Health and Disease in Frail Elderly: Assessment and Management in Clinical Practice
A special issue of Geriatrics (ISSN 2308-3417).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2019) | Viewed by 7503
Special Issue Editors
Interests: assessment and measurement of body temperature; fever; clinical desicion-making; fever phobia; elderly; evidence-based practice; EDIS; reference values
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Interests: body temperature, fever; clinical desicion-making; elderly, immunology laboratory methods; celiac disease; food intolerance; reference value; assessment and measurement accuracy
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Globally we see a growing population of elderly individuals. Although a part of those elderly are in good health despite age-related chronic diseases, with ageing there is an increased risk of individuals in need of support to manage daily life due to physical and cognitive impairment. Recent research performed in Sweden, show that compared with ten years ago, the need of daily support for elderly has increased irrespective of housing, that admission of elderly individuals to nursing homes are delayed, meaning that at admission they are older and frailer in terms of physical and cognitive ability, and that they survive less time after admission. Aging and frailty also entail an increased risk of acquiring infectious diseases, which are often presented with only atypical signs and symptoms, including assessment of no fever. A clinical consequence is increased morbidity and mortality in infectious diseases. To enhance detection of infections early on in this vulnerable group there is an urgent need of research and insight in several areas, such as standardised observation and communication of signs and symptom when suspected infection, improved teamwork and interprofessional collaboration where the elderly and next of kin is part of the team. In addition, clarification of how to interpret biomarkers related to ageing and frailty is necessary as current reference values is based on apparently healthy, middle-aged subjects.
This Special Issue will focus on a wide range of essential topics relevant to infections in frail elderly, including epidemiology, physiology, immunology, microbiology, biomedical laboratory science, clinical studies, clinical decision-making, as well as interprofessional collaboration and co-production with frail elderly and next of kin as partners of the team.
High quality original research and review articles in any of these areas will be considered. Especially we highlight clinical studies that show how interprofessional collaboration improve the clinical decision-making process. We hope you and your colleagues will be willing to submit your creative work to this exciting Special Issue of Geriatrics. We look forward to hearing from you.
Dr. Märta Sund LevanderDr. Ewa Grodzinsky
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Biomarkers
- Clinical decision-making
- Frail elderly
- Infection
- Interprofessional collaboration
- Morbidity
- Mortality
- Next of kin
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