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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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 +3 more
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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 +7 more
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Palliative Care for the Elderly With Heart Diseases in Tertiary Health care: A Concept Analysis
The American journal of hospice & palliative care, 2023 Background The increasing incidence of heart failure (HF) in the elderly leads to increased mortality, hospitalization, length of hospital stay, and health care costs.
Sana Ali, Jane Tyerman
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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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Patients' inability to perform a preoperative cardiopulmonary exercise test or demonstrate an anaerobic threshold is associated with inferior outcomes after major colorectal surgery. [PDF]
, 2013 BACKGROUND: Surgical patients with poor functional capacity, determined by oxygen consumption at anaerobic threshold (AT) during cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET), experience longer hospital stays and worse short- and medium-term survival. However,
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1637 IMPROVING PLANNED CARE IN THE FRAIL AT MORRISTON (IPCF MORRISTON) PHASE 1
Age and Ageing, 2023 The pathway for referral to elective perioperative clinic involves frailty screening patients at the point of referral1. This is adequate If waiting times are short.
K. James +3 more
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Threats to safe transitions from hospital to home: a consensus study in North West London primary care. [PDF]
, 2019 BACKGROUND: Transitions between healthcare settings are vulnerable points for patients. AIM: To identify key threats to safe patient transitions from hospital to primary care settings.
Ashrafian, H. +5 more
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Practical Considerations in the Management of Frail Older People with Diabetes
DiseasesWith increasing life expectancy, the number of older people living with comorbid diabetes and frailty is increasing. The development of frailty accelerates diabetes-related adverse outcomes.
Dima Abdelhafiz, Ahmed Abdelhafiz
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