{"title":"Mitteilungen der ÖGGG.","authors":"","doi":"10.1007/s00391-024-02332-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00391-024-02332-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49345,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift Fur Gerontologie Und Geriatrie","volume":"57 5","pages":"428-430"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141908159","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Marija Djukic, Helmut Eiffert, Johannes Gossner, Roland Nau
{"title":"[Congenital malformations of the brain misinterpreted as sequelae of poliomyelitis].","authors":"Marija Djukic, Helmut Eiffert, Johannes Gossner, Roland Nau","doi":"10.1007/s00391-023-02264-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00391-023-02264-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Poliomyelitis is an infectious disease of the peripheral motor neurons, which predominantly affects children and causes residual palsies. Because of the oral poliomyelitis vaccination started in Germany in 1960 and 1962 and the following rapid decline of the incidence of this infection, the postpolio syndrome in Germany is a disease of older people.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Since 2008, we have offered a poliomyelitis outpatient consultation at the Center of Geriatrics, Protestant Hospital Göttingen-Weende and have treated 33 patients.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The spectrum of persistent deficits after poliomyelitis ranges from palsy of single extremities to severe disability with (temporary) ventilator dependence. Many patients suffer from scoliosis or shortening of limbs of different degrees, which promotes degenerative diseases of the spinal cord and joints with secondary myelopathy, injury of spinal nerve roots or peripheral nerves or respiratory failure. The postpolio syndrome is characterized by an increase of the functional deficits after decades of compensation. The palsies of 2 of the 33 patients were not caused by poliomyelitis but by myelomeningocele and schizencephaly, respectively.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The motor deficits acquired in childhood enable the majority of the patients to successfully master their lives. Because of the limited compensatory capacities of postpolio patients, even small increases in the severity of the palsy can cause a severe decline of the functional status and an impairment of the ability to live an independent life. In a substantial proportion of patients with the diagnosis poliomyelitis the symptoms are caused by other diseases.</p>","PeriodicalId":49345,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift Fur Gerontologie Und Geriatrie","volume":" ","pages":"376-381"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138812172","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Patrick Roigk, Clemens Becker, Klaus Pfeiffer, Kerstin Bühl, Gisela Büchele, Dietrich Rothenbacher, H H König, Claudia Konnopka, Thomas Fries, Kilian Rapp
{"title":"[Cooperation of geriatrics and trauma surgery in certified geriatric trauma centers : Insights into different care models and the implementation of requirements resulting from certification].","authors":"Patrick Roigk, Clemens Becker, Klaus Pfeiffer, Kerstin Bühl, Gisela Büchele, Dietrich Rothenbacher, H H König, Claudia Konnopka, Thomas Fries, Kilian Rapp","doi":"10.1007/s00391-023-02271-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00391-023-02271-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>In Germany, different models of orthogeriatric co-management have been implemented in certified geriatric trauma centers. So far, it is not clear how the different models are implemented and what influence the certification has on the structures and processes within the centers. The present study examined the extent of cooperation between surgery and geriatrics and if the quality of care had changed since the certification of the centers.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>In this study 4 guided focus group interviews (FGI) were conducted in different teams of certified geriatric trauma centers in 3 federal states with 16 participants. To specify the content of the FGI, two additional interviews were conducted with system auditors. Both types of interview were analyzed by content analysis.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The certification supported the implementation of structures and processes in the different orthogeriatric models; however, the quality of care and cooperation between surgery and geriatrics depends on the spatial proximity and the orthogeriatric care model in the geriatric trauma centers. Simultaneously, challenges in the area of geriatric syndromes and the recruitment of skilled staff became relevant.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>The results can help to reflect processes in the certified geriatric trauma centers and to treat geriatric syndromes more effectively. In the future, the challenge will be to establish geriatric care under the existing shortage of skilled staff.</p>","PeriodicalId":49345,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift Fur Gerontologie Und Geriatrie","volume":" ","pages":"389-394"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139425838","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Luigi Ferrucci, Toshiko Tanaka, M Cristina Polidori
{"title":"Can geroscience be translated into healthcare?","authors":"Luigi Ferrucci, Toshiko Tanaka, M Cristina Polidori","doi":"10.1007/s00391-024-02326-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00391-024-02326-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As an introduction to this special issue on geroscience, the present work focuses on the complexity of disentangling biomolecular mechanisms of aging from biopsychosocial causes of accelerated aging. Due to this complexity, the biomolecular aging hallmarks of frailty and multimorbidity as predominant aging phenotypes in geriatrics reflect single aspects of the aging process. A possible approach to facilitate the integration of geroscience into healthcare might be to consider aging as the dynamic ratio between damage accumulation at the molecular and cellular level and resilience as strategies that prevent or repair such damage. There is a large body of evidence to show that geroscience has the potential to change healthcare; however, reaching a consensus and translating the best tool to measure aging needs more research on 1) the sensitivity of biomarkers to interventions and 2) the relationship between changes in biomarkers and changes in health trajectories.</p>","PeriodicalId":49345,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift Fur Gerontologie Und Geriatrie","volume":" ","pages":"349-354"},"PeriodicalIF":16.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11315797/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141564975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Detailing the biomedical aspects of geroscience by molecular data and large-scale \"deep\" bioinformatics analyses.","authors":"Andreas Simm, Anne Großkopf, Georg Fuellen","doi":"10.1007/s00391-024-02329-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00391-024-02329-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As scientists investigated the molecular mechanisms of the biology of aging, they discovered that these are malleable and can enhance healthy longevity by intervening in the drivers of aging, which are leading to disease, dysfunction and death. These exciting observations gave birth to the field of geroscience. As the mechanisms of aging affect almost all mechanisms of life, detailed molecular mechanistic knowledge must be gained or expanded by considering and integrating as many types of data as possible, from genes and transcripts to socioenvironmental factors. Such a large-scale integration of large amounts of data will in turn profit from \"deep\" bioinformatics analyses that provide insights beyond contextualizing and interpreting the data in the light of knowledge from databases such as the Gene Ontology. The authors suggest that \"deep\" bioinformatics, employing methods based on artificial intelligence, will be a key ingredient of future analyses.</p>","PeriodicalId":49345,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift Fur Gerontologie Und Geriatrie","volume":" ","pages":"355-360"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141861383","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nicole Strutz, Luis Perotti, Anika Heimann-Steinert, Robert Klebbe
{"title":"Older adults' communication with an interactive humanoid robot : Expectations and experiences of older adults in verbal and nonverbal communication with a socially interactive humanoid robot: a mixed methods design in Germany.","authors":"Nicole Strutz, Luis Perotti, Anika Heimann-Steinert, Robert Klebbe","doi":"10.1007/s00391-023-02268-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00391-023-02268-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background and objective: </strong>One possible approach to counter singularization and loneliness of older adults is the development and implementation of socially interactive robots. Little is known about the expectations and experiences of older adults with socially interactive humanoid robots.</p><p><strong>Material and methods: </strong>In a mixed-methods design study, user expectations before interaction and the experience and evaluation of verbal and non-verbal communication after interaction with a robot were assessed. Semi-structured interviews were conducted after the interaction.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The majority of older adults expected verbal communication. After the interaction the evaluation of the quality of verbal communication differed. Participants did not expect any form of nonverbal communication. Nonverbal communication was highlighted as particularly positive. Gestures, facial expressions, and body movements were described as confidence building.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The robot's ability to communicate nonverbally might positively influence older adults' experience of communication with the robot. In the development of socially interactive robots non-verbal communication should be given more consideration in order to contribute to successful human-robot interaction.</p>","PeriodicalId":49345,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift Fur Gerontologie Und Geriatrie","volume":" ","pages":"371-375"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11315771/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139099041","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mitteilungen der DGG.","authors":"","doi":"10.1007/s00391-024-02333-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00391-024-02333-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49345,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift Fur Gerontologie Und Geriatrie","volume":"57 5","pages":"421-427"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141908157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Geroscience in the continuum from healthy longevity to frailty.","authors":"M Cristina Polidori","doi":"10.1007/s00391-024-02331-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00391-024-02331-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The socioeconomic and technological developments of the past decades have enabled unique progress associated to increased life expectancy and better health for a large part of the world's population; however, multimorbidity, frailty and disability are also on the rise. Geroscience as the new biology of aging is based on the evidence that the main risk factor for noncommunicable chronic diseases (NCD) is the aging process; however, its technology is mostly used for the scientific study of longevity and its interaction with aging medicine and geriatrics is still limited. In this perspective, the need for a tighter exchange between geroscience and geriatrics for longer health span and intrinsic capacity is discussed in the context of existing evidence and knowledge gaps.</p>","PeriodicalId":49345,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift Fur Gerontologie Und Geriatrie","volume":" ","pages":"361-364"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141890622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mitteilungen des BV Geriatrie.","authors":"","doi":"10.1007/s00391-024-02330-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00391-024-02330-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49345,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift Fur Gerontologie Und Geriatrie","volume":"57 5","pages":"413-419"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141908160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mitteilungen der DGGG.","authors":"","doi":"10.1007/s00391-024-02334-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00391-024-02334-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49345,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift Fur Gerontologie Und Geriatrie","volume":"57 5","pages":"420"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141908158","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}