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Geospatial panorama of long-term care facilities in Brazil: a portrait of territorial inequalities
Geriatrics, Gerontology and Aging, 2022 OBJECTIVES: To map the number and geospatial distribution of Brazilian long-term care facilities (LTCFs) for older adults. Additionally, we sought to highlight the relationship between these findings and the number of older people in the country's 27 ...
Tatiana Teixeira Barral de Lacerda +9 more
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Advances in Skin & Wound Care, 2022 Xerosis, also referred to as dry skin, affects 30% to 99.1% of people older than 60 years.1,2 Xerosis is usually caused by a lack of epidermal lipids and is the most common cause of pruritus in the older adult.2,3 Pruritus can result in excessive scratching, skin injury, skin tears, wounds, secondary infection, discomfort, and pain and can have a ...
Dalgleish, Lizanne, Campbell, Jill
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Quality of life of an elderly person in the conditions of urban space [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2020 The article considers the problem of the quality of life of the elderly in the city. A high-quality innovative urban environment is understood as a safe, comfortable space for living and recreation using smart city (home) technologies, adapted for all ...
Antipanova Olga A., Barysheva Galina A.
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Schizophrenia in Older Adults [PDF]
Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services, 2011 Although the number of people older than 55 with schizophrenia is expected to double during the next 20 years, the research data on older adults with schizophrenia are limited. This appears to be because until the middle of the 20th century, it was assumed that mental illness in older adults was a part of the aging process and because older adults are ...
Collier, Elizabeth, Sorrell, Jeanne
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BMC Health Services Research, 2022 Background and objectives COVID-19 disproportionally affects older adults living in nursing homes. The purpose of this review was to explore and map the scientific literature on the health impact of COVID-19 and related restrictive measures during the ...
Marjolein E. A. Verbiest +5 more
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Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications, 2021 Introduction: Schema therapy (ST) is an efficacious psychotherapy for personality disorders (PDs) in adults. The first empirical support for the effectiveness of ST in older adults with cluster C PDs was provided recently.
L. van Donzel +4 more
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Insomnia in the Older Adult [PDF]
Sleep Medicine Clinics, 2018 Although insomnia is not a normal part of the aging process, its prevalence increases with age. Factors such as medications and medical and psychiatric disorders can increase the risk for insomnia. To diagnose insomnia, it is important for older adults to complete comprehensive sleep and health histories.
Brewster, Glenna S. +2 more
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Sexuality and the Older Adult [PDF]
Current Psychiatry Reports, 2019 This paper provides an overview of biopsychosocial components of sexuality in older adults, sexual expression in older LGBTQ and cognitively impaired adults, and inappropriate sexual behaviors (ISBs) in dementia.Sexual expression of older adults is influenced by diverse psychosocial and biologic determinants including ageist beliefs.
Srinivasan, Shilpa +4 more
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Alzheimer’s Research & Therapy, 2023 Background Subjective cognitive complaints (SCC) have been mostly studied in the context of Alzheimer’s disease in memory clinic settings. The potential of combining SCC with genetic information and blood biomarkers of neurodegenerative diseases for risk
Laura Perna +14 more
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BMC Geriatrics, 2023 Background For older adults (≥ 70 years), it is often challenging to maintain new nutrition and physical activity behaviours learned in rehabilitation.
Lisa Happe +4 more
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