OBJECTIVE To review the concept, components, and characteristics of the Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment technique. DATA SOURCES Medline and non-Medline literature search. STUDY SELECTION The following key words were used: Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment; all available years of study were reviewed. DATA EXTRACTION Studies that assessed the Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment technique...

A working party on education and training of the family health care team (Royal College of General Practitioners, 1969), drew attention to the need for training in a teaching health centre. The General Nursing Council (1969) in its syllabus has indicated the need for future nurses in training to be introduced to the concept of community care. With effect from 1971 every nurse in training must s...

rate of 90% which of the research participants with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) would receive a clinical diagnosis of AD within the following 2 years and which would not develop the disease at all. Researchers combined brain imaging analysis with a neuropsychological assessment for the detection of incipient dementia in individuals with MCI and achieved remarkable sensitivity and specificit...

Cancer is a disease of older adults, and with unprecedented growth in the number of people entering late adulthood, an increasing need exists for specialized services and programs to address the needs of older adults with cancer. Few examples in the literature detail development of a geriatric oncology program. This article describes a pilot project undertaken by a community cancer center to de...

OBJECTIVES To examine the influence of the two following factors on the proportion of time that nurses spend in a forward-bending trunk posture: (i) the bed height during basic care activities at the bedside and (ii) the work method during basic care activities in the bathroom. A further aim was to examine the connection between the proportion of time spent in a forward-bending posture and the ...

PURPOSE The objectives of this study were to characterize the odors of used incontinence products by descriptive analysis and to define attributes to be used in the analysis. A further objective was to investigate to what extent the odor profiles of used incontinence products differed from each other and, if possible, to group these profiles into classes. SUBJECTS AND SETTING Used incontinenc...

Objective: Our study aims to determine the rate of sleep disorders in elderly people aged 65 and older, living nursing homes Samsun, also investigate factors affecting quality through a comprehensive geriatric assessment.
 
 Methods: was performed two largest Samsun province between March 1st April 30th 2018. The participating individuals assessed by Richard’s Campbell Sleep Questionn...

11.6% in women and 6.9% in men. The prevalence of incontinence is higher still among those in institutional care. 30% of those in residential care, 50% of patients in nursing homes, 70% of patients in continuing care geriatric beds and 80% of patients in long stay psychogeriatric wards, are incontinent of urine. These high levels presumably reflect the advanced age of these populations and the ...

BACKGROUND More than half of the hospitalized older adults discharged to skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) have more than 3 geriatric syndromes. Pharmacotherapy may be contributing to geriatric syndromes in this population. OBJECTIVES Develop a list of medications associated with geriatric syndromes and describe their prevalence in patients discharged from acute care to SNFs. DESIGN Literat...