Tamàs Fülöp,Georges Herbein,Andrea Cossarizza et al.
Tamàs Fülöp et al.
Aging is a complex biological process that leads to several physiological changes. Among these changes, the most striking are those involving the innate and adaptive parts of the immune system. Furthermore, these changes are associated with...
Stephen E Karpiak,Richard Havlik
Stephen E Karpiak
With increasing success in treating HIV, infected persons are living longer, and a new challenge has emerged - the need to understand how HIV-infected adults are aging. What are the similarities with typical aging and what are the unique as...
Courtenay Sprague,Shelley M Brown
Courtenay Sprague
This introduction serves to foreground current patterns associated with HIV and aging, globally. We highlight key trends by World Health Organization sub-region, and identify gaps in existing knowledge. HIV and aging is insufficiently docum...
Kenneth Rockwood,Olga Theou
Kenneth Rockwood
Melissa K Andrew
Melissa K Andrew
Both intrinsic and extrinsic factors contribute to health. Intrinsic factors are familiar topics in health research and include medical conditions, medications, genetics and frailty, while extrinsic factors stem from social and physical env...
Frailty's Place in Ethics and Law: Some Thoughts on Equality and Autonomy and on Limits and Possibilities for Aging Citizens [0.03%]
脆弱性在伦理学和法律中的地位：关于平等与自主性的思考以及对老龄公民的限制与可能性的思考
Mary McNally,William Lahey
Mary McNally
Consideration of ethical and legal themes relating to frailty must engage with the concern that frailty is a pejorative concept that validates and reinforces the disadvantage and vulnerability of aging adults. In this chapter, we consider w...
Andrew Clegg,John Young
Andrew Clegg
In this chapter, we consider how health and social care can best be organized for older people with frailty. We will consider the merits of routine frailty identification, including risk stratification methods, to inform the provision of ev...
Paige Moorhouse,Katalin Koller,Laurie Mallery
Paige Moorhouse
The increasing prevalence of frailty within the aging population poses challenges to current models of chronic disease management and end-of-life care delivery. As frailty progresses, individuals face an increasing frequency of acute health...
Frailty and Rehabilitation [0.03%]
衰弱与康复
Ian D Cameron,Susan E Kurrle
Ian D Cameron
Rehabilitation approaches to frailty are in the early stages of development. Frailty also shows promise as a prognostic indicator for rehabilitation programs, similar to its application in other areas of medicine. However, care should be ta...
Marion C E Briggs,Janet E McElhaney
Marion C E Briggs
This chapter underscores the importance of interprofessional collaboration in the care of frail older patients. Hospital-based care is emphasized because interprofessionalism is difficult in that setting since the setting is constantly chan...