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  1. The Square Stepping Exercise (SSE) is an exercise training program that integrates physical exercise and cognitive elements and can be conducted in a group setting. The potential of SSE in delaying cognitive d...

    Authors: Masato Kawabata, Su Ren Gan and Annabel Chen Shen-Hsing
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:374
  2. Delayed recognition of acute disease among older adults hinders timely management and increases the risk of hospital admission. Point-of-Care testing, including Focused Lung Ultrasound (FLUS) and in-home analy...

    Authors: Siri Aas Smedemark, Christian B. Laursen, Dorte Ejg Jarbøl, Flemming S. Rosenvinge and Karen Andersen-Ranberg
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:373
  3. Hypertension is prevalent in China. Hypertensive patients suffer from many health problems in life. Hypertension is a common chronic disease with long-term and lifelong characteristics. In the long run, the ex...

    Authors: Xue Yang, Yujin Mei, Yuqing Li, Xiaoyun Zhang, Jiaofeng Gui, Ying Wang, Wenyue Chen, Mingjia Chen, Changjun Liu and Lin Zhang
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:372
  4. Evidence remains limited and inconsistent for assessing cognitive function in Chinese older adults (CFCOA) and inequalities in cognitive function in Chinese older adults (ICFCOA) and exploring their influencin...

    Authors: Ciran Yang, Zongfu Mao, Shaotang Wu, Shicheng Yin, Yu Sun and Dan Cui
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:371
  5. Intrinsic capacity (IC) is a comprehensive indicator of the overall well-being of older adults, and assessing of IC can help identify early stage of disability and tailor intervention to individual needs. Howe...

    Authors: Ya-Hui Chang, Chung-Ying Lin, Yu-Tsung Chou, Hung-Yu Chen, Hui-Chen Su, Yi-Lin Wu, Yi-Ching Yang and Wen-Hsuan Hou
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:370
  6. Regular exercise is emphasized for the improvement of functional capacity and independence of older adults. This study aimed to compare the effects of a dual-task resistance exercise program and resistance exe...

    Authors: Ji-Eun Baek, Sang-Jun Hyeon, May Kim, Hwi-young Cho and Suk-Chan Hahm
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:369
  7. Marital status is a potentially essential factor for cognitive impairment. Relevant research examining the potential pathways through which the marital status of spouseless older people is associated with cogn...

    Authors: Donghang Zhang, Wenhao Zheng and Keyang Li
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:367
  8. A growing body of evidence shows that many nursing home residents’ basic care needs are neglected, and residents do not receive qualitatively good care. This neglect challenges nursing staff´s professional and...

    Authors: Stine Borgen Lund, Wenche K. Malmedal, Laura Mosqueda and John-Arne Skolbekken
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:366
  9. Digital assistive technology (DAT) may support time management in people with dementia or mild cognitive impairment (MCI), but research on DAT for time management is limited. We aimed to explore how everyday c...

    Authors: K. Baudin, A. Sundström and H. Lindner
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:365
  10. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidelines state that psychosocial interventions should be the first line of treatment for people with dementia who are experiencing distress behaviours, s...

    Authors: Naomi Thompson, Ming-Hung Hsu, Helen Odell-Miller, Benjamin R. Underwood and Emma Wolverson
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:364
  11. Societal attitudes toward ageing play a significant role in shaping one’s ageing experience, and an age-friendly environment can potentially enhance the life satisfaction of older individuals. The objective of...

    Authors: Sok Leng Che, Wai In Lei, Tan Hung and Sok Man Leong
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:362
  12. The association between socioeconomic status and depression is weaker in older adults than in younger populations. Loneliness may play a significant role in this relationship, explaining (at least partially) t...

    Authors: Esteban Sánchez-Moreno, Lorena Gallardo-Peralta, Ana Barrón López de Roda and Joaquín M. Rivera Álvarez
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:361
  13. Gastric intramural hematoma is a rare disease. Here we report a case of spontaneous isolated gastric intramural hematoma combined with spontaneous superior mesenteric artery intermural hematoma.

    Authors: Zhenxing Zhang, Shan Wang, Kelong Tao, Guolin Zhang, Danling Guo, Yu Zhang and Guangen Xu
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:360
  14. The COVID-19 pandemic affected the control of many chronic conditions, including hip fractures, worldwide. This study was to examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the management of hip fractures in a ...

    Authors: Fatemeh Yalamchi, Kazem Khalagi, Noushin Fahimfar, Pouria Tabrizian, Mahnaz Sanjari, Mohammad Javad Mansourzadeh, Afshin Ostovar and Mohsen Asadi-Lari
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:359
  15. Older people with hip fracture are often medically frail, and many do not regain their walking ability and level of physical activity. The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between pre-fracture...

    Authors: Kristi Elisabeth Heiberg, Monica Beckmann and Vigdis Bruun-Olsen
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:358
  16. Sarcopenic obesity emerges as a risk factor for adverse clinical outcomes in non-hospitalized older adults, including physical disabilities, metabolic diseases, and even mortality. In this systematic review an...

    Authors: Yuhong Luo, Yanqiu Wang, Shuao Tang, Ludan Xu, Xinyu Zhao, Mengya Han, Yuhua Liu, Yan Xu and Binru Han
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:357
  17. The relationship between triglyceride glucose-body mass index (TyG-BMI) index and mortality in elderly patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) are still unclear. This study aimed to investigate the association be...

    Authors: Lei Ding, Bingqi Fu, Hongda Zhang, Cong Dai, Aikai Zhang, Fengyuan Yu, Lijie Mi, Wei Hua and Min Tang
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:356
  18. Older adults are increasingly susceptible to prolonged illness, multiple chronic diseases, and disabilities, which can lead to the coexistence of multimorbidity and frailty. Multimorbidity may result in variou...

    Authors: Rafael Ogaz-González, Eva Corpeleijn, Rosa Estela García-Chanes, Luis Miguel Gutierréz-Robledo, Ricardo Antonio Escamilla-Santiago and Malaquías López-Cervantes
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:355
  19. Diagnosing and classifying heart failure (HF) in the oldest-old patients has technical and interpretation issues, especially in the acute setting. We assessed the usefulness of both N-terminal pro-brain natriu...

    Authors: Matteo Landolfo, Francesco Spannella, Federico Giulietti, Chiara Di Pentima, Piero Giordano, Elisabetta Borioni, Laura Landi, Mirko Di Rosa, Roberta Galeazzi and Riccardo Sarzani
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:354
  20. Transfers of nursing home (NH) residents to the emergency department (ED) is frequent. Our main objective was to assess the cost of care pathways 6 months before and after the transfer to the emergency departm...

    Authors: E. Gombault-Datzenko, N. Costa, M. Mounié, N. Tavassoli, C. Mathieu, H. Roussel, J. M. Lagarrigue, E. Berard, Y. Rolland and L. Molinier
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:353
  21. Fat to muscle mass ratio (FMR), a novel index integrating fat and muscle composition, has garnered attention in age-related conditions such as type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and neurodegenerative diseases. De...

    Authors: Fan Wu, Yanlan Liu, Chenying Lin, Nahal Haghbin, Longfei Xia, Yaoshuang Li, Tong Chen, Huina Qiu, Weiran Jiang, Jingbo Li and Jingna Lin
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:352
  22. Older individuals with functional decline and homecare are frequent visitors to emergency departments (ED). Homecare workers (HCWs) interact regularly with their clients and may play a crucial role in their we...

    Authors: Pia Bastholm-Rahmner, Monica Bergqvist, Karin Modig, Lars L. Gustafsson and Katharina Schmidt-Mende
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:350
  23. This study aimed to investigate the actual application, knowledge, and training needs of comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) among geriatric practitioners in China.

    Authors: Shanshan Shen, Xingkun Zeng, Xiaoliang Hui, Lingyan Chen, Jinmei Zhang and Xujiao Chen
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:349
  24. Definitive chemoradiotherapy is one of the primary treatment modalities for older patients with esophageal cancer (EC). However, the evolution of prognosis over time and the factors affected non-EC deaths rema...

    Authors: Xiao Chang, Wei Deng, Rong Yu and Weihu Wang
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:348
  25. The Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) records geriatric syndromes in a standardized manner, allowing individualized treatment tailored to the patient’s needs and resources. Its use has shown a beneficia...

    Authors: Jennifer Kudelka, Malte Ollenschläger, Richard Dodel, Bjoern M. Eskofier, Markus A. Hobert, Klaus Jahn, Jochen Klucken, Bendix Labeit, M. Cristina Polidori, Tino Prell, Tobias Warnecke, Christine A. F. von Arnim, Walter Maetzler and Andreas H. Jacobs
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:347
  26. Osteoporosis patient education is offered in many countries worldwide. When evaluating complex interventions like these, it is important to understand how and why the intervention leads to effects. This study ...

    Authors: Mette Rubæk, Marie Broholm-Jørgensen, Susan Andersen, Pernille Ravn Jakobsen, Mette Juel Rothmann, Bente Langdahl, Mette Friberg Hitz and Teresa Holmberg
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:346
  27. The paper aims to explore the elderly caregiving process in India from the perspective of both elderly as well as working women care providers, along with the challenges faced and the coping strategies adopted...

    Authors: Dipti Govil, Harihar Sahoo, Biswabandita Chowdhury and K. S. James
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:345
  28. Cognitive impairment is a growing problem with increasing burden in global aging. Older adults with major depressive disorder (MDD) have higher risk of dementia. Neurofilament light chain (NfL) has been proven...

    Authors: Cynthia Yi-an Chen, Chih-Chiang Chiu, Cho-Yin Huang, Ying-Chih Cheng, Ming-Chyi Huang, Po-Hsiu Kuo and Wen-Yin Chen
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:344
  29. The first six months of therapy represents a high-risk period for peritoneal dialysis (PD) failure. The risk of death in the first six months is higher for older patients treated with urgent-start PD (USPD). H...

    Authors: Shizheng Guo, Liming Yang, Xueyan Zhu, Xiaoxuan Zhang, Zhanshan Sun, Lingfei Meng, Yangwei Wang, Jian Li, Siyu Cheng, Xiaohua Zhuang and Wenpeng Cui
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:343
  30. Family caregivers play a crucial role in providing physical, emotional, and social support to the elderly, allowing them to maintain their independence and stay in their preferred living environment. However, ...

    Authors: Gebrezabher Niguse Hailu, Muntaha Abdelkader, Feven Asfaw and Hailemariam Atsbeha Meles
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:342
  31. Malnutrition is a common geriatric syndrome that is closely associated with adverse clinical outcomes and poses significant harm to older adults. Early assessment of nutritional status plays a crucial role in ...

    Authors: Xianghui Zhao, Li Meng, Daguang Wang, Jing Shi, Wenbin Wu, Guoqing Fan, Hong Shi, Jun Dong, Pulin Yu and Ruiyue Yang
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:341
  32. Sarcopenia is a progressive loss of muscle mass and function. Since skeletal muscle plays a critical role in metabolic homeostasis, identifying the relationship of blood metabolites with sarcopenia components ...

    Authors: Wenxi Peng, Zhilin Xia, Yaxuan Guo, Linghong Li, Jianrong He and Yi Su
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:339
  33. Research has highlighted a need to improve the quality of clinical documentation and data within aged care and disability services in Australia to support improved regulatory reporting and ensure quality and s...

    Authors: Gap Tshering, Lakkhina Troeung, Rebecca Walton and Angelita Martini
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:338
  34. We systematically reviewed and meta-analyzed the predictors of major adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular events (MACE/MACCE) in older adults who underwent PCI.

    Authors: Arash Jalali, Ali Hassanzadeh, Mohammad Sadeq Najafi, Sepehr Nayebirad, Mohadese Dashtkoohi, Zahra Karimi and Akbar Shafiee
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:337
  35. Frailty and polypharmacy are common conditions in older adults, especially in those with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Therefore, we analyzed the association of polypharmacy and incident frailty and the effect...

    Authors: Nina Mielke, Muhammad Helmi Barghouth, Anne-Katrin Fietz, Cédric Villain, Tim Bothe, Natalie Ebert and Elke Schaeffner
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:335
  36. Outcomes following proximal humeral fracture (PHF) may be impacted by a range of clinical, fracture and premorbid factors. The aim of this study was to examine factors impacting hospital admission; length of s...

    Authors: B. R. McDonald, S. Vogrin and C. M. Said
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:334
  37. Retirement and aging are phenomena that often occur simultaneously and lead to various physical and psychological changes in older adults. Retirement syndrome consists of symptoms such as feelings of emptiness...

    Authors: Sakineh Qorbani, Zahra Amrollah Majdabadi, Nasrin Nikpeyma, Shima Haghani, Sahar Keyvanloo Shahrestanaki and Sarieh Poortaghi
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:333
  38. Osteosarcopenia adversely affects the quality of life and physical health of older adults. We sought to explore the association between dietary patterns and osteosarcopenia in community-dwelling older adults.

    Authors: Runnian Huang, Junwei Hu, Yi Li, Sijia Yang, Xin Li, Tianbo Hou, Zibo Ning, Chunhua Ma, Xiaoyue Yuan, Zheng Wang, Tiantian Zhang and Difei Wang
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:332
  39. Motor cognitive risk syndrome (MCR) represents a critical pre-dementia and disability state characterized by a combination of objectively measured slow walking speed and subjective memory complaints (SMCs). Th...

    Authors: Qingqing Dai, Yajun Ma, Chang Liu, Ruixue Zhao, Qi Chen, Weijia Chen, Xiaofeng Wang, Xiaoyan Jiang and Shujuan Li
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:331
  40. Agitation and/or aggression affect up to 60% of persons living with dementia in long-term care (LTC). It can be treated via non-pharmacological and pharmacological interventions, but the former are underused i...

    Authors: Britney Wong, Zahinoor Ismail, Jennifer Watt, Jayna Holroyd-Leduc and Zahra Goodarzi
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:330
  41. Studies have shown that potentially inappropriate prescribing (PIP) is highly prevalent among people with dementia (PwD) and linked to negative outcomes, such as hospitalisation and mortality. However, there a...

    Authors: Nahla A. Alageel, Carmel M. Hughes, Monira Alwhaibi, Walid Alkeridy and Heather E. Barry
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:328
  42. Falling is a major concern for the health of older adults and significantly affects their quality of life. Identifying the various risk factors and the differences between older patients can be challenging. Th...

    Authors: Sarah El Khatib, Carmela Bou Malham, Sandrine Andrieu, Mathilde Strumia, Philippe Cestac and Pascale Salameh
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:327
  43. Preservation of mobility and fall prevention have a high priority in geriatric rehabilitation. Square-Stepping Exercise (SSE) as an evaluated and standardized program has been proven to be an effective trainin...

    Authors: Katja Fränzel, Jessica Koschate, Ellen Freiberger, Ryosuke Shigematsu, Tania Zieschang and Svenja Tietgen
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:326
  44. Sarcopenia, an age-related disorder characterized by loss of skeletal muscle mass and function, is recently recognized as a complication in elderly patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Skeletal muscl...

    Authors: Huiling Chen, Jingjing Lou, Meiyuan Dong, Xintao Liu, Shijie Yan, Song Wen, Ligang Zhou, Xingdang Liu and Xinlu Yuan
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:325

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