Geriatric: The focus of geriatric care is on older adults.
A geriatric assessment focusing on identification of specific parameters predictive of disablement risk can be incorporated into the exercise prescription as a guide for initiating exercise.
1 2 Geriatric oncology focuses on the specific needs of elderly cancer patients related not only to their chronological age, but to the uniqueness of each person's pattern of aging.
3 In the current review, we describe the contribution of the leukotriene antagonists (LTRAs) in the management of "geriatric" asthma, focusing on the safety and efficacy profiles of the drugs available.
Regarding co-morbidities, the geriatric intervention focuses on the five most common conditions present in elderly patients with head and neck cancer: chronic atrial fibrillation, chronic heart failure, diabetes, coronary artery disease, and hypertension.
The SGS is a new approach to education of the geriatric patient, focusing on resources, accepting deficits and lowering barriers to participation in modern treatment strategies for elderly patients.
When the geriatric assessment focused on older adults selected as frail or when the interventions only included community care after hospital discharge, no impact on ADL was seen [ 37].
Future quality improvement initiatives for geriatric conditions could focus on system-level interventions.
Future geriatric research should focus on improving participants' and facilitators' compliance, and on determining the components that are essential to achieve an increase in program effects in this older population.
86, 123 Most psychosocial interventions for the acute treatment of geriatric major depression focus on "young old" (average age of 65 70 years), cognitively intact, ambulatory older adults who can follow outpatient treatment.
