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PubMed1992

Geriatric training in emergency medicine residency programs.

STUDY OBJECTIVES: The health care needs of the elderly population are significantly different from those of younger patients and require special knowledge and skills on the part of emergency physicians. The purpose of this study was to identify the nature and extent of geriatric training currently provided to emergency medicine residents. DESIGN: Self-administered survey distributed to residency directors of the 85 accredited emergency medicine residency programs in the United States. INTERVENTIONS: The survey consisted of 17 questions focusing on residency directors' views about teaching and research of geriatric emergency care. RESULTS: Survey information was obtained from 85 (100%) emergency medicine residency programs. Forty percent (34 of 85) of respondents believed the teaching of geriatric emergency care was inadequate; 44 programs (52%) plan to increase the number of didactic hours devoted to geriatrics (mean increase of 5.9 hours). The five geriatric topics most frequently taught included acute dementia, atypical presentation of illness, common complaints in the elderly, geriatric trauma, and ethical issues. Sixty-five percent believed ongoing national research efforts regarding geriatric emergency medicine were insufficient; 21 programs (25%) had faculty involved in geriatric studies. Most respondents reported that growing numbers of elderly will have a major impact on all areas of patient care in the near future. CONCLUSION: Although geriatric emergency care is becoming an integral part of the emergency medicine residency program, there may be a need for better focused and more intensive training.

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PubMed2002

The current state of geriatric medicine: a national survey of fellowship-trained geriatricians, 1990 to 1998.

The rapid growth of the older population has focused national attention on the need for physicians trained in geriatric medicine. To gain insight into the evolving status of the field, with particular focus on career decision-making and academic career development of trainees, we conducted a survey of physicians recently completing geriatric fellowships. The 107 accredited extant geriatric fellowship programs in the United States and Puerto Rico were contacted to identify trainees from 1990 to 1998. A mailed survey addressed relevant career development and training issues. Four hundred ninety out of 787 (62%) physicians responded; 20% completed 1 year and 80% 2 or more years of training. Half made the decision to pursue a career in geriatrics during residency, 27% decided before/during medical school, and a mentor influenced 48%. Currently, 80% have a Certificate of Added Qualifications in geriatric medicine, 69% hold academic appointments, 78% teach, 39% participate in research, and 44% author publications. Most are doing predominantly clinical work in multiple settings. Further analysis of the 1996-to-1998 cohort revealed that those completing fellowships of 2 or more years are more likely to identify all geriatrics as their professional focus, conduct and author research, work with multidisciplinary teams, and participate in professional geriatric societies. This national survey documents career decision-making and the academic and clinical profiles of physicians completing geriatric fellowship training in the past decade. Longer fellowship training is associated with academic career development. Although there is a national need to train clinical geriatricians, the additional need to train and fund future geriatric academic leaders requires increased attention.

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PubMed2004

[Geriatric rehabilitation in Germany: service provision policy and structural aspects from a statutory health insurance perspective].

The so-called shifting of paradigm in medicine has inevitably led to an increasing importance of medical rehabilitation, especially geriatric rehabilitation, within the system of medical care in the Federal Republic of Germany. Nationally valid guidelines for assessing the indication of geriatric rehabilitation and for recommending options for appropriate allocation have been elaborated within the framework of the German statutory health insurance system. In addition, manpower and equipment requirements for ambulatory geriatric rehabilitation facilities have been agreed on. These guidelines include clarifications concerning the following: definition of the geriatric patient; definition of the patient in need of geriatric rehabilitation; demarcation of geriatric rehabilitation from organ-specific rehabilitation; operationalization of assessment procedures and allocation recommendations concerning geriatric rehabilitation; requirements profiles for ambulatory geriatric rehabilitation facilities. Essential prerequisites for successful implementation of these national standards are among others: turning towards the bio-psycho-social model of health and disease advocated by the World Health Organization; overcoming the traditional deficit model of aging and old-age in favour of a resource-oriented approach in service-provision policies; rejecting the one-sided fiscal thinking in the current debate over service-provision policies in geriatric rehabilitation.

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PubMed2002

An unfolding case with a linked OSCE: a curriculum in inpatient geriatric medicine.

OBJECTIVE: This study sought to design, implement, and evaluate a unique educational curriculum in inpatient geriatrics for internal medicine housestaff. DESCRIPTION: Traditionally the didactic curriculum on an inpatient geriatrics unit varies according to the attending faculty on service, the types of patients admitted, and preferences of the housestaff and students-in-training. However, a more structured educational curriculum would allow for comprehensive attention to, and a detailed exploration of, the principles of geriatric care necessary to effectively treat all hospitalized older adults. We have developed a unique curriculum using an unfolding case that is followed by an OSCE, which assesses the knowledge and skills gained by the learners. An unfolding case is one that evolves over time and is unpredictable to the learners when they begin participating in the curriculum. It is well suited to postgraduate training and assessment since the learner must develop a differential diagnosis, discuss possible work-ups, and use the work-ups' results to reassess the case as it unfolds. Our scripted case, administered by a geriatrics fellow rotating on the unit, follows an ambulatory geriatric patient from her admission throughout her treatment and until the end of her stay. It culminates in a decision-making session about her functional ability and hence her discharge plans. Moreover, several topics relevant to inpatient geriatrics, including dementia, delirium, falls, urinary incontinence, wound care, and depression, are covered in three one-hour sessions. Written examinations or pre- and post-testing after an intervention are better suited to the early years of medical training but provide poor measures of curriculum mastery and clinical competency. Alternatively, our OSCE approach uses "stations" and "interstations" that provide a structured and timed opportunity to test these skills and assess specific areas of knowledge. We have designed a five-station, five-interstation OSCE that is conducted one week after the unfolding case-based conferences have ended. Learners are evaluated by attending physicians and given immediate feedback after each station and interstation. DISCUSSION: This newly developed project has been implemented as a standardized curriculum on our inpatient geriatrics unit since September 2001. Thus far, it has been extremely well received by housestaff because of real-time assessment and review of the materials covered during the month. In addition, this progressive approach has provided an excellent forum for geriatrics fellows to develop teaching skills. Attending physicians have shown their support, finding the content to be appropriate and relevant to inpatient geriatrics. Finally, this didactic approach will be continued on our unit and a modified version is being developed and piloted for other unit staff.

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PubMed1993

Geriatrics training in physical medicine and rehabilitation.

A survey was conducted to determine the level of training in geriatrics in physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R) residency training programs. Questionnaires were sent to 76 accredited programs in 1989 with a 63% (48/76) response rate. Results show that 49% of patients cared for by PM&R residents in inpatient settings are 65 years of age or older, and 42% of patients cared for in ambulatory settings are in the same age group. Of PM&R programs, 30% have physician faculty who are geriatric "specialists." PM&R residents have a significant exposure to elderly patients in the consultation role. Less exposure to elderly patients occurs in distinct geriatric rehabilitation and geriatric medicine programs or units. Among 10 medical specialties, PM&R programs compare well in terms of teaching about the topics and the personnel that are important in geriatrics. This is due in part to an obvious overlap between the content of rehabilitation medicine and that of geriatrics. Furthermore, there is moderate interest in PM&R in developing fellowship training in geriatric rehabilitation. The need for more academic faculty who are geriatric "specialists," as well as the need for increasing PM&R exposure to distinctly geriatric settings as a part of training, is apparent.

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PubMed1995

Evaluation of outpatient geriatric assessment: a randomized multi-site trial.

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the process and outcome of outpatient consultative geriatric assessment compared with traditional community care. DESIGN: Randomized, controlled clinical trial, with 12-month follow-up. SETTING: Four hospital-based ambulatory geriatric assessment clinics and community physicians' offices. PARTICIPANTS: 442 recruited older adults with a health problem or recent change in health status. INTERVENTION: Outpatient consultative geriatric assessment or usual physician assessment. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Identification of health problems, mortality, nursing home admissions, health status, health services utilization, satisfaction with care, and caregiver well-being. RESULTS: Geriatric assessment, in comparison with usual community care, resulted in the identification of a significantly greater number of patients with cognitive impairment (P < .0001), depression (P = .0004) and incontinence (P < .0001). The group receiving a geriatric assessment had greater improvement in anxiety levels at 1 year (P = .036). Caregivers of participants in the geriatric assessment group had less caregiver stress at 1 year (P = .002). No outcome differences in mortality, nursing home admissions, cognitive health, functional health, or health services utilization were observed. Some evidence of greater patient satisfaction with respect to qualities of the physician was found for the geriatric assessment group. CONCLUSIONS: Consultative outpatient geriatric assessment led to significantly improved diagnosis of the common health problems of cognitive impairment, depression, and incontinence, to psychological and emotional benefits for patients, and to reduced levels of caregiver stress. Even with limited follow-up care and control of treatment, outpatient geriatric assessment has potential for significant positive effects.

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PubMed1978

Psychiatric aspects of geriatric crisis intervention.

Data on 64 geriatric patients treated by the Psychiatric Crisis Team at the Jewish General Hospital were reviewed. A control group of non-geriatric patients was selected at random for comparison. The average age of the geriatric group was 69.4 years compared to 33 in the control group. Women predominated in the geriatric group. Precipitating factors were more easily delineated in the geriatric group. Physical illness, loss of a close relative and relocation were the most common precipitating events in the geriatric group. Depression, psychotic and neurotic, was the predominant diagnosis in the older group and schizophrenic psychosis in the control group. Compared to the control group, the geriatric patients were discharged sooner and were more easily managed. Only two geriatric patients required institutionalization. The study supports the value of prompt and comprehensive geriatric crisis intervention.

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PubMed1992

Gerontological education in Japan--geriatric education and training.

There are 13 academic geriatric departments among 80 medical schools in Japan as of November 1991. The first independent department was established in 1962 at Tokyo University. The undergraduate education program includes lectures in geriatrics (20 hours/year in 11/12 medical schools), bedside teaching at geriatric ward (6/12 medical schools, 66 hours on average per year). The theme of lectures are diverse and incorporate all the three major fields in gerontology: biology of aging, clinical geriatrics and socio-economical aspects of aging society. The postgraduate geriatric education is carried out mainly at university setting and most of the medical schools (83%) accept graduate students who are trained at independent geriatric ward (92%) as well as at outpatient clinics. In 1989, Japan Geriatrics Society started a new certification system by which 687 MDs have been temporarily certified in geriatrics. The first examination will be given by the society in 1992 and the eligibility to sit in the examination requires three years geriatrics fellowship after certification in medicine or general surgery. The curriculum proposed by the society shares many items of training in common with those found in north American and in Europe. Some points of suggestions and recommendations were presented for future improvement in the education of gerontology in Japan.

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PubMed2001

Geriatric oral health issues in Australia.

AIM: To identify and discuss geriatric oral health issues in Australia. METHODS: A discussion of the demographic trends, oral health trends, and barriers to dental care for older Australians is presented, together with a review of Australian public and private sector geriatric dental services, geriatric dental research, and geriatric dental education. CONCLUSIONS: Key geriatric oral health issues for Australia include: edentulism is decreasing and older Australians are retaining more natural teeth; coronal and root caries are significant problems, especially as older adults become more functionally dependent, cognitively impaired, and medically compromised; the oral health status of institutionalised older Australians is poor; the onset of severe oral diseases appears to occur in many older Australians prior to their institutionalisation, when they are homebound and dependent upon carers; carers of older adults do not have access to practical education about dental care; the majority of older Australians are eligible to use public-funded dental services, but barriers limit their access to these services; few Australian public or private dental services are designed with a geriatric focus; geriatric dental education does not have a high profile in Australian dental schools; no specialty exists in Australia for geriatric dentistry, nor is there a national geriatric dentistry association.

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PubMed2003

A national survey on the current status of family practice residency education in geriatric medicine.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The dramatic increase in the elderly population expected over the next few decades will place a heavy strain on the current health care system. Family practice residents need to be prepared to take care of this geriatric population. In this study, we document the past, current, and future trends of geriatric education in family practice residency programs. METHODS: A survey was mailed to all family practice residency directors in the United States (n = 471). RESULTS: The response rate was 75%. Ninety-two percent of family practice residencies have a required geriatrics curriculum. Nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and home care are the predominant training sites for geriatrics. Training is most often offered in a longitudinal format. The mean number of physician faculty available to teach geriatrics is 2.6 per program (.83 full-time equivalent). Conflicting time demands with other curricula was ranked as the most significant barrier to geriatric education. Directors rated geriatrics as one of the three most important curriculum topics. CONCLUSIONS: Faculty development to enhance the number of faculty who can teach geriatrics and broadening the exposure of residents to the elderly in a variety of settings will be important to ensure that future generations of family physicians are adequately equipped to care for the geriatric population.

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PubMed2005

[Community aspects of geriatric dentistry--a literature review: 1975-2000].

The world's population is in transition, but there is an inevitable move in all societies towards an aging population. There is an agreement that the ability of the geriatric population to adjust to the "third age" depends on the will of the society and the community to provide services and to support this vulnerable and dependent population. The preponderance of oral health issues and their impact upon general health and quality of life have prompted a variety of geriatric related efforts over the last 20 years. Predoctoral and postdoctoral education and training efforts have been initiated, geriatric research agendas have started to yield important findings, and a few service programs have marginally helped improve dental care access for the geriatric population. Past discoveries have enabled large portions of the world's population to enjoy far better oral health than their forebears a century ago. Although different patterns of dental needs emerge throughout the world, the "silent epidemic" of oral diseases is affecting the most vulnerable parts of the population: the poor children, the elderly and many members of racial and ethnic minority groups. The review of the literature of community aspects of geriatric dentistry in the past twenty-five years will be introduced in two articles. The first article summarizes the important issues of demography, oral health condition, changes in attitude towards oral health of the geriatric population, oral health services given in geriatric institutions and mobile dentistry. The issues of law and ethics, development of public and community oral health programs for the geriatric population and plans as well as trends for the future will be discussed in the second article. Setting goals and presenting data are steps in the right direction but are not enough; the success will be measured by the ability to make things happen. The continuing anticipated growth of the geriatric population will, hopefully, be translated into a rising political power and to fruitful and practical health outcomes.

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PubMed2005

[Community aspects of geriatric dentistry--a literature review: 1975 - 2000].

The world's population is in transition, but there is an inevitable move in all societies towards an aging population. There is an agreement that the ability of the geriatric population to adjust to the "third age" depends on the will of the society and the community to provide services and to support this vulnerable and dependent population. The preponderance of oral health issues and their impact upon general health and quality of life have prompted a variety of geriatric related efforts over the last 20 years. Predoctoral and postdoctoral education and training efforts have been initiated, geriatric research agendas have started to yield important findings, and a few service programs have marginally helped improve dental care access for the geriatric population. Past discoveries have enabled large portions of the world's population to enjoy far better oral health than their forebears a century ago. Although different patterns of dental needs emerge throughout the world, the" silent epidemic" of oral diseases is affecting the most vulnerable parts of the population: the poor children, the elderly and many members of racial and ethnic minority groups. The review of the literature of community aspects of geriatric dentistry in the past twenty five years will be introduced in two articles. The first article summarizes the important issues of demography, oral health condition, changes in attitude towards oral health of the geriatric population, oral health services given in geriatric institutions and mobile dentistry. The issues of law and ethics, development of public and community oral health programs for the geriatric population and plans as well as trends for the future will be discussed in the second article. Setting goals and presenting data are steps in the right direction but are not enough; the success will be measured by the ability to make things happen. The continuing anticipated growth of the geriatric population will, hopefully, be translated into a rising political power and to fruitful and practical health outcomes.

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PubMed1997

Profile of geriatric pelvic fractures presenting to the emergency department.

Few studies have examined differences in mechanism, presentation, and outcome of trauma in geriatric patients. This study compared pelvic fractures and associated injuries in geriatric and nongeriatric patients. The medical charts of all patients presenting to a large urban emergency medicine teaching program with a pelvic fracture between January 1, 1987 and December 31, 1993 were retrospectively reviewed by study-blinded physicians. Data collected included mechanism and site of injury, associated injuries, disposition (admission or discharge), need for operative repair, length of hospital stay, as well as subsequent deaths and causes. The data were stratified into patients less than 65 years of age (group A) and 65 years or older (group B). Two-hundred five pelvic fractures were reviewed with 85 (41%) in group B. A significantly greater number of pelvic fractures in group B occurred by fall (86% v 25%, P < .05) and significantly less by motor vehicle accident (14% v 75%, P < .05). Site of pelvic fracture differed significantly only in the decreased number of geriatric iliac fractures (6% v 16%, P < .05). The sites of pelvic fractures for geriatric patients in descending order were multiple sites (58%), pubic rami (56%), acetabulum (19%), ischium (11%), iliac (6%), and sacroiliac (2%), and did not differ from nongeriatric patients. Geriatric patients had significantly fewer total associated injuries (40% v 61%, P < .05) although associated chest injuries were significantly more common (21% v 8%, P < .05). Death occurred in three (3%) nongeriatric and nine (11%) geriatric patients. Six geriatric deaths were caused by exacerbation of underlying cardiovascular disease. Geriatric patients underwent significantly fewer operative procedures (6% v 43%, P < .05) but there were no significant differences in the percent admitted (85%) or mean length of hospital stay (9.59 days). Despite the decreased severity of pelvic fractures, care must be taken to prevent morbidity caused by exacerbation of premorbid illnesses in geriatric patients with pelvic fractures.

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PubMed1989

Use of the Geriatric Depression Scale in dementia of the Alzheimer type.

The Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) has been shown to be an effective screening test for depression in selected geriatric populations. However, it has not been evaluated as a screening test for depression among elderly adults with dementia of the Alzheimer type. Over a two-year period 283 patients were seen in a geriatric assessment center and were screened for depression using the Geriatric Depression Scale. They also received a clinical psychiatric diagnosis by one of two geropsychiatrists. Patients with a Clinical Dementia Rating (CDR) of 0 (cognitively intact) (n = 70) and those with mild Alzheimer's disease (CDR of 1) (n = 72) were selected for comparison. The data were analyzed using Receiver Operating Characteristic Curves (ROCs) in order to compare the utility of the Geriatric Depression Scale in these two groups. ROC curves, which plot sensitivity against false positives, have come into increasing use as a method of examining the clinical performance of tests. The area lying beneath the curve (AUC) can be estimated and used as a quantitative measure of test performance (equivalent to the Wilcoxon rank sum). In the intact group, the Geriatric Depression Scale produced a ROC curve with an AUC of 0.85 (percent score = 1), which is significant (z = 7.28, P less than .0001). In the group composed of those with Alzheimer's disease, the Geriatric Depression Scale yielded a ROC curve with an AUC of 0.66, which was not significantly different from chance (z = 1.92, P = NS). This study provides empirical evidence that while the Geriatric Depression Scale is an accurate screening test for depression in cognitively intact geriatric populations, it does not maintain its validity in populations that contain large numbers of patients with dementia of the Alzheimer type.

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PubMed1994

Challenges for acute care geriatric inpatient units under the present Medicare prospective payment system.

The Mount Sinai Medical Center's Geriatric Evaluation and Treatment Unit (GETU) is a 16-bed acute care geriatric unit that operates under the Medicare Prospective Payment System (PPS) in an academic medical center environment. The Medicare PPS and the needs of our local health care system have played a considerable role in the development and operation of our inpatient acute care geriatric unit. The GETU provides acute geriatric care and geriatric assessment and is a site for education and clinical research. The GETU serves a targeted group of acutely ill, hospitalized frail elderly with complex, interdisciplinary needs. The multidisciplinary GETU team was financed from generally available and justifiable hospital resources. Geriatric assessment is conducted under the Medicare PPS during the process of acute care without prolonging hospital length of stay. In fact, during the past 6 years, the introduction of geriatric care and assessment programs has been associated with a significant reduction in hospital length of stay and hospital costs for this complex and difficult population. It is our experience that an acute care geriatric unit functioning under traditional Medical Prospective Payment can have the dual effect of enhancing care and reducing hospital costs for the hospitalized frail elderly.

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PubMed2004

[Comprehensive geriatric medicine].

This paper is written to make clear the new medical system in the elderly and to standardize of Geriatrics and care. There are two major important components in geriatrics and geriatric care which are comprehensive geriatric assessment and team approach. But this is sometimes difficulut to do geriatric medicine. This goal is to make clear the usefulness of comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) and team approach. And the research purpose is to make standardization of geriatric medicine and care of elderly patients and organization of professionals. I have studied QOL of elderly people in the community. The scale, SF36, was used in this study. I compared with QOL between elderly with dementia and healthy elderly. QOL was studied with statistical analysis of SPSS. Physical function and symptomatic vitality in lower items of QOL were much better in health people than demented elderly. But global subjective health was much better in demented elderly than healthy people in the community. And I made clinical path of dementia for examination in the hospital. The results were clinical path made clear the importance of team approaches and standard of medical course in the hospital. It was helpful in medicine and care and its bindings. Dr. Murashima and her group have developed a new check list of screening risk factor of long stay of elderly inpatient. And they studied about the effects of supportive group for discharge using assessment and team approaches. This unit has a good function which support home care of the elderly patients. Finally narrative based medicine is very important to take care for the elderly patients. It has been lacked to do the present medicine for the elderly patient by evidence based medicine. In conclusion, for the standardization of geriatrics, CGA is useful for support for the frail elderly and team approach is good for staff communication through team conference.

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PubMed2003

[Current views in geriatric oncology].

Geriatric oncology represents a novel specialty which can be defined as specific older cancer patients management. It includes a validated geriatric procedure, the comprehensive geriatric assessment, which is the best way of approaching the complex interacting medical problems of frail older patients. Geriatric assessment of elderly cancer patients is actually a subject for discussion among geriatric oncology community. Geriatric assessment may provide either guidelines for anti-cancer treatment in the elderly, or guidelines for the management of older patients with cancer. Two clinical research ways are now developed : firstly the definition of the most relevant geriatric variables allowing clinical trials in such a heterogeneous population; secondly, the determination and the validation of a specific tool to screen frail and vulnerable older patients, and the study of the geriatric assessment impact on the quality of life of older cancer people.

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PubMed2006

[Geriatrics in Bavaria-Database (GiB-DAT): Conception, structure and results of implementation (part I)].

In the year 2000, a database was implemented in Bavaria, covering the majority of geriatric clinics. Benchmarking statistics are generated in quarterly periods and scientifically analyzed. Actually, 41 of the 57 geriatric clinics in Bavaria participate in the project 'Geriatrics in Bavaria-Database' (GiB-DAT). For geriatric rehabilitation, the coverage is 82.4%. In addition, all 7 geriatric day clinics participate; thus, a total of 24,000 cases are documented each year. Therefore, GiB-DAT is the largest database for geriatric rehabilitation in Germany and Europe. To make documentation more effective and easy, new software (GERIDOCTM) has been generated which is integrated in the process of daily treatment. GiB-DAT offers good data quality, especially concerning completeness of items. This manuscript describes conception and construction of GiB-DAT and identifies differences compared to the Geriatric Minimum-Dataset (GEMIDAS), a nationwide geriatric database in Germany.

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