Applicability and prognostic significance of geriatric assessment
| Title: | Applicability and prognostic significance of geriatric assessment |
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| Authors: | Živanović Srđan, Pavlović Jelena, Hadživuković Natalija, Kalajdžić Olivera, Kucurski Ljubiša, Kulić Veselinka, Despotović Mile |
| Source: | Sestrinska reč, Vol 26, Iss 86, Pp 34-37 (2023) |
| Publisher Information: | Association of Nurses Technicians and Midwives, 2023. |
| Publication Year: | 2023 |
| Collection: | LCC:Nursing |
| Subject Terms: | aging, progressive weakening, multimorbidities, comprehensive geriatric assessment, Nursing, RT1-120 |
| More Details: | Aging implies a process during which changes occur in the function of all organic systems in the human body. For a detailed assessment of the health status of an elderly person, a comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) is recommended. CGA is defined as a multidisciplinary diagnostic and therapeutic approach that enables the identification of medical, psychosocial and functional limitations of an elderly person, all with the aim of developing a coordinated plan to improve the health of the elderly person. The aim of this review was to point out the significance, comprehensiveness, applicability and prognostic significance of geriatric assessment based on data from recent literature and by searching available electronic databases. Studies were collected from the electronic databases MEDLINE (via Ovid), Pubmed, COBSON database and Google Scholar database, as well as by manual search of relevant studies cited in the references of key articles. The search for papers as a whole is limited to the English language. All studies that used a comprehensive geriatric assessment in their methodology, in elderly people over 65 years of age, were included. CGA is very important for the elderly, for their families, health systems of countries, health professionals as well as the social community. Interventions resulting from a CGA are one way to improve the performance of activities of daily living in elderly patients. CGA has numerous advantages in practice, it is comprehensive, applicable, economically relatively acceptable and as such can be routinely implemented at different levels of health care. CGA has a high prognostic significance for the early detection of multimodal problems in the geriatric population. |
| Document Type: | article |
| File Description: | electronic resource |
| Language: | Serbian |
| ISSN: | 0354-8422 2466-5126 |
| Relation: | https://scindeks-clanci.ceon.rs/data/pdf/0354-8422/2023/0354-84222386034Q.pdf; https://doaj.org/toc/0354-8422; https://doaj.org/toc/2466-5126 |
| DOI: | 10.5937/sestRec2386034Z |
| Access URL: | https://doaj.org/article/479b6c25350648fd82dd1056708f7d5f |
| Accession Number: | edsdoj.479b6c25350648fd82dd1056708f7d5f |
| Database: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
| ISSN: | 03548422 24665126 |
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| DOI: | 10.5937/sestRec2386034Z |
| Published in: | Sestrinska reč |
| Language: | Serbian |