Clinical Assessment Of Geriatric In patients In Internal Medicine Departement, Zagazig University Hospitals

With advancing age ,there is tremendous heterogenicity of health and function of older individuals .Health service provision for the older adult is an issue of increasing importance, especially in industrialized nations. The over-65s account for ~15% of the population, and it is anticipated that by 2050 the dependence ratio of older people (i.e. those aged ≥ 65 as a proportion of those aged 20–64) will have risen from the current figure of 22% to 46%.Hospital admissions for emergencies have continued to increase year on year, with the largest increases in the over-65s. Indeed, some epidemiologists have concluded that the future of in-patient emergency medical care is the care of the older adult .The human rights of the elderly is a topic that is somewhat neglected. Domestically, this is a dimension that is increasingly taken into account in at least some countries, but often in a haphazard way. Internationally, the debate on the predicament of senior citizens in terms of rights is only beginning.This is not to say that the elderly are not a concern, but that the issue is typically debated through registers, analytical or normative, other than that of human rights: medical, welfare, political, economic . Yet arguably the elderly raise specific issues in terms of human rights and can be said to have distinct “human rights experiences