Our findings suggest that standardized assessment of muscle characteristics and lower-extremity function, with early detection of sarcopenia and impaired muscle quality, might prompt appropriate lifestyle or medical intervention to postpone functional decline, prevent disability, and preserve independence and quality of life of older persons with diabetes.
While the cost-effectiveness of anti-dementive drugs is frequently analyzed, only few economic evaluations exist for non-medical interventions aiming to postpone institutional care [ 17- 23].
The primary goal of this intervention is to postpone joint replacement in relatively young patients, in order to reduce the potential numbers of revision operations.
These interventions included recommendations to postpone nonessential travel, provide public health information and face masks, screen passengers at entry or exit by questionnaire, measure ear temperatures, provide medical examinations, isolate case-patients, and quarantine contacts.
In most instances, medical and surgical interventions are not intended to postpone death but to enhance function and the quality of life.
Moreover, referral is not too popular with patients, who believe that they can cope with the problem themselves (Probst et al., 2015), and because of stigmatization tend to postpone interventions until they are unavoidable (Rehm et al., 2015b).
Overall, 11 documents consider death as a "normal" process and "a natural part of life progression", and 9 documents explicitly refuse any kind of medical intervention directed to "hasten" or to "postpone" death.
In this regard, (intra-articular) pharmacological treatment is of special interest for two reasons: on the one hand, as basic agent for the relief of pain and pain flares in more acute situations, and on the other, as a way to postpone any surgical intervention by improving the patients' subjective quality of life.
Moreover, all sorts of interventions late in life can now help to postpone death.
Hip arthroplasty is the ultimate end stage intervention for sufferers of hip OA and it is currently not known if any interventions, pharmacological or non-pharmacological are able to postpone or prevent total hip arthroplasty.
