Rikke Munk Killingmo, Kjersti Storheim, Daniëlle van der Windt, Zinajda Zolic-Karlsson et al.
OBJECTIVES: To describe healthcare utilization and estimate associated costs during 1 year of follow-up among older people seeking primary care due to a new episode back pain and to describe healthcare utilization across patients with different risk profiles stratified using the StarT Back Screening...
Abdul Qadr Akinoso-Imran, Michael O’Rorke, Frank Kee, Haydee Jordão et al.
Older patients with cancer often have lower surgery rates and survival than younger patients, but this may reflect surgical contraindications of advanced disease, comorbidities, and frailty - and not necessarily under-treatment. This review describes variations in surgery rates and observed or net s...
Rashidul Alam Mahumud, Khorshed Alam, Jeff Dunn, Jeff Gow
BACKGROUND: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between the cancer health burden and themagnitude of work disability on cancer survivors in Australia from 2003 to 2017. METHODS: A longitudinal prospective study design was undertaken among cancer patients using data from the Hou...
Emily Hodkinson, F. G. MCCAFFERTY, James N. Scott, R. W. Stout
Physical dependency and mental impairment were assessed in 143 residents of residential accommodation for the elderly and 125 patients in geriatric continuing-care wards in South Belfast. Although dependency, immobility and incontinence were more common in the hospital patients, there was considerab...
Md. Mominur Rahman, Sadia Afsana Mim, Md. Rezaul Islam, Anwar Parvez et al.
Dementia and frailty increase health adversities in older adults, which are topics of growing research interest. Frailty is considered to correspond to a biological syndrome associated with age. Frail patients may ultimately develop multiple dysfunctions across several systems, including stroke, tra...
Charlene H. Chu, Amanda My Linh Quan, Allison Souter, Archanaa Krisnagopal et al.
BACKGROUND: Aging is often associated with increasing functional decline as measured by deterioration in mobility and activities of daily living. Older adults (OAs) living in residential long-term care (LTC) homes in particular may not engage in regular physical exercise, significantly increasing th...
Axelle Costenoble, Veerle Knoop, Aziz Debain, Ivan Bautmans et al.
BACKGROUND: Knowledge opportunities lie ahead as everyday activities, social participation, and psychological resilience might be important predictors for frailty state transitioning in the oldest old. Therefore, this article aims to examine whether changes in basic-, instrumental-, advanced- activi...
Saruna Ghimire, Grish Paudel, Sabuj Kanti Mistry, Mahmood Parvez et al.
BACKGROUND: The high burden of chronic conditions, coupled with various physical, mental, and psychosocial changes that accompany the phenomenon of aging, may limit the functional ability of older adults. This study aims to assess the prevalence of poor functional status and investigate factors asso...
Md. Ismail Tareque, Yasuhiko Saito, Angelique Chan, Abhijit Visaria et al.
Background While older adults with pre-obesity and Class I obesity have similar or lower mortality risk versus those with normal weight, a heavier body mass index (BMI) may not translate into more healthy life years. Utilizing longitudinal data on 3452 older (≥60 years) Singaporeans, we assessed the...
on behalf of the Pre-FIT Study Group, Solveig A. Arnadottir, Julie Bruce, Ranjit Lall et al.
BACKGROUND: The aim was to estimate the prevalence of frailty and relative contribution of physical/balance, nutritive, cognitive and sensory frailty to important adverse health states (falls, physical activity levels, outdoor mobility, problems in self-care or usual activities, and lack of energy o...
Arafat Hassan Razon, Md.Imamul Haque, Md.Foyaj Ahmed, Tanvir Ahmad
BACKGROUND: Old age is one of the vulnerable and prone stages in terms of health status. So this study aimed to assess the nutritional status and common health complications of older people. METHODS: Simplified Nutritional Appetite Questionnaire (SNAQ), Anthropometric measurements, Diet History Meth...
Julie Byles, Md Mijanur Rahman, Emily Princehorn, Elizabeth Holliday et al.
OBJECTIVES: We examined the development of disease and disability in a large cohort of older women, the extent to which these conditions exempt them from being classified as successful agers and different trajectories of disease, disability and longevity across women's later life. METHODS: We used s...
Régis Goulart Rosa, Túlio Frederico Tonietto, Bruno A. Duso, Juçara Gasparetto Maccari et al.
BACKGROUND: Cancer patients may require intensive care support for postoperative care, complications associated with underlying malignancy, or toxicities related to cancer therapy. The higher mortality rates found in this population than in the population of ICU patients without cancer may be attrib...
Rhéda Adekpedjou, Pascale Léon, Omar Dewidar, Ali A. A. Al‐Zubaidi et al.
Background: Frailty, social isolation, loneliness, and poverty may render older adults vulnerable to social or health stressors. It is imperative to identify effective interventions to address them especially in the context of COVID-19 pandemic. Objective: To identify effective community-based inter...
Colin Farrelly
Journal Article Aging Research: Priorities and Aggregation Get access Colin Farrelly Colin Farrelly * Queens University *Corresponding author: Department of Political Studies, Queen's University, 99 University Avenue, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L 3N6. Email: farrelly@queensu.ca Search for other wo...