Aim
To examine the relationship between the number of present and functional teeth at baseline and future incidence of loss of independence.
Methods
Participants were community-dwelling older individuals who participated in a comprehensive geriatric health examination conducted in Kusatsu town, Japan, between 2009 and 2015. The primary endpoint was...
Published in Journal of medical Internet research
Frail older people use emergency services extensively, and digital systems that monitor health remotely could be useful in reducing these visits by earlier detection of worsening health conditions. We aimed to implement a system that produces alerts when the machine learning algorithm identifies a short-term risk for an emergency department (ED) vi...
Published in Health & social care in the community
In Hong Kong, an increasing number of outdoor exercise facilities have been established in public open spaces to promote physical activity (PA) in older adults. However, no intervention is dedicated in educating the public on how to make use of these resources to fulfil the PA guidelines based on behavioural change theory. This study has two phases...
Published in Cancers
The spontaneous regression of testicular germ-cell tumours is a rare event whose mechanisms have yet to be elucidated. In the majority of published cases, tumour regression is concomitant with the metastatic development of the disease. Residual lesions, often referred to as burned-out testicular tumours (BOTTs), are difficult to diagnose due to the...
Published in Journal of the American Medical Directors Association
To identify the optimal cutoff points for poor physical function [measured by a 5-times sit-to-stand (5-STS) test] associated with slowness in community-dwelling older adults and to validate the 5-STS cut points by determining whether they predicted future slowness and clinically relevant health outcomes over a 2-year-follow-up period. Cross-sectio...
Depressive symptoms are complex and are often more severe in older people. However, there is limited research exploring the causal relationships between depression and its associated factors in the geriatric population, particularly in Thailand. We aimed to evaluate the direction of these complex relationships in the Thai population. A cross-sectio...
Published in Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society
Adapting the built-environment to include an accessory-dwelling unit (ADU) is one alternative housing solution for community-dwelling older adults (CDOA) to age-in-place and avoid institutionalization. ADUs are one form of the built-environment in which the field of public health law can intervene to accommodate population aging. Under Massachusett...
Previous studies have frequently reported that those with a driver’s license have better physical and cognitive functions than those without. However, there are many people in the world who do not need or who cannot have a driver’s license. We hypothesized that if the non-driver’s license group had the same or better physical and cognitive function...
Published in Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine
COVID-19’s impact on community-dwelling older adults, especially those in rural and underserved areas, as well as those who are homebound, is of interest to policy makers and clinicians, now and in the future. This study aims to examine the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on community-dwelling older adults with the greatest social and economi...
Published in Frontiers in Endocrinology
