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W Schunk

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[Health status and management of elderly citizens of a residential district and a home for the aged in the city of Erfurt].

Preservation, furtherance and recovery of health and great joy the old age - these are requests of social politics in GDR. The ageing may be influenced by a series of sanitary and social factors of risk. We have examined 100 townsmen in a home for aged people and 100 pensioners in housing-settlement of Erfurttown. The result gives a statement about state of health, about social and medical care. Illness's of systems are standing in front of heart-circulation, of respiration, of connective tissue and movement. We can not find a difference between both groups. The combinations of illness were found frequently (42%). The indigence of care in compliance with the criterions of Siggelkow and Körner are 48% from pensioneries, 39% of old aged people who got occasional good help and care. The dynamic and adapted shaping of the relation men - environment results in a positive effect. The demands on the concil in town, on social workers, on medical care and on the behaviour of the old aged people are formulated.

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[Psychopathology of senile dementias in nursing home residents].

Examination of 163 nursing home residents revealed chronic brain syndrome of different amount in 84%. Demented patients with clinical evidence of arteriosclerosis had significantly higher values of emotional incontinence, dysphoria, depression and vegetative complaints than those without evidence of arteriosclerosis. Correlation of single psychopathologic parameters with other psychopathologic, neurologic and somatic variables resulted in very different correlation profiles for the following symptoms: emotional incontinence, apathy, dysphoria and euphoria. These changes in personality should be considered to a higher degree in dementia research intending more homogeneous subgroups.

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