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  1. Falls are the most common cause of injuries and hospital admissions in the elderly. The Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare has created a list of drugs considered to increase the fall risk (FRIDs) and...

    Authors: Veronica Milos, Åsa Bondesson, Martina Magnusson, Ulf Jakobsson, Tommy Westerlund and Patrik Midlöv
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:40
  2. The use of physical restraints by family caregivers with home-dwelling elders has not been extensively studied but it might be widespread. Furthermore, it is also not clear how home care providers who support ...

    Authors: Sadami Kurata and Toshiyuki Ojima
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:39
  3. Very little is known about complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use by older adults in Germany. The aim of this study was to investigate the use of CAM and other health promoting substances (e.g., herb...

    Authors: Katharina Schnabel, Sylvia Binting, Claudia M Witt and Michael Teut
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:38
  4. Impaired balance, loss of mobility and falls are major problems associated with changes in muscle in older adults. However, the extent to which muscle composition and related performance measures for different...

    Authors: Mario Inacio, Alice S Ryan, Woei-Nan Bair, Michelle Prettyman, Brock A Beamer and Mark W Rogers
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:37
  5. Numerous studies indicate that the use of feeding tubes (FT) in persons with advanced cognitive impairment (CI) does not improve clinical outcomes or survival, and results in higher rates of hospitalization an...

    Authors: Caroline E Stephens, Nathan Sackett, Prasanthi Govindarajan and Sei J Lee
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:35
  6. Elderly individuals with coronary heart disease are a population particularly burdened by disability. However, to date many predictors of disability established in general populations have not been considered ...

    Authors: Philip Andrew Quinones, Hildegard Seidl, Rolf Holle, Bernhard Kuch, Christa Meisinger, Matthias Hunger and Inge Kirchberger
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:34
  7. Korea is one of the fastest aging countries and is expected to become a super-aged society within 12 years. The Korean Urban Rural Elderly (KURE) study was developed to evaluate the epidemiological characteris...

    Authors: Eun Young Lee, Hyeon Chang Kim, Yumie Rhee, Yoosik Youm, Kyoung Min Kim, Ju Mi Lee, Dong Phil Choi, Young Mi Yun and Chang Oh Kim
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:33
  8. The editors of BMC Geriatrics would like to thank all our reviewers who have contributed their time to the journal in Volume 13 (2013).

    Authors: Irene Pala
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:11
  9. Neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS) frequently occur in patients with dementia. To date, prospective studies on the course of NPS have been conducted in patients with dementia in clinical centers or psychiatric se...

    Authors: Petra Borsje, Roland B Wetzels, Peter LBJ Lucassen, Anne-Margriet Pot and Raymond TCM Koopmans
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:32
  10. There is growing evidence that Cognitive Simulation Therapy (CST) benefits cognition and quality of life of people with dementia, but little is known about the indirect effects of this intervention on family c...

    Authors: Elisa Aguirre, Zoe Hoare, Aimee Spector, Robert T Woods and Martin Orrell
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:31
  11. There are several risk factors for the colonisation, infection and spreading of antibiotic resistant bacteria among elderly residents of nursing homes. An updated estimate of the native prevalence of antimicro...

    Authors: Pär-Daniel Sundvall, Marie Elm, Ronny Gunnarsson, Sigvard Mölstad, Nils Rodhe, Lars Jonsson and Peter Ulleryd
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:30
  12. Falls and fractures are among the principal causes of disability, and mortality of older people. Therefore, identifying treatable risk factors for falls in this population is very important. Here we evaluate t...

    Authors: Kathrin Thaler-Kall, Angela Döring, Annette Peters, Barbara Thorand, Eva Grill, Wolfgang Koenig, Alexander Horsch and Christa Meisinger
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:29
  13. This study aimed to identify the relationships of self-management abilities and frailty to perceived poor health among community-dwelling older people in the Netherlands while controlling for important individ...

    Authors: Jane M Cramm, Jos Twisk and Anna P Nieboer
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:28
  14. To better accommodate for the complex care needs of frail, older people, general practitioners must be capable of easily identifying frailty in daily clinical practice, for example, by using the frailty index ...

    Authors: Irene Drubbel, Mattijs E Numans, Guido Kranenburg, Nienke Bleijenberg, Niek J de Wit and Marieke J Schuurmans
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:27
  15. Frailty in older patients might influence treatment decisions. Frailty can be determined using a Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA), but this is time-consuming and expensive. Therefore we assessed the di...

    Authors: Ineke HGJ Smets, Gertrudis IJM Kempen, Maryska LG Janssen-Heijnen, Laura Deckx, Frank JVM Buntinx and Marjan van den Akker
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:26
  16. The frailty index (FI) is used to measure the health status of ageing individuals. An FI is constructed as the proportion of deficits present in an individual out of the total number of age-related health vari...

    Authors: Fernando G Peña, Olga Theou, Lindsay Wallace, Thomas D Brothers, Thomas M Gill, Evelyne A Gahbauer, Susan Kirkland, Arnold Mitnitski and Kenneth Rockwood
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:25
  17. Home visiting nurses (HVNs) have long been part of home and community-based care interventions designed to meet the needs of functionally declining older adults. However, only one of the studies including HVNs...

    Authors: Bruce Friedman, Yanen Li, Dianne V Liebel and Bethel A Powers
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:24
  18. Subjective burden is a central variable describing the situation encountered by family caregivers. The 10-item short version of the Burden Scale for Family Caregivers (BSFC-short/BSFC-s) was developed to provi...

    Authors: Elmar Graessel, Hendrik Berth, Thomas Lichte and Hannes Grau
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:23
  19. Falls and chronic disease are both important health issues in older adults. The objectives of this study were to quantify the prevalence of falls and multi-morbidity (≥2 chronic conditions) in Canadian older a...

    Authors: Kathryn M Sibley, Jennifer Voth, Sarah E Munce, Sharon E Straus and Susan B Jaglal
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:22
  20. Caring for a family member with dementia is extremely stressful, and contributes to psychiatric and physical illness among caregivers. Therefore, a comprehensive programme called Resources for Enhancing Alzhei...

    Authors: Stephanie Heinrich, Martin Berwig, Anke Simon, Jenny Jänichen, Nina Hallensleben, Witiko Nickel, Andreas Hinz, Elmar Brähler and Hermann-Josef Gertz
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:21
  21. The evidence of undertreatment of pain in patients with dementia is inconsistent. This may largely be due to methodological differences and shortcomings of studies. In a large cohort of patients with incident ...

    Authors: Falk Hoffmann, Hendrik van den Bussche, Birgitt Wiese, Gerd Glaeske and Hanna Kaduszkiewicz
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:20
  22. The assessment of Health Related Quality of Life (HRQL) is important in people with dementia as it could influence their care and support plan. Many studies on dementia do not specifically set out to measure d...

    Authors: Jaime Perales, Theodore D Cosco, Blossom CM Stephan, Jane Fleming, Steven Martin, Josep Maria Haro and Carol Brayne
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:18
  23. Despite the growing demand for home care and preliminary evidence suggesting that the use of restraint is common practice in home care, research about restraint use in this setting is scarce.

    Authors: Kristien Scheepmans, Bernadette Dierckx de Casterlé, Louis Paquay, Hendrik Van Gansbeke, Steven Boonen and Koen Milisen
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:17
  24. In Japan, there is no decision-making guide regarding long-term tube feeding that specifically targets individuals making decisions on behalf of cognitively impaired older persons (substitute decision makers)....

    Authors: Yumiko Kuraoka and Kazuhiro Nakayama
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:16
  25. Limited attention has been paid in the literature to multiple component fall prevention interventions that comprise two or more fixed combinations of fall prevention interventions that are not individually tai...

    Authors: Victoria A Goodwin, Rebecca A Abbott, Rebecca Whear, Alison Bethel, Obioha C Ukoumunne, Jo Thompson-Coon and Ken Stein
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:15
  26. The Timed Up and Go test (TUG) is a commonly used screening tool to assist clinicians to identify patients at risk of falling. The purpose of this systematic review and meta-analysis is to determine the overal...

    Authors: Emma Barry, Rose Galvin, Claire Keogh, Frances Horgan and Tom Fahey
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:14
  27. The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of muscle mass and bone mineral density on markers of mobility in dwelling elderly women.

    Authors: Gláucia R Falsarella, Ibsen B Coimbra, Caroline C Barcelos, Isabele Iartelli, Kedma T Montedori, Manuela NJ Santos, Anita L Neri and Arlete MV Coimbra
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:13
  28. The choice of measure for use as a primary outcome in geriatric research is contingent upon the construct of interest and evidence for its psychometric properties. The Late-Life Function and Disability Instrum...

    Authors: Marla K Beauchamp, Catherine T Schmidt, Mette M Pedersen, Jonathan F Bean and Alan M Jette
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:12
  29. Multimorbidity is common in advanced age, and is usually associated with negative – yet to some extent preventable – health outcomes. Detecting comorbid conditions is especially difficult in individuals with d...

    Authors: Kathrin Bauer, Larissa Schwarzkopf, Elmar Graessel and Rolf Holle
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:10
  30. Impairment in activities of daily living (ADL) is an important predictor of outcomes although many administrative databases lack information on ADL function. We evaluated the impact of ADL function on predicti...

    Authors: Dallas P Seitz, Geoffrey M Anderson, Peter C Austin, Andrea Gruneir, Sudeep S Gill, Chaim M Bell and Paula A Rochon
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:9
  31. Body composition changes with ageing can influence the adiponectin concentration. However, the component of body composition that is associated with adiponectin concentrations in older adults remains unclear.

    Authors: Hong Ji Song, Sohee Oh, Shanai Quan, Ohk-Hyun Ryu, Jin-Young Jeong, Kyung-Soon Hong and Dong-Hyun Kim
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:8
  32. Maintenance of communication is important for people with dementia living in long-term care. The purpose of this study was to assess the feasibility of using “Giraff”, a telepresence robot to enhance engagemen...

    Authors: Wendy Moyle, Cindy Jones, Marie Cooke, Siobhan O’Dwyer, Billy Sung and Suzie Drummond
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:7
  33. Both Australia and China have a large proportion of people with dementia and the prevalence will triple in Australia and increase five times in China by 2050. The majority of people with dementia are reliant o...

    Authors: Lily Dongxia Xiao, Jing Wang, Guo-Ping He, Anita De Bellis, Jenny Verbeeck and Helena Kyriazopoulos
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:6
  34. The Quality and Outcomes Framework in the United Kingdom (UK) National Health Service previously highlighted case finding of depression amongst patients with diabetes or coronary heart disease. However, depres...

    Authors: Jane P Biddulph, Steve Iliffe, Kalpa Kharicha, Danielle Harari, Cameron Swift, Gerhard Gillmann and Andreas E Stuck
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:5
  35. The Memory Services National Accreditation Programme states that memory services should provide “timely access to assessment and diagnosis” of dementia. We undertook a quality improvement project using Plan-Do...

    Authors: Jennifer Perry, Francesca Bell, Therese Shaw, Barbara Fitzpatrick and Elizabeth L Sampson
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:4
  36. It is known that interprofessional collaboration is crucial for integrated care delivery, yet we are still unclear about the underlying mechanisms explaining effectiveness of integrated care delivery to older ...

    Authors: Jacqueline M Hartgerink, Jane M Cramm, Annemarie JBM de Vos, Ton JEM Bakker, Ewout W Steyerberg, Johan P Mackenbach and Anna P Nieboer
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:3
  37. This study aimed to estimate the prevalence and associated factors related to frailty, by Fried criteria, in the elderly population in a rural area in the Andes Mountains, and to analyze the relationship of th...

    Authors: Carmen-Lucia Curcio, Guadalupe-Maria Henao and Fernando Gomez
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:2
  38. The prevalence and significance of frailty are seldom studied in hospitalized patients. Aim of this study is to evaluate the prevalence of frailty and to determine the extent that frailty predicts delirium, fa...

    Authors: Etienne Joosten, Mathias Demuynck, Elke Detroyer and Koen Milisen
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:1
  39. This study compared individuals whose clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) matched or did not match neuropathologic results at autopsy on clinical and functional outcomes (cognitive impairment, funct...

    Authors: Joseph E Gaugler, Haya Ascher-Svanum, David L Roth, Tolulope Fafowora, Andrew Siderowf and Thomas G Beach
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2013 13:137
  40. The purpose of this study was to evaluate outcomes for older persons post-hip fracture repair, including those with cognitive impairment (CI), following implementation of a novel model of care – the Patient-Ce...

    Authors: Katherine S McGilton, Aileen M Davis, Gary Naglie, Nizar Mahomed, John Flannery, Susan Jaglal, Cheryl Cott and Steven Stewart
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2013 13:136
  41. Coronary artery disease (CAD) is associated with verbal memory decline, although deterioration may be mitigated in individuals undertaking exercise interventions. Ceramide sphingolipids, suggested to play a ro...

    Authors: Mahwesh Saleem, Veera V Ratnam Bandaru, Nathan Herrmann, Walter Swardfager, Michelle M Mielke, Paul I Oh, Prathiba Shammi, Alexander Kiss, Norman J Haughey, Randal Rovinski and Krista L Lanctôt
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2013 13:135
  42. Primary care physicians routinely provide dementia care, but may lack the clinical skills and awareness of available resources to provide optimal care. We conducted a community-based pilot dementia training in...

    Authors: Christine R Lathren, Philip D Sloane, Joseph D Hoyle, Sheryl Zimmerman and Daniel I Kaufer
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2013 13:134
  43. Despite extensive research on risk factors associated with falling in older adults, and current fall prevention interventions focusing on modifiable risk factors, there is a lack of detailed accounts of sex di...

    Authors: Rachel L Duckham, Elizabeth Procter-Gray, Marian T Hannan, Suzanne G Leveille, Lewis A Lipsitz and Wenjun Li
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2013 13:133
  44. The global population is becoming older and more overweight. The inter-relationship between frailty and falls is often seen in the older adult and is associated with poor health outcomes. Little is known about...

    Authors: Katie J Sheehan, Matthew DL O’Connell, Clodagh Cunningham, Lisa Crosby and Rose Anne Kenny
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2013 13:132
  45. We studied the influence of the ACE I/D and ACTN3 R577X polymorphisms (single or combined) on lower-extremity function in older women in response to high-speed power training.

    Authors: Ana Pereira, Aldo M Costa, José C Leitão, António M Monteiro, Mikel Izquierdo, António J Silva, Estela Bastos and Mário C Marques
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2013 13:131
  46. Hip fractures are a common and serious consequence of osteoporosis, and hip fracture patients are at high risk for recurrence. Appropriate pharmacotherapy reduces this risk and is associated with reduced morta...

    Authors: Naomi Dore, Courtney Kennedy, Pauline Fisher, Lisa Dolovich, Leonardo Farrauto and Alexandra Papaioannou
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2013 13:130
  47. This scoping study aimed to identify how physical activity may benefit people with dementia; how and/or if current service provide these benefits; and what support they need to do so.

    Authors: Alison Bowes, Alison Dawson, Ruth Jepson and Louise McCabe
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2013 13:129
  48. As one ages, physical, cognitive, and clinical problems accumulate and the pattern of loss follows a distinct progression. The first areas requiring outside support are the Instrumental Activities of Daily Liv...

    Authors: John N Morris, Katherine Berg, Brant E Fries, Knight Steel and Elizabeth P Howard
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2013 13:128

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