Laying the foundation for an International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health Core Set for community-dwelling elderly adults in primary care: the clinical perspective identified in a cross-sectional study.

Objectives: Having more information about the biopsychosocial functioning of their geriatric patients might help physicians better balance medical interventions according to patients' needs. For this reason, we aimed to develop an easy-to-handle International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) Core Set for community-dwelling geriatric patients aged 75 and older in primary care. In this empirical study, we describe the functioning and health of community-dwelling patients aged 75 and older in primary care in Germany and identify the most common problems encountered by these individuals when using the ICF.

[Low-threshold consulting services for dementia : Quality criteria from a provider's point of view].

Background: Low-threshold consulting services are becoming increasingly more important as an addition to outpatient and inpatient services.

Objective: What quality criteria do providers of low-threshold consulting services for family caregivers of people with dementia have?

Material And Methods: Telephone interviews with 36 providers of family counseling, support groups, care course. Qualitative content analysis according to Mayring complemented by a literature search.

Increased urinary excretion of triiodothyronine (T3) and thyroxine (T4) and decreased serum thyreotropic hormone (TSH) induced by motion sickness.

We exposed 35 male subjects to a rotary chair and motion sickness was provoked by Coriolis effect. This stress caused an increased excretion of urinary T3 and T4 and a decrease of TSH levels in serum. The increment in urinary excretion of thyroid hormones may serve as a very useful measure for the quantitation of physical stress.

Increased secretion of growth hormone, prolactin, antidiuretic hormone, and cortisol induced by the stress of motion sickness.

The stress of motion sickness was experimentally provoked by Coriolis effect. Significant and reproducible increases from the basal serum level (delta mean +/- S.E.

[Simultaneous radioimmunassay for urinary thyroxine (T4) and triioldothyronine (T3) (AUTHOR'S TRANSL)].

A radioimmunoassay for the determination of thyroxine (T4) and triiodothyronine (T3) in urine was developed. The extraction of a sample, the incubations with T3-und subsequently T4-antibody and the elutions of the respective bound fractions are performed all on the same Sephadex column. This principle can be applied to as many as 120 simultaneous determinations.