Sofie Vermeiren, Roberta Vella-Azzopardi, David Beckwée, Ann-Katrin Habbig et al.
Introduction Frailty is one of the most important concerns regarding our aging population. Evidence grows that the syndrome is linked to several important health outcomes. A general overview of frailty concepts and a comprehensive meta-analysis of their relation with negative health outcomes still l...
Darryl P. Leong, Koon Teo, Sumathy Rangarajan, V. Raman Kutty et al.
Abstract Background The measurement of handgrip strength (HGS) has prognostic value with respect to all‐cause mortality, cardiovascular mortality and cardiovascular disease, and is an important part of the evaluation of frailty. Published reference ranges for HGS are mostly derived from Caucasian po...
Daren K. Heyland, Allan Garland, Sean M. Bagshaw, Deborah Cook et al.
Purpose Increasingly, very old patients are admitted to Intensive Care Units (ICUs). The objective of this study was to describe 12-month outcomes of these patients and determine which characteristics are associated with a return to baseline physical function 1 year later. Methods In this prospectiv...
Paul Kowal, Kathleen Kahn, Nawi Ng, Nirmala Naidoo et al.
BACKGROUND: Globally, ageing impacts all countries, with a majority of older persons residing in lower- and middle-income countries now and into the future. An understanding of the health and well-being of these ageing populations is important for policy and planning; however, research on ageing and...
Lisa M Force, Jonathan M Kocarnik, Miranda L May, Kayleigh Bhangdia et al.
Background Cancer is a leading cause of death globally. Accurate cancer burden information is crucial for policy planning, but many countries lack up-to-date cancer surveillance data. To inform global cancer-control efforts, we used the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GB...
Jennifer Tjia, Sarah J. Velten, Carole Parsons, Sruthi Valluri et al.
Background Overuse of unnecessary medications in frail older adults with limited life expectancy remains an understudied challenge. Objective To identify intervention studies that reduced use of unnecessary medications in frail older adults. A secondary goal was to identify and review studies focusi...
Derek King, Raphael Wittenberg, Anita Patel, Zahidul Quayyum et al.
BACKGROUND: we project incidence and prevalence of stroke in the UK and associated costs to society to 2035. We include future costs of health care, social care, unpaid care and lost productivity, drawing on recent estimates that there are almost 1 million people living with stroke and the current c...
John Muscedere, Melissa K. Andrew, Sean M. Bagshaw, Carole A. Estabrooks et al.
RÉSUMÉ Avec le vieillissement de la population canadienne, la fragilité – avec son risque accru du déclin fonctionnel, la détérioration de la santé, et le décès – devient de plus en plus répandue. La physiologie de la fragilité reflète son origine parmi organes et systèmes multiples. Environ un quar...
Zarina Nahar Kabir, Tamanna Ferdous, Tommy Cederholm, Masuma Akter Khanam et al.
ObjectiveIn stating the Millennium Development Goals, the United Nations aims to halve malnutrition around the world by 2015. Nutritional status of the elderly population in low-income countries is seldom focused upon. The present study aimed to evaluate the magnitude of malnutrition among an elderl...
Alejandro Álvarez‐Bustos, Jose Antonio Carnicero‐Carreño, Juan Luis Sánchez‐Sánchez, Francisco Javier Garcia‐Garcia et al.
BACKGROUND: The association between frailty and adverse outcomes has been clearly defined. Frailty is associated with age, but different frailty evolution patterns might determine the incidence of adverse outcomes at older ages. So far, few observational studies have examined how distinct frailty tr...
Mohammad Shafiqur Rahman, Gareth Ambler, Babak Choodari‐Oskooei, Rumana Omar
BACKGROUND: When developing a prediction model for survival data it is essential to validate its performance in external validation settings using appropriate performance measures. Although a number of such measures have been proposed, there is only limited guidance regarding their use in the contex...
Devinder Kaur Ajit Singh, Zahara Abdul Manaf, Suzana Shahar, Noor Aini Mohd Yusoff et al.
PURPOSE: The consequences of combined undernourishment and decreased physical performance in older adults are debilitating and increases cost of care. To date, the information regarding the association between nutritional status and physical performance does not provide a complete picture. Most stud...
Alejandro Álvarez‐Bustos, Jose Antonio Carnicero‐Carreño, Betty Davies, Francisco Javier Garcia‐Garcia et al.
BACKGROUND: Frailty and sarcopenia are age-associated syndromes that have been associated with the risk of several adverse events, mainly functional decline and death, that usually coexist. However, the potential role of one of them (sarcopenia) in modulating some of those adverse events associated ...
Mark McCann, Michael Donnelly, Dermot O’Reilly
OBJECTIVE: to assess the separate contributions of marital status, living arrangements and the presence of children to subsequent admission to a care home. DESIGN AND METHODS: a longitudinal study derived from the health card registration system and linked to the 2001 Census, comprising 28% of the N...
Hoimonty Mazumder, Md Mahbub Hossain, Anupom Das
Geriatric care in public health emergencies is a serious concern, while, high case-fatalities among older adults across the globe in COVID-19 pandemic implies lack of preparedness. Most of the countries irrespective of developing and developed one enormously struggling because of an inchoate respons...