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  1. Evidence-based interventions to protect against cognitive decline among older adults at risk for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) are urgently needed. Rehabilitation approaches to support memor...

    Authors: S. Tomaszewski Farias, J. Fox, H. Dulaney, M. Chan, S. Namboodiri, D. J. Harvey, A. Weakley, S. Rahman, C. Luna, B. F. Beech, L. Campbell and M. Schmitter-Edgecombe
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2023 23:881
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  2. Severe falls escalate the risk of future falls and functional decline as indicated by recent global guidelines. To establish effective falls prevention, individuals at highest risk must be thoroughly studied a...

    Authors: Tim Stuckenschneider, Laura Schmidt, Elisa-Marie Speckmann, Jessica Koschate and Tania Zieschang
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2023 23:880
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  4. Grassroots medical institutions are the primary “battlefield” of hypertension management based on hierarchical diagnosis and treatment policies in China. There is a considerable difference in the insured popul...

    Authors: Lan Lan, Pengcheng Hai, Jiawei Luo, Rui Li and Yilong Wang
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2023 23:878
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  5. Sedentary behaviour is considered to contribute to sarcopenia when combined with physical inactivity. Whether sedentary behaviour is independently associated with sarcopenia remains controversial. The aim of t...

    Authors: Yihan Mo, Yuxin Zhou, Helen Chan, Catherine Evans and Matthew Maddocks
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2023 23:877
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  6. Community-based exercise programs have demonstrated potential for implementation in older adults; however, it remains imperative to ascertain whether this strategy will yield comparable benefit in stroke patie...

    Authors: Chen Yang, Fei Zhao, Chunqing Xie, Yaowen Zhang, Zulin Dou and Xiaomei Wei
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2023 23:876
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  7. Poor sleep quality has been linked to depression in older adults, but results of the association between daytime napping and depression remains limited and conflicting. Moreover, whether the association of day...

    Authors: Weisen Zhang, Baijing Zhou, Chaoqiang Jiang, Yali Jin, Tong Zhu, Feng Zhu, Kar Keung Cheng, Tai Hing Lam and Lin Xu
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2023 23:875
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  8. Sarcopenic obesity (SO) is characterised by decreased muscle mass, diminished muscle strength and/or reduced physical performance and a high percentage of body fat (PBF). Conventional-load resistance exercise ...

    Authors: Min Zhuang, Jinli Shi, Jian Liu, Xiangfeng He and Nan Chen
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2023 23:874
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  9. Faced with the lack of physical activity caused by mandatory home isolation during special periods and patients' inconvenience in carrying out professionally supervised exercise, many home-based exercise progr...

    Authors: Yong Yang, Xueying Fu, Haoyang Zhang, Guoguang Ouyang and Shu-Cheng Lin
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2023 23:873
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  10. Pemphigus and pemphigoid are rare autoimmune skin disorders caused by autoantibodies against structural proteins and characterized by blistering of the skin and/or mucous membranes. Associations have been note...

    Authors: Zhen Xie, Yang Gao, Lidi Tian, Yang Jiang, Hao Zhang and Yang Su
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2023 23:872
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  11. The competing interests of the government, smart senior care technology service providers, and older adults have led to a serious fragmentation of governance in China. This study aims to identify the collabora...

    Authors: Qiannan Shi, Shumian Yang, Na Wang, Shu-e Zhang, Yanping Wang, Bing Wu, Xinyuan Lu, Yining She, Zhihao Yue, Lei Gao and Zhong Zhang
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2023 23:871
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  12. Frailty is an aging-related syndrome leading to high mortality in older adults. Without effective assessment and prevention of frailty, the incidence of frailty and relevant adverse outcomes will increase by 2...

    Authors: Huiling Chen, Mimi Mun Yee Tse, Joanne Wai Yee Chung, Sui Yu Yau and Thomas Kwok Shing Wong
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2023 23:870
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:292

  13. Many studies have investigated the relationship between social support and the prevention of elder abuse; however, their results are somehow inconsistent in terms of the association. This systematic review and...

    Authors: Behnaz Marzbani, Erfan Ayubi, Majid Barati and Parvaneh Sahrai
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2023 23:869
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  14. Extensive research has been conducted on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on long-term care workers in specialized care facilities. However, little is known about the impacts faced by facilities that provi...

    Authors: Kaitlin O. Bahr, Grishma P. Bhavsar and David Zhao
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2023 23:868
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  15. The development of technology in dementia care has largely been without consultation with carers, and has primarily focused on safety, monitoring devices, and supporting activities of daily living. Further, wh...

    Authors: Ruth Brookman, Simon Parker, Leonard Hoon, Asuka Ono, Atsushi Fukayama, Hisashi Matsukawa and Celia B. Harris
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2023 23:867
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  16. Eliciting and understanding older persons’ descriptions of their resources for healthy ageing and the interaction of these resources with alcohol use and alcohol problems can facilitate health promotion. It ca...

    Authors: Wossenseged Birhane Jemberie, Fredrik Snellman, Malin Eriksson and Anders Hammarberg
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2023 23:866
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  17. Many patients with COVID-19 present the so-called post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 such as fatigue, post-stress discomfort, dyspnea, headache, pain mental impairment, incapacity to perform daily physical tasks ...

    Authors: Eulogio Pleguezuelos, Sergio Sánchez-Nuño, Amin Del Carmen, Noemí Serra-Payá, Eva Moreno, Lorena Molina-Raya, Gemma Robleda, Marta Benet, Susana Santos-Ruiz, Ainoa Biurrun Garrido, Carmen Jerez-Molina, Marc Miravitlles, Mateu Serra-Prat, Xavier Viñals, Montserrat Girabent Farrés, Teresa Carbonell…
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2023 23:865
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  18. The recent development of robust indices to quantify biological aging, along with the dynamic epidemiological transitions of population aging generate the unmet need to examine the extent up to which potential...

    Authors: Vijaya Majumdar, N. K. Manjunath, Atmakur Snigdha, Prosenjeet Chakraborty and Robin Majumdar
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2023 23:864
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  19. The aim of this study was to examine the risk of fall with the surrogate outcome of the Aachen Falls Prevention Scale and to assess the clinical pharmacist interventions in order to minimize anticholinergic dr...

    Authors: Hilal Gökçay Saz, Nadir Yalçın, Kutay Demirkan and Meltem Gülhan Halil
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2023 23:863
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  20. Thiazide-associated hyponatremia (TAH) has been supposed to increase the risk of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) in the elderly. Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate the association of TAH with t...

    Authors: Hsun Yang, Jane Lu Hsu, Yu-Hung Kuo and Kuan-Fu Liao
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2023 23:862
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  22. Falls among older adults are a significant cause of disability, injury, and death worldwide. The high incidence of falls in older adults, combined with the increased susceptibility to injury of the older adult...

    Authors: Gholam Reza Sotoudeh, Reza Mohammadi, Zahra Mosallanezhad, Eija Viitasara and Joaquim J.F. Soares
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2023 23:860
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  23. This cross-sectional study evaluated the impacts of functional tooth loss on oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) among elderly people compared with the impacts of several common indicators of oral hea...

    Authors: Yiting Cheng, Li Cheng, Fangzhi Zhu, Yong Xiang, Shaoying Duan, Jingjing Luo, Lei Lei, He Cai and Tao Hu
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2023 23:859
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  24. For people with cognitive impairment, hospitalisation is challenging and associated with adverse events as well as negative outcomes resulting in a prolonged hospital stay. Person-centred care can improve the ...

    Authors: Verena von der Lühe, Marcelina Roos, Mareike Löbberding, Nadine Scholten, Wiebke Müller, Martin Hellmich, Dusan Simic, Sascha Köpke and Martin N. Dichter
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2023 23:858
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  25. Elderly health care training and aging science remain the least prioritized discipline of medical education in many African countries. With scant scientific evidence on elderly health care in low-income countr...

    Authors: Noeline Nakasujja, Faith Nawagi, Blessed Tabitha Aujo and Aidah Ajambo
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2023 23:857
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  26. Oropharyngeal dysphagia is highly prevalent among hospitalized geriatric patients. The screening instruments used to date have been evaluated primarily in stroke patients. This diagnostic study aimed to valida...

    Authors: Ulrich Thiem, Martin Jäger, Holger Stege and Rainer Wirth
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2023 23:856
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  27. Previous studies have suggested that certain personal psychological variables (e.g., life satisfaction and cognitive function) and physical variables (e.g., body mass index [BMI]) are significantly associated ...

    Authors: Cynthia Y. Y. Lai, Lu Hua Chen, Frank H. Y. Lai, Ada W. T. Fung and Shamay S. M. Ng
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2023 23:855
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  28. Driving is a complex behavior that may be affected by early changes in the cognition of older individuals. Early changes in driving behavior may include driving more slowly, making fewer and shorter trips, and...

    Authors: Ruth Tappen, David Newman, Monica Rosselli, Jinwoo Jang, Borko Furht, KwangSoo Yang, Seyedeh Gol Ara Ghoreishi, Jiannan Zhai, Joshua Conniff, Muhammad Tanveer Jan, Sonia Moshfeghi, Somi Panday, Kelley Jackson and Marie Adonis-Rizzo
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2023 23:854
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  29. The benefits of physical activity (PA) and adequate sleep are well documented, and their importance strengthens with the increasing prevalence of chronic diseases and multimorbidity (MM). Interventions to prom...

    Authors: Bernardo Neves, Eduardo D. Haghighi, Hugo V. Pereira, Filipe Costa, João S. Carlos, Daniel Ferreira, Plinio Moreno, Pedro M. Ferreira, Jaime Machado, Breno Goncalves, José Maria Moreira, Francisca Leite and Nuno André da Silva
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2023 23:853
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  30. The incidence of sepsis increases significantly with age, including a high incidence of bacterial infection in the old adults. Eosinopenia and the CIBLE score have been proposed in critically ill adults and in...

    Authors: Léa Mésinèle, Tom Pujol, Nicoletta Brunetti, Marie Neiss, Christophe Trivalle, Cecile Souques, Nadège Houenou-Quenum, Sébastien Verdier, Pauline Simon, Anne-Laure Vetillard, Julie Houdre, Rocco Collarino, Morgane Mary, Jean-Sébastien Vidal, Jean-Emmanuel Kahn, Magali Guichardon…
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2023 23:852
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  31. The increasing prevalence of multimorbidity has created a serious global public health problem in aging populations. Certain multimorbidity patterns across different age ranges and their association with healt...

    Authors: Hong-Li Chen, Xiao-Hong Yu, Yue-Heng Yin, En-Fang Shan, Ying Xing, Min Min, Ya-Ping Ding, Yang Fei and Xian-Wen Li
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2023 23:851
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  32. Quality of life (QoL) of older adults has become a pivotal concern of the public and health system. Previous studies found that both cognitive decline and neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS) can affect QoL in olde...

    Authors: Chaoqun He, Xiangyi Kong, Jinhui Li, Xingyi Wang, Xinqiao Chen, Yuanyi Wang, Qing Zhao and Qian Tao
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2023 23:850
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  33. Patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) are at high risk of drug-related problems (DRPs) because of extensive comorbidities and pharmacokinetic changes. This study aimed to identify DRPs and possible contri...

    Authors: Su Zhang, Guo-bing Zhang, Ping Huang, Yan Ren, Bo Lin, Yan-fei Shao and Xiao-lan Ye
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2023 23:849
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  34. Adults aged 65 and older have surgery more often than younger people and often live with frailty. The postoperative transition in care from hospital to home after surgey is a challenging time for older adults ...

    Authors: Emily Hladkowicz, Mohammad Auais, Gurlavine Kidd, Daniel I. McIsaac and Jordan Miller
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2023 23:848
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  35. Cognitive impairment, a characteristic and prior stage of dementia, is a serious public health concern in Korea a country with rapidly aging population. In a neurovisceral integration model, cognitive ability ...

    Authors: Donghoon Kim, Jaeho Lee, Ju-Young Choi, Hyo-Jung Lee, Jin-Young Min and Kyoung-Bok Min
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2023 23:847
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  36. Many studies have examined the association between oral health, care needs, and physical function, but few have focused on the association between oral health and locomotive syndrome (LS). We examined the asso...

    Authors: Mizuki Saito, Yoshihiro Shimazaki, Saori Yoshii and Hideo Takeyama
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2023 23:846
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  37. Continuous loss of muscle mass and strength are the consequences of the ageing process, which increase the risk of falls among older people. Falls can lead to severe consequences such as bone fractures and ham...

    Authors: Karly O. W. Chan, Peter P. Yuen, Ben Y. F. Fong, Vincent T. S. Law, Fowie S. F. Ng, Wilson C. P. Fung, Tommy K. C. Ng and I. S. Cheung
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2023 23:845
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  39. Frailty, cognitive impairment, and depressive symptoms are closely interrelated conditions in the aging population. However, limited research has longitudinally analyzed the concurrent trajectories of these th...

    Authors: Yiyang Yuan, Changmin Peng, Jeffrey A. Burr and Kate L. Lapane
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2023 23:843
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  40. The study aimed to assess the differences in functional fitness between older men living in social welfare homes (SWH) and men living in society.

    Authors: Antonina Kaczorowska, Anna Sebastjan, Małgorzata Kołodziej, Małgorzata Fortuna and Zofia Ignasiak
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2023 23:842
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  42. This study aimed to identify and select age-related diseases (ARDs) in Korea, which is about to have a super-aged society, and to elucidate patterns in their incidence rates.

    Authors: In Sun Ryou, Sang Wha Lee, Hanbit Mun, Jae Kwang Lee, SungYoun Chun and Kyunghee Cho
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2023 23:840
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  43. In the global trend of population aging, age is one of the significant factors to be considered in critically ill patients. However, the impact of age on clinical outcomes and long-term prognosis in this popul...

    Authors: Eunki Chung, Kyung Soo Chung, Ah Young Leem, Ala Woo, Moo Suk Park, Young Sam Kim and Su Hwan Lee
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2023 23:839
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  44. Corticobasal syndrome (CBS) is a neurodegenerative disease diagnosed based on clinical manifestations such as asymmetrical parkinsonism, limb apraxia, and speech and language impairment. The background patholo...

    Authors: Kosei Nakamura, Yasuko Kuroha, Masahiro Hatakeyama, Atsushi Michael Kimura, Yukimi Nakamura, Yoshihiro Murakami, Masaki Watanabe, Hironaka Igarashi, Tetsuya Takahashi and Hitoshi Shimada
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2023 23:838
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  45. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a chronic inflammatory disease and a risk factor for lung cancer. Small cell lung cancer is a neuroendocrine tumor with a high degree of malignancy and an overal...

    Authors: Xu Zhang, Jia Zeng, Xiyu Huang and Zhishu Li
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2023 23:836
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  46. Peripheral nerve block, including the quadratus lumborum block (QLB), has been used for postoperative analgesia in hip surgery. However, the effects of QLB on cognitive function after hip surgery remain unknow...

    Authors: Manhua Zhu, Yuliu Mei, Ruifen Zhou, Lingzhi Wang and Xiaoyan Zhang
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2023 23:835
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  47. Patients with heart failure (HF), especially the elderly, faced many challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic, which need to be explored. The present study aimed to analyse the challenging experiences facing th...

    Authors: Arash Ziapour, Javad Yoosefi Lebni, Fatemeh Mohammadkhah, Fakhreddin Chaboksavar, Parisa Janjani and Murat Yıldırım
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2023 23:834
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  48. Process evaluations of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of community exercise programs are important to help explain the results of a trial and provide evidence of the feasibility for community implementati...

    Authors: Ruth Barclay, Sandra C. Webber, Francine Hahn, C. Allyson Jones, Nancy E. Mayo, Shajicaa Sivakumaran, Yixiu Liu, Philip D. Chilibeck and Nancy M. Salbach
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2023 23:833
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  50. Falls impact over 25% of older adults annually, making fall prevention a critical public health focus. We aimed to develop and validate a machine learning-based prediction model for serious fall-related injuri...

    Authors: Kyu-Nam Heo, Jeong Yeon Seok, Young-Mi Ah, Kwang-il Kim, Seung-Bo Lee and Ju-Yeun Lee
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2023 23:830
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