Medical management of frailty: confessions of a gnostic.
Year: 1997
Type: article
Abstract: Geriatric Medicine is concerned chiefly with the care of frail elderly people, especially when they become ill. Physicians face special challenges in dealing with such patients, who tend to have multiple interacting medical and social problems, impaired function, altered pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, atypical disease presentations and to be affected by polypharmacy. The joy of geriatrics is in systematically meeting each of these challenges, but the techniques that geriatricians use to do so must not be kept secret. More must be done to encourage all physicians to use these techniques in caring for frail elderly people who are ill.
Source: Europe PMC (PubMed Central)
Author: K Rockwood
Institution: Dalhousie University
Language: English
Topic: Frailty in Older Adults
Subfield: Geriatrics and Gerontology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1906686145