- Title
- Acute care and geriatric assessment
- Creator
- Gunathilake, Roshan; Nair, Balakrishnan Kichu R.
- Relation
- Geriatric Medicine: A Problem-Based Approach p. 137-151
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3253-0_10
- Publisher
- Springer
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2018
- Description
- Acutely unwell older persons frequently present with falls, delirium, and social withdrawal, rather than with symptoms pertaining to the newly diseased organ system. ; Comprehensive geriatric assessment has been shown to result in sustained improvements in physical and cognitive function and to reduce inpatient mortality. ; Geriatric syndromes are usually due to multiple coexisting etiologies, and attempting to find the cause is often misdirected and expensive. ; Substantial overall improvement may result from concurrent interventions directed at multiple abnormalities in older persons, even if some may be only partially reversible. ; A significant proportion of older persons who are initially labeled by hospitalists as having “acopia” or “social problems” have an alternative medical diagnosis at the time of discharge.
- Subject
- comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA); Screening Tool of Older Persons' potentially inappropriate Prescriptions (STOPP); Geriatric Evaluation and Management Unit (GEMU); geriatric giants; Screening Tool to Alert Doctors to the Right Treatment (START)
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1446878
- Identifier
- uon:42993
- Identifier
- ISBN:9789811032530
- Language
- eng
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