Titlebook: Drug Therapy for the Elderly; Martin Wehling Book 2013 Springer-Verlag Wien 2013 Drug Therapy.Elderly.Geriatrics.Multimorbidity.Pharmacoth

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Therapy of Chronic Painidence of musculoskeletal disorders, such as osteoarthritis and osteoporosis. Up to 70% of persons aged 70+ years complain about chronic pain (Brattberg et al. 1996). However, exact data depend on the assessment method, and prevalence rates in institutional care and specialized hospital departments

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-0912-0Drug Therapy; Elderly; Geriatrics; Multimorbidity; Pharmacotherapy; Polypharmacy; Serious adverse effects

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group, suffer from it. In the United States alone, 2.2 million patients have AF, with an unknown number of undiagnosed cases (which may represent another two million patients), and this figure is expected to at least double by 2050. In Europe, the number of AF patients is estimated to be around six million.

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Poets, Princes and Fallen Figuresirment. Compared with younger patients, older patients experiencing a depressive episode often show predominantly somatic symptoms. They frequently mislead physicians to concentrate initially on patients’ organic symptoms in particular if the patient has no history of psychiatric disorders.

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Poets, Princes and Fallen Figures of either falling asleep or sleeping through the night). While increased need for sleep and abnormal daytime sleepiness are frequent phenomena in older people, patients themselves rarely consider this a relevant problem. The present chapter focuses on insomnia, the most important and frequent sleep disorder in the elderly.