Management of Aging
The University of Geneva Experience. "Interdisciplinary Topics in Gerontology", Vol 30.
Published in 1999
Book
Hardback
X, 268 pages
978-3-8055-6860-9 (ISBN)
Description
One of the world's major geriatric departments is housed in the Geneva University Hospital and has a 36-year-old history behind it. Some of its developments are set out in this book. Care programs such as geriatric concepts of care, community based support, convalescent beds, memory clinics, palliative medicine and care and practice of clinical ethics are discussed. Research has focussed on 15 years of comparative cross-sectional studies on aging in an urban and a rural area of Switzerland, prevalence of dementia in Geneva and Zurich, clinico-neuropathological correlation, fall prevention, hip fracture outcomes and the impact of nutrition on the recovery of hip fractures. Teaching activities include interactive pre-graduate teaching of geriatrics, patient-centered medicine, post ethics, teaching the teachers by the European Academy for Medicine of Aging. Networking by the Interfaculty Center of Gerontology, Swiss Foundation for Research on Healthy Aging and the WHO program on 'Aging and Health' are in progress. This book will be of interest to geriatricians, administrators, gerontological researchers and public health managers as it gives an insight into the setting up of a geriatric team and the implementation of geriatric programs.
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The Department of Geriatrics of the University Hospitals of Geneva, J.-P. Michel, Th. Chevalley et al; Center for Interdisciplinary Gerontology, University of Geneva, Ch. Lalive d'Epinay; comprehensive geriatric assessment in an emergency ward, Th. Chevalley, F.R. Herrmann et al; functional assessment scale - an assessment instrument for nursing care? M. Balahoczky; epidemiology of falls in a geriatric ward - rationale for a quality program, F. Loew, Y. Registe-Rameau et al; bone and nutrition in ageing, R. Rizzoli, P. Ammann et al; oral health problems in the elderly, E. Budtz-Jorgensen, A. Rentsch et al; geriatric infectious diseases program, K.-H. Krause; years to relish "des annees a savourer", M. Olmari-Ebbing and Ch.-H. Rapin; role of the clinical pharmacologist in a geriatric hospital, N. Vogt, M. Lutters et al; epidemiology of dementia in Geneva, F.R. Herrmann, J.-J. Mermod et al; vascular dementia - a diagnostic challenge, G. Gold, L. Di Pollina et al; evaluation and diagnosis at the memory clinic of Geneva, R. Mulligan, A.-C. Juillerat Van der Linden and L. Di Pollina; neuropsychological interventions in demented patients, A.-C. Juillerat Van der Linden and R. Mulligan; neuroanatomy of apraxia and visual agnosia in Alzheimer's disease, C. Bouras, G. Gold et al; presenilin-1 immunoreactivity in human neurodegenerative diseases, P. Giannakopoulos, E. Kovari et al; the challenges of oncogeriatrics, G.B. Zulian; together against pain - pain and suffering in the elderly, M.-I. Forest and Ch.-H. Rapin; palliative management of dyspnea in end-stage chronic respiratory disease, J.P. Janssens, D. Marcant and V. Titelion; bereavement follow-up - a prevention programme, N. Zlatiev-Scocard; geriatric abuse of pain sufferers, L. Plamondon; integration of geriatrics in a new problem-based undergraduate curriculum at the Medical School of Geneva, Ph. Huber; postgraduate and continuing education in gerontology, M. Cardinaux; the European Academy for Medicine of Aging - training the next generation for academic leadership in geriatrics, M.-C. Van Nes and R. Kressig; networking in the 21st century - GINA - Geneva International Network on Ageing, A. Stuckelberger; WHO ageing and health programme, A. Kalache.