Advances in Geriatric Diseases
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Epidemiology & Public Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2024 | Viewed by 49481
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Aging is the most impressive demographic phenomenon in human history, bringing changes and challenges in several scientific fields. As physicians, we have to expect a substantial increase of patients with chronic conditions, comorbidities, and polypharmacy. It brings new challenges for physicians and patients, as well as chances for novel minimally invasive treatments, developments for a medicine which is evidence-based and not eminence-based, and eventually shared decision-making and ethical aspects.
Dealing with older patients means also dealing with diseases and with the effect of diseases on functional and cognitive decline. In these cases, the goal might not always be the healing process, but often to maintain a stable situation taking into account maintaining the independence of the individual. Geriatric medicine is challenging, novel, and high risk. To increase knowledge in this field is not an option, it is mandatory.
The aim of this Special Issue is to highlight recent advances in the context of diagnosis, treatment, and the prediction of prognosis in Geriatrics.
Prof. Dr. Francesco Mattace-Raso
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- older patients
- comorbidities
- functional decline
- dementia
- frailty
- mechanisms of aging