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Screening for depression in well older adults: evaluation of a short form of the CES-D (Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale).

American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 1994
We derived and tested a short form of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) for reliability and validity among a sample of well older adults in a large Health Maintenance Organization. The 10-item screening questionnaire, the CESD-
E. Andresen, J. Malmgren, W. B. Carter, D.walaa badawy   +3 more
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Actualizing Better Health And Health Care For Older Adults.

Health Affairs, 2021
By 2030 more people in the United States will be older than age sixty-five than younger than age five. Our health care system is unprepared for the complexity of caring for a heterogenous population of older adults-a problem that has been magnified by ...
T. Fulmer, D. Reuben, J. Auerbach, D. Fick, C. Galambos, K. Johnson   +5 more
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Gait Speed and Survival in Older Adults

Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2011
Context Survival estimates help individualize goals of care for geriatric patients, but life tables fail to account for the great variability in survival.
S. Studenski, S. Perera, K. Patel, C. Rosano, K. Faulkner, M. Inzitari, J. Brach, J. Chandler, Peggy Cawthon, E. B. Connor, M. Nevitt, M. Visser, S. Kritchevsky, Stefania Badinelli, T. Harris, A. Newman, J. Cauley, L. Ferrucci, J. Guralnik   +18 more
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Dysphagia in Older Adults.

Mayo Clinic proceedings, 2021
Dysphagia, which is a geriatric syndrome affecting 10% to 33% of older adults, is commonly seen in older adults who have experienced a stroke or neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer or Parkinson disease. Patients diagnosed as having dysphagia can
S. Thiyagalingam, Anne E. Kulinski, Bjorg Thorsteinsdottir, Katrina L Shindelar, P. Takahashi   +4 more
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Thromboembolism in Older Adults [PDF]

Frontiers in Medicine, 2021
Arterial and venous thromboembolism are both more common in older adults. The use of anticoagulants, the mainstay to prevent thromboembolism, requires consideration of the balance between risk and benefit. Such consideration is even more important in the very elderly in whom the risk of anticoagulant-related bleeding and thrombosis are higher.
Gross PL, Chan NC
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‘Real time’ monitoring of antipsychotic prescribing in patients with dementia: a study using the Clinical Record Interactive Search (CRIS) platform to enhance safer prescribing

BMJ Open Quality, 2020
Background The use of antipsychotic drugs in dementia has been reported to be associated with increased risk of cerebrovascular events and mortality.
Robert Stewart, Christoph Mueller, Gayan Perera, Craig Colling, Nicola Funnell, Justin Sauer, Daniel Harwood, Delia Bishara   +7 more
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Symptoms and symptom clusters in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma and commonly used instruments: An integrated review

International Journal of Nursing Sciences
Objective: This study aimed to synthesize the available knowledge of identifying hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) symptoms and symptom clusters in patients with HCC and instruments used for these assessments to maximize symptom management.
Thitiporn Pathomjaruwat, Yaowarat Matchim, Jane M. Armer   +2 more
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Advance care planning with people with dementia: a process evaluation of an educational intervention for general practitioners

BMC Family Practice, 2020
Background General practitioners (GPs) are advised to offer advance care planning (ACP) to people with dementia (PWD). In a randomized controlled trial, an educational intervention for GPs aimed at initiating and optimizing ACP proved to be effective ...
Bram Tilburgs, Raymond Koopmans, Henk Schers, Carolien Smits, Myrra Vernooij-Dassen, Marieke Perry, Yvonne Engels   +6 more
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Methodological description of the mapping of Brazilian long-term care facilities for older adults

Geriatrics, Gerontology and Aging, 2021
OBJECTIVE: To describe the methodological approach adopted to build a database of long-term care facilities (LCTFs) in Brazil. METHODS: This exploratory research was conducted for 12 months, between August 2020 and July 2021, based on primarily publicly ...
Marisa Accioly Rodrigues da Costa Domingues, Patrick Alexander Wachholz, Christiano Barbosa da Silva, Lidiane Charbel Souza Peres, Paula Ferreira Chacon, Polyana Caroline de Lima Bezerra, Sandra Lohmann, Virgilio Garcia Moreira, Yeda Aparecida de Oliveira Duarte, Karla Cristina Giacomin   +9 more
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COVID‐19 and Older Adults: What We Know

Journal of The American Geriatrics Society, 2020
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2), a novel virus that causes COVID‐19 infection, has recently emerged and caused a deadly pandemic.
Zainab Shahid, Ricci Kalayanamitra, Brendan McClafferty, Douglas Kepko, Devyani Ramgobin, Ravi Patel, C. S. Aggarwal, R. Vunnam, N. Sahu, Dhirisha Bhatt, K. Jones, R. Golamari, Rohit Jai̇n   +12 more
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