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  1. Primary progressive aphasia is a language-led dementia resulting in a gradual dissolution of language. Primary progressive aphasia has a significant psychosocial impact on both the person and their families. S...

    Authors: Anna Volkmer, Aimee Spector, Kate Swinburn, Jason D. Warren and Suzanne Beeke
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2021 21:642
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  2. Identifying practical and distinguished indicators and influencing factors of male aging may be useful in predicting subsequent aging trends, designing personalized prevention, and improving lifestyle and health.

    Authors: Yi Zhu, Jian-Hui Li, Jing Zhao, Jun-Biao Zheng, Qun-Feng Liang, Xiao-Hua Yu, Shu-Cheng Zhang, Hui-Juan Shi, Wei-Jin Zhou and Qian-Xi Zhu
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2021 21:641
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  4. Health-promoting interventions are important for preventing frailty and sarcopenia in older adults. However, there is limited evidence that nutritional interventions yield additional effects when combined with...

    Authors: MoonKi Choi, Hayeon Kim and Juyeon Bae
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2021 21:639
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Geriatrics 2022 22:531

  6. Although some previous studies have reported the impact of cultural factors on individuals’ cognition and decision making, a shortage of research has led to this comparison study for Chinese and Korean elderly...

    Authors: In Hye Park, Yustika Sya’bandari and Yang Liu
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2021 21:637
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  7. The proportion of older people in the population has increased globally and has thus become a challenge in health and social care. There is good evidence that care based on comprehensive geriatric assessment (...

    Authors: Iréne Ericsson, Anne W. Ekdahl and Ingrid Hellström
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2021 21:636
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  8. People over 64 years have a high fatality rate when they are involved in traffic accidents. Besides, older victims of road crashes are expected to rise in the future due to population aging. The purpose of the...

    Authors: Mario Rivera-Izquierdo, Luz María Valverde-Cano, Virginia Martínez-Ruiz, María Rosa Sánchez-Pérez, Francisco Javier Atienza-Martín, Luis Miguel Martín-delosReyes and Eladio Jiménez-Mejías
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2021 21:635
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  9. Delirium is a common geriatric syndrome, but only few studies have been done in nursing home residents. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate (point) prevalence of and risk factors for delirium i...

    Authors: Kelly Sabbe, Roos van der Mast, Tinne Dilles and Bart Van Rompaey
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2021 21:634
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Geriatrics 2021 21:673

  10. Postoperative delirium (POD) is a common complication of older people undergoing hip fracture surgery, which negatively affects clinical- and healthcare-related outcomes. Unfortunately, POD pathophysiology is ...

    Authors: R. Gamberale, C. D’Orlando, S. Brunelli, R. Meneveri, P. Mazzola, G. Foti, G. Bellani, G. Zatti, D. Munegato, S. Volpato, A. Zurlo, G. Caruso, A. Andreano, M. G. Valsecchi and G. Bellelli
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2021 21:633
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  11. With rising numbers of elderly people living in nursing homes in Germany, the need for on-site primary care is increasing. A lack of primary care in nursing homes can lead to unnecessary hospitalization, highe...

    Authors: Rieka von der Warth, Vanessa Kaiser, Christina Reese, Boris A. Brühmann and Erik Farin-Glattacker
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2021 21:632
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  12. In the mid-seventies, biliopancreatic diversion became popular as weight-loss surgery procedure. This bariatric procedure combines distal gastric resection and intestinal malabsorption, leading to greater weig...

    Authors: Nele Steenackers, Elien Brouwers, Ann Mertens, Simon Van Cleynenbreugel, Matthias Lannoo, Johan Flamaing and Katleen Fagard
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2021 21:631
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  13. Falls and falls-related injuries are common among older adults. Injuries in older adults lead to poor outcomes and lower quality of life. The objective of our study was to identify factors associated with fall...

    Authors: Rebecca Abey-Nesbit, Philip J. Schluter, Tim J. Wilkinson, John Hugh Thwaites, Sarah D. Berry, Heather Allore and Hamish A. Jamieson
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2021 21:630
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  14. There are about 9.5 million people with dementia in China. Up to 99% of them are cared for by their family caregivers. Family caregivers are confronted with considerable difficulties and challenges while provi...

    Authors: Yao Wang, Lily Dongxia Xiao, Yu Yu, Rong Huang, Hui You and Minhui Liu
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2021 21:629
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  15. Malnutrition is a common and significant problem in older adults. Insight into factors underlying malnutrition is needed to develop strategies that can improve the nutritional status. Compromised intestinal in...

    Authors: Sharon Hendriks, Suzanne C. Stokmans, Matthijs Plas, Wim A. Buurman, Sophie L. W. Spoorenberg, Klaske Wynia, Erik Heineman, Barbara L. van Leeuwen and Jacco J. de Haan
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2021 21:628
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  16. The aims of the present study were to estimate the frequency of change in self-rated health (SRH) among community-dwelling older adults, between two measures taken at a 9-year interval; and determine factors a...

    Authors: Flávia Silva Arbex Borim, Daniela de Assumpção, Anita Liberalesso Neri, Samila Sathler Tavares Batistoni, Priscila Maria Stolses Bergamo Francisco and Monica Sanches Yassuda
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2021 21:627
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  17. This study aimed to explore the association between diabetes mellitus and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of older people in Shanghai, China, especially regarding the differences in each aspect of the E...

    Authors: Shiyin Tian, Rui Wang, Mengxing Qian, Lijuan Liu, Zhenyi Shao, Cheng Wu and Jinhai Sun
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2021 21:626
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  18. To examine the effects of a 6-month multicomponent (MT) exercise intervention in the functional capacity and ability to independently perform activities of daily living (ADL) of individuals diagnosed with neur...

    Authors: Flávia Borges-Machado, Duarte Barros, Laetitia Teixeira, Oscar Ribeiro and Joana Carvalho
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2021 21:625
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  19. Routine screening for frailty at admission by nurses may be useful to detect geriatric risks and problems at an early stage. However, the added value of this screening is not clear yet. Information about the o...

    Authors: Ron M. J. Warnier, Erik van Rossum, Monique F. M. T. Du Moulin, Marjolein van Lottum, Jos M. G. A. Schols and Gertrudis I. J. M. Kempen
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2021 21:624
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  20. This study investigated whether daily physical activity of older adults, combined with social relationships, is associated with the risk of sleep disorder. Further, it determined whether a high level of one va...

    Authors: Jaehoon Seol, Jaehee Lee, Koki Nagata, Yuya Fujii, Kaya Joho, Korin Tateoka, Taiki Inoue, Jue Liu and Tomohiro Okura
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2021 21:623
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  21. Substantial evidence supports an association between physical activity and cognitive function. However, the role of muscle mass and function in brain structural changes is not well known. This study investigat...

    Authors: Ji Hee Yu, Regina E. Y. Kim, Jin-Man Jung, So Young Park, Da Young Lee, Hyun Joo Cho, Nam Hoon Kim, Hye Jin Yoo, Ji A Seo, Sin Gon Kim, Kyung Mook Choi, Sei Hyun Baik, Chol Shin and Nan Hee Kim
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2021 21:622
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  22. Potentially Inappropriate Medications (PIMs) and polypharmacy are widely used indicators of suboptimal prescribing for older people. The aim of this study was to describe the changes in the prevalence of PIMs ...

    Authors: Solène Drusch, Thien Le Tri, Joël Ankri, Mahmoud Zureik and Marie Herr
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2021 21:621
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  23. In the very elderly, “the lower the better” hypothesis has constantly been contradicted by randomized control trials and various cohort studies, but inconsistency in results led to unclear blood pressure treat...

    Authors: Myung-Sun Song, Yeon joo Choi, Hyunjin Kim, Myung Ji Nam, Chung-woo Lee, Kyungdo Han, Jin-Hyung Jung, Yong-Gyu Park, Do-Hoon Kim and Joo-Hyun Park
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2021 21:620
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  24. Frailty is a kind of geriatric syndrome, which is very common in the elderly. Patients with malnutrition are at higher risk of frailty. This study explored the correlation between nutrition and frailty and com...

    Authors: Hong Liang, Xiaoping Li, Xiaoye Lin, Yanmin Ju and Jiyan Leng
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2021 21:619
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  25. The discharge of older hospitalised patients is critical in terms of patient safety. Inadequate transfer of information about medications to the next healthcare provider is a known problem, but there is a lack...

    Authors: Henrik Cam, Thomas Gerardus Hendrik Kempen, Helena Eriksson, Kanar Abdulreda, Kristin Franzon and Ulrika Gillespie
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2021 21:618
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  26. Older adults (aged 65 years and above) constitute the fastest growing population cohort in the western world. There is increasing evidence that the burden of infections disproportionately affects older adults,...

    Authors: Tichawona Chinzowu, Sandipan Roy and Prasad S. Nishtala
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2021 21:617
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  27. Currently, the evidence for exercise in maintaining health, well-being, and physical functioning is overwhelming. Despite these benefits, more than 50% of the population fails to meet the recommended exercise ...

    Authors: Seth VanDerVeer, Ronald Markert, Brant Bickford, Joseph Yuhas, Paul Pikman, Tim Wall and Kathryn Burtson
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2021 21:616
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  28. Healthy ageing is a complex construct which involves multiple dimensions. Previous studies of healthy ageing have focused only on measuring the intrinsic capacity of the older person. The objectives of this st...

    Authors: María Fernanda Rivadeneira, María José Mendieta, Jessica Villavicencio, José Caicedo-Gallardo and Patricio Buendía
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2021 21:615
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  29. Falls are a major health burden for older adults with Parkinson’s disease (PD), but there is currently no reliable questionnaire to capture the circumstances and consequences of falls in older adults with PD. ...

    Authors: Dale M. Harris, Rachel L. Duckham, Robin M. Daly, Gavin Abbott, Liam Johnson, Timo Rantalainen and Wei-Peng Teo
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2021 21:614
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  30. Assistive Technology for people with dementia living at home is not meeting their care needs. Reasons for this may be due to limited understanding of variation in multiple characteristics of people with dement...

    Authors: Eleanor Curnow, Robert Rush, Sylwia Gorska and Kirsty Forsyth
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2021 21:613
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Geriatrics 2022 22:172

  31. Few data are available on the nutritional status of Iranian geriatric population. The present study aimed to determine the nutritional status of older adults’ population in Birjand, East of Iran.

    Authors: Fatemeh Hoseinzadeh-Chahkandak, Mehran Rahimlou, Fatemeh Salmani, Elham Ansarifar, Mitra Moodi, Farshad Sharifi and Tayebeh Zeinali
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2021 21:612
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  32. Stroke is among the most common causes of death and disability worldwide. Despite the relevance of stroke-related disease burden, which is constantly increasing due to the demographic change in industrialized ...

    Authors: Jil Kauffmann, Daniel Grün, Umut Yilmaz, Gudrun Wagenpfeil, Klaus Faßbender, Mathias Fousse and Marcus M. Unger
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2021 21:611
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  33. The infection by SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) has been especially serious in older patients. The aim of this study is to describe baseline and clinical characteristics, hospital referrals, 60-day mortality, factors a...

    Authors: Lorena García-Cabrera, Noelia Pérez-Abascal, Beatriz Montero-Errasquín, Lourdes Rexach Cano, Jesús Mateos-Nozal and Alfonso Cruz-Jentoft
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2021 21:610
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  34. Decreases in prevalence of cognitive impairment and dementia over the last two decades have been observed in different countries for cohorts entering older age. This study aimed to assess the cognitive impairm...

    Authors: Fabiana Silva Ribeiro, Yeda Aparecida de Oliveira Duarte, Jair Lício Ferreira Santos and Anja K. Leist
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2021 21:609
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  35. To investigate the association between sleep duration and cognitive frailty among older adults dwelling in western China.

    Authors: Yunli Zhao, Ying Lu, Wanyu Zhao, Yanyan Wang, Meiling Ge, Lixing Zhou, Jirong Yue, Birong Dong and Qiukui Hao
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2021 21:608
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  36. Preventing Loss of Independence through Exercise (PLIÉ) is an integrative group movement program developed for adults with mild-to-moderate dementia attending day programs. However, many older adults with deme...

    Authors: Alirameen Akram, Francesca Nicosia, Jennifer Lee, Maria Lee, Lynn Martin, Steven Martinez, Cherry Ordoñez, Michele Woo and Deborah E. Barnes
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2021 21:607
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  37. The objective was to investigate the individual effect and potential interactions of probable rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder (pRBD) and sleep insufficiency on fall risk among a Chinese elderly popu...

    Authors: Chao Han, Jing An and Piu Chan
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2021 21:606
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  38. Optimal application of the recently updated World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines for exercise in advanced age necessitates an accurate adjustment for the age-related increasing variability in biological ...

    Authors: Yael Netz, Esther Argov, Ziv Yekutieli, Moshe Ayalon, Keren Tchelet, David Ben-Sira, Yihya Amar and Jeremy M. Jacobs
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2021 21:605
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  39. Early detection of dementia may improve patient care and quality of life, yet up to half of people with dementia are undiagnosed. Electronic health record (EHR) data could be used to help identify individuals ...

    Authors: Lorella Palazzo, Clarissa Hsu, Deborah E. Barnes, Marlaine Figueroa Gray, Mikael Anne Greenwood-Hickman, Eric B. Larson and Sascha Dublin
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2021 21:604
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  40. South Korea has a rapidly ageing population. This study aimed to provide epidemiologic data and to identify the characteristics of the patterns and clinical outcomes of two-wheeled vehicle-related injuries (bi...

    Authors: Yoonhyung Choi, Duk Hee Lee and Jung Il Lee
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2021 21:603
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  41. This study aimed to make future projections of the nationwide prevalence of dementia in Japan using the prevalence of dementia from the Toyama Dementia Survey and population projections.

    Authors: Nobue Nakahori, Michikazu Sekine, Masaaki Yamada, Takashi Tatsuse, Hideki Kido and Michio Suzuki
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2021 21:602
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  42. Sexual violence (SV) is an important public health problem which may cause long-lasting health problems. SV in older adults remains neglected in research, policies and practices. Valid SV prevalence estimates ...

    Authors: Anne Nobels, Adina Cismaru-Inescu, Laurent Nisen, Bastien Hahaut, Marie Beaulieu, Gilbert Lemmens, Stéphane Adam, Evelyn Schapansky, Christophe Vandeviver and Ines Keygnaert
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2021 21:601
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Geriatrics 2022 22:77

  43. The operational definition of sarcopenia has been updated (EWGSOP2) and apply different cut-off points compared to previous criteria (EWGSOP1). Therefore, we aim to compare the sarcopenia prevalence and the as...

    Authors: Ola Wallengren, Ingvar Bosaeus, Kerstin Frändin, Lauren Lissner, Hanna Falk Erhag, Hanna Wetterberg, Therese Rydberg Sterner, Lina Rydén, Elisabet Rothenberg and Ingmar Skoog
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2021 21:600
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  44. Hospital Elder Life Program (HELP) provides protocols based on factors for reducing delirium. Due to the lack of geriatric wards and aged care teams in Iran, it seems that some of the original HELP interventio...

    Authors: A. Kojaie-Bidgoli, F. Sharifi, F. Maghsoud, M. Alizadeh-Khoei, F. Jafari and F. Sadeghi
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2021 21:599
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  45. Improvement in acromegaly management increased disease survival and prevalence. Evidence regarding acromegaly in older adults are sparse. We aim to explore acromegaly impact on aging process quality.

    Authors: Irene Gagliardi, Sabrina Chiloiro, Maria Vallillo, Marta Bondanelli, Stefano Volpato, Antonella Giampietro, Antonio Bianchi, Laura De Marinis, Maria Chiara Zatelli and Maria Rosaria Ambrosio
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2021 21:598
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  46. The aim of this study was to inform the development of a Community Geriatrics Service (CGS) that addressed the healthcare and social needs of community dwelling older people in an Australian context.

    Authors: Mark I. Hohenberg, Najwa-Joelle Metri, Rubab Firdaus, David Simmons and Genevieve Z. Steiner
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2021 21:597
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  47. Population aging has been an emerging public and health concern globally. Balance performance can be applied as an indicator of functional status and a predictor of health outcomes in the elderly. However, ref...

    Authors: Hongmei Wu, Yifan Wei, Xiangqi Miao, Xia Li, Yang Feng, Zhenzhen Yuan, Peng Zhou, Xiaolei Ye, Jianhong Zhu, Yu Jiang and Qinghua Xia
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2021 21:596
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  48. Previous studies on the relationship between cognitive impairment and adverse outcomes among geriatric inpatients are not representative of older inpatients in China because of insufficient sample sizes or sin...

    Authors: Li Yuan, Xiaoming Zhang, Na Guo, Zhen Li, Dongmei Lv, Hui Wang, Jingfen Jin, Xianxiu Wen, Shengxiu Zhao, Tao Xu, Jing Jiao and Xinjuan Wu
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2021 21:595
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  49. Caregiving is a global phenomenon which is bound to increase in tandem with the aging population worldwide. Stroke is a condition common in older people that requires complex caregiving necessitating provision...

    Authors: Shilpa Tyagi, Nan Luo, Chuen Seng Tan, Kelvin Bryan Tan, Boon Yeow Tan, Edward Menon, N. Venketasubramanian, Wei Chin Loh, Shu Hui Fan, Kenneth Lam Thuan Yang, Audrey Swee Ling Chan, Aysha Farwin, Zunairah Binti Lukman and Gerald Choon-Huat Koh
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2021 21:594
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  50. Cognitive frailty, a combination of physical frailty and cognitive impairment, is associated with functional decline in older adults. However, there is limited information if cognitive frailty predicts the inc...

    Authors: Nurul Fatin Malek Rivan, Devinder Kaur Ajit Singh, Suzana Shahar, Goh Jing Wen, Nor Fadilah Rajab, Normah Che Din, Hazlina Mahadzir and Mohd Zul Amin Kamaruddin
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2021 21:593
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