{"title":"[Dizziness in old age].","authors":"Johannes Trabert","doi":"10.1007/s00391-024-02404-2","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Dizziness is a frequent and often multifactorial symptom in older patients that can significantly impair the quality of life. The causes are diverse and differ from younger patients. Polyneuropathy, orthostatic dysregulation, drug-related causes, positional vertigo and bilateral vestibulopathy are more frequent in old age. A detailed and vertigo-specific patient history, including the assessment of risk factors such as frailty, polypharmacy and comorbidities, is essential for the diagnostics. The treatment depends on the underlying cause and includes physiotherapeutic interventions as well as adjustments to the medication.</p>","PeriodicalId":49345,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift Fur Gerontologie Und Geriatrie","volume":" ","pages":"55-63"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1000,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Zeitschrift Fur Gerontologie Und Geriatrie","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00391-024-02404-2","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2025/1/23 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"GERIATRICS & GERONTOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Dizziness is a frequent and often multifactorial symptom in older patients that can significantly impair the quality of life. The causes are diverse and differ from younger patients. Polyneuropathy, orthostatic dysregulation, drug-related causes, positional vertigo and bilateral vestibulopathy are more frequent in old age. A detailed and vertigo-specific patient history, including the assessment of risk factors such as frailty, polypharmacy and comorbidities, is essential for the diagnostics. The treatment depends on the underlying cause and includes physiotherapeutic interventions as well as adjustments to the medication.
期刊介绍：
The fact that more and more people are becoming older and are having a significant influence on our society is due to intensive geriatric research and geriatric medicine in the past and present. The Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie has contributed to this area for many years by informing a broad spectrum of interested readers about various developments in gerontology research. Special issues focus on all questions concerning gerontology, biology and basic research of aging, geriatric research, psychology and sociology as well as practical aspects of geriatric care.
Target group: Geriatricians, social gerontologists, geriatric psychologists, geriatric psychiatrists, nurses/caregivers, nurse researchers, biogerontologists in geriatric wards/clinics, gerontological institutes, and institutions of teaching and further or continuing education.
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