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Z Dénes

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PubMed1979

Looks and old age.

In geriatric examinations, the old patients' looks should be observed. Based on the observation of 100 old subjects (aged 65 to 92), the author classifies the old people into 4 categories of looks. 1. Cheerful-eyed 2. Sad-eyed 3. People with fixed (lifeless) gaze 4. Wicked (aggressive) looking people. Category I can be treated easily; category 2 will co-operate in anti-depression therapy; category 3 exhibits mainly Parkinson's disease, in need of anti-sclerotic treatment. In the case of people with fixed gaze, the side-effects of drugs should also be suspected. Subjects in category 4 are difficult to treat. They do not co-operate with the physician. The administration of psychopharmacas, sedation and anti-sclerotic treatment are recommended.

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PubMed1979

Death of fit elderly people.

The author describes the way of death of 40 fit old subjects. 13 died in heart thrombosis, 11 in brain catastrophe, 11 in generalized cancer, 5 in other diseases (3 in pulmonary embolia, 1 in uraemia, 1 after an ileus operation). The death occurred after different periods of time ranging from an instant to about 6 weeks after a cachexy. Of the 40 cases observed, 22 were physicians who died in fit condition amid their activities. They missed the curing of their preliminary complaints, dissimulated to themselves. The author calls the attention of physicians with geriatric outlook to take the not complaining, dissimulation fit old patients into geriatric care. Under such conditions the decrease could have been delayed with a probability as a result of diagnosis, therapy and care.

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PubMed1977

Travelling in old age.

Expanding the "journey test", the author recommends a simple diagnostic test by which the physician can gain a quick information on the psycho-motoric-somatic status of the old patients--as evidenced by 100 cases examined. To make a journey is recommended by the physician even to old people provided the following conditions are fulfilled: I. intact capacity of reasoning; II. satisfactory somatic condition; III. ability of harmonic (co-ordinated) locomotion; IV. financial (objective) resources available for the journey.

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PubMed1976

Old-age emotions.

One hundred old people (age range 60-94 years) were studied with respect to the state of their emotions. The chief factors leading to emotional sterility were loneliness, retirement and decline in sensory and locomotory functions. Among the 100 subjects, 60 were optimists and 40 were pessimists; most of the pessimists were lonely people. Suggestions are made for combating emotional "emptiness" before it leads to catastrophic mental impairment.

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PubMed1975

Psychosomatic rehabilitation of elderly persons.

The psychosomatic rehabilitation of the elderly is an important task from both social and economic viewpoints. For psychic rehabilitation, moderate activity and the playing of games (such as chess, dominoes or cards) are recommended. Based on experiences with a group of 50 persons of the 70-90 age group., bridge playing is an especially desirable form of recreation. For somatic rehabilitation, physical exercise is a valuable aid, based on experiences with 338 partially disabled patients of the 51-81plus age group

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Associations between microbiological and salivary caries activity tests and caries experience in Hungarian adolescents.

The aim of the study was to assess caries prevalence in connection with salivary caries-related findings in 349 14- to 16-year-old Hungarian adolescents living in two different cities. DMFT, DMFS means, stimulated salivary flow, buffer capacity, mutans streptococci, lactobacilli and candida counts in saliva were determined. The ratio of caries-free adolescents was 4.6% in the total population sample, DMFT mean values were 7.24+/-4.86, DMFS means 10.50+/-8.35. Mean secretion rate of stimulated saliva was 0. 84+/-0.50; a low buffer capacity was found in 6.3% of the examined children. The ratio of carriers of mutans streptococci, lactobacilli and yeasts in saliva was 89.7, 73.9 and 47.7%, respectively. DMFT and DMFS values as well as mutans streptococci and candida counts were lower in the capital than in the other city. Statistically significant correlations were found between DMFT, DMFS mean values, and salivary microbiological counts.

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Age and the neck's "décolleté syndrome".

Applying non-invasive procedures (inspection, palpation) which do not stress the old subjects, the author studies the "décolleté syndrome" of 60 old subjects and 60 middle-aged control subjects. According to the examinations, the generative changes in the skin, muscles, fat pads and blood vessels of the neck are the first macroscopic signs of old age that are conspicuous to the subjects. The elderly subject is the first who detect the wrinkles on the skin of the neck and wasting of the neck, becoming panicky as a result. Not without reason, because these symptoms are really indicative of approaching old age. In the case of middle-aged control subjects, aging of the neck may become manifest as early as over 45 years, preceding any other symptom. The aging of the neck is accompanied subsequently by other symptoms of old age found by inspection (look, lips and regions around thereof, hand, gait). Finally, the psycho-somatic status becomes typical of old age. When the pathological "décolleté syndrome" of the neck is detected in due time, the gerontologist may attempt to adopt a therapy or prevention to retard the aging.

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Hands and old age.

UNLABELLED: The author publishes the results of examining the hands of 100 old subjects. The paper contains the impressions obtained by inspection and palpation (i.e. by non-invasive procedures) on the parallel nature of the senile degenerative symptoms and the psychosomatic status of the old subject. CONTROL: examination of the hands of 100 middle-aged persons. It has been found that a pathological symptom absolutely typical and specific of old age cannot in itself be evaluated, but the simultaneous presence of a number of degenerative cases points to the biological aging of the chronologically old subjects. The subjects of inspection are: turgor of the skin of the hand, finger-nails, pathological pigmentations, vascularization under the skin, muscular atrophy, arthritic changes and hand tremor.

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Lips and labial regions in old age.

The author records the morphology and functions of 80 old (66 to 92 years) subjects lips and labial regions. She mentions the following types: 1. no wrinkles, normal lips and surroundings; 2. marked sulcus nasolabialis; 3. marked sulcus nasolabialis and sulcus tristitiae; 4. marked sulcus nasolabialis and sulcus tristitiae and many small wrinkles instead or in place of the latter; 5. sagging, floppy lower lips. Those types were often found to coincide with the look, the gait, the psycho-somatic status. According to our experiments, the simultaneous marked presence of sulcus nasolabialis and sulcus tristitiae is a real sign of old age. Lonely old people often have marked sulci tristitiae and many small wrinkles. The morphologic and functional changes described in the foregoing are related primarily with the psychovegetative disposition; their emergence is not due to the normal or abnormal clinical laboratory parameters. The above recording is an effort to provide guidance on geriatric therapy, prognosis, rehabilitation, possibilities of prevention.

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