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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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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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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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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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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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Old age rational suicide [PDF]

, 2017
In the societal debate surrounding voluntary euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide, there is a concern that older people will be left exposed to any legislation, subject to either faint suggestion or outright coercion from familial or professional ...
Richards, Naomi
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Editorial [PDF]

, 2009
This article does not have a description. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis. For the full table of contents for this and previous issues of this journal, please visit the Gender and Development ...
Sweetman, C., Vera-Sanso, Penny
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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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Understanding the gastrointestinal tract of the elderly to develop dietary solutions that prevent malnutrition [PDF]

, 2015
Although the prevalence of malnutrition in the old age is increasing worldwide a synthetic understanding of the impact of aging on the intake, digestion, and absorption of nutrients is still lacking.
Bordoni, Alessandra, Dupont, Didier, Gille, Doreen, Kachal, Josefa, Peyron, Marie-Agnès, Pinto, Paula, Rémond, Didier., Santos, Claudia Nunes Dos, Shahar, Danit R., Tomás-Cobos, Lidia, Vergères, Guy, Walther, Barbara   +11 more
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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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