BACKGROUND The Beers Criteria released by the American Geriatrics Society includes a list of drugs to avoid in the geriatric population and is frequently used as a safety resource in geriatric pharmacotherapy. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the exposure of South Korean geriatrics to potentially inappropriate medications according to the Beers Criteria and the risk of adverse events from these medicati...

1Geriatric Unit and Laboratory of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Department of Medical Sciences, IRCCS “Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza”, San Giovanni Rotondo, 71013 Foggia, Italy 2Shanghai Institute of Geriatrics and Gerontology, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Clinical Geriatrics, Department of Geriatrics, Huadong Hospital, and Research Center of Aging and Medicine, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan Uni...

کچ ی هد هکبش هکبش رگسح یاه رگسح زا یا هنیزه مک و دودمح یژرنا اب ،کچوک یاه دنتسه یا یم شخپ رظن دروم هقطنم رد هک هداد ات دنوش عجم طیمح زا ار ییاه شزادرپ یارب و هدونم یروآ یزکرم هرگ هب ١ دننک لاسرا . م نینچهم ی هب و هداد صیخشت طیمح رد ار یدادخر عوقو دنناوت دنناسرب یزکرم هرگ علاطا . هکبش هنوگنیا ریخا یالهاس رد هنیمز رد اه یاهدربراک فلتمخ یاه هدرک ادیپ یدایز دنا . زا دنترابع اهدربراک نیا هلجم زا...

Xuming Dai, Scott L Hummel, Jorge B Salazar, George E Taffet, Susan Zieman, Janice B Schwartz Division of Cardiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI Ann Arbor Veterans Affairs Health System, Ann Arbor, MI, USA Division of Cardiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, U...

BACKGROUND At the 2011 Annual Business Meeting of the Canadian Geriatrics Society (CGS), an ad hoc Work Group was struck to submit a report providing an estimate of the number of physicians and full-time equivalents (FTEs) currently working in the field of geriatrics, an estimate of the number required (if possible), and a clearer understanding of what has to be done to move physician resource ...

objective: the objectives of the study were to find out the prevalence of depression and to identify associated risk factors among community dwelling elderly in karachi. methods: it was a cross-sectional, descriptive study involving 284 community-dwelling elderly residing in karachi, pakistan. a non-probability convenience sampling was done. the geriatric depression scale (gds-15) was used to a...

The following article is a summary of the American Geriatrics Society/British Geriatrics Society Clinical Practice Guideline for Prevention of Falls in Older Persons (2010). This article provides additional discussion of the guideline process and the differences between the current guideline and the 2001 version and includes the guidelines' recommendations, algorithm, and acknowledgments. The c...