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The current healthcare systems are built around the traditional paradigm of patients suffering from a single acute illness. They are therefore largely unprepared to face the increasing demands for health services arising from the expansion of an older population with specific medical needs related to multiple chronic disorders. As a consequence, the medical conditions of a large and growing seg ...
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The forecasted increase in the number of older people for this century will be accompanied by an increase of those with disabilities. Disability is usually preceded by a condition named frailty that encompasses changes associated with ageing, life styles and chronic diseases. To detect and intervene on it is of outstanding importance to prevent disability, as recovery from disability is unlikely. ...
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The prevalence of diabetes in people ≥ 65 years approaches 25% (40% of all patients with diabetes are > 65 years). This number will increase 4-fold in people > 70 years in 2050. Diabetes results in a high personal and social health burden, and a significant public health burden in terms of rising healthcare costs. Diabetes is associated with increased functional decline in older people and may exp ...
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FRAILTY OPERATIVE DEFINITION-CONSENSUS CONFERENCE (FOD-CC)

Start date: Nov 1, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2012,

"Frailty Operative Definition-Consensus Conference (FOD-CC) aims at celebrating a conference focused on those topics, be inclusive in its participants and reach firm conclusions.The design of the workshop must take into account 1) The need for selecting the potential variables to be included in the final definition, 2) The need to get these variables from every field of interest in regard with fra ...
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