Ungar, Andrea, Rivasi, Giulia, Petrovic, Mirko, Schönenberger, Andreas, Martínez-Sellés, Manuel, Gasowski, Jerzy, Bahat-Ozturk, Gülistan, Bo, Mario, Dallmaier, Dhayana, Fumagalli, Stefano, Grodzicki, Tomasz, Kotovskaya, Yulia, Maggi, Stefania, Mattace-Raso, Francesco, Polidori, Maria Cristina, Rajkumar, Chakravarthi, Strandberg, Timo, Werner, Nikos, Benetos, Athanase and From the EuGMS Special Interest Group on Cardiovascular Medicine, (2020) Toward a geriatric approach to patients with advanced age and cardiovascular diseases: position statement of the EuGMS Special Interest Group on Cardiovascular Medicine. Eur Geriatr Med, 11. pp. 179-184. ISSN 1878-7649

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Abstract

Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are highly prevalent in older adults and represent a major geriatric health-care concern. Management of CVD in older patients may be challenging due to specific geriatric issues, such as frailty and multi-morbidity, which may influence patients' outcomes. In this clinical context, diagnostic and therapeutic strategies should target those outcomes that have higher priority in geriatric health care, including disability prevention and quality of life. Older adults with CVD should be offered a reasonably optimized treatment, customized to the individual's frailty level and functional status. Yet, most clinical trials excluded comorbid and frail patients and evidence to support CVD management in this vulnerable population is lacking. Therefore, a geriatric approach is needed in cardiovascular medicine, characterized by a holistic, patient-centered perspective focusing on functional status and quality of life. With a view to promote the geriatric approach in the management of older patients with CVD, the EuGMS Special Interest Group (SIG) on Cardiovascular Medicine was founded in 2018, consisting of a network of geriatricians with an extensive expertise in geriatric cardiovascular medicine. The present position paper aims to present the Cardiovascular SIG and illustrate its main purposes and action programs.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	Cardiovascular diseases, Frailty, Geriatrics, Older adults, Aged, Cardiovascular Diseases, Geriatric Assessment, Geriatrics, Humans, Public Opinion, Quality of Life
Schools and Departments:	Brighton and Sussex Medical School > Clinical and Experimental Medicine
SWORD Depositor:	Mx Elements Account
Depositing User:	Mx Elements Account
Date Deposited:	08 Sep 2022 10:24
Last Modified:	09 Sep 2022 08:56
URI:	http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/107734

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