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  • 15 - Care of Elders

  • Edited by Thomasine Kushner
  • Book:
    Surviving Health Care
    Published online:
    05 June 2012
    Print publication:
    29 March 2010, pp 206-221

  • Summary

    This chapter discusses the need to understand about the care of people who are "of a certain age". In general, changes associated with aging are caused by repeated exposure to the stresses of life, which lead to progressive decrease in function of organs and the body as a whole. The term geriatric syndrome refers to a problem or set of problems that is common in elders. Such a syndrome may be complex, having more than one cause and affecting more than one body system. Sometimes the treatment of a geriatric syndrome may be quite simple and can significantly enhance the quality of patient's life. Geriatricians receive specialty training in medicine and have the special concerns of elders in mind. Geriatricians help their patients to preserve functional capacity, to live as well as possible with chronic diseases, to prevent and treat geriatric syndromes, and to use medications judiciously.