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FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT OF OLDER PERSONS: ROLE OF COMPREHENSIVE GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT IN GERIATRIC ONCOLOGY

2010

COMPREHENSIVE GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT CANCER AGING FUNCTIONAL DECLINE ADL IADLSettore MED/09 - Medicina Interna
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SENILE ANOREXIA IN DIFFERENT GERIATRIC SETTINGS IN ITALY

2010

aging malnutrition anorexia functional decline adl iadlSettore MED/09 - Medicina Interna
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Prevention of Functional Decline by Reframing the Role of Nursing Homes?

2017

Institutionalization is generally a consequence of functional decline driven by physical limitations, cognitive impairments, and/or loss of social supports. At this stage, intervention to reverse functional losses is often too late. To be more effective, geriatric medicine must evolve to intervene at an earlier stage of the disability process. Could nursing homes (NHs) transform from settings in which many residents dwell to settings in which the NH residents and those living in neighboring communities benefit from staff expertise to enhance quality of life and maintain or slow functional decline? A task force of clinical researchers met in Toulouse on December 2, 2015, to address some of t…

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QUALITY OF LIFE FOR OLDER PERSONS

2010

Settore MED/09 - Medicina Internaaging elderly quality of life functional decline social support
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