Příklady geriatric

• Early intervention in planning end-of-life care with ambulatory geriatric patients.

• Screening for depression among geriatric inpatients with short verisons of the geriatric depression scale.

• However, these joint facilities, which would be very useful for a minority of old age psychiatric and geriatric patients, are extremely uncommon today.

• Table 1 shows the modelled bed usage results that were obtained from the analysis of one-day census data in two different departments of geriatric medicine.

• Geriatric pain: factors that limit pain relief and increase complications.

• The likelihood is that this approach will continue and this requires that teachers of geriatric medicine respond appropriately.

• Factors determining the level of anxiety state in geriatric primary-care patients in a community-dwelling population.

• Future studies would be wise to eliminate the somatic component to correct for this, or include additional measures with specific geriatric depression scales.

• The use of goal attainment scaling in a geriatric care setting.

• The remainder were joint health and social care care-management interventions, both in primary and secondary care, covering geriatric and old-age psychiatry settings.

• Loneliness may be regarded as a 'geriatric giant', leading to impaired quality of life, greater need for institutional care and increased mortality.

• Geriatric medicine should be promoted as the speciality for frail older people.

• The bulk of institutional care is provided in subsidised residential and nursing homes (geriatric units in general and psychiatric hospitals provide the remainder).

• When queried specifically about their current health status, the geriatric facility inmates were significantly more likely to report fair to poor health status.

• Inmates in both groups favoured geriatric facilities, and voiced a desire to live there should their health continue to decline.