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Barriers and facilitators to participation in exercise prehabilitation before cancer surgery for older adults with frailty: a qualitative study

BMC Geriatrics, 2023
Background Older adults with frailty are at an increased risk of adverse outcomes after surgery. Exercise before surgery (exercise prehabilitation) may reduce adverse events and improve recovery after surgery.
Keely Barnes, Emily Hladkowicz, Kristin Dorrance, Gregory L. Bryson, Alan J. Forster, Sylvain Gagné, Allen Huang, Manoj M. Lalu, Luke T. Lavallée, Chelsey Saunders, Hussein Moloo, Julie Nantel, Barbara Power, Celena Scheede-Bergdahl, Monica Taljaard, Carl van Walraven, Colin J. L. McCartney, Daniel I. McIsaac   +17 more
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End-of-life care for non-cancer patients [PDF]

, 2013
[Extract]: The origins and early development of palliative care focussed on patients with cancer, apart from sporadic developments in a few non-malignant diseases such as MND and HIV.
Boland, Jason, Johnson, Miriam J.
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Adherence to the therapeutic guidelines recommendations among the people with type 2 diabetes mellitus and obesity, frailty, or recent diagnosis, attended in primary health care centers in Spain: A cross-sectional study

Frontiers in Medicine, 2023
IntroductionClinical practice guidelines are helpful for clinicians, and their proper implementation could improve the quality of care and management of participants with diabetes.
Bogdan Vlacho, Bogdan Vlacho, Bogdan Vlacho, Manel Mata-Cases, Manel Mata-Cases, Manel Mata-Cases, Berta Fernandez-Camins, Berta Fernandez-Camins, Laura Romera Liébana, Laura Romera Liébana, Joan Barrot-de la Puente, Joan Barrot-de la Puente, Josep Franch-Nadal, Josep Franch-Nadal, Josep Franch-Nadal   +14 more
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Quality of life and building design in residential and nursing homes for older people [PDF]

, 2004
Older people living in residential and nursing care homes spend a large proportion of their time within the boundaries of the home, and may depend on the environment to compensate for their physical or cognitive frailties.
Barnes, S., McKee, K., Morgan, K., Parker, C., Torrington, J., Tregenza, P.   +5 more
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Optimising nutrition in residential aged care: A narrative review [PDF]

, 2016
In developed countries the prevalence of protein-energy malnutrition increases with age and multi-morbidities increase nutritional risk in aged care residents in particular.
Agarwal, Ekta, Isenring, Elisabeth, Marshall, Skye, Miller, Michelle   +3 more
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Sarcopenia and the syndrome of frailty

The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine, 2016
Sarcopenia is the process of loss of body mass, specifically the musculoskeletal tissue, with age, which ultimately leads to a syndrome of clinical entity poorly defined as frailty. It is probably as old as humanity itself.
Ajay Kumar Gupta, Siddhartha Mishra
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Physiological monitoring in the complex multi-morbid heart failure patient - Introduction. [PDF]

, 2019
Repeated physiological monitoring of comorbidities in heart failure (HF) is pivotal. This document introduces the main challenges related to physiological monitoring in the complex multimorbid HF patient, arising during an ESC consensus meeting on this ...
Rosano, GMC, Seferović, PM
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Is the timed-up and go test feasible in mobile devices? A systematic review [PDF]

, 2020
The number of older adults is increasing worldwide, and it is expected that by 2050 over 2 billion individuals will be more than 60 years old. Older adults are exposed to numerous pathological problems such as Parkinson’s disease, amyotrophic lateral ...
Garcia, Nuno, Marques, Gonçalo, Pires, Ivan, Pombo, Nuno, Ponciano, Vasco, Ribeiro, Fernando Reinaldo, Spinsante, Susanna, Zdravevski, Eftim   +7 more
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Progressive Dwindling in Multiple Sclerosis: An Opportunity to Improve Care [PDF]

, 2016
Introduction In the general ageing population, 40% of deaths occur following a prolonged trajectory of “progressive dwindling,” characterised by chronic accumulation of disability and frailty, and associated with increased dependency and reduced ...
Martin, J, Nicholas, R, Raffel, JB
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Polypharmacy and potentially inappropriate medication use in geriatric oncology. [PDF]

, 2016
Polypharmacy is a highly prevalent problem in older persons, and is challenging to assess and improve due to variations in definitions of the problem and the heterogeneous methods of medication review and reduction.
Aparicio, Appleton, Badgwell, Balducci, Budnitz, Bushardt, Caillet, Currow, de Glas, Dimitrow, Elliot, Fede, Freyer, Fried, Gajra, Gillette, Gnjidic, Gu, Guaraldo, Guthrie, Gómez, Hajjar, Hamaker, Hanigan, Hanlon, Hilmer, Horgan, Hovstadius, Huiart, Hurria, Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Identifying Priority Areas for Quality Improvement, Iyer, Jolly, Kalsi, Kanesvaran, Kantor, Kierner, Kim, Klepin, Kohn, Kohn, Korc-Grodzicki, Kouladjian, Lees, Maggiore, Maggiore, Nightingale, O'Mahony, Palumbo, Panel, Parks, Patterson, Payne, Prithviraj, Riechelmann, Saarelainen, Samsa, Scott, Sehgal, Shah, Todd, Todd, Turner, Turner, Woopen, Şenel   +65 more
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