Lung Cancer: New Directions in Senior Patients Assessment.

Age is but one significant prognostic factor in lung cancer, influencing survival, treatment response, and outcomes. This narrative review synthesizes findings from searches of 11 leading databases of research studies, systematic reviews, book chapters, and clinical trial reports on lung cancer in senior patients, with a focus on geriatric assessment as well as biomarkers. Key prognostic factors for lung cancer in seniors include biological age, functional capability, physical and psychological comorbidities, frailty, nutrition, status, and biomarkers like DNA methylation age.

Preventing Dementia-A Cross-Sectional Study of Outpatients in a Tertiary Internal Medicine Department.

Dementia is a significant health problem worldwide, being the seventh leading cause of death (2,382,000 deaths worldwide in 2016). Recent data suggest there are several modifiable risk factors that, if addressed, can decrease dementia risk. Several national dementia screening programs exist; however, limited-income countries do not have the means to implement such measures.

Factors Associated with Burnout in Medical Staff: A Look Back at the Role of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Unlabelled: Despite the significant consequences for medical practice and public health, burnout in healthcare workers remains underestimated. Pandemic periods have increased the reactivity to stress by favoring some changes whose influence are still felt.

Purpose: This study aims to identify opportune factors during pandemic periods that predispose medical personnel to burnout and the differences between medical staff which worked with COVID-19 patients and those who did not work with COVID-19 patients.

The Impact of Heart Rate Variability Monitoring on Preventing Severe Cardiovascular Events.

The increase in the incidence of cardiovascular diseases worldwide raises concerns about the urgent need to increase definite measures for the self-determination of different parameters, especially those defining cardiac function. Heart rate variability (HRV) is a non-invasive method used to evaluate autonomic nervous system modulation on the cardiac sinus node, thus describing the oscillations between consecutive electrocardiogram R-R intervals. These fluctuations are undetectable except when using specialized devices, with ECG Holter monitoring considered the gold standard.

Factors Associated with Burnout in Healthcare Professionals.

Unlabelled: Burnout in healthcare professionals remains an ongoing concern. There are a number of variables associated with reactivity to stress in healthcare staff. This study wants to identify risk factors which predispose healthcare professionals to burnout.

Chronic Coronary Syndrome in Frail Old Population.

The demographic trend of aging is associated with an increased prevalence of comorbidities among the elderly. Physical, immunological, emotional and cognitive impairment, in the context of the advanced biological age segment, leads to the maintenance and precipitation of cardiovascular diseases. Thus, more and more data are focused on understanding the pathophysiological mechanisms underlying each fragility phenotype and how they potentiate each other.

Relationship between Frailty and Depression in a Population from North-Eastern Romania.

(1) Background: In the older population, depression often affects people with chronic medical illnesses, cognitive impairment, or disability. Frailty is another important issue affecting older adults, being difficult to clinically distinguish from frailty in advanced old age. Well-designed interventional studies and clinical strategies targeting both frailty and depression are rare or nonexistent.

Evaluation of frailty and its impact on geriatric assessment.

Aim: Frailty has become an increasingly important topic, being directly correlated with ageing, presence of comorbidities, and also with other factors. It is a state of high vulnerability and is a consequence of ageing-related decline in whole body functioning. In order to initiate preventive and therapeutic measures, we need to identify the characteristics of current frail older adults.

Elder abuse and associated factors in eastern romania.

Background: This article explores elder abuse in a hospitalised population. We wanted to identify details related to psychological and emotional abuse in the older population in our region and to determine the importance of the Elderly Abuse Suspicion Index (EASI ) in comprehensive geriatric assessments.

Methods: This cross-sectional study conducted between March 2015 and May 2016 included 386 consecutive hospitalised patients over 65 years of age.

A New Integrated System for Assistance in Communicating with and Telemonitoring Severely Disabled Patients.

In this paper, we present a new complex electronic system for facilitating communication with severely disabled patients and telemonitoring their physiological parameters. The proposed assistive system includes three subsystems (Patient, Server, and Caretaker) connected to each other via the Internet. The two-way communication function is based on keywords technology using a WEB application implemented at the server level, and the application is accessed remotely from the patient's laptop/tablet PC.

The Psychological Abuse of the Elderly - a Silent Factor of Cardiac Decompensation.

Abuse of the elderly is a major issue debated worldwide. The most commonly identified form of abuse is the physical abuse. It is also the most frequently studied in the medical literature.

A case of severe hypoalbuminemia associated with chronic congestive heart failure: the role of the tricuspid regurgitation.

Hypoalbuminemia is considered an independent predictor of mortality, especially in elderly patients. It is common in patients with congestive heart failure, when is due to several mechanisms: increased volume of distribution, significant stasis in the mesenteric circulation and altered protein metabolism in the liver. These alterations are even more pregnant when tricuspid regurgitation is associated or aggravated by different risk factors (recent infections, anemia, hyperthyroidism).

Approaching frailty as the new geriatric syndrome.

Ageing is inevitably associated with a decline in physiologic reserves. Frailty results from reaching a threshold of decline across multiple organ systems. By consequence, it is associated with a high vulnerability and reduced ability to maintain homeostasis.

[Correlation between cognitive impairment and cardiovascular risk factors in dialysis vs. non-dialysis elderly patients].

Unlabelled: The emergence or worsening of cognitive impairment is a consequence of the aging process. Geriatric depression occurs due to cognitive impairment associated with aging, and as it develops, it also affects the cognitive function.

Aim: To analyze retrospectively over a period of 6 months the clinical parameters and biological differences of the depression and cognitive impairment in dialyzed and non-dialyzed elderly patients.

Self-neglect in the case of the elderly. Where are we now?

Unlabelled: Self-neglect in an elderly person is a behavior that threatens his/her own health and safety. It is present when a person refuses to adequately feed, water, shelter, or clothe himself, refuses medication or medical care, and personal safety measures.

Material And Method: This is a multicentric study of self-neglect in three geriatric units from Finland, Greece and Romania The medical, social, psychological and behavioral profile analysis was based on a questionnaire; this questionnaire relied on existing studies and social, economic and medical facts in the three countries.