Letter: Geriatric policies.

Undernutrition in geriatric institutions in South-West France: policies and risk factors.

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to describe the nutritional status of geriatric home residents according to their place of dwelling and to identify institutional factors associated with higher rates of undernutrition. METHODS All institutions (514) in the Aquitaine region were interviewed for staff ratio, nutritional procedures, staff training, and other procedures in the area of nutrition. A stra...

Diagnostic and Therapeutic Problems of Geriatric Headache

There is no difference in clinical characteristics of headache between old individuals and younger’s. However, differential diagnosis of migrainous aura and transient ischemic attacks may be difficult in old people who frequently have vascular risk factors. Old people have less headache than the young’s. Chronic tension headache is the most common primary type of headache in the elderly. Chroni...

Geriatric gynecology.

Most postmenopausal vaginal bleeding is benign; however, it merits diagnostic evaluation by transvaginal ultrasound or endometrial biopsy after emergency department evaluation. Patients and physicians may treat menopausal symptoms with hormone replacement therapy or other agents, such as venlafaxine or gabapentin. Hormone replacement therapy, when initiated close to the start of menopause and c...

Geriatric osteoporosis.

EPIDEMIOLOGY 1,2,3 • 44 million adults in the US have abnormally low bone mass • 40% of all women and 25% of all men will experience a fragility fracture in their lifetime. • osteoporosis accounts for 800,000 vertebral compression fractures, 300,000 hip fractures and 250,000 wrist fractures annually. • The consequences of those fractures are significant: the mortality for hip fracture is 24% in...

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