New Challenges in Healthcare for Older Adults

The increase we have witnessed in life expectancy in recent years has been a milestone in the history of humanity, as we have never lived this long before. Nevertheless, this social success presents great clinical and social challenges. After the first successful Special Issue on this topic, the Guest Editors aim to explore different initiatives that result in the health promotion of older adults, such as multicomponent physical exercise programs, interventions that try to prevent loneliness and social isolation, and multidisciplinary assessment, along with the treatment of frailty and other geriatric syndromes in various settings, such as the emergency unit, orthogeriatrics and oncogeriatrics. 

This Special Issue is seeking original submissions that examine (1) methods for detecting and reversing frailty, loneliness and social isolation; (2) methods for diagnosing early and preventing delirium and other geriatric syndromes; (3) best practices to manage the treatment of the elderly with specific situations, such as hip fracture or oncological disease; (4) best practices for designing, implementing and/or evaluating integrated interventions to improve healthcare in older adults; and (5) best practices to develop healthcare and social interventions to improve the quality of life in older adults living in care houses and nursing homes.  

Special interest will be given to innovative practices that expand and build on geriatric approaches with multidisciplinary models. Other manuscript types of interest include relevant position papers, meta-analyses, reviews, brief reports and commentaries.

Dr. Francisco José Tarazona Santabalbina
Dr. Sebastià Josep Santaeugènia Gonzàlez
Dr. José Augusto García Navarro
Prof. Dr. José Viña

Dr. Francisco José Tarazona Santabalbina
Dr. Sebastià Josep Santaeugènia Gonzàlez
Dr. José Augusto García Navarro
Prof. Dr. José Viña
Guest Editors

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• • Frailty
• • Comanagement
• • Orthogeriatrics
• • Elderly
• • Oncogeriatrics
• • Multidisciplinary teams
• • Geriatric syndromes
• • Delirium
• • Malnutrition
• • Falls