Tallis, Prof. Raymond Courteney, (born 10 Oct. 1946), Professor of Geriatric Medicine, University of Manchester, 1987–2006; Hon. Consultant Physician in Health Care of the Elderly, Salford Royal Hospitals NHS Trust, 1987–2006

2007 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Geriatric Medicine ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Consultant Physician ◽  
University Of Manchester

Health care practice and life pattern of elderly women attending in a selected geriatric hospital in Dhaka city

2013 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-33
Author(s):  
Mahjabeen Sultana Begum ◽  
Mohammad Zaid Hossain ◽  
Sudip Ranjan Deb ◽  
Md Mosaraf Hossain Khan ◽  
Mostafizur Rahman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Elderly Women ◽  
Geriatric Medicine ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Care Practice ◽  
Care Seeking ◽  
Dhaka City ◽  
Cross Sectional

Objective: The study was carried out to find out the health care seeking practice among the elderly women attending a selected hospital in Dhaka city. Materials and methods: This was a cross sectional study and included 164 women aged 60 years and above. The study was carried out from March to June, 2001, at Prabin Hitayishi Hospital, Bangladesh Associated of Aged and Institute of Geriatric Medicine (BAAIGM), Agargaon, Sher E Bangla Nagar, Dhaka. Results: In the present study, 58.5% women were aged less than 65 years, 51.2% were illiterates, 65.9% were married, only 7.3% were living with their spouse, 86.6% were housewives, only 9.8% had self income, 25.6% were earning between Taka 10,001 and 15,000 per month, and 41.5% were staying in families with 7 8 members, 90.2% had regular daily bath, 80.5% with soap, 90.2% brushed their teeth at least once a day, only 12.2% were taking regular exercise, 70.7% had knowledge about self health care, however, only 22% were on regular health check up, 12.2% women thought egg, milk, fish, meat and fruits were good for health. Regarding old age diseases, 43.9% knew about diabetes, 39% high blood pressure, 36.6% heart, 17.1% respiratory and 2.4% orthopaedic diseases. Most common diseases were eye (26.8%), cardiovascular and orthopaedic (19.5%) and ENT (14.6%). Other diseases were gastrointestinal (9.8%), respiratory (7.1%), dental and endocrine (4.9%). Conclusion: Old women of our society should be made aware on old age diseases and self health care practices. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/jdmc.v22i1.15602 J Dhaka Medical College, Vol. 22, No. 1, April, 2013, Page 30-33

Geriatric Medicine and the Categorisation of Old Age; The Historical Linkage

1992 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 483-497 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henning Kirk
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Geriatric Medicine ◽  
Medical Science ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Health Literature ◽  
Age Limits ◽  
British Health ◽  
Images Of Old Age

ABSTRACTGeriatric medicine became a part of medical science in the middle of the nineteenth century, more than haifa century before ‘geriatrics’ was named, and a century before it was established in British health care. It was born in Germany along with ancient theories that ageing was in itself a disease, but was increasingly influenced by new pathological and physiological knowledge on ageing and disease, and further developed during the great French clinical era of the latter part of that century. As part of the development of this particular branch of medical science, a gradual categorisation of old age took place, with much credit to the Belgian statistician Quetelet, who may be regarded as the inventor of the category ‘the elderly’ defined by age. The developing biomedical images of old age were given much space in encyclopaedias, dictionaries and popular health literature after 1870. Therefore, the defined existence of old-age limits must also have influenced the legislators responsible for the first national Acts on old- age pension, which now celebrate their centenary.

scholarly journals Geriatric Health Problems and Health Care Seeking Practice Among Elderly People Attending One Selected Geriatric Hospital

1970 ◽  
pp. 20-24
Author(s):  
Mahjabeen Sultana Begum
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Heart Diseases ◽  
Geriatric Medicine ◽  
Frozen Shoulder ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
Health Care Seeking ◽  
Care Seeking ◽  
Disease Group

A vast majority of the elderly Bangladeshi people is suffering from various health problems, however, health care services are insufficient to cope with the problem. This study tried to find out about the geriatric health problems and health care seeking practice attending a selected hospital in Dhaka city. The information collected may help provide adequate guideline to help the elderly to overcome old age health problems.This was a cross sectional study and included 107 respondents aged 60 years and above. The study was carried out during March June, 2001, at Prabin Hitayishi Hospital, Bangladesh Association of Aged and Institute of Geriatric Medicine (BAAIGM), Agargaon, Sher e Bangla Nagar, Dhaka.Out of 107 respondents, 46.7% were aged 65 years or above, 67.3% were married, 14% were living with spouse, 23.4% were employed, 46.7% had self income and 19.6% were living in families with 9 or more members. Knowledge about old age diseases were limited to diabetes (57.9%), high blood pressure (53.3%), heart diseases (50.4%), respiratory diseases (31.8%), and orthopaedic diseases (3.7%), and 41.1% had no knowledge. Regarding health care knowledge, 67.3% had knowledge about self health care, 29.9% were on regular check up and 78.5% attended hospital. Morbidity pattern showed that most of the respondents (23.4%) had orthopaedic problems, followed by eye (21.5%), dental (12.4%), ENT (12.1%), respiratory (9.3%), gastrointestinal (7.5%), diabetes (2.8%) and neurological (2.8%). Six respondents had multiple diseases. Specific diseases in orthopaedic group (n=25) were spondylitis (60%), rheumatoid arthritis (20%) and osteoporosis, osteomyelitis, backpain and frozen shoulder (20%); in eye disease group (n=23) were refractory error (34.8%), conjunctivitis (30.4%), cataract (17.4%) and presbyopia (17.4%); in dental disease group (n=14) were loose teeth (78.5%) and dental caries (21.4%); in ENT disease group (n=14) were CSOM (57%), tinnitus (35%) and vertigo and hearing loss (7.1%); in cardiovascular group (n=13) were hypertension (84%) and old myocardial infarction and ischaemic heart disease (15.3%); and in respiratory disease group (n=10) were pharyngitis sinusitis (60%), bronchial asthma (20%) and bronchitis (20%). Health care seeking pattern was orthopaedic 40% (n=25), eye 13% (n=23), dental 14.3% (n=14), ENT 21.4% (n=14), cardiovascular 38.5% (n=13), respiratory 40% (n=10), gastrointestinal 25% (n=8), endocrine 66.7% (n=3) and neurological 33.3 (n=3). Most of the elderly did not seek health care from hospital or clinic. Key words: Health care; Elderly DOI: 10.3329/bjpp.v23i1.5727Bangladesh J Physiol Pharmacol 2007; 23(1&2) : 20-24

Patterns of use of the health care system by the elderly with mental illness

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Martens ◽  
◽  
Randy Fransoo ◽  
Elaine Burland ◽  
Charles Burchill ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Patterns Of Use ◽  
Care System

Historical and medical aspects of the organization of medical and social services for the elderly and senile people in Russia in the late XX — early XXI centuries

2020 ◽  
pp. 49-57
Author(s):  
Lyudmila Kaspruk
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Primary Role ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Geriatric Service ◽  
Delivery Of Medical Care ◽  
Older Citizens

When analyzing the historical and medical aspects of the organization of medical and social services for the elderly and senile people in Russia in the late XX — early XXI centuries not only obvious achievements in this sphere, but also a number of problems requiring solution were identified. The primary role in the delivery of medical care to geriatric patients is assigned to the primary health care sector. However the work of the geriatric service in the format of a single system for the provision of long-term medical and social care based on the continuity of patient management between differ- ent levels of the health care system and between the health and social protection services is not well organized. There is no clear coordination and interaction between health care and social protection institutions, functions of which include providing care to older citizens, and it significantly reduces the effectiveness of the provision of both medical and social services.

The Development of Intelligence Walking Stick for Elderly Health Care using IoT

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 1334-1338
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Daily Living ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Mean Value ◽  
Real Time System ◽  
Pressure Oxygen ◽  
Elderly Health ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Iot Devices ◽  
Walking Stick

Nowadays, Thailand is stepping into an aging society. This research purposes developing the intelligence walking stick for the elderly in terms of the health care system by applied the IoT devices and biometric sensors in a real-time system. The heart rate, blood pressure, oxygen saturation, and temperature were measured at the finger of the elderly that holding the intelligence walking stick. All data can monitor and display on mobile devices. The intelligence walking stick system was evaluated by twenty users who are five experts and fifteen elderly in Ratchaburi province. As a result of the mean value at 4.88 and 4.85 by experts and elderly, respectively. It could be said that the development of intelligence walking stick by using IoT can help and improve the daily living of the elderly at the highest level.

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