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  1. As one of the challenges of aging, older adults with disabilities are often overlooked in remote areas of many developing countries, including southwest China. Similar populations would undoubtedly benefit fro...

    Authors: Runjuan Qiao, Shuli Jia, Wanyu Zhao, Xin Xia, Qiaoli Su, Lisha Hou, Daiping Li, Fengjuan Hu and Birong Dong
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2022 22:517
  2. This study identifies correlates of the lockdown’s psychological distress in frail older community-dwellers (Catalonia, Spain).

    Authors: Carmina Castellano-Tejedor, Laura M. Pérez, Luis Soto-Bagaria, Ester Risco, Maria Victoria Mazo, Ana Gómez, Daniel Salvador, Javier Yanguas, María B. Enfedaque, Alessandro Morandi, Mariona Font, Vanessa Davey and Marco Inzitari
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2022 22:516
  3. Dignity and well-being are central concepts in the care of older people, 65 years and older, worldwide. The person-centred practice framework identifies dignity and well-being as person-centred outcomes. Older...

    Authors: Charlotte Roos, Moudud Alam, Anna Swall, Anne-Marie Boström and Lena Marmstål Hammar
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2022 22:515
  4. Persons living with dementia (PLWD) in adult day centers (ADCs) represent a complex and vulnerable population whose well-being is at risk based on numerous factors. Greater knowledge of the interaction between...

    Authors: Tina Sadarangani, Carla Perissinotto, Jonelle Boafo, Jie Zhong and Gary Yu
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2022 22:514
  5. Healthcare professionals’ attitudes to and knowledge of oral health are fundamental to providing good oral health care to older adults. One instrument that assesses healthcare professionals’ attitudes to and k...

    Authors: Maria Snogren, Amir H. Pakpour, Irene Eriksson, Malin Stensson, Kristina Ek and Maria Browall
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2022 22:513
  6. To evaluate the established interventions used for older adults, it is appropriate to use validated questionnaires for quality-of-life assessment. For older people, it is suitable to use specific questionnaire...

    Authors: Radka Bužgová, Radka Kozáková, Renáta Zeleníková and Katka Bobčíková
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2022 22:512
  7. We aimed to replicate existing international (US and UK) mortality indices using Irish data. We developed and validated a four-year mortality index for adults aged 50 + in Ireland and compared performance with...

    Authors: Soraya Matthews, Mark Ward, Anne Nolan, Charles Normand, Rose Anne Kenny and Peter May
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2022 22:510
  8. The number of older people is increasing, resulting in more people endure chronic diseases, multimorbidities and complex care needs. Insufficient care coordination across healthcare sectors has negative conseq...

    Authors: Maiken Hjuler Persson, Jens Søndergaard, Christian Backer Mogensen, Helene Skjøt-Arkil and Pernille Tanggaard Andersen
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2022 22:509
  9. Stroke is a leading cause of death and functional impairment in older people. To assess the prospective association between fasting blood glucose-to-glycated hemoglobin ratio and all-cause mortality and poor p...

    Authors: Zhong-ming Cai, Man-man Zhang, Ren-qian Feng, Xu-dong Zhou, Hao-man Chen, Zhi-peng Liu, Yan-zhi Wu, Qun-li Lin, Sheng-lie Ye, Cheng-wei Liao, Xue-rong Huang, Le-qiu Sun, Bo Yang and Bei-lei Zhu
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2022 22:508
  10. Dementia is a multi-factorial condition rather than a natural and inevitable consequence of ageing. Some factors related to dementia have been studied much more extensively than others. To gain an overview of ...

    Authors: Imke Seifert, Henrik Wiegelmann, Marta Lenart-Bugla, Mateusz Łuc, Marcin Pawłowski, Etienne Rouwette, Joanna Rymaszewska, Dorota Szcześniak, Myrra Vernooij-Dassen, Marieke Perry, René Melis, Karin Wolf-Ostermann and Ansgar Gerhardus
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2022 22:507
  11. Center of pressure (CoP) parameters are commonly used to evaluate age-related changes in postural control during standing. However, they mainly reflect ankle strategies and provide limited information about hi...

    Authors: Huey-Wen Liang, Shao-Yu Chi, Tzu-Ling Tai, Yue-Hua Li and Yaw-Huei Hwang
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2022 22:506
  12. The effectiveness of interventions to improve medication safety in older inpatients is unclear, given a paucity of properly designed intervention studies applying clinically relevant endpoints such as hospital...

    Authors: Joanna E. Klopotowska, Paul F. M. Kuks, Peter C. Wierenga, Clementine C. M. Stuijt, Lambertus Arisz, Marcel G. W. Dijkgraaf, Nicolette de Keizer, Susanne M. Smorenburg and Sophia E. de Rooij
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2022 22:505
  13. Facial ageing is a result of superficial wrinkling combined with changes to the underlying soft tissues and skeleton. The influence of tooth loss, as a geriatric characteristic, on facial appearance is still p...

    Authors: Zala Skomina, Dominik Kočevar, Miha Verdenik and Nataša Ihan Hren
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2022 22:503
  14. Polypharmacy increases with age and is associated with serious health and economic costs. This study reports changes over a decade in medication-use patterns and polypharmacy, in Israeli community-dwelling old...

    Authors: Rebecca Goldsmith, Rita Dichtiar, Tal Shimony, Lesley Nitsan, Rachel Axelrod, Irit Laxer-Asael, Iris Rasooly, Tali Sinai and Elliot M. Berry
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2022 22:502
  15. To synthesise the evidence for the effectiveness of inpatient rehabilitation treatment ingredients (versus any comparison) on functioning, quality of life, length of stay, discharge destination, and mortality ...

    Authors: K. Lambe, S. Guerra, G. Salazar de Pablo, S. Ayis, I. D. Cameron, N. E. Foster, E. Godfrey, C. L. Gregson, F. C. Martin, C. Sackley, N. Walsh and K. J. Sheehan
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2022 22:501
  16. Physical activity is important to health and wellbeing. People with dementia are less physically active than their cognitively healthy counterparts. Reasons for this are multifaceted, and are thought to be soc...

    Authors: Elisabeth Wiken Telenius, Gro Gujord Tangen, Siren Eriksen and Anne Marie Mork Rokstad
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2022 22:500
  17. This work aimed to describe the nutritional status of French older adults (age ≥ 90 years) and studied the association between oral health and nutritional status.

    Authors: Claudine Khoury, Johan Samot, Catherine Helmer, Rafael Weber Rosa, Aurore Georget, Jean-François Dartigues and Elise Arrivé
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2022 22:499
  18. Frailty is the most complicated expression of aging that is related to disability or multi-morbidity. The aim of the present study was to estimate the prevalence of frailty and its associated factors among com...

    Authors: Ameneh Sobhani, Farshad Sharifi, Reza Fadayevatan, Ahmad Ali Akbari Kamrani, Mitra Moodi, Masoumeh Khorashadizadeh, Toba Kazemi, Huriye Khodabakhshi, Hossein Fakhrzadeh, Masoud Arzaghi, Seyedeh Zahra Badrkhahan, Raziye Sadat Hosseini, Hadi Monji and Amirabbas Nikkhah
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2022 22:498
  19. General practitioners (GPs) play a critical role in community detection and management of mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Although adequate knowledge is essential, healthcare practice is shaped by intrinsic a...

    Authors: Yuan Lu, Chaojie Liu, Sally Fawkes, Zhaoxin Wang and Dehua Yu
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2022 22:497
  20. Health economic evaluations of the implementation of evidence-based interventions (EBIs) into practice provide vital information but are rarely conducted. We evaluated the health economic impact associated wit...

    Authors: Jana Bartakova, Franziska Zúñiga, Raphaëlle-Ashley Guerbaai, Kornelia Basinska, Thekla Brunkert, Michael Simon, Kris Denhaerynck, Sabina De Geest, Nathalie I. H. Wellens, Christine Serdaly, Reto W. Kressig, Andreas Zeller, Lori L. Popejoy, Dunja Nicca, Mario Desmedt and Carlo De Pietro
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2022 22:496
  21. Insight into the variability of older adults’ sedentary time is needed to inform future interventions. The aim of this study was to examine the intra- and interpersonal variability in sedentary time, and the m...

    Authors: Sofie Compernolle, Ester Cerin, Anthony Barnett, Casper J. P. Zhang, Jelle Van Cauwenberg and Delfien Van Dyck
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2022 22:495
  22. Childhood experience has been suggested to affect cognitive function in later life. However, the association between childhood friendship status and cognitive ageing trajectory in middle-aged and older adults ...

    Authors: Jinzhao Xie, Xiaoyan Fan, Ping Yin, Jing Gu and Chengwu Yang
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2022 22:494
  23. Residential Medication Management Review (RMMR) is a subsidized comprehensive medicines review program for individuals in Australian residential aged care facilities (RACFs). This study examined weekly trends ...

    Authors: Janet K. Sluggett, Gillian E. Caughey, Tracy Air, Max Moldovan, Catherine Lang, Grant Martin, Stephen R. Carter, Shane Jackson, Andrew C. Stafford, Steve L. Wesselingh and Maria C. Inacio
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2022 22:493
  24. Inappropriate prescribing of medications and polypharmacy among older adults are associated with a wide range of adverse outcomes. It is critical to understand the attitudes towards deprescribing—reducing the ...

    Authors: Jie Tan, MinHong Wang, XiaoRui Pei, Quan Sun, ChongJun Lu, Ying Wang, Li Zhang and Chenkai Wu
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2022 22:492
  25. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has adversely affected social contact and physical activity. This study investigated the correlation between physical activity, social contact, and sedentary time among ...

    Authors: Naoto Otaki, Miyuki Yokoro, Megumu Yano, Tomomi Imamura, Michiko Akita, Norikazu Tanino and Keisuke Fukuo
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2022 22:491
  26. The prevalence of obesity and diabetes is rising. The aim of this study was to determine the association of body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in the elderl...

    Authors: Kaizhi Bai, Xuejiao Chen, Rui Song, Wenlong Shi and Songhe Shi
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2022 22:489
  27. Walking impairment, a common health problem among older adults, has been linked to poor vision and mental health. This study aimed to investigate the associations of walking impairment with visual impairment, ...

    Authors: Wei Gao, Pengfei Dai, Yuqian Wang and Yurong Zhang
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2022 22:487
  28. Fall, a multifaceted health condition, is one of the major causes of mortality among older adults. Rapid ageing and increased multimorbidity in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs), including India, might e...

    Authors: Manish Barik, Sushree Nibedita Panda, Sweta Sulagna Tripathy, Abhinav Sinha, Shishirendu Ghosal, Ardhendhu Sekhar Acharya, Srikanta Kanungo and Sanghamitra Pati
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2022 22:486
  29. Frailty is clinically associated with multiple adverse outcomes, including reduced quality of life and functioning, falls, hospitalisations, moves to long-term care and mortality. Health services commonly focu...

    Authors: Rachael Frost, Christina Avgerinou, Claire Goodman, Andrew Clegg, Jane Hopkins, Rebecca L. Gould, Benjamin Gardner, Louise Marston, Rachael Hunter, Jill Manthorpe, Claudia Cooper, Dawn A. Skelton, Vari M. Drennan, Pip Logan and Kate Walters
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2022 22:485
  30. Falls are the leading cause of injury-related death among older Americans. While some research has found that insomnia heightens falls, health care resource utilization (HCRU) and costs, the impact of insomnia...

    Authors: Diana T. Amari, Timothy Juday, Feride H. Frech, Weiying Wang, Zheng Wu, Norman Atkins Jr. and Emerson M. Wickwire
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2022 22:484
  31. Guidelines highlight the importance of an individualized approach to treatment initiation for Parkinson’s disease. Our aim was to investigate initiation of anti-Parkinson medication in Australia from 2013–2018...

    Authors: Marjaana Koponen, J. Simon Bell, Samanta Lalic, Rosie Watson, Anne M. Koivisto and Jenni Ilomäki
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2022 22:483
  32. Screening is often recommended as a first step in frailty management. Many guidelines call to implicate frailty screening into practice in the primary care setting. However, few countries or organizations impl...

    Authors: Jiahui Nan, Yunzhu Duan, Shuang Wu, Lulu Liao, Xiaoyang Li, Yinan Zhao, Hongyu Zhang, Xianmei Zeng and Hui Feng
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2022 22:482
  33. This study examined older adults’ experiences of participating in the Ballistic Exercise of the Lower Limb (BELL) trial, involving 12-weeks of group-based hardstyle kettlebell training.

    Authors: Neil J. Meigh, Alexandra R. Davidson, Justin W. L. Keogh and Wayne Hing
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2022 22:481
  34. Although individuals with dementia have a high risk of developing seizures, whether seizures are associated with cholinesterase inhibitors, which are commonly prescribed to treat individuals with dementia, rem...

    Authors: Junghee Ha, Nak-Hoon Son, Young Ho Park, Eun Lee, Eosu Kim and Woo Jung Kim
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2022 22:480
  35. Inactive behaviour is common in older adults during hospitalisation and associated with poor health outcomes. If patients at high risk of spending little time standing/walking could be identified early after a...

    Authors: Hanneke C. van Dijk-Huisman, Mandy H. P. Welters, Wouter Bijnens, Sander M. J. van Kuijk, Fabienne J. H. Magdelijns, Robert A. de Bie and Antoine F. Lenssen
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2022 22:479
  36. The term “frailty” might appear simple, but the methods used to assess it differ among studies. Consequently, there is inconsistency in the classification of frailty and predictive capacity depending on the fr...

    Authors: Daiki Watanabe, Tsukasa Yoshida, Yuya Watanabe, Yosuke Yamada, Motohiko Miyachi and Misaka Kimura
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2022 22:478
  37. Older US adults often receive care from multiple ambulatory providers. Seeing multiple providers may be clinically appropriate but creates challenges for communication. Whether frailty is a risk factor for gap...

    Authors: Oluwasegun P. Akinyelure, Calvin L. Colvin, Madeline R. Sterling, Monika M. Safford, Paul Muntner, Lisandro D. Colantonio and Lisa M. Kern
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2022 22:476
  38. As the incidence of gastric cancer increases in elderly patients worldwide, laparoscopic gastrectomy (LG) for elderly patients with gastric cancer is also increasing. However, whether LG is an optimal surgical...

    Authors: Yoshitake Ueda, Norio Shiraishi, Hajime Fujishima, Takahide Kawasaki, Shigeo Ninomiya, Hidefumi Shiroshita, Tsuyoshi Etoh and Masafumi Inomata
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2022 22:475
  39. Numerous studies have suggested that lifestyle-related factors are associated with mortality, however limited evidence is available for the Chinese elder population.

    Authors: Changqing Sun, Huimin Liu, Fei Xu, Ying Qin, Panpan Wang, Qianyu Zhou, Dandan Liu, Shanqun Jia and Qiang Zhang
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2022 22:474
  40. Older adults living in social housing are a vulnerable population facing unique challenges with health literacy and chronic disease self-management. We investigated this population’s knowledge of cardiovascula...

    Authors: Jasmine Dzerounian, Melissa Pirrie, Leena AlShenaiber, Ricardo Angeles, Francine Marzanek and Gina Agarwal
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2022 22:473
  41. Older adults with type 2 diabetes are at higher risk of developing common geriatric syndromes and have a lower quality of life. To prevent type 2 diabetes in older adults, it’s unclear whether the health benef...

    Authors: Linjun Ao, Junmin Zhou, Mingming Han, Hong Li, Yajie Li, Yongyue Pan, Jiayi Chen, Xiaofen Xie, Ye Jiang, Jing Wei, Gongbo Chen, Shanshan Li, Yuming Guo, Feng Hong, Zhifeng Li, Xiong Xiao…
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2022 22:472
  42. Repressor element 1-silencing transcription (REST)/neuron-restrictive silencer factor is considered a new therapeutic target for neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD). However, the relat...

    Authors: Mingqing Wei, Jingnian Ni, Jing Shi, Ting Li, Xiaoqing Xu, Chenmeng Li, Bin Qin, Dongsheng Fan, Hengge Xie, Zhong Wang, Yongyan Wang, Tao Lu and Jinzhou Tian
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2022 22:471
  43. Research to date offers mixed evidence about the relationship between quality of life and severity of cognitive impairment in people with dementia. We aimed to investigate longitudinal changes in patient- and ...

    Authors: Derek King, Nicolas Farina, Clare Burgon, Yvonne Feeney, Sharne Berwald, Elizabeth Bustard, Laura Gallaher, Ruth Habibi, Raphael Wittenberg, Adelina Comas-Herrera, Martin Knapp and Sube Banerjee
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2022 22:469

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