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  1. Malnutrition of older individuals, leads to significant functional decline, reducing their quality of life. Lifestyle interventions; dietary improvements and supplementation are explored to enhance the physica...

    Authors: Ranil Jayawardena, Kalani Weerasinghe, Manoja Gamage and Andrew P. Hills
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:566
  2. Research examining the healthy aging trajectory of retired older adults with multimorbidity is limited, leaving uncertainties regarding the optimal physical activity (PA) intensity and frequency necessary to s...

    Authors: Nnaelue Godfrey Ojijieme, Tieying Feng, Chin Man Chui, Xinzhu Qi and Yuan Liu
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:565
  3. Breast cancer and frailty frequently co-occur in older women, and frailty status has been shown to predict negative health outcomes. However, the extent to which frailty assessments are utilized in observation...

    Authors: Dafne N. Sanchez, Marloes G. M. Derks, Jose A. Verstijnen, Dominik Menges, Johanneke E. A. Portielje, Frederiek Van den Bos and Esther Bastiaannet
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:563
  4. General practitioners (GPs) have a central role to play on reduction of polypharmacy and deprescribing. This study aimed to assess beliefs and attitudes towards deprescribing in patients, aged 65 years or olde...

    Authors: Thibaut Geremie, Candy Guiguet-Auclair, Marie Laure Laroche, Pierre Mely, Laurent Gerbaud and Marie Blanquet
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:562
  5. 40–60% of persons living with dementia (PLWD) experience agitation and/or aggression symptoms. There is a need to understand the best method to detect agitation and/or aggression in PLWD. We aimed to identify ...

    Authors: Britney Wong, Pauline Wu, Zahinoor Ismail, Jennifer Watt and Zahra Goodarzi
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:559
  6. Quantifying the informal caregiver burden is important for understanding the risk factors associated with caregiver overload and for evaluating the effectiveness of services provided in Long-term Care (LTC).

    Authors: Shuo-Chen Chien, Yu-Hung Chang, Chia-Ming Yen, Ying-Erh Chen, Chia-Chun Liu, Yu-Ping Hsiao, Ping-Yen Yang, Hong-Ming Lin, Tsung-En Yang, Xing-Hua Lu, I-Chien Wu, Chih-Cheng Hsu, Hung-Yi Chiou and Ren-Hua Chung
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:558
  7. Polypharmacy in older adults with cancer receiving chemotherapy leads to increased risks of drug interactions, translating in potential hazardous health outcomes. This study aims to assess the prevalence of po...

    Authors: Rita F. Oliveira, Ana I. Oliveira, Agostinho S. Cruz, Oscar Ribeiro, Vera Afreixo and Francisco Pimentel
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:557
  8. Pain is common in older individuals. In order to understand and treat pain in this group, reliable and valid measures are needed. This study aimed to evaluate: (1) the validity, utility, incorrect response rat...

    Authors: Sasikaan Nimmaanrat, Arpawan Thepsuwan, Suttipong Tipchatyotin and Mark P. Jensen
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:556
  9. The ageing population and the rise of persons with dementia (PWD) living at home have increased the need for support by family caregivers (FC). Research suggests that most FCs are unprepared for the complex ro...

    Authors: Aber Sharon Kagwa, Åsa Dorell, Hanne Konradsen, Sofia Vikström and Zarina Nahar Kabir
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:554
  10. Intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC) has a poor prognosis and is understudied. Based on the clinical features of patients with ICC, we constructed machine learning models to understand their importance on sur...

    Authors: Jie Shen, Dashuai Yang, Yu Zhou, Junpeng Pei, Zhongkai Wu, Xin Wang, Kailiang Zhao and Youming Ding
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:553
  11. To clarify the mechanisms of interventions addressing loneliness and social isolation in older adults living in nursing homes through the involvement of primary and secondary informal caregivers.

    Authors: Dominique Autschbach, Anika Hagedorn and Margareta Halek
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:552
  12. Although a growing body of literature documents the importance of neighborhood effects on late-life cognition, little is known about the relative strength of objective and subjective neighborhood measures on l...

    Authors: Jinshil Hyun, Gina S. Lovasi, Mindy J. Katz, Carol A. Derby, Richard B. Lipton and Martin J. Sliwinski
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:551
  13. Potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs) are common among older adults with cancer, but their association with overall survival (OS) among non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients remains unclear. This ...

    Authors: Zhuo Ma, Man Xu, Mengyuan Fu, Tao Huang, Luwen Shi, Yuhui Zhang and Xiaodong Guan
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:550
  14. Surgery in geriatric patients often poses risk of major postoperative complications. Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common complication following noncardiac surgery and is associated with increased mortality. ...

    Authors: Xiran Peng, Tao Zhu, Qixu Chen, Yuewen Zhang, Ruihao Zhou, Ke Li and Xuechao Hao
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:549
  15. A prevalent challenge in neuropsychological assessment, particularly when utilizing instruments designed for controlled laboratory environments, is that the outcomes may not correspond to an individual’s real-...

    Authors: Zahra Mirchi, Mohammad Taghi Kheirkhah, Reza Khosrowabadi, Javad Salehi Fadardi and Mojdeh Ramezani
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:548
  16. The global aging population presents challenges that are particularly acute in China. Older Chinese adults’ attitudes towards death significantly impact their quality of life. Death education is crucial for pr...

    Authors: Xifeng Xie, Li Zhou, Xiaoling Zhang, Huina Zou, Yuanfeng Lu and Huimin Xiao
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:547
  17. There is emerging agreement that living in a home designed to support healthy cognitive ageing can enable people to live better with dementia and cognitive change. However, existing literature has used a varie...

    Authors: Alison Bowes, Lisa Davison, Alison Dawson and Catherine Pemble
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:546
  18. Late-life depression (LLD) is a prevalent neuropsychiatric disorder in the older population. While LLD exhibits high mortality rates, depressive symptoms in older adults are often masked by physical health con...

    Authors: Yao-Tung Lee, Yi-Hsuan Chang, Hsu-Jung Tsai, Shu-Ping Chao, David Yen-Ting Chen, Jui-Tai Chen, Yih‐Giun Cherng and Chin-An Wang
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:545
  19. The accelerated growth of older individuals worldwide has increased the number of patients presenting with fragility hip fractures. Having a hip fracture can cause excess mortality, and patients with hip fract...

    Authors: Youliang Hao, Ruideng Wang, Zhengyang Chen, Fang Zhou, Hongquan Ji, Yun Tian, Zhishan Zhang, Yan Guo, Yang Lv, Zhongwei Yang and Guojin Hou
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:544
  20. Emerging evidence suggests that alterations in BCAA metabolism may contribute to the pathogenesis of sarcopenia. However, the relationship between branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs) and sarcopenia is incomplet...

    Authors: HuiMin Liu, Qiang Zhang, QianMeng Hao, QingSheng Li, LingFei Yang, Xuan Yang, KaiXin Wang, JunFang Teng, Zhe Gong and YanJie Jia
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:541
  21. Perioperative myocardial injury/infarction (PMI) following noncardiac surgery is a frequent cardiac complication. This study aims to evaluate PMI risk and explore preoperative assessment tools of PMI in patien...

    Authors: Shaozhi Xi, Bin Wang, Yanhui Su, Yan Lu and Linggen Gao
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:540
  22. Increase in functional disability in aging societies is an international medical and public health issue. Masticatory function may be a potential risk factor for functional disability, but the role of frailty ...

    Authors: Hiroko Furuhashi, Takanori Honda, Yoshihiko Furuta, Shoko Tomooka, Takahiro Tajimi, Yasumi Kimura, Daigo Yoshida and Toshiharu Ninomiya
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:538
  23. As older people have complex medical needs and still encounter challenges in accessing online health information, the relationship between Internet use and the choice of medical institution made by them is unc...

    Authors: Liuying Wang, Zirong Cheng, Li Ye, Lijuan Rong, Ching-Wen Chien and Tao-Hsin Tung
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:537
  24. Postoperative delirium (POD) is a common complication among elderly patients after surgery. The Naples Prognostic Score (NPS), a novel prognostic marker based on immune-inflammatory and nutritional status, was...

    Authors: Chenhao Song, Dongdong Yu, Yi Li, Meinv Liu, Huanhuan Zhang, Jinhua He and Jianli Li
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:535
  25. Upper gastrointestinal bleeding (UGIB) in older patients is associated with substantial in-hospital morbidity and mortality. This study aimed to develop and validate a simplified risk score for predicting 30-d...

    Authors: Zaiyao Xue, Hebin Che, Deyou Xie, Jiefeng Ren and Quanjin Si
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:534
  26. To our knowledge, only one study has examined the association between glucose variability (GV) and mortality in the elderly population with diabetes. GV was assessed by HbA1c, and a J-shaped curve was observed...

    Authors: Miguel A. Salinero-Fort, F. Javier San Andrés-Rebollo, Juan Cárdenas-Valladolid, José Mostaza, Carlos Lahoz, Fernando Rodriguez-Artalejo, Paloma Gómez-Campelo, Pilar Vich-Pérez, Rodrigo Jiménez-García, José M. de-Miguel-Yanes, Javier Maroto-Rodriguez, Belén Taulero-Escalera and Víctor Iriarte Campo
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:533
  27. The COVID-19 pandemic has presented a unique possibility to broaden the understanding of people’s reactions to a global crisis. Early on, it became evident that older adults were particularly vulnerable to the...

    Authors: Johanna Gustavsson and Linda Beckman
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:532
  28. Mild cognitive impairment has received widespread attention as a high-risk population for Alzheimer’s disease, and many studies have developed or validated predictive models to assess it. However, the performa...

    Authors: Xiaotong Wang, Shi Zhou, Niansi Ye, Yucan Li, Pengjun Zhou, Gao Chen and Hui Hu
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:531
  29. There is a need for healthcare providers to develop life-story review interventions to enhance the mental well-being and quality of life of older adults. The primary aim of this study is to examine the effects...

    Authors: Bushra Rashid Al-Ghafri, Hamed Al-Sinawi, Ahmed Mohammed Al-Harrasi, Yaqoub Al-Saidi, Abdulaziz Al-Mahrezi, Zahir Badar Al-Ghusaini, Khalfan Bakhit Rashid Al-Zeedy and Moon Fai Chan
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:530
  30. Physical disability is an important cause of affecting the quality of life in the elderly. The association between standing height and physical disability is less studied.

    Authors: Shihong Wang, Zihua Yang, Xiwei Tan, Fengxia Lai, Ling Luo and Yuanlin Ding
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:529
  31. A range of strategies are available that can improve the outcomes of older persons particularly in relation to basic activities of daily living during and after an acute care (AC) episode. This paper outlines ...

    Authors: Melinda G. Martin-Khan, Leonard C. Gray, Caroline Brand, Olivia Wright, Nancy A. Pachana, Gerard J. Byrne, Mark D. Chatfield, Richard Jones, John Morris, Catherine Travers, Joanne Tropea and Beibei Xiong
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:527
  32. Accelerometer-derived physical activity (PA) from cardiac devices are available via remote monitoring platforms yet rarely reviewed in clinical practice. We aimed to investigate the association between PA and ...

    Authors: J.K. Taylor, N. Peek, A.S. Greenstein, C. Sammut-Powell, G.P. Martin and F.Z. Ahmed
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:526
  33. Healthy eating is one of the most important nonpharmacologic treatments for patients with atherosclerosis(AS). However, it is unclear how elderly AS patients in western China perceive their dietary status and ...

    Authors: Jiamengying Chen, Xiaojie Li, Yun Wang, Chunling Zhang, Li Yang, Lvheng Zhao, Qingqing Zhu, Li Wang and Yixia Zhou
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:525
  34. Most people want to remain at home as they age. Ageing in place – remaining at home and connected to the community – is a national and international policy priority; however, to better understand how policy mi...

    Authors: Kate Gibson, Katie Brittain, Emma McLellan, Andrew Kingston, Heather Wilkinson and Louise Robinson
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:524
  35. Smoking is a risk factor for sarcopenia. Nevertheless, few studies analyzed the independent effects of various smoking dimensions (duration, intensity, cumulative dose) on sarcopenia risk. This is a cross-sect...

    Authors: Junfen Lin, Meiyu Hu, Xue Gu, Tao Zhang, Haiyan Ma and Fudong Li
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:523
  36. The impact of social frailty on older adults is profound including mortality risk, functional decline, falls, and disability. However, effective strategies that respond to the needs of socially frail older adu...

    Authors: Monika Kastner, Isabella Herrington, Julie Makarski, Krystle Amog, Tejia Bain, Vianca Evangelista, Leigh Hayden, Alexa Gruber, Justin Sutherland, Amy Sirkin, Laure Perrier, Ian D. Graham, Michelle Greiver, Joan Honsberger, Mary Hynes, Charlie Macfarlane…
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:521
  37. Dementia is a major global public health challenge, and with the growing elderly population, its prevalence is expected to increase in the coming years. In Sweden, municipalities are responsible for providing ...

    Authors: Catharina Carlqvist, Mirjam Ekstedt and Elin C. Lehnbom
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:520
  38. The majority of persons with dementia in Sweden reside in their own homes with support from family members. Approximately, 12% of persons with dementia have immigrant background. Within the next 20 years, the ...

    Authors: Zarina Nahar Kabir, Marie Tyrrell, Hanne Konradsen, Åsa Craftman, Nitin Joshi, Manoj Kumar Gupta, Suresh Sharma and Pankaj Bhardwaj
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:519
  39. Reviews of depression interventions in nursing home residents resulted in positive findings. However, because of the heterogeneity of the studies, it remains unclear what works for whom. Considering moderator ...

    Authors: Ine J. N. Declercq, Ruslan Leontjevas, Peter Verboon, Patricia De Vriendt, Debby L. Gerritsen and Susan van Hooren
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:518
  40. In the hospital setting, frailty is a significant risk factor, but difficult to measure in clinical practice. We propose a reweighting of an existing diagnoses-based frailty score using routine data from a ter...

    Authors: Klaus Kaier, Adrian Heidenreich, Markus Jäckel, Vera Oettinger, Alexander Maier, Ingo Hilgendorf, Philipp Breitbart, Tau Hartikainen, Till Keller, Dirk Westermann and Constantin von zur Mühlen
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:517

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