Quality of life is strongly associated with the mobility of elderly people. Falls often cause restricted mobility, a decline in activities of daily living and an increased risk of institutionalisation. Frailty, commonly associated with aging, is a ...

Falls are common in each period of life. They become more important in old age as they may lead to impairment and handicap, as well as to an increased need for social and financial support, or to admission to nursing homes. Although geriatric syndromes ...

Frailty is a geriatric syndrome that has been characterized by an increased vulnerability against external stressors. The aim of laboratory investigations in the context of frailty is to screen for conditions that are pathophysiologically related to the ...

Diabetes mellitus has a prevalence of up to 25% in the age group above 75 years and is thus a major disease of the elderly. Geriatric syndromes (e.g. immobility or falls, incontinence or intellectual decline) occur more often in the diabetic elderly. ...

The present article presents correlations of frailty associated functional changes in older patients with the devolopment and progression of cerebrovascular disease (CVD). Special focus is drawn on the impact of well established risk factors for the ...

As a consequence of the increasing life expectancy the number of patients suffering from chronic heart failure has been growing continuously in the past few decades, especially in the group of the old and oldest. Frailty is a clinical syndrome that ...

Urinary incontinence is a common health problem of older adults and affects more than 50% of nursing home residents. Different types of urinary incontinence can be distinguished: urgency, stress, overflow (urinary retention) and extra-urethral ...

Frailty associated functional changes in the elderly lead to different problems treating geriatric patients in an intensive care unit. Patients suffering from Frailty have less physiological reserves in acute illness, complications are more frequent and ...

The characteristic of increasing frailty in the elderly is amyotrphia, the so called sarcopenia. At this physiological ageing is as important as lifestyle and environmental influences. With specific physical activities, older people have the ability to ...

Frailty is a complex term and has a broad influence on the elderly patients. For evaluating the monetary impact of frailty it is necessary to approach in a differentiated way. It is of great interest to discover the relevance of multidisciplinary ...