Health Care for Older Adults
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Behavior, Chronic Disease and Health Promotion".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 June 2021) | Viewed by 74063
Special Issue Editors
Interests: geriatric medicine; frailty; falls; orthogeriatrics; collaborative medicine; multicomponent exercise
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Interests: geriatric and palliative medicine; integrated health and social care; intermediate care; nursing and care homes
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Interests: integrated health and social care; frailty; geriatric and palliative medicine
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Interests: aging; physical exercise; frailty; Alzheimer’s disease
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The increase we have witnessed in life expectancy in recent years has been a historical milestone in the history of humanity. We have never lived this long before. Nevertheless, this social success presents great clinical and social challenges. Giving best care to older adults efficiently is one of the greatest challenges of developed countries. This Special Issue aims to explore different initiatives that result in the health promotion of older adults, such as multicomponent physical exercise programs, interventions that try to avoid loneliness and social isolation and multidisciplinary assessment, and the treatment of frailty and other geriatric syndromes, of the elderly in various settings such as the Emergency Unit, Orthogeriatrics and Oncogeriatrics. Broadly, this Special Issue is seeking original submissions that examine: (1) the method to detect and to reverse frailty, loneliness, social isolation; (2) the method to diagnose early and prevent delirium and other geriatric syndromes; (3) best practices to manage the treatment of the elderly with specific situations such as hip fracture or oncological disease; (4) best practices for designing, implementing, and/or evaluating integrated interventions to improve health care in older adults; and (5) best practices to develop health care and social interventions to improve quality of life in older adults living in care houses and nursing homes. Special interest will be given to innovative practices that expand and build upon geriatric approaches with multidisciplinary models. Other manuscript types of interest include relevant position papers, meta-analysis, reviews, brief reports, and commentaries.
Dr. Francisco José Tarazona Santabalbina
Dr. Sebastià Josep Santaeugènia Gonzàlez
Dr. José Augusto García Navarro
Prof. José Viña
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- frailty
- comanagement
- orthogeriatrics
- elderly
- oncogeriatrics
- multidisciplinary teams
- geriatric syndromes
- delirium
- malnutrition
- falls
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