Health, Functional and Nutritional Determinants of Falls Experienced in the Previous Year-A Cross-Sectional Study in a Geriatric Ward.

Falls are a serious health problem in older adults. A limited number of studies assessed their multifactorial nature in geriatric ward patients. The aim of this study is to explore health, functional and nutritional correlates of experiencing fall(s) in the previous year by older inpatients.

Components of the difficulties, satisfactions and management strategies of carers of older people: a principal component analysis of CADI-CASI-CAMI.

Objectives: To perform a psychometric evaluation of the Carers Assessment of Difficulties Index, Carers Assessment of Satisfactions Index and the Carers Assessment of Managing Index (CADI-CASI-CAMI).

Method: Data was collected in three European countries from informal carers of older people (n = 295) via a common protocol. Carers completed: (a) a questionnaire containing items on demographics and caregiving characteristics and (b) the CADI-CASI-CAMI indices.

Family carers' experiences using support services in Europe: empirical evidence from the EUROFAMCARE study.

Purpose: This article explores the experiences of family carers of older people in using support services in six European countries: Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Sweden, and the UK.

Design And Methods: Following a common protocol, data were collected from national samples of approximately 1,000 family carers per country and clustered into comparable subgroups to facilitate cross-national analysis.

Results: Carers' use of available support services is limited across Europe but is considerably higher in Germany, Sweden, and the UK than in Poland, Greece, and Italy.

Negative impact and positive value in caregiving: validation of the COPE index in a six-country sample of carers.

Purpose: The present study attempts to further validate the COPE Index on a large sample of carers drawn from six European countries.

Design And Methods: We used a cross-sectional survey, with approximately 1,000 carers recruited in each of six countries by means of a common standard evaluation protocol. Our saturation recruitment of a designated quota of carers occurred by means of several channels, in identified geographical zones within countries.

Rural and urban caregivers for older adults in Poland: perceptions of positive and negative impact of caregiving.

This study examines rural-urban differences in informal caregivers' perceptions of caregiving. The study's theoretical framework is based on the two-factor model of caregiving, which views caregiving as having both positive and negative impact. Data were collected in personal interviews with 126 rural and 127 urban caregivers in the Bialystok region.

[Hypertension in the advanced old aged: prevalence and treatment in comparative urban and rural survey].

Unlabelled: Hypertension is a serious medical, social and economical problem. It is accepted that high blood pressure is one of the major risk factors of all kinds of cardiovascular diseases. The aim of the study was to estimate the prevalence of hypertension and evaluate the difficulties with antihypertensive treatment in the rural and urban community dwelling elderly in advanced old age.

[The spreading of big geriatric centers in the community dwelling elderly: the challenge for the primary health care].

As the giants of geriatrics are considered: immobility, instability, incontinence, intellectual impairment, depression, visual and auditory impairment. They have multiple causation, chronic course, no simple cure and make the elderly person dependent on others for care. The paper presents the results of the study on the prevalence of the giants of geriatrics in community dwelling elderly people 75 yers old +.