Aged persons

Q84 When providing information to the patient, the pharmacist has to convey the information directed to the individual patient s needs. The pharmacist should adjust to the patient s age, personality, and educational background. 

It is important to convey information about medications as directed according to the needs of each patient. Moreover the pharmacist must use appropriate, simple language and adjust according to the patient s age, personality and educational background. 

The infant, the adult, the aged person, each has is own kind of smell, and... it might be possible, within certain limits, to discover the age of a person by his odor. In both sexes puberty, adolescence, early manhood and womanhood are marked by a gradual development of the adult odor of skin and excreta, in general harmony with the secondary sexual developments of hair and pigment. 

A sex-oriented relationship is a kind of defiance against stereotyping as an aging person. 

All psychotropics prescribed to elderly patients should begin with small doses and be titrated slowly. In addition, maintenance doses may sometimes be 30 to 50 percent lower than in younger patients. The aging person may demonstrate increased receptor or organ sensitivity to medications and there is an age-associated decrease in albumin, resulting in more free (active) drug available. 

In humans a drug s pharmacological effects may be modified depending on characteristics of the person, such as genetic constitution, gender, age, personality, and drug tolerance. 

Matsumoto, M. et al., Effect of Bifidobacterium lactis LKM 512 yoghurt on fecal microflora in middle to old aged persons, Microb. Ecol. Health Dis., 12, 77, 2000. 

Small number of SP-NFT also form in intellectually normal aging persons... 

Having diagnosed AD in an aged person, other dementias, such as multi-infarct dementia. Pick... 

The pathology of normal, aged persons and mildly demented patients is broadly overlapping, so that only after crossing the defined neuropa-thological threshold can the diagnosis be made (Roth, 1986). 

The autopsy criteria for AD described by Alois Alzheimer in 1907 were NFT and neuritic plaques. The presence of NFT is the presupposition for the diagnosis of AD. Whereas in brains of normal, aged persons, NFT in greater extent are never found, numerous amyloid and neuritic plaques can frequently be observed (Perry, E.K., 1986 Perry,... 

Serotonin receptors are decreased in the cerebral cortex and striatum in aging persons. Serotonin receptors are increased in suicide victims with major depressioa Patients with chronic fatigue syndrome have decreased numbers of serotonin transporters in the anterior cingulate (Watanabe et al., Mind/Brain Symposium, 2002). Drugs used to treat patients with depression increase the levels of serotonin and noradrenaline in the brain. 

The term health care institution shall include any hospital, convalescent hospital, health maintenance organization, health clinic, nursing home, extended care facility, or other institution devoted to the care of sick, infirm, or aged person. 

Sample mass or volume has a profound influence on the detection limits for dioxins. For biological fluids such as blood plasma, the conventional HRGC-HRMS method requires a sample volume of 40-60 ml to attain a detection limit of < 1 pg per g. Collection of 40-60 ml blood is laborious and problematic, particularly from infants and aged persons. Unless other methods such as solvent-cut, large-volume injection systems are used, the nominal sample size of 5-10 ml is not adequate to measure sub-pgperg levels of dioxin in blood. 

The values reported below should be considered paradigmatic, that is, to be valid for a well-performed test on bone obtained from a middle aged person with no disease. Other values are reported in such a way as to make it clear how some property is a function of other features of the specimen. 

By using a sensitive immunoperoxidase technique, serological determinants to terminal deoxy-nucleotidyl transferase (EC 2.7.7.31)were found in cortical lymphocytes of thymus biopsies of adult and aged persons (21-70 years) of either sex (Steinmann and Muller-Hermelink 1984). In contrast to biochemical determinations, specific immunohistological studies showed that terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase is continuously pre-snent in very large numbers of cortical thymic lymphocytes during human life, despite subtotal physiological involution of the thymus. 

The search for suitable animal models for the study of osteoporosis receives its impetus from the protracted periods of time required to monitor the effect of experimental variables on the progress of the disease in humans and the invasive techniques required. Research on animal models also has been fueled by the increasing proportion of aged persons in the population. 

Recently, many studies on assist robots have been condncted in which the development of a uniqne system is reqnired to snpport aged persons, physically handicapped persons and/or carers (Toyama and Yonetake, 2007). One of the representative systems is called the assist suit and is partially developed. The assist suit is a mechatronics device which can assist physical human actions. However, the current assist suit has a few problems with respect to cost, size, weight, longevity and so on. 

I have so far found no examples of crippled, blind, or aged persons at the Orphanotropheion before Alexios s reorganization. It is therefore possible that the emperor added the outer circuit of hostels that... 

---