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Challenges for vaccination in the elderly
... the elderly every year because of the reduced effectiveness of currently available influenza vaccines in this vulnerable age ...the elderly may require a two-pronged attack on the problem, consisting of an ...
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Care of the elderly training
... the elderly (CE) programs were developed in 1989 with the intention of providing family medicine residents with the option of improv- ing knowledge and skills relating to care of frail and complex older ...the ...
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Health Education for the Elderly
... Some programming approaches should be utilized so that the content can be managed consistent with the objectives. These can be summarized as linear, spiral and modular programming approaches. The linear programming ...
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Asthma in the elderly patient
... in elderly asthmatics com- pared with healthy elderly or younger asthmatic subjects ...the elderly asthmatic compared to younger subjects has been suggested although determi- nants of such increase ...
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Falls among the elderly
... Falls are a significant problem among the elderly. Every third person falls at least once a year. Falls lead to injuries, limiting the mobility of the elderly. As a result of falls, serious fractures occur, ...
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FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT OF THE ELDERLY
... The functional assessment is one of the trademarks of the geriatric assessment, distinguishing it from the evaluation of a younger person. Achieving a complete cure is often unrealistic since many conditions affecting ...
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Assessment of Health Status of the Elderly and Pre-elderly at a Malaysia Elderly Care Centre
... and elderly people at an Elderly Care Centre in Selangor, ...the elderly falls in the normal and healthy weight category despite the visible nutritional deficiencies sign and symptoms on their ...
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Allergic diseases in the elderly
... Second-generation antihistamines have a lower capa- city to cause CNS-related adverse effects as they have a low potential to cross the blood-brain barrier, and pro- vide selective H1 blockade without anticholinergic or ...
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Free care for the elderly
... the elderly, in both Scotland and the UK, are dependent on their mistaken grossing up of the results from the disability ...the elderly by about £130 million per annum by 2022: (note, however, that only ...
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Challenge of cancer in the elderly
... ed elderly populations. This is the path cur- rently followed by the elderly task force of the EORTC who developed a bunch of several trials investigating new treatment opportunities in elderly ...
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Interventional radiology in the elderly
... of elderly frail patients with multiple comorbid ...the elderly further include and are not limited to hepatobiliary interventions in malignancy, percutaneous urinary tract ...
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Hearing Impairment in the Elderly
... Hearing Impairment in the Elderly CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION Hearing Impairment in the Elderly K Y Loh, MMed(Fam Med)*, S Elango, MS** *Department of Family Medicine, **Department of Otorhinolaryngo[.] ...
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Eye surgery in the elderly
... Disorders of the conjunctiva that must be taken into account include bacterial conjunctivitis and pterygium. More- over, blink frequency should be considered. In the elderly, the blink frequency is usually lower. ...
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Orthopaedic Problems in the Elderly
... Orthopaedic Problems in the Elderly ODaE~aic PrOrthopaedic oblems in th e Elderly A K A Hamid, FRCS, Assunta Hospital, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia Introduction Through the last quarter century, and partic[.] ...
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Sevoflurane Induction in the Elderly
... Sevoflurane Induction in the Elderly Sevoflurane Induction in the Elderly K F Cheong, M Med, T S Teh, M Med, Department of Anaesthesia, National University Hospital, '5 Lower Kent Ridge Road, Singapor[.] ...
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Cognitive decline in the elderly: screening from the elderly person and his/her informant
... 3,435 elderly patients, showed that up to eight years of study at the beginning of life is associated with cognitive decline in ...the elderly who have 9-20 years of study in the life course acquire ...
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Relative risk of pulmonary embolism in the very elderly compared with the elderly
... group and 197 (8.83%) patients were assigned to the control group. Eleven (including six [54.55%] women) of the 15 study patients (73.3%, 95% CI 51.0–95.7) and 148 (including 93 [62.84%] women) of the 197 control ...
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Pulmonary Tuberculosis in the Elderly
... epidemics, preventive and control strategies among other high-risk populations (such as the elderly) remains a clinical and epidemiological challenge. Although infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is ...
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Anaesthesia for the elderly
... The heart becomes less compliant, stroke volume decreases, ejection time is prolonged as valves calcify, and diastole is shortened worsening coronary perfusion. Maximum cardiac output and functional cardiac reserve ...
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Effect of Crime on the Wellbeing of the Elderly: A Content Analysis Study of Indian Elderly
... among elderly victims and ...the elderly in Madhya Pradesh through content ...against elderly are committed by their own family ...the elderly are property and land disputes, caste rivalries, ...
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