Health care services for the elderly--a Singapore perspective.

Singapore is greying at a phenomenal pace as well as in a markedly disproportionate manner. By the year 2030, the elderly will comprise around 25% of the total population; at the same time the numbers of younger and economically active persons will decline. The reasons for this process are varied and its implications disturbing. An important consequences is the urgent need for careful and comprehensive planning to meet the elderly's needs. The needs are best addressed when the elderly are looked at as either being well or frail. A guiding principle is that most of them prefer and should remain within community (and not be institutionalised). Efficient and appropriate community services must be developed so as to support the elderly's stay in the community.     

门静脉高压症的历史回顾

门静脉高压症名称的由来至今巳有100多年的历史.它的治疗则经历了一个逐步发展和完善的过程.回顾这一历史,有利于进一步完善门静脉高压症的治疗.     

门静脉高压症的历史回顾

门静脉高压症名称的由来至今巳有100多年的历史.它的治疗则经历了一个逐步发展和完善的过程.回顾这一历史,有利于进一步完善门静脉高压症的治疗.     

门静脉高压症的历史回顾

门静脉高压症名称的由来至今巳有100多年的历史.它的治疗则经历了一个逐步发展和完善的过程.回顾这一历史,有利于进一步完善门静脉高压症的治疗.     

门静脉高压症的历史回顾

门静脉高压症名称的由来至今巳有100多年的历史.它的治疗则经历了一个逐步发展和完善的过程.回顾这一历史,有利于进一步完善门静脉高压症的治疗.     

门静脉高压症的历史回顾

门静脉高压症名称的由来至今巳有100多年的历史.它的治疗则经历了一个逐步发展和完善的过程.回顾这一历史,有利于进一步完善门静脉高压症的治疗.     

门静脉高压症的历史回顾

门静脉高压症名称的由来至今巳有100多年的历史.它的治疗则经历了一个逐步发展和完善的过程.回顾这一历史,有利于进一步完善门静脉高压症的治疗.     

门静脉高压症的历史回顾

门静脉高压症名称的由来至今巳有100多年的历史.它的治疗则经历了一个逐步发展和完善的过程.回顾这一历史,有利于进一步完善门静脉高压症的治疗.     

门静脉高压症的历史回顾

门静脉高压症名称的由来至今巳有100多年的历史.它的治疗则经历了一个逐步发展和完善的过程.回顾这一历史,有利于进一步完善门静脉高压症的治疗.     

门静脉高压症的历史回顾

门静脉高压症名称的由来至今巳有100多年的历史.它的治疗则经历了一个逐步发展和完善的过程.回顾这一历史,有利于进一步完善门静脉高压症的治疗.     

门静脉高压症的历史回顾

门静脉高压症名称的由来至今巳有100多年的历史.它的治疗则经历了一个逐步发展和完善的过程.回顾这一历史,有利于进一步完善门静脉高压症的治疗.     

门静脉高压症的历史回顾

门静脉高压症名称的由来至今已有100多年的历史。它的治疗则经历了一个逐步发展和完善的过程。回顾这一历史,有利于进一步完善门静脉高压症的治疗。     

Major surgery in the elderly--a study of outcome in 295 consecutive cases

The results of major surgery in 295 consecutive patients over the age of sixty years were analysed. In this series, 70% were electives and 30% emergency cases with a male preponderance of 3:2. The overall mortality was 11.2%. Mortality following emergency operations was three times more than electives. Seventy percent (70%) of deaths after elective surgery followed palliative operations for advanced cancer. For elective surgery, complications of peptic ulcers were associated with a high mortality rate whereas deaths were fairly uniform in the emergency group. In general, concomitant medical diseases and postoperative complications were the major determinants of outcome of surgery in the elderly.     

Report of the Canadian Hypertension Society Consensus Conference: 4. Hypertension in the elderly.

Several knowledge gaps, which made evidence-based guidelines impossible in 1985, have since been filled. There is now unequivocal evidence that treatment of isolated systolic hypertension benefits elderly patients, as does treatment beyond the age of 75 years. Pseudohypertension, although occasionally problematic, is not common and is not a reason to neglect the treatment of elderly patients, including those with isolated systolic hypertension. In general, long-term antihypertensive treatment of the elderly is well tolerated and does not cause important decreases in mental function. Comparative drug studies continue to accumulate; most show no clinically significant general differences between drugs, aside from the somewhat decreased efficacy and tolerability of beta-blockade in elderly patients. As in the young, certain drugs may be preferred in the presence of other conditions--e.g., congestive heart failure or diabetes.