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Disparities in the use of remote general practice consultations: learning from the COVID-19 pandemic, an analysis of 19 million electronic health records using OpenSAFELY

BMC Medicine
Background Digital technologies are crucial to drive the needed improvement in NHS primary care delivery and access. The impact of these digital interventions on health inequalities remains a critical area of concern and uncertainty.
Abodunrin Q. Aminu, David R. Sinclair, Katie Davies, Alex Hall, Milan Wiedemann, Terence W. O’Neill, Andrew Clegg, Chris Todd   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

YELLOW RoUTIne prospective cohort study protocol: insight in the dynamics of bacteria in the elderly bladder

BMC Infectious Diseases
Background Asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB) – the presence of bacteria in urine without urinary tract infection (UTI) related signs & symptoms (S&S) – is common in the elderly bladder and is not considered pathogenic for UTI.
Ruo Chen Wang, Laura W. Van Buul, Suzanne E. Geerlings, Sabine C. De Greeff, Anja Haenen, Kati Halonen, Daan W. Notermans, E. Ascelijn Reuland, Martin Smalbrugge, Jos W. R. Twisk, Caroline Schneeberger   +10 more
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Polypharmacy in older people

Nippon Ronen Igakkai Zasshi. Japanese Journal of Geriatrics
After the publication of the guidelines about the safe drug therapy for older people in 2015 by the Japan Geriatrics Society, the risk of polypharmacy has become popular. Older people are likely to have multimorbidity, resulting in the use of multiple drugs.
openaire   +2 more sources

Consensus and controversies on post-acute care decision making and referral to geriatric rehabilitation: A national survey

International Journal of Nursing Studies Advances
Background: Transitioning older hospital patients to the appropriate type of post-acute care has become an urgent clinical issue within the context of changing demographics and limited duration of hospital stay.
Aafke J. de Groot, Ewout B. Smit, Dagmar Keizer, Cees M. P. M. Hertogh, Romke van Balen, Johannes C. van der Wouden, Elizabeth M. Wattel   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

A quantitative study on the impact of a community falls pharmacist role, on medicines optimisation in older people at risk of falls

BMC Geriatrics
Background The World Falls guidance includes medication review as part of its recommended multifactorial risk assessment for those at high risk of falling. Use of Falls Risk Increasing Drugs (FRIDs) along with polypharmacy and anticholinergic burden (ACB)
Paula Crawford, Rick Plumb, Paula Burns, Stephen Flanagan, Carole Parsons   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Feasibility of a new transmural care pathway for advance care planning for older persons: A qualitative study into community care registered nurses’ perspectives

International Journal of Nursing Studies Advances
Background: Transmural palliative care interventions aim to identify older persons with palliative care needs and timely provide advance care planning, symptom management, and coordination of care. Nurses can have an important role in these interventions;
Patricia Jepma, Roel Eijk, Annigje A.E. Bos, Noor Toet, Corine H.M. Latour, Bianca M. Buurman, Marjon van Rijn   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Training Cognitive Functions Using DUAL-REHAB, a New Dual-Task Application in MCI and SMC: A Study Protocol of a Randomized Control Trial

Technologies
Background: Current research on Alzheimer’s Disease has progressively focused on Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) as a pre-dementia state, as well as on Subjective Memory Complaint (SMC), as a potential early indicator of cognitive change.
Elisa Pedroli, Francesca Bruni, Valentina Mancuso, Silvia Cavedoni, Francesco Bigotto, Jonathan Panigada, Monica Rossi, Lorenzo Boilini, Karine Goulene, Marco Stramba-Badiale, Silvia Serino   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Improving mortality outcomes in aspiration pneumonia: training, technology and teamwork

BMJ Open Quality, 2022
Stephen Allen, Sebastian Richards-Taylor, Divya Tiwari, Ruth Kitchener, Martina Whiffen   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

NICE guidance, eating disorders and older people. [PDF]

BJPsych Open
Heywood-Everett S, Shirley LJ, Aqsa N, Fitzgerald K, Horsfall R.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Frailty, fragility and falls in older people: What's new? [PDF]

Clin Med (Lond)
Saravanan PP.
europepmc   +1 more source