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Geriatric Care is the official journal of SIGOT (Società Italiana di Geriatria Ospedale e Territorio). The aim of the journal is to stimulate debate and dissemination of knowledge in the geriatric field in order to ameliorate the efficacy, effectiveness and efficiency of interventions to improve the health outcomes of elderly people. Geriatric Care publishes contributions in epidemiology, pathophysiology and clinical assessment, management and treatments of the diseases of older people, as well as health education and environmental health, hospital-residential-homecare management of the elderly including ethics, social and communication sciences, e-health and health technology assessment. Geriatric Care publishes Original Articles, Review Articles, Brief Reports, Case Reports, Statement Reports and Editorials.

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  • Cost of care among older people with chronic medical conditions in a healthcare facility in southwestern Nigeria

    Olumuyiwa Akingunola, Taiwo Sogunle, Lydia Egua, Yesiru Kareem
    https://doi.org/10.4081/gc.2025.13118
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  • Pneumonia

    Simone Dini, Federica Sganga, Mattia Brunori, Aurora Vitali, Annalisa Paglia, Giulia Mussatti
    https://doi.org/10.4081/gc.2025.11715
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  • Hepatocellular carcinoma management in older adults and its relation with frailty

    Gianluca Messina, Vincenzo Ostilio Palmieri
    https://doi.org/10.4081/gc.2025.13157
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  • Assessing the health implications of anticholinergic drugs in older people

    Mariangela Boccardi, Virginia Boccardi
    https://doi.org/10.4081/gc.2025.13311
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  • Education and training in geriatrics: guiding the generational change of health professionals

    Liliana Mazza, Lorenzo Palleschi
    https://doi.org/10.4081/gc.2025.13378
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  • A rapid weight loss caused by therapeutic cannabinoid use in an elderly individual: a case report

    Elisa Salsano, Oriana Rossi, Cecilia Rispoli, Marta Zuccarino, Loredana Tibullo, Nicola Vargas
    https://doi.org/10.4081/gc.2024.12889
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  • Sepsis and septic shock in geriatrics

    Aurora Vitali, Simone Dini, Mariagiovanna Cozza, Vincenzo Gianturco, Mattia Brunori, Liliana Mazza
    https://doi.org/10.4081/gc.2024.11709
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  • The comprehensive geriatric assessment in emergency and intensive unit settings

    Mariagiovanna Cozza, Annalisa Paglia, Simone Dini, Vincenzo Di Francesco, Pierluigi Dal Santo, Virginia Boccardi
    https://doi.org/10.4081/gc.2024.12156
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  • Position paper on essential strategies for healthy aging: focus on preventing sarcopenia and cardiovascular diseases from the 38th National Congress of the Italian Society of Geriatrics Hospital and Territory (SIGOT)

    Virginia Boccardi, Francesco Vetta, Luca Cipriani, Andrea Fabbo, Alberto Cella, Moira Ceci, Margherita Azzini, Claudia Bauco, Giuseppe Benati, Alberto Castagna, Maria Lia Lunardelli, Patrizia Mecocci, Michela Passamonte, Marcello Romano, Salvatore Tardi, Liliana Mazza, Gianluca Ottomanelli, Piero Secreto, Vincenzo Solfrizzi, Nicola Vargas, Filippo Luca Fimognari, Lorenzo Palleschi
    https://doi.org/10.4081/gc.2024.12702
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