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POSTOPED: improving surveillance of postoperative delirium in a Scottish tertiary hospital
BMJ Open Quality, 2023 Delirium is the most common postoperative complication among patients over the age of 65 years. It is associated with increased morbidity and is a significant financial cost to healthcare systems.We aimed to improve the detection of delirium on the ...
Keiran Anthony Brown, Alison McCulloch
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Enabling Healthy Aging to AVOID Frailty in Community Dwelling Older Canadians
Canadian Geriatrics Journal, 2022 The Canadian population is aging. With aging, biological and social changes occur increasing the risk of developing chronic conditions and functional loss leading to frailty.
Jananee Rasiah +24 more
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Postgraduate Medical Journal, 2007 Abstract The term “frailty” is used loosely to describe a range of conditions in older people, including general debility and cognitive impairment. There is no clear consensus on the definition of frailty; however, it is proposed that frailty comprises a collection of biomedical factors which influences an individual's physiological ...
Frank, Lally, Peter, Crome
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Scientific Reports, 2022 Pre-operative delirium may cause delay in surgical intervention in older patients hospitalized for hip fracture. Also it has been associated with higher risk of post-surgical complications and worst functional outcomes.
Clarissa Musacchio +10 more
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Association between cognitive impairment and criteria for frailty syndrome among older adults [PDF]
, 2020 OBJECTIVE: The association between cognitive impairment and physical frailty has been studied in older adults. The criteria degree of frailty may be keys to associated cognitive impairment.
Brigola, Allan Gustavo +5 more
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Immunity & Ageing, 2019 Background Ageing is associated with a decline in immune function termed immunosenescence. This process is characterized amongst others by less naive T-cells and more senescent phenotypes, which have been implicated in the pathogenesis of many age ...
Hung Cao Dinh +11 more
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Role of sarcopenia in the frailty transitions in older adults: a population‐based cohort study
Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle, 2022 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.
Alejandro Álvarez‐Bustos +6 more
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Sex Differences in the Association Between Frailty and Sarcopenia in Patients With Cirrhosis. [PDF]
, 2019 ObjectivesFrailty is prevalent in patients with cirrhosis and is hypothesized to result in part from sarcopenia, but the precise contribution of sarcopenia to frailty in this population is poorly understood.MethodsIncluded were patients with cirrhosis ...
Bhanji +17 more
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Journal of Aging Studies, 2022 Taking as a point of departure the role that the category of frailty increasingly plays in the classification, sorting and management of ageing populations in contemporary societies, this paper focuses on the crafting and validation of mouse models of frailty.
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Health Research Policy and Systems, 2023 Background Transdisciplinary research and knowledge translation are increasingly regarded as key concepts underpinning applied research across the health and social sciences, due to their presumed potential in addressing complex, “wicked” problems and ...
Mandy M. Archibald +3 more
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