Treatment planning and managing the care of an elderly, frail patient can be complicated by a variety of modifying factors. To understand the patient"s needs, one must understand the environment in which the patient functions. This second in a series of 2 articles presents a case history of a frail, older adult to illustrate some of the social, medical and community problems that are involved i...

In this paper, we extend the National Transfer Accounts (NTA) methodology to obtain age profiles simultaneously disaggregated by gender, education level and family structure. We present results for four countries (Austria, Spain, Finland UK), analysing roles of these three dimensions in both inter intragenerational distribution resources. find interesting differences across countries, some them...

Although statin drugs can have adverse effects on muscles and the liver, these effects are uncommon. Caution is warranted in patients at higher risk, ie, those who are elderly, frail, or small; have multisystem disease; are receiving immunosuppressive drugs or other medications that interact with statins; or are receiving higher doses of a statin.