ArticleDer Internist2007
[The elderly patient--who is that?].
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- Characteristics of peripheral blood lymphocyte subsets in elderly patients with psoriasis.Immunity & ageing : I & A · 2025Article
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- The Geriatric Nutritional Risk Index as a prognostic factor in patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors with non-small-cell lung cancer.Journal of thoracic disease · 2024Article
- Health-economic evaluation of orthogeriatric co-management for patients with pelvic or vertebral fragility fractures.BMC geriatrics · 2024Article
- Elderly patients with tuberculosis in a low-incidence country - Clinical characteristics, inflammation and outcome.The Journal of infection · 2024Article
- The outcomes of the management of complex distal tibia and ankle fractures in elderly with tibiotalocalcaneal nail in a minimum 12-month follow-up period.European journal of orthopaedic surgery & traumatology : orthopedie traumatologie · 2024Article
- Age-Specific Differences in Laryngotracheal Trauma Characteristics: A Retrospective Study of Clinical Profiles, Outcomes, and Mortality Risk.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Computationally derived transition points across phases of clinical care.NPJ digital medicine · 2024Article
- Association of two geriatric treatment systems with anti-osteoporotic drug treatment and second hip fracture in patients with an index hip fracture: retrospective cohort study.BMC geriatrics · 2024Article
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Abstract
From a chronological viewpoint, medical treatment of the elderly (geriatrics) starts from the age of 65 years old. This definition per se is nowadays certainly not really an adequate definition of an elderly patient and the reason to be treated by a geriatrician. In addition to chronological age, other factors must be considered in order to define the elderly patient. Functional reserves decrease with age, which leads to increased vulnerability. Frailty as a term describes this situation and can be defined pathophysiologically by a mainly subclinical inflammatory state. Therefore, in 2007 the German Society of Geriatrics (DGG), the German Society of Gerontology and Geriatrics (DGGG), and the German Group of Geriatric Institutions (BAG) have jointly developed a definition of the geriatric patient.
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