Minakshi Dhar, Nitin Kapoor, Ketut Suastika, Mohammad E. Khamseh et al.
The South Asian population is rapidly ageing and sarcopenia is likely to become a huge burden in this region if proper action is not taken in time. Several sarcopenia guidelines are available, from the western world and from East Asia. However, these guidelines are not fully relevant for the South A...
Md Ziaul Islam, Tasnim Rahman Disu, Sharmin Farjana, Mohammad Meshbahur Rahman
BACKGROUND: Malnutrition and depression are highly prevalent in older adults and can lead to disparaging outcomes. Analytical studies on geriatric depression (GD) and its association with malnutrition are very scarce in Bangladesh, although the size of the older population is increasing fast in the ...
Mohammad Rahanur Alam, Sushmita Karmokar, Sompa Reza, Md. Ruhul Kabir et al.
Malnutrition is the root of numerous complications ranging from physical disability to mental health problems like depression. Depending on the intensity, depression can lead to emotional fluctuations, even suicidal attempts. Geriatric health in a country like Bangladesh is often ignored, although t...
Anne Hendry, Ana María Carriazo, Eliane Vanhecke, Ángel Rodríguez‐Laso
Frailty is increasingly recognised as a public health priority due to the associated demand for acute and longer term health and social care support, and the impact on the lives of individuals, caregivers and families. Integrated care is widely considered to be most effective when applied to an olde...
Sabuj Kanti Mistry, ARM Mehrab Ali, Uday Narayan Yadav, Saruna Ghimire et al.
BACKGROUND: Burgeoning burden of non-communicable disease among older adults is one of the emerging public health problems. In the COVID-19 pandemic, health services in low- and middle-income countries, including Bangladesh, have been disrupted. This may have posed challenges for older adults with n...
Omar Rahman, Jihong Liu
BACKGROUND: The purpose of this study is to examine gender differences in functional ability among older adults in rural Bangladesh in terms of both self-reported activities of daily living and observed physical performance and to evaluate the extent to which differential reporting by gender contrib...
Moustaq Karim Khan Rony, Mst. Rina Parvin, Md. Wahiduzzaman, Khadiza Akter et al.
Background. With the global trend of increasing life expectancy, the health-related quality of life of older people haspersonalised become an area of significant interest. It is crucial to comprehend the advancements and identify the ongoing challenges in this domain for better health management and...
Tamanna Ferdous, Tommy Cederholm, Abdur Razzaque, Åke Wåhlin et al.
AIM: To investigate the impact of nutritional status on self-reported as well as performance-based indicators of physical function in a rural elderly population in Bangladesh. METHODS: A cross-sectional study conducted in Matlab, Bangladesh, included 457 randomly selected community-living elderly pe...
Yuya Watanabe, Yosuke Yamada, Tsukasa Yoshida, Keiichi Yokoyama et al.
BACKGROUND: In longevity societies, one of the most serious social issues is sarcopenia and/or frailty. Preventing them is important for maintaining independence and quality of life in the older population. This study investigated the effect of a self-monitoring comprehensive geriatric intervention ...
Rahul Malhotra, Md. Ismail Tareque, Ngiap Chuan Tan, Stefan Ma
BACKGROUND Clinicians have increasing access to longitudinal data on hand grip strength (HGS), often measured for frailty or sarcopenia assessment, of their older clients. Evidence on the association of change in HGS with mortality is mixed. We investigated whether baseline hand grip strength (HGS) ...
Luke Mondor, Colleen J. Maxwell, David B. Hogan, Susan E. Bronskill et al.
OBJECTIVE: In this study, we investigated the incremental 1-year direct costs of health care associated with frailty among home care recipients in Ontario with and without dementia. METHODS: We conducted a cohort study of 159,570 home care clients aged 50 years and older in Ontario, Canada in 2014/2...
Afroza Akhter
Background: Substantial racial heterogeneity in diabetes leads to the necessity of conducting epidemiological studies in different communities. Such studies are still inadequate in Bangladeshi population, particularly in truly respective rural areas. The objectives of the study were to estimate the ...
Shraddha Pradhananga, Krishna Regmi, Nasrin Razzaq, Alireza Ettefaghian et al.
OBJECTIVE: There have been few studies in which the prevalence of frailty of different ethnic groups has been assessed in multiethnic countries. The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of frailty in different ethnic groups in the United Kingdom. METHODS: Anonymized electronic health rec...
Roy Rillera Marzo, Praval Khanal, Absar Ahmad, Farooq Azam Rathore et al.
Background: Few studies have explored the determinants of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in the elderly during the COVID-19 pandemic. Identifying these factors may help implement appropriate policies to enhance HRQoL in the elderly. Therefore, we aimed to identify the predictors of physical ...
Mohammad Meshbahur Rahman, Mohammad Hamiduzzaman, Mst. Saleha Akter, Zaki Farhana et al.
BACKGROUND: Frailty is associated with healthy ageing, and it has been identified as a means of measuring older adults' physio-psychosocial health. We know about the ageing trends and common diseases of older adults living in South Asia, but literature to date does not widely feature their health st...