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  • Novi internistični pristopi v geriatriji = New internal medicine approaches in the managemnt of geriatric patients
    Šabovič, Mišo
    The population is progressively ageing. Physicians should be aware of the factthat appropriate medical management of the elderly is quite specific. The basic principle of the modern geriatric ... medicine is a comprehensive and complex approach that includes concomitant management of disorders, geriatric syndromes and functional (dis)ability. The three parameters are tightly connected: the disturbance in one field results in the disturbance in the other two and in further deterioration of general condition. This phenomenon is called the domino syndrome. In order to prevent it, weak links in the disorders - geriatric syndromes - functional (dis)ability chain could be strengthened by using the "comprehensive geriatric assessment" (CGA). This recently introduced systematic approach renders possible an adequate an accurate assessment of medical condition of the elderly, identification of disorders and geriatric symptoms, and evaluation of patients' functional status. Physician's attention is focused on nine important problem areas regarding the elderly. Three of them: psychotropic medication, cognitive functioning, and mental status fall in the domain of psychiatry. The aim of the modern geriatric approach is to achieve the so called "successful ageing" that is characterised by only slight to moderate decrease of functional ability.
    Vir: [Zdravstveni, pravni in socialni vidiki obravnave oseb z demenco : zbornik prispevkov] (Str. 138-150)
    Vrsta gradiva - članek, sestavni del
    Leto - 2005
    Jezik - slovenski
    COBISS.SI-ID - 21875929

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