics, Geneva University Hospital (HUG), Ch. De la Savonnière 11, CH-1245 Collonge-Bellerive, Switzerland Email: [email protected] 2Division of Geriatrics Department of Rehabilitation and Geriatrics, HUG, 3.ch Pont-Bochet, CH-1226 Thônex, Switzer...

BACKGROUND The Beers Criteria released by the American Geriatrics Society includes a list of drugs to avoid in the geriatric population and is frequently used as a safety resource in geriatric pharmacotherapy. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the exposure of South Korean geriatrics to potentially inappropriate medications according to the Beers Criteria and the risk of adverse events from these medicati...

1Geriatric Unit and Laboratory of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Department of Medical Sciences, IRCCS “Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza”, San Giovanni Rotondo, 71013 Foggia, Italy 2Shanghai Institute of Geriatrics and Gerontology, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Clinical Geriatrics, Department of Geriatrics, Huadong Hospital, and Research Center of Aging and Medicine, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan Uni...

Xuming Dai, Scott L Hummel, Jorge B Salazar, George E Taffet, Susan Zieman, Janice B Schwartz Division of Cardiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI Ann Arbor Veterans Affairs Health System, Ann Arbor, MI, USA Division of Cardiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, U...

BACKGROUND At the 2011 Annual Business Meeting of the Canadian Geriatrics Society (CGS), an ad hoc Work Group was struck to submit a report providing an estimate of the number of physicians and full-time equivalents (FTEs) currently working in the field of geriatrics, an estimate of the number required (if possible), and a clearer understanding of what has to be done to move physician resource ...

objective: the objectives of the study were to find out the prevalence of depression and to identify associated risk factors among community dwelling elderly in karachi. methods: it was a cross-sectional, descriptive study involving 284 community-dwelling elderly residing in karachi, pakistan. a non-probability convenience sampling was done. the geriatric depression scale (gds-15) was used to a...