Geriatr Psychol Neuropsychiatr Vieil
June 2014
The concept of integrated services delivery, although dating from the 1990s, has only recently appeared in French public health policy. To clarify the concept and its adaptation to the reality of the French systems of healthcare and social services, the French Society of Geriatrics and Gerontology established an interdisciplinary working group. This article reports that group's findings according to three axes: the definition of integration, the objectives of this organizational approach and the means needed to achieve them.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: The concept of integration, although dating from the 1990s, has only recently appeared in French public health policy. It must be linked with 'coordination', which is the base of most French public policies applied to geriatrics since the 1960s. Herein, we report the French Society of Geriatrics and Gerontology working group's findings according to three axes: definition of integration, objectives of this organisational approach and the means needed to achieve them.
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March 2014
The concept of integrated services delivery, although dating from the 1990s, has only recently appeared in the French public health policy. To clarify the concept and its adaptation to the reality of the French systems of healthcare and social services, the French Society of Geriatrics and Gerontology established an interdisciplinary working group. This article reports the group's findings according to three axes: the definition of integration, the objectives of this organizational approach and the means needed to achieve them.
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December 2009
Alzheimer's disease or related diseases patients are particularly vulnerable to fragmentation of the French system of care and support. The government has decided to implement a national plan from which two key steps are the implementation of integration and case management. We report results of a review of the literature on both the definition of these concepts and their impacts as reported in randomized controlled studies.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNutrient secretagogues activate mitochondria of the pancreatic beta-cell through the provision of substrate, hyperpolarisation of the inner mitochondrial membrane and mitochondrial calcium rises. We report that mitochondrial matrix pH, a parameter not previously studied in the beta-cell, also exerts an important control function in mitochondrial metabolism. During nutrient stimulation matrix pH alkalinises, monitored by the mitochondrial targeted fluorescent pH-sensitive protein mtAlpHi or (31)P-NMR inorganic phosphate chemical shifts following saturation transfer.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe report on an 85-year-old woman with hypertensive cerebral arteriolosclerosis who presented with rapidly progressive encephalopathy leading to death within 4 months. Magnetic resonance imaging showed mild cortical atrophy consistent with her age and diffuse leukoaraiosis. Her CSF 14-3-3 protein was positive.
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