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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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Impact of diet and nutraceutical supplementation on inflammation in elderly people. Results from the RISTOMED study, an open-label randomized control trial. [PDF]

, 2015
BACKGROUND & AIMS: Eating habits may influence the life span and the quality of ageing process by modulating inflammation. The RISTOMED project was developed to provide a personalized and balanced diet, enriched with or without nutraceutical compounds ...
Blanc Bisson, C, Bourdel Marchasson, I, Brigidi, P, Buccolini, F, Béné, Mc, Charrouf, Z, D'Alessio, Pa, Donini, Lorenzo Maria, Franceschi, C, Lochs, H, Ostan, R, Pinto, Alessandro, Pryen, F, Spazzafumo, L, Valentini, L   +14 more
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Frailty in Cardiac Surgery—Assessment Tools, Impact on Outcomes, and Optimisation Strategies: A Narrative Review

Journal of Cardiovascular Development and Disease
Background: Advancements in surgical care have made it possible to offer cardiac surgery to an older and frailer patient cohort. Frailty has been recognised as a prognostic indicator that impacts post-operative recovery and patient outcomes.
Ashwini Chandiramani, Jason M. Ali
doaj   +1 more source

Delayed discharge and frailty, delirium and functional decline

Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2021
We commend Jerath and colleagues on their recent article, particularly for their robust methodology, but were disappointed that they did not address the concepts of frailty, iatrogenic delirium and functional decline.1 The lack of adequate data on the ...
G. Heckman, S. Arthur, Andrew P. Costa
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Differences of expected intervention effects between participant-led and facilitator-led preventive care services in Japan

Hong Kong Journal of Occupational Therapy, 2021
Objective To examine the effect of different management methods on the effectiveness of care preventive programmes for community-dwelling older adults.
Shan Yun, Risa Takashima, Kazuki Yoshida, Daisuke Sawamura, Takao Inoue, Shinya Sakai   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Frailty recommendations and guidelines. An evaluation of implementability and critical appraisal of clinical applicability by the ISPRM Frailty Focus Group

The Journal of the International Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine
Objective:. Aging is associated with an increased burden of multimorbidity and disease-related functional loss and disability, widely impacting patients and health care systems.
Eleftheria Antoniadou, MD, PhD, Emanuele Maria Giusti, PhD, Paolo Capodaglio, MD, Dersheng HAN, MD, Francesca Gimigliano, MD, Juan Manuel Guzman, MD, Mooyeon OhPARK, MD, Walter Frontera, MD   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Throughput delays: causes, predictors, and outcomes – observational cohort in a Swiss emergency department

Swiss Medical Weekly, 2023
BACKGROUND: Optimal throughput times in emergency departments can be adjudicated by emergency physicians. Emergency physicians can also define causes of delays during work-up, such as waiting for imaging, clinical chemistry, consultations, or exit ...
Isabelle Arnold, Jeannette-Marie Busch, Lukas Terhalle, Christian H. Nickel, Roland Bingisser   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

An Internet of Things infrastructure for gait characterization in assisted living environments and its application in the discovery of associations between frailty and cognition

Int. J. Distributed Sens. Networks, 2019
This article presents an easy-to-deploy and low-cost Internet of Things infrastructure for gait characterization based on a set of wireless inertial sensors, called nodes, connected to the same local area network. These nodes allow acquiring inertial raw
Iván González, Fco. Javier Navarro, J. Fontecha, Luis Cabañero-Gómez, R. Hervás   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

662 ENHANCING CARE BY IMPROVING DISCHARGE SUMMARIES

Age and Ageing, 2022
Within the Geriatric Medicine department at the Lister Hospital, Stevenage, the timeliness and quality of discharge summaries had become a source of complaints.
C. Davidson, M. Zaw, R. Loh, C. Grout
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Hematopoietic (stem) cells—The elixir of life?

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
The aging of HSCs (hematopoietic stem cells) and the blood system leads to the decline of other organs. Rejuvenating aged HSCs improves the function of the blood system, slowing the aging of the heart, kidney, brain, and liver, and the occurrence of age‐related diseases.
Emilie L. Cerezo, Jonah Anderson, Emilie Dinh Vedrenne, Noël Yeh Martín, Jette Lengefeld   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source