Food intakes and preferences of hospitalised geriatric patients.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Frailty is a highly recognized geriatric syndrome resulting in decline in reserve across multiple physiological systems. Impaired physical function is one of the major indicators of frailty. The goal of this study was to evaluate an algorithm that discriminates between frailty groups (non-frail and pre-frail...

journal_title：BMC geriatrics

authors： Pradeep Kumar D,Toosizadeh N,Mohler J,Ehsani H,Mannier C,Laksari K

更新日期：2020-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is scientific evidence that preventive physical exercise is effective even in high age. In contrast, there are few opportunities of preventive exercise for highly aged people endangered by or actually in need of care. For example, they would not be able to easily go to training facilities; standard exe...

journal_title：BMC geriatrics

authors： Brach M,Nieder F,Nieder U,Mechling H

更新日期：2009-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Older persons represent a growing share of the population, yet very little is known about their specific healthcare needs, problems, and expectations. IMPROVE is an international research project that seeks to improve elderly persons' involvement in their healthcare. This paper analyzes perceptions of patien...

journal_title：BMC geriatrics

authors： Rotar-Pavlic D,Svab I,Wetzels R

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The prevalence of major depression (MD) according to population studies is the same for old (65 years and older) and younger adults. In contrast, an elevated proportion of old MD patients are hospitalized compared to younger adults with MD, indicating a need to expand the characteristics of old inpatients wi...

journal_title：BMC geriatrics

authors： Gaarden TL,Engedal K,Benth JŠ,Larsen M,Lorentzen B,Mollnes TE,Bjølseth TM,Castellheim A

更新日期：2018-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In 2015 in France, 585,560 people were nursing home residents. A large body of studies has identified predictors of poor quality of life and poor adaptation in institution, mostly for residents without dementia. With 42 to 72% of these residents diagnosed with dementia, it is crucial to identify what factors...

journal_title：BMC geriatrics

authors： Villeneuve R,Meillon C,Bergua V,Tabue-Teguo M,Amieva H

更新日期：2020-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite emerging evidence that foot problems and inappropriate footwear increase the risk of falls, there is little evidence as to whether foot-related intervention strategies can be successfully implemented. The aim of this study was to evaluate adherence rates, barriers to adherence, and the predictors of ...

journal_title：BMC geriatrics

authors： Spink MJ,Fotoohabadi MR,Wee E,Landorf KB,Hill KD,Lord SR,Menz HB

更新日期：2011-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:An increasingly high number of patients admitted to hospital have dementia. Hospital environments can be particularly confusing and challenging for people living with dementia (Plwd) impacting their wellbeing and the ability to optimize their care. Improving the experience of care in hospital has been recogn...

journal_title：BMC geriatrics

authors： Lourida I,Gwernan-Jones R,Abbott R,Rogers M,Green C,Ball S,Hemsley A,Cheeseman D,Clare L,Moore D,Hussey C,Coxon G,Llewellyn DJ,Naldrett T,Thompson Coon J

更新日期：2020-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cross-sectional relationships between physical activity and health have been explored extensively, but less is known about how physical activity changes with time in older people. The aim of this study was to assess baseline predictors of how objectively measured physical activity changes with time in older ...

journal_title：BMC geriatrics

authors： Clarke CL,Sniehotta FF,Vadiveloo T,Argo IS,Donnan PT,McMurdo MET,Witham MD

更新日期：2017-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is a need for more observational studies across different clinical settings to better understand the epidemiology of the novel COVID-19 infection. Evidence on clinical characteristics of COVID-19 infection is scarce in secondary care settings in Western populations. METHODS:We describe the clinical ch...

journal_title：BMC geriatrics

authors： Chinnadurai R,Ogedengbe O,Agarwal P,Money-Coomes S,Abdurrahman AZ,Mohammed S,Kalra PA,Rothwell N,Pradhan S

更新日期：2020-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Risk for falls in older adults has been associated with falls efficacy (self-perceived confidence in performing daily physical activities) and postural balance, but available evidence is limited and mixed. We examined the interaction between falls efficacy and postural balance and its association with future...

journal_title：BMC geriatrics

authors： Pua YH,Ong PH,Clark RA,Matcher DB,Lim EC

更新日期：2017-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Collaborative medication review (CMR) practices for older adults are evolving in many countries. Development has been under way in Finland for over a decade, but no inventory of evolved practices has been conducted. The aim of this study was to identify and describe CMR practices in Finland after 10 years of...

journal_title：BMC geriatrics

authors： Kiiski A,Airaksinen M,Mäntylä A,Desselle S,Kumpusalo-Vauhkonen A,Järvensivu T,Pohjanoksa-Mäntylä M

更新日期：2019-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Our research sought to understand how falls risk, cognitive function, and daily function are associated with health related quality of life (using the EuroQol-5D) and quality of life (using the ICECAP-O) among older adults with mobility impairments. METHODS:The EQ-5D and ICECAP-O were administered at 12 mon...

journal_title：BMC geriatrics

authors： Davis JC,Bryan S,McLeod R,Rogers J,Khan K,Liu-Ambrose T

更新日期：2012-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Existing group exercise programmes, or other services offered to maintain physical activity levels, are typically not developed specifically for older adults with dementia. The aim of this study was to gain knowledge about perceptions of a newly developed volunteer supported group exercise programme for olde...

journal_title：BMC geriatrics

authors： Taraldsen K,Boulton E,Helbostad JL,Saltvedt I,Granbo R

更新日期：2020-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Involving nursing home patients and their relatives in end-of-life care conversations and treatment decisions has recently gained increased importance in several Western countries. However, there is little knowledge about how the patients themselves and their next-of-kin look upon involvement in end-of-life ...

journal_title：BMC geriatrics

authors： Gjerberg E,Lillemoen L,Førde R,Pedersen R

更新日期：2015-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mechanisms linking cognitive and physical functioning in older adults are unclear. We sought to determine whether brain pathological changes relate to the level or rate of physical performance decline. METHODS:This study analyzed data from 305 participants in the autopsy subcohort of the prospective Adult C...

journal_title：BMC geriatrics

authors： LaCroix AZ,Hubbard RA,Gray SL,Anderson ML,Crane PK,Sonnen JA,Zaslavsky O,Larson EB

更新日期：2017-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Statins play an important role in the care of patients with cardiovascular disease and have a good safety record in clinical practice. Hepatotoxicity is a barrier that limits the ability of primary care physicians to prescribe statins for patients with elevated liver transaminase values and/or underlying liv...

journal_title：BMC geriatrics

authors： Guo M,Zhao J,Zhai Y,Zang P,Lv Q,Shang D

更新日期：2019-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Physical inactivity is a health issue that often occurs after serious disaster. Social factors, which can be disrupted by disaster, are important determinants of physical activity levels in everyday living. This study was designed to confirm the association between social factors and physical activity among ...

journal_title：BMC geriatrics

authors： Yoshimura E,Ishikawa-Takata K,Murakami H,Tsuboyama-Kasaoka N,Tsubota-Utsugi M,Miyachi M,Yokoyama Y,Sakata K,Kobayashi S,Ogawa A,Nishi N

更新日期：2016-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Turning is a common activity for older people, and is one of the activities commonly associated with falls during walking. Falls that occur while walking and turning have also been associated with an increased risk of hip fracture in older people. Despite the importance of stability during turning, there has...

journal_title：BMC geriatrics

authors： Asmidawati A,Hamid TA,Hussain RM,Hill KD

更新日期：2014-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous studies suggest that psychotropic drug changes may signal an acute period of time whereby a person is highly vulnerable to fall. It is unknown whether certain classes of psychotropic agents are less safe with respect to the acute risk of falls. Our purpose was to compare fall rates in the 7 days fol...

journal_title：BMC geriatrics

authors： Echt MA,Samelson EJ,Hannan MT,Dufour AB,Berry SD

更新日期：2013-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Deprescribing is a partnership between practitioners, patients and caregivers. External characteristics including age, comorbidities and polypharmacy are poor predictors of attitude towards deprescribing. This hospital-based study aimed to describe the desire of patients and caregivers to be involved in medi...

journal_title：BMC geriatrics

authors： Scott S,Clark A,Farrow C,May H,Patel M,Twigg MJ,Wright DJ,Bhattacharya D

更新日期：2019-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Meperidine (pethidine) is an opioid analgesic that offers little advantage relative to other opioids and several disadvantages including limited potency, short duration of action, and the production of a neurotoxic metabolite (normeperidine) with a long half-life. Older adults are more sensitive to meperidin...

journal_title：BMC geriatrics

authors： Friesen KJ,Falk J,Bugden S

更新日期：2016-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Effective fall prevention exercise for community-dwelling older adults requires (i) challenging balance exercise, (ii) offered at least 3 hrs/ week, and (iii) on an ongoing basis, to reduce falls. Community exercise programs are a potential implementation strategy for fall prevention exercise; however, the e...

journal_title：BMC geriatrics

authors： Sibley KM,Touchette AJ,Singer JC,Dubberley KMA,Oates AR

更新日期：2019-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Due to the gradual loss of function, it is crucial for persons with dementia to discuss advance care planning in due course. However, nursing home staff, residents and their families feel uncomfortable to start this type of conversation, resulting in unknown (care) preferences. 'We DECide optimized' will pro...

journal_title：BMC geriatrics

authors： Goossens B,Sevenants A,Declercq A,Van Audenhove C

更新日期：2019-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:People with dementia describe experiences of loss that threaten their autonomy and ability to contribute to society. They often have difficulties with orientation, loss of roll function, and fear about the future, and need help from others. An increasing body of literature also focuses on how people with dem...

journal_title：BMC geriatrics

authors： Bjørkløf GH,Helvik AS,Ibsen TL,Telenius EW,Grov EK,Eriksen S

更新日期：2019-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Whilst many studies have analysed predictors of longitudinal cognitive decline, few have described their impact on population distributions of cognition by age cohort. The aim of this paper was to examine whether gender, education, social class and birth cohort affect how mean population cognition changes wi...

journal_title：BMC geriatrics

authors： Matthews F,Marioni R,Brayne C,Medical Research Council Cognitive Function and Ageing Study.

更新日期：2012-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recovery outlooks of physical functioning and quality of life after hip fracture have not changed significantly over the past 25 years. Previous research has mainly dealt with causalities and acute treatment, while the recovery process from the patients' perspective has been less comprehensively described. E...

journal_title：BMC geriatrics

authors： Bruun-Olsen V,Bergland A,Heiberg KE

更新日期：2018-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Research indicates that exercise can have a positive effect on both physical and mental health in nursing home patients with dementia, however the lasting effect is rarely studied. In a previously published article we investigated the immediate effect of a 12 weeks functional exercise program on physical fun...

journal_title：BMC geriatrics

authors： Telenius EW,Engedal K,Bergland A

更新日期：2015-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Frailty represents a public health priority and an increasingly prevalent condition in the ageing population. It is seen as reflecting an interaction among individual factors and a range of environmental elements. This study aims to examine the association between frailty and individual factors, physical and...

journal_title：BMC geriatrics

authors： Ye B,Gao J,Fu H

更新日期：2018-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sarcopenia often accompanies osteoarthritis (OA), which is managed by total knee arthroplasty (TKA) in the late stage. Recent studies have suggested a higher risk of post-operative complications after TKA in sarcopenic OA subjects, but whether TKA can benefit them similar to non-sarcopenic subjects remains u...

journal_title：BMC geriatrics

authors： Ho KK,Lau LC,Chau WW,Poon Q,Chung KY,Wong RM

更新日期：2021-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Social wellbeing factors such as loneliness and social support have a major impact on the health of older adults and can contribute to physical and mental wellbeing. However, with increasing age, social contacts and social support typically decrease and levels of loneliness increase. Group social engagement ...

journal_title：BMC geriatrics

authors： Lindsay-Smith G,O'Sullivan G,Eime R,Harvey J,van Uffelen JGZ

更新日期：2018-09-24 00:00:00