Geriatrics

Geriatrics or geriatric medicine[1] is a sub-specialty of internal medicine and family medicine that focuses on health care of elderly people.[2] It aims to promote health by preventing and treating diseases and disabilities in older adults. There is no set age at which patients may be under the care of a geriatrician or geriatric physician, a physician who specializes in the care of elderly people. Rather, this decision is determined by the individual patient's needs, and the availability of a specialist.

VIDEO: Postoperative cognitive decline hits women hardest

Posted on: 22/07/2015 - 20:01

WASHINGTON – Postoperative cognitive decline, which occurs in roughly 20% of elderly patients who undergo major surgery, strikes older women with greater severity than it does similarly aged men,...

Field of Interest: Geriatrics
Type: News Item

Dicloxacillin may cut INR levels in warfarin users

Posted on: 21/07/2015 - 17:37

The antibiotic dicloxacillin appears to markedly decrease INR levels in patients taking warfarin, reducing the mean INR to subtherapeutic ranges in the majority who take both drugs concomitantly,...

Field of Interest: Geriatrics
Type: News Item

VIDEO: Dementia rate doubled in type 1 diabetics

Posted on: 21/07/2015 - 17:12

WASHINGTON – Improved management of patients with type 1 diabetes and the resulting increased longevity it has fostered has produced a new medical concern that few patients faced in the past: their...

Field of Interest: Geriatrics
Type: News Item

Usual physiotherapy remains best approach in knee OA

Posted on: 15/07/2015 - 17:53

ROME – There was no advantage to individually prescribed exercises for knee osteoarthritis over usual physiotherapy in a multicenter, longitudinal, randomized study reported at the European Congress...

Field of Interest: Geriatrics
Type: News Item

Erosive hand disease likely ‘more severe form of OA’

Posted on: 10/07/2015 - 18:47

ROME – Erosive hand osteoarthritis (OA) is probably a more severe form of the disease, rather than a separate clinical entity, a team of Norwegian researchers has suggested. Dr. Alexander Mathiessen...

Field of Interest: Geriatrics
Type: News Item

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