Management of Aging: The University of Geneva ExperienceJean-Pierre Michel, Patrick R. Hof Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers, 1999 M01 1 - 267 pages 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. |
Contents
Center for Interdisciplinary Gerontology University of Geneva | 12 |
Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment in an Emergency Ward | 26 |
An Assessment Instrument | 35 |
Rationale for a Quality | 44 |
Bone and Nutrition in Aging | 53 |
Oral Health Problems in the Elderly | 66 |
Geriatric Infectious Diseases Program | 77 |
Epidemiology of Dementia in Geneva | 94 |
Neuroanatomy of Apraxia and Visual Agnosia in Alzheimers Disease | 135 |
Presenilin1 Immunoreactivity in Human Neurodegenerative Diseases | 153 |
Together against Pain Pain and Suffering in the Elderly | 174 |
A Prevention Programme | 199 |
Integration of Geriatrics in a New ProblemBased Undergraduate | 217 |
Training the Next | 229 |
WHO Ageing and Health Programme | 246 |
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