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FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT OF OLDER PERSONS: ROLE OF COMPREHENSIVE GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT IN GERIATRIC ONCOLOGY
2010
SENILE ANOREXIA IN DIFFERENT GERIATRIC SETTINGS IN ITALY
2010
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…