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K Gulbin

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[Health care needs and health care organization for citizens of advanced age].

In order to improve the health and well-being of the elderly, it is necessary to develop and assess care programs for the elderly within existing health and social services. An epidemiological approach in assessing the functional health and autonomy are described using the concepts of disability and handicap (according ICIDH). A design for estimating need and for identifying high-risk groups in a population survey are presented.

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[Selected social medicine problems of the diabetic patient].

Corresponding publications above all consider social medical problems of the diabetic, which still is in occupation. As more than the half of all diabetics are recipients of pension, we have to engage in them, too. We examined 1397 diabetics. 72% of them were able to get alone in the consulting hour. The rest (28%) had a significantly longer duration of illness and were disabled workers very often. We refer to the insufficient insulin therapy in old diabetics. We demonstrate possibilities for enforcement of the insulin injection.

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[Age-related and sex differentiated behavior of serum uric acid levels].

In the GDR, the definition of hyperuricaemia is based on sex different reference spheres, independent of age. Our examinations (1872 diabetics and other persons) and the study of literature showed, that it would be better to define the hyperuricaemia only in fertile women different from men.

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[Professional activity in retirement--a sociologic study of employment in agriculture and trade in the Schwerin district].

Basic principles on employment at the age of retirement having been explained beforehand the results of interviews with 700 employers concerning motivation and conditions in relevance are recorded. The employment rate in the age-group under consideration is discussed as dependent on the historical level of the society, the conclusions aiming at goals to be fulfilled in enterprises as well as in the society as a whole.

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[Task of a day hospital in geriatrics].

The necessity to establish geriatric day hospitals was described under consideration of epidemiology, humanity, organization and economy. The subject matter of work, structure, localities and function were detailed pointed out. The report presents an important way solving the tasks of policy of health in future. It were made references to the manner of work and first experiences in the day hospital of the Geriatric Center in Berlin-Buch, GDR.

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