Dorota Wlodarczyk

TL;DR: ECs' frequency seems more important for PB than a level of burden with them, and the less frequent and less burdening conflicts may lead to development of PB but the less frequented ones are also dangerous.

TL;DR: The need to create health promoting programmes taking account of particular gender differences in older adults emerges as the main effects of gender, SAH, and sociodemographic characteristics, such as financial status, marital status and education are revealed.

TL;DR: Although the PRACTA intervention did not achieve all expected effects, both its forms seem promising in terms of enhancing the competencies of doctors in communication with and activation of older patients.

TL;DR: The SOC turned out to be a significant predictor of the QoL one year after MI even after controlling for demographic and medical factors and its predictive value was higher for women.

TL;DR: Patients’ expectations toward medical visits are conditioned by age and doctors should pay more attention to requirements related to age in their effort to identify and satisfy expectations, particularly in light of the discrepancy between previsit expectations and the actual experiences of patients evaluated after the visit.