[General medication in elderly people]. / Gesamtmedikation bei alten Menschen.

A total of 460 elderly people (252 residents of home for aged, 137 patients of geriatric clinic and 71 old persons living in one-man households) were analysed for a general and long-term medication. They were ranged as follows: 8.5% without medication, 6.5% received 1 drug, 85% had 2-10 different drugs daily. The consumption of 3-4 drugs daily was the most frequent. Both male and female subjects showed no difference in the average number of drugs prescribed per person and day. It was significantly higher in advanced than in early old age persons, in those with the decreased self-sufficiency, an in the institutionalized geriatric population.

[Comparison of stomatological findings in geriatric population of both the homes for the aged and one-man households]. / Vergleich der stomatologischen Befunde bei in Altersheimen und zu Hause lebenden alten Menschen.

In 187 residents of houses for the aged and 80 old persons living in one-man households in Hradec Králové, the authors proceeded by comparing the functional state of dentition, rate of pathological changes on the oral mucosa, level oral hygiene and regularity of stomatological care. Both groups showed no significant difference in numbers of male or female subjects, in age distribution nor in the educational level. Stomatological findings were more favorable in those living in their homes. This was probably caused by significantly higher numbers of self-sufficient persons than in the group of population living in the homes for aged.

[The importance of providing dental care for the aged]. / Význam a zajistení stomatologického osetrení u starých osob.

Following examination numbers are presented as provided during 3 years in aged: 253 subjects from the homes for elderly, 151 patients from the medical institution for longterm states and 80 aged subjects living in their homes. The mentioned screening was aimed to ascertain the stomatological findings, the need in dentistry examination, its availability in both geriatric and outgeriatric elderly. Partial problems have been worked out as 8 separate studies. In aging people from geriatric institutions, the following conditions were evaluated: the state of jaw denture, its functional capacity, mortality of separate groups of teeth, oral mucosa state, level of oral hygiene and its impact on the finding of yeast in carriers of prostheses, salivatory changes and disturbances of the temporal joint. The main stomatological findings and the use of dental examination have been compared between the group allocated at homes for elderly and that living in domestic conditions. The prerequisites of dental care were ascertained using inventories at geriatric institutions of East Bohemian region.