TY - JOUR 
A1 - Ungar, Andrea
AU - Rivasi, Giulia
AU - Petrovic, Mirko
AU - Schoenenberger, A. W.
AU - Martínez Sellés Oliveria Soares, Manuel
AU - Gasowski, Jerzy
AU - Bahat-Ozturk, Gülistan
AU - Bo, Mario
AU - Dallmaier, Dhayana
AU - EuGMS Special Interest Group on Cardiovascular Medicine
AU - Et al.
T1 - Toward a geriatric approach to patients with advanced age and cardiovascular diseases: Position statement of the EuGMS Special Interest Group on Cardiovascular Medicine
Y1 - 2020
SN - 1878-7649

UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11268/8850
AB - 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.
KW - Geriatría
KW - Enfermos cardíacos
KW - Gerontología
KW - Enfermedad cardiovascular
LA - eng
ER -