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Detecting frail, older adults and identifying their strengths: results of a mixed-methods study

BMC Public Health, 2018
Background The debate on frailty in later life focuses primarily on deficits and their associations with adverse (health) outcomes. In addition to deficits, it may also be important to consider the abilities and resources of older adults.
Sarah Dury, Eva Dierckx, Anne van der Vorst, Michaël Van der Elst, Bram Fret, Daan Duppen, Lieve Hoeyberghs, Ellen De Roeck, Deborah Lambotte, An-Sofie Smetcoren, Jos Schols, Gertrudis Kempen, G.A. Rixt Zijlstra, Jan De Lepeleire, Birgitte Schoenmakers, Dominique Verté, Nico De Witte, Tinie Kardol, Peter Paul De Deyn, Sebastiaan Engelborghs, Liesbeth De Donder   +20 more
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Effect of indoor temperature on physical performance in older adults during days with normal temperature and heat waves [PDF]

, 2017
Indoor temperature is relevant with regard to mortality and heat-related self-perceived health problems. The aim of this study was to describe the association between indoor temperature and physical performance in older adults.
Anja Stotz, Clemens Becker, Dawn Skelton, Gillespie, Jochen Klenk, Juha Oksa, Katzman, Kilian Rapp, Nina Beyer, Sawka, Schoon, Ulrich Lindemann   +11 more
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Shared Decision-Making and Patient-Reported Outcome Measures in Valvular Heart Disease

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2022
Patient-centered health care emphasizes shared decision-making (SDM), incorporating both clinical evidence and patient preferences and values. SDM is important in heart valve disease, both because there might be more than one treatment option and due to ...
Sahrai Saeed, Elisabeth Skaar, Andrea Romarheim, John B. Chambers, Øyvind Bleie   +4 more
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1308 VIRTUAL FRAILTY WARD - POST DISCHARGE FRAILTY SUPPORT

Age and Ageing, 2023
In response to the COVID pandemic when new robust discharge criteria were introduced to facilitate early discharge to optimise hospital capacity, Virtual Frailty Ward (VFW) was established.
A. Teo, H. Wright
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Methods of Assessing Frailty in the Critically Ill: A Systematic Review of the Current Literature

Gerontology, 2022
Introduction: As new treatments have become established, more frail pre-ICU patients are being admitted to intensive care units (ICUs); this is creating new challenges to provide adequate care and to ensure that resources are allocated in an ethical and ...
D. Bertschi, J. Waskowski, M. Schilling, Claudia Donatsch, J. Schefold, C. Pfortmueller   +5 more
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The effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of respite for caregivers of frail older people [PDF]

, 2007
The proportion of frail elderly people in the industrialized world is increasing. Respite care is a potentially important way of maintaining the quality of life for these people and their caregivers.
Arksey, Artaso Irigoyen, Baumgarten, Buchner, Burch, Census 2001., Chapko, Clark, Conlin, Covinsky, Derogatis, Donaldson, Feinberg, Fisher, Gaugler, Gaugler, Grant, Grundy, Hedrick, Hirst, Holm, Johnson, Kosloski, Kosloski, Lawton, Lee, Lund, Maher, Montgomery, Montgomery, Montgomery, Montgomery, Montgomery, Niebuhr, Pinquart, Quayhagen, Robertson, Robertson, Rockwood, Rockwood, Rockwood, Sörensen, Undertaking Systematic Reviews of Research on Effectiveness., Walston, Wan, Wells, Wills, Wishart, Yin, Zank, Zarit   +50 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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COVID-19 progression, frailty, and use of prolonged continuous positive airway pressure as a ward-based treatment: Lessons to be learnt from a case

Lung India, 2020
Coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) poses the greatest public health threat in 100 years, with cases rising rapidly in many countries around the world. We report a case of a 78-year-old female who exhibited a biphasic course of COVID-19; showing initial ...
D. Sykes, A. Parthasarthy, O. Brown, M. Crooks, S. Faruqi   +4 more
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Frailty In Older Adults Attending An Outpatient Geriatric Clinic As Measured By The Visual Scale Of Frailty [PDF]

Geriatrics, Gerontology and Aging
BACKGROUND: Existing instruments for the diagnosis of frailty are limited by their focus on mobility evaluation, failure to incorporate comorbidities, and dichotomous classification of patients as frail or non-frail, which hinders adequate identification
Marco Túlio Gualberto Cintra, Felipe Ferreira Guimarães, Cislene Teixeira de Souza, Fernanda Silva Trindade Luz, Érica Dias Murta, Maria Aparecida Camargos Bicalho, Edgar Nunes de Moraes   +6 more
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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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