title: [Treatment of emergency conditions in the aged--suggestions for solutions].
abstract: If it is true that we are living in the era of sure surgery and dangerous medications, then this fact is particularly relevant in the treatment of elderly patients from third age-group. The uncontrollable growth of the number of such people (demographic signs point to an increase of population by 100%), demands complete changes in the medical approach to patients from the third age-group, especially considering the peculiarities of the geriatric medicine: intermingling of involute molecular ageing changes; multimorbidity; especially chronic development of decease; changes in the selection of selection of appropriate medications and medical treatment. Problem of chronic illness is the most outstanding problem of old age, and therefore, within the total health-care system nothing can be right, nor in its place, until major questions of the health protection for elderly in the third age-group are resolved. One of the most important phenomenon associated with these problems is in hospitalisation where, because of a limited hospital capacity, there is usually not enough space for patients from middle age-group, and even more so for elderly from the third age-group. According to presented data, the fact that third-age group constitutes 23.11% of examined patients, points to an obvious urgency and the actuality of these matters. The health problems of patients from third age-group demand special training of physicians and their assistants of all profiles, and a special scientific research in this area.
authors.affiliation: Centar urgentne medicine, Klinicki centar Sarajevo.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Martinović
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital; D004638:Emergency Treatment; D005853:Geriatrics; D006801:Humans
vernacular_title: Lijecenje urgentnih stanja kod starije dobne skupine--prijedlozi rjesenja.