Following the global trend of population aging, China became an aging society at the end of the 20th century. The ever-growing medical demands of the elderly, the lag in medical insurance policy, and the late development of geriatric services make the present situation of public health in China worrying. To meet these challenges, the Beijing municipal government has actively adjusted its develo...

Thanks to the global improvement of health care and living conditions, the world population is aging. Already, in developed countries half of the cancers occur in patients aged 70 and older. In booming Asian nations, such as South Korea, the aging trend is particularly striking, and therefore geriatric oncology is rapidly coming at the foreground of oncology practice. As older patients have a v...

We thank Yabroff et al. ( 1 ) for highlighting the cost of care for elderly cancer patients in the United States. With the growth and aging of the US population, the prevalence of cancer will increase, as will the cost of cancer care to the Medicare program. This study highlights the need to develop more age-appropriate treatment protocols that take into account health-related quality of life a...

BACKGROUND In an ageing population, a greater proportion of geriatric patients will be considered for systemic chemotherapy. Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a common malignancy and will be a major health issue in geriatrics. We used the MAX population to investigate whether age affected the improved outcome found in CRC when bevacizumab is added to capecitabine chemotherapy. PATIENTS AND METHODS M...

Objective This study is aimed at assessing the magnitude and its associated factors of anemia in geriatric population visiting outpatient department at the University of Gondar referral hospital, northwest Ethiopia. Method A cross-sectional study was conducted among elder patients in Gondar town, North Gondar District, in May 2013. A total of 200 randomly selected geriatric population partici...

The age at which an animal is classified as geriatric can be based on chronological, physiologic or functional age. Physiological age differs between horses and depends on their use, genetic and environmental factors. Geriatric horses and ponies make up an increasing percentage of the equine population and there is some evidence the more aged horses are being presented for veterinary treatment....

Background and purpose The in-hospital mortality rate of surgery for acoustic neuroma (AN) is 0.5% and increases exponentially with age. There have been no studies examining the nationwide distribution of nonoperative management (radiation or observation) in the geriatric (≥ age 65) AN population. Material and methods The National Cancer Database (NCDB) from 2004 to 2013 identified geriatric AN...