Journal•ISSN: 0749-0690
Clinics in Geriatric Medicine
Elsevier BV
About: Clinics in Geriatric Medicine is an academic journal published by Elsevier BV. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Population & Health care. It has an ISSN identifier of 0749-0690. Over the lifetime, 1908 publications have been published receiving 68836 citations.
Topics: Population, Health care, Medicine, Dementia, Palliative care
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TL;DR: Modifying factors that play roles in the development of joint OA may reduce the risk of OA and prevent subsequent pain and disability, particularly in the weight-bearing joints.
1,722 citations
TL;DR: Estimates of risk and a summary of effective prophylaxis methods are provided such that physicians can tailor an individual patient's proPHylaxis regimen to maximize DVT risk reduction in the safest and most cost-effective manner.
1,523 citations
TL;DR: This article reviews the current state of knowledge regarding the epidemiology of frailty by focusing on 6 specific areas: clinical definitions of Frailty, evidence ofFrailty as a medical syndrome, prevalence and incidence by age, gender, race, and ethnicity, transitions between discrete frailty states, and natural history of manifestations of frailt criteria.
1,254 citations
TL;DR: The neurocognitive changes observed in normal aging are described, followed by a description of the structural and functional alterations seen in aging brains.
1,253 citations
TL;DR: The largest category of syncope is syncope of unknown etiology, which defies careful diagnostic evaluation but seems to be fairly benign, and the epidemiology of these syndromes can provide extremely helpful insights for developing falls-prevention strategies.
1,021 citations