Blázquez-Andión, Marta Montiel-Dacosta, Josep Anton Rizzi-Bordigoni, Miguel Acosta-Mejuto, Belen Moliné-Pareja, Antoni Ris-Romeu, Josep Puig-Campmany, Mireia
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Archives of gerontology and geriatrics
Frailty assessment allows the identification of patients at risk of death. The aim here was to study the ability of Frail-VIG Index (FI-VIG) in order to discriminate frailty groups of older adults and garner its correlation with mortality in an Emergency-Department Short-Stay Unit (ED-SSU). Our observational, single-center, prospective study consec...
Ramos, Karina Alves Colosimo, Enrico Antônio Duarte, Yeda Aparecida de Oliveira Bof de Andrade, Fabíola
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Archives of gerontology and geriatrics
Polypharmacy, considered as the use of multiple medications, has been one of the factors associated with a higher risk of falls among older adults. However, the association of this factor regardless of the use of Fall-Risk-Increasing Drugs (FRIDs) has not been extensively explored. This study aimed to evaluate the longitudinal association of polyph...
Arias-Rivera, Susana Moro-Tejedor, María Raurell-Torredà, Marta Cortés-Puch, Irene Frutos-Vivar, Fernando Andreu-Vázquez, Cristina Sánchez-Sánchez, María Sánchez-Izquierdo, Raquel Oteiza-López, Lorena López-Cuenca, Sonia
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AIM: To translate and culturally adapt the FRAIL scale into Spanish and perform a preliminary test of diagnostic accuracy in patients admitted to intensive care units. DESIGN: Cross-sectional diagnostic study. METHODS: Five intensive care units (ICU) in Spain were participated. Stage 1: Three native Spanish-speaking bilingual translators familiar w...
Jebara, Tesnime Youngson, Elaine Drummond, Natalie Rushworth, Gordon Pfleger, Sharon Rudd, Ian MacLeod, John Wilson, Martin Bailey, Nicola Cunningham, Scott
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International journal of clinical pharmacy
The World Health Organization predicts that the number of older adults will nearly double between 2015 and 2050. Older adults are at a higher risk of developing medical conditions such as chronic pain. However, there is little information about chronic pain and its management in older adults especially those residing in remote and rural areas. To e...
Spetz, Joanne Chapman, Susan Miller, Jacqueline
Emerging technological advances hold potential to assist the long-term care (LTC) workforce in caring for an aging population in the home and LTC settings. Technology may alter workforce needs and mitigate rising workforce demand. This study identified and assessed emerging technologies that may assist, replace, and/or support recruitment and reten...
Darevsky, David Hu, Daniel Gomez, Francisco Davies, Michael Liu, Xuhui Feeley, Brian
Tears within the stabilizing muscles of the shoulder, known as the rotator cuff (RC), are the most common cause of shoulder pain-often presenting in older patients and requiring expensive advanced imaging for diagnosis. Despite the high prevalence of RC tears within the elderly population, there is no previously published work examining shoulder ki...
de Rond, Veerle; 117680; D'Cruz, Nicholas; 111219; Hulzinga, Femke; McCrum, Christopher; Verschueren, Sabine; 4776; de Xivry, Jean-Jacques Orban; Nieuwboer, Alice; 14581;
Mediolateral weight-shifting is an important aspect of postural control. As it is currently unknown whether a short training session of mediolateral weight-shifting in a virtual reality (VR) environment can improve weight-shifting, we investigated this question and also probed the impact of practice on brain activity. Forty healthy older adults wer...
Esteban-Burgos, Ana Alejandra Hueso-Montoro, César Mota-Romero, Emilio Montoya-Juarez, Rafael Gomez-Batiste, Xavier Garcia-Caro, María Paz
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BMC geriatrics
It is essential to assess the need for palliative care and the life prognosis of elderly nursing home residents with an advanced chronic condition, and the NECPAL ICO-CCOMS©4.0 prognostic instrument may be adequate for both purposes. The objective of this study was to examine the predictive capacity of NECPAL, the Palliative Prognosis Index, and th...
Tin, Adrienne Fohner, Alison Yang, Qiong Brody, Jennifer Davies, Gail Yao, Jie Liu, Dan Caro, Ilana Lindbohm, Joni Duggan, Michael
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Identifying circulating proteins associated with cognitive function may point to biomarkers and molecular process of cognitive impairment. Few studies have investigated the association between circulating proteins and cognitive function. We identify 246 protein measures quantified by the SomaScan assay as associated with cognitive function (p
George, Kristen Gilsanz, Paola Meunier, Claire Peterson, Rachel Hayes-Larson, Eleanor Barnes, Lisa Mungas, Dan Whitmer, Rachel Lor, Yi
OBJECTIVES: Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are associated with higher risk of chronic disease, but little is known about the association with late life cognitive decline. We examined the longitudinal association between ACEs and late-life cognitive decline in the Study of Healthy Aging in African Americans (STAR). DESIGN: Linear mixed models ...
