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Journal of Geriatric Physical Therapy, 2023 Background and Purpose: Despite being associated with serious adverse outcomes, such as mortality, sarcopenia remains largely undiagnosed in older individuals.
L. Verstraeten +3 more
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Factors Determining Mortality in Geriatric Palliative Care Patients
, 2020 Background: As life expectancy at birth increases, the elderly population is growing, both in Turkey and globally. the aim of this study was to investigate the factors associated with 12-month mortality in patients receiving geriatric palliative care ...
Karasahin, Omer +5 more
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Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 2014 The rising prevalence of type 2 diabetes (T2DM) and hypertension in older adults, and the deleterious effect of these conditions on cerebrovascular and brain health, is creating a growing discrepancy between the typical cognitive aging trajectory and a ...
Liesel-Ann Catharine Meusel +11 more
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Identification of depressive disorder among older people in care homes – a feasibility study [PDF]
, 2011 Background: Depression is common among older people but more common among those living in care homes. Depression is not easily detected among older adults because of the presentation, and the tendency for older people not to complain of depression ...
Shaik, K +18 more
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Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 2020 Objectives To analyze whether frailty and comorbidities are associated with in-hospital mortality and discharge to home in older adults hospitalized for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Design Single-center observational study.
S. Hägg +14 more
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Increased activity in frontal motor cortex compensates impaired speech perception in older adults
Nature Communications, 2016 Seniors have difficulties understanding speech in noisy environments and it is known that their brains compensate reduced sensory processing in auditory cortex by engaging prefrontal areas.
Yi Du +3 more
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Geriatrics Evaluation and Management in the Veterans Administration—An Historical Perspective
Geriatrics, 2018 Comprehensive geriatric assessment, defined as an interdisciplinary assessment and development of an overall plan of treatment and follow-up, has become a fundamental part of clinical geriatric care. Since the 1970s, the US Department of Veterans Affairs
James S. Powers, Kathryn J. Eubank
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Nursing students' willingness to work in geriatric care: An integrative review
Nursing Open, 2020 This integrative review aims to explore the willingness of nursing students to work in geriatric care over the past 10 years and to explore the factors influencing nursing students to work in geriatric care.
Feng-Ling Dai +3 more
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What Does “Patient-Centered” Mean? Qualitative Perspectives from Older Adults and Family Caregivers
Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, 2021 This study aimed to (1) examine what patient-centeredness means for older adults and family caregivers, and (2) assess circumstances underlying their preference for geriatric care.
Minakshi Raj PhD +4 more
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Health care for older adults in Europe: how has it evolved and what are the challenges?
, 2022 Geriatric medicine has evolved to an accepted specialty in 23 European countries. Despite much heterogeneity of postgraduate geriatric curricula, European societies have succeeded in defining a common core curriculum with a list of minimum training ...
Stuck, Andreas, Masud, Tahir
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