The practice of geriatrics is the practice of medicine among older patients with their special kinds of disease and their special variants of the usual diseases. There is no question of the nature of this discipline as it deals with the actual patient. But geriatrics as a study is a little ...
Comorbidity is defined as the presence of one or more additional conditions co-occurring with primary indices. Comorbidity is common in older cancer patients. Its prevalence, however, is difficult to determine and varies by cancer site. There is no single reason for which como...
A clinical trial is defined as any research study that prospectively assigns human participants, or groups of humans, to one or more health-related interventions to evaluate the effects of health outcomes. Health-related interventions include any intervention used to modify a biomedical or health-rela...
Mixed methods research is defined as the collection, analysis, and integration of both quantitative data (e.g., outcome of a randomized trial, such as decrease in depression score) and qualitative data (e.g., observations or interviews about the experience of persons with depression) to provide...
Transitional care is defined as “a set of actions designed to ensure the coordination and continuity of health care as patients transfer between different locations or different levels of care within the same location” [1]. Following elective surgery, the transition from hospital to home is a ...
Sedentary behavior is characterized by low energy expenditure and is defined as any waking behavior while sitting or lying down [17]. Furthermore, for community-dwelling older adults living in a municipality in southern Sweden, being sedentary also means having a lack of physical activity and ...
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[8] geriatrics co-management and the Age-friendly Hospital (AFH) concept [9]. Geriatric co-management has been considered an alternative approach, and is defined as a shared responsibility and decision making between at least a treating physician (e.g., surgeon) and a geriatrician who ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) defined healthy aging in 2015 as obtaining and preserving the functional abilities that enable older persons to achieve well-being, underscoring the importance of functional ability. Among them, intrinsic capacity is a crucial concept, which defined as the sum of...
An elderly subject is usually defined, in western countries, as a person over the age of 65 (WHO). A geriatric patient is an older adult seeking medical care. He or she may be independent and generally healthy needing mainly preventive care, but is often someone who has a loss of indepen...