Chewing Difficulty Should be Included as a Geriatric Syndrome [PDF]
Recent studies have noted an association between chewing difficulties and frailty. In a pilot survey of primary care needs of older people living in the community using automated methods, we examined the prevalence of chewing difficulties and the cross ...
, Cecilia Tong, Ruby Yu
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Slowing: A Vascular Geriatric Syndrome? [PDF]
This study aimed to investigate the interrelation between slowing in walking, thinking and mood, and their relationship with cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD) in a geriatric population.Cross-sectional study.566 geriatric outpatients from the Amsterdam Aging Cohort (49% female; age 79 ±6 years), who visited the Amsterdam UMC geriatric outpatient ...
van de Schraaf, Sara A. J. +8 more
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Kampo Medicine for Various Aging-Related Symptoms: A Review of Geriatric Syndrome [PDF]
With the continued growth of the aging population in Japan, geriatric syndrome (GS), which is associated with aging-related symptoms, has become a social problem.
Shin Takayama +13 more
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Research progress on osteoporosis with common geriatric syndromes [PDF]
Osteoporosis is common in elderly population. The risk of falls and bone fractures in elderly patients with osteoporosis are closely related to the elderly syndrome[1]. This article introduces the coexistence of osteoporosis and geriatric syndrome, which
LI Miao, LI Rui, CHENG Xinchun
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A Pilot Study of the Effects on an Inpatient Geriatric Consultation Team on Geriatric Syndrome Patients [PDF]
Song-Seng Loke,1 Chien-Te Lee,2 Shan Huang,3 Chao-Tung Chen4 1Division of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Family Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan; 2Division of ...
Loke SS, Lee CT, Huang S, Chen CT
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Correlation between metabolic syndrome indicators and locomotive syndrome in Chinese geriatric oncology inpatients [PDF]
ObjectiveTo investigate the correlation between metabolic syndrome (MS) indicators and locomotive syndrome (LS) in geriatric oncology inpatients.MethodsThis study enrolled 430 geriatric oncology inpatients at risk of LS, admitted to the Department of ...
Ling Song +8 more
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Is COVID-19 really a geriatric syndrome? [PDF]
Mohammad Amin Akbarzadeh +1 more
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Gerontic and geriatric protectors at the provincial geriatric center of Las Tunas [PDF]
Background: frail elderly people require gerontic and geriatric protectors that allow them to guarantee vital functions to preserve their quality of life or at least to live with dignity, besides facilitating the care tasks to their caregivers.Objective:
Luis Mengana-Castillo +2 more
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Effectiveness of a far‐infrared low‐temperature sauna program on geriatric syndrome and frailty in community‐dwelling older people [PDF]
Masamitsu Sugie +2 more
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: HIV infection, in many circumstances, can now be managed as a chronic disease due to the marked increase in life expectancy since the introduction of combination antiretroviral therapy (ART). As the patients who first had access to combination ART age into their 50s and 60s, the effects of chronic HIV infection on health have become an important ...
Jennifer Kim, Sally Miller
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