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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. 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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  13. 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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  14. 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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  16. 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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  17. 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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  18. 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:

  19. Frailty indicators can operate in dynamic amalgamations of disease conditions, clinical symptoms, biomarkers, medical signals, cognitive characteristics, and even health beliefs and practices. This study is th...

    Authors: Linzy Bohn, Shannon M. Drouin, G. Peggy McFall, Darryl B. Rolfson, Melissa K. Andrew and Roger A. Dixon
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2023 23:837
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  20. 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:

  21. 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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  22. 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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  23. 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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  24. Diabetes mellitus is a prevalent and potentially devastating chronic illness affecting many older adults. Given spousal involvement in many aspects of diabetes management, coping with their partners is increas...

    Authors: Jing Zhang, Conghui Yang, Yixuan Liu, Dadong Wu, Lingrui Liu, Huiqiong Zheng, Dong (Roman) Xu and Jing Liao
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2023 23:832
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  26. 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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  27. There are no published longitudinal studies from Africa of people with dementia seen in memory clinics. The aim of this study was to determine the proportions of the different dementia subtypes, rates of cogni...

    Authors: Michael Ssonko, Anneli Hardy, Vasi Naganathan, Sebastiana Kalula and Marc Combrinck
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2023 23:829
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  28. Older individuals are priority coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine recipients. Our aim was to investigate the prevalence of and factors influencing vaccine hesitancy in older individuals living in nurs...

    Authors: Li Lv, Xu-Dong Wu, Huan-Jun Yan, Shuang-Ying Zhao, Xiao-Dong Zhang and Ke-Lei Zhu
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2023 23:828
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  29. With the rapid aging trend of China's population, the issue of drug rational use in older adults has become more and more prominent. Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the one of the most common age-related neurodege...

    Authors: Mengyuan Fu, Can Li, Zinan Zhao, Kexin Ling, Zhiwen Gong, Huangqianyu Li, Ting Li, Jianchun Li, Weihang Cao, Xin Hu, Luwen Shi, Pengfei Jin and Xiaodong Guan
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2023 23:827
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  30. Calf circumference is recommended as a marker for low muscle mass and as a case finding in the diagnosis of sarcopenia. However, the cut-off value differed by ethic and region. Currently there is no study amon...

    Authors: Jirapa Champaiboon, Aisawan Petchlorlian, Bhorn-ake Manasvanich, Nattaphon Ubonsutvanich, Weerachai Jitpugdee, Piyawan Kittiskulnam, Supharada Wongwatthananart, Yupaporn Menorngwa, Sasitorn Pornsalnuwat and Kearkiat Praditpornsilpa
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2023 23:826
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  31. Prior studies suggested that antidepressant use is associated with an increased risk of dementia compared to no use, which is subject to confounding by indication. We aimed to compare the dementia risk among o...

    Authors: Grace Hsin-Min Wang, Wei-Han Chen, Shao-Hsuan Chang, Tianxiao Zhang, Hui Shao, Jingchuan Guo and Wei-Hsuan Lo-Ciganic
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2023 23:825
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  33. Mobility within and between life spaces is fundamental for health and well-being. Our objective was to verify a comprehensive framework for mobility.

    Authors: Sandra C. Webber, Yixiu Liu, Depeng Jiang, Jacquie Ripat, Scott Nowicki, Robert Tate and Ruth Barclay
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2023 23:823
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  34. Antimicrobial resistance is a serious threat to public health. To reduce antimicrobial resistance, interventions to reduce gram-negative infections, specifically urinary tract infections, are vital. Early evid...

    Authors: Danielle McMichael, Patricia Gillen, Caroline McGeary, Muhammad Sartaj and Lynsey Patterson
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2023 23:822
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  35. Comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) is considered the gold standard approach to improving a range of outcomes for older adults living with frailty admitted to hospital. To date, research has predominantly...

    Authors: Íde O’Shaughnessy, Christine Fitzgerald, Christina Hayes, Aoife Leahy, Margaret O’Connor, Damien Ryan, Denys Shchetkovsky, Fiona Steed, Leonora Carey, Colin Quinn, Elaine Shanahan, Rose Galvin and Katie Robinson
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2023 23:821
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  36. Lifelong strength is fundamental to physical function, health, and quality of life. Reliable appropriate strength assessment measures for older adults play an important role in effective evaluation of baseline...

    Authors: Bridgitte Swales, Gemma C. Ryde, Iain Fletcher and Anna C. Whittaker
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2023 23:820
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  37. Few evidence-based prediction models have been developed for predicting major adverse cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events (MACCE) in patients aged 65 years or older undergoing noncardiac surgery. In this...

    Authors: Xuejiao Wu, Jiachen Hu and Jianjun Zhang
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2023 23:819
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  38. Self-care plays a crucial role in the management of heart failure (HF) and is especially important for older patients who are frail. However, there is limited knowledge about how frail, older patients with HF ...

    Authors: Jeanette Eckerblad, Leonie Klompstra, Linda Heinola, Sandra Rojlén and Nana Waldréus
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2023 23:818
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  39. Fatigue is known as an element of frailty. Sleep problems (e.g., short sleep duration and low sleep quality) can increase fatigue, but the day-to-day relationship between sleep and fatigue has not been studied...

    Authors: Takeshi Nakagawa, Saori Yasumoto, Mai Kabayama, Ken’ichi Matsuda, Yasuyuki Gondo, Kei Kamide and Kazunori Ikebe
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2023 23:817
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  41. Dysregulated energy metabolism is one hypothesized mechanism underlying frailty. Resting energy expenditure, as reflected by resting metabolic rate (RMR), makes up the largest component of total energy expendi...

    Authors: A Gonzalez, J Soto, N Babiker, K Wroblewski, S Sawicki, D Schoeller, A Luke and Megan Huisingh-Scheetz
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2023 23:815
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  42. Depression is commonly experienced by people with dementia, and associated with lower quality of life and functional decline. However, access to evidence-based psychological interventions for people with demen...

    Authors: Frida Svedin, Oscar Blomberg, Anders Brantnell, Paul Farrand, Anna Cristina Åberg and Joanne Woodford
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2023 23:814
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  43. Previous studies have suggested an association between sleep disturbance and frailty. The mechanism is unknown, although it has been suggested that hormonal factors may play a role.

    Authors: Seema D. Sharma, Michael J. Cook, Leen Antonio, Evelien Gielen, Gyorgy Bartfai, Felipe F. Casanueva, Ilpo T. Huhtaniemi, Mario Maggi, Margus Punab, Giulia Rastrelli, Jolanta Slowikowska-Hilczer, Jos Tournoy, Dirk Vanderschueren, Frederick C. Wu and Terence W. O’Neill
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2023 23:813
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  44. Studies on informal caregivers in Japan have been limited to family caregivers and largely conducted where family caregivers generally gather. Family caregivers who do not visit such places or non-family careg...

    Authors: Tsuyoshi Okamura, Chiaki Ura, Yukiko Kugimiya, Mutsuko Okamura, Masako Yamamura, Hidemi Okado, Mayumi Kaneko, Mari Yamashita and Tomoko Wakui
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2023 23:812
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  45. Early Detection of Deterioration in Elderly Residents (EDDIE +) is a multi-modal intervention focused on empowering nursing and personal care workers to identify and proactively manage deterioration of residen...

    Authors: Michelle J. Allen, Hannah E. Carter, Elizabeth Cyarto, Claudia Meyer, Trudy Dwyer, Florin Oprescu, Christopher Aitken, Alison Farrington, Carla Shield, Jeffrey Rowland, Xing J. Lee, Nicholas Graves, Lynne Parkinson and Gillian Harvey
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2023 23:811
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  46. The need to improve the acute care pathway to meet the care needs of older people living with frailty is a strategic priority for many healthcare systems. The optimal care model for this patient group is unclear.

    Authors: Thomas Knight, Vicky Kamwa, Catherine Atkin, Catherine Green, Janahan Ragunathan, Daniel Lasserson and Elizabeth Sapey
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2023 23:809
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  47. Kinship care represents the most prevalent form of foster care in Poland. Most commonly, the role of kinship carers is taken on by grandparents, who may struggle with various problems, needs and deficits in th...

    Authors: Marta Giezek, Anna Wojtkowska, Paulina Zabielska and Beata Karakiewicz
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2023 23:808
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  48. Few studies in Latin America have examined the association between cardiovascular risk factors and cognitive impairment (CI) in a nationally representative sample. Therefore, this study aimed to estimate the p...

    Authors: Josivaldo Souza-Lima, Sandra Mahecha Matsudo, Pedro Valdivia-Moral, Waldo Pérez, Clemens Drenowatz, Jorge Sapunar Zenteno and Gerson Ferrari
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2023 23:806
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  50. We explored the relationships between sarcopenia (SP), osteoporosis (OP), obesity (OB), (alone and in combination) with physical frailty (PF) in a multi-ethnic, population-based study of Asians aged ≥ 60 years.

    Authors: Matthew Wong Yu Heng, Aurora W. D. Chan, Ryan E. K. Man, Eva K. Fenwick, Samuel T. H. Chew, Laura Tay, Ng Yee Sien, David Ng, Frederick H. Koh, Eu-Leong Yong, Preeti Gupta and Ecosse L. Lamoureux
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2023 23:802
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