Jana Hoozová, Štefan Krajčík
A tendency to complications is a typical feature of diseases in elderly patients. The reason is multimorbidity and a low functional reserve of an elderly organism changed by involution. The complications in geriatrics are divided into causal and non-specific. In causal complications usually an acute illness decompensates chronic, stabilized diseases. Non-specific complications are so-called geriatric syndromes characterized by multicausal aetiology, chronic course, functional disability and non-existence of a simple causal treatment. A medical complication in geriatrics might also be a social complication and the social status demarks the health and availability of geriatric health care. The clinically most important complications of diseases in geriatrics are described in this _article.