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  1. Most people living with dementia want to remain in their own homes, supported by family and paid carers. Care at home often breaks down, necessitating transition to a care home and existing interventions are l...

    Authors: Penny Rapaport, Alexandra Burton, Monica Leverton, Ruminda Herat-Gunaratne, Jules Beresford-Dent, Kathryn Lord, Murna Downs, Sue Boex, Rossana Horsley, Clarissa Giebel and Claudia Cooper
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2020 20:5
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  2. Regular inspection of the oral cavity is required for prevention, early diagnosis and risk reduction of oral- and general health-related problems. Assessments to inspect the oral cavity have been designed for ...

    Authors: Babette Everaars, Linet F. Weening-Verbree, Katarina Jerković-Ćosić, Linda Schoonmade, Nienke Bleijenberg, Niek J. de Wit and Geert J. M. G. van der Heijden
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2020 20:4
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  3. To examine the relationship between social support and depressive symptoms of Chinese family caregivers of older people with disabilities, and to evaluate the role of caregiver burden as a potential mediator o...

    Authors: Yaqin Zhong, Jian Wang and Stephen Nicholas
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2020 20:3
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  5. Delirium is a frequent complication of hospital admission among older people. Multicomponent interventions which can reduce incident delirium by ≈one-third are recommended by the National Institute of Health a...

    Authors: Mary Godfrey, John Green, Jane Smith, Francine Cheater, Sharon K. Inouye, Keith Hurst and John Young
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2019 20:1
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  6. Up to half of elderly people at nursing homes have asymptomatic bacteriuria, and concentrations of 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25OHD) are generally low. Vitamin D is a modulator of the immune system and involved in p...

    Authors: Rebeka Arnljots, Egill Snaebjörnsson Arnljots, Jörgen Thorn, Marie Elm, Michael Moore and Pär-Daniel Sundvall
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2019 19:381
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  7. Studies have shown an association between lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) and an increased risk of dementia. Whether anticholinergic use contributes to the development of dementia in patients with LUTS rem...

    Authors: Yi-Chi Wang, Yung-Liang Chen, Chun-Che Huang, Chung-Han Ho, Yu-Tung Huang, Ming-Ping Wu, Ming-Jung Ou, Chiu-Hsien Yang and Ping-Jen Chen
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2019 19:380
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  10. In the context of an aging population, identifying risk factors for Vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE), specific to older people, is important. However, if age is a known risk factor for VRE infection, a l...

    Authors: Benjamin Mathis, Max Haïne, Raphaële Girard and Marc Bonnefoy
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2019 19:377
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  11. Telomeres are non-coding sequences at the end of eukaryote chromosomes, which in complex with associated proteins serve to protect subtelomeric DNA. Telomeres shorten with each cell division, are regarded as a...

    Authors: Are A. Kalstad, Sjur Tveit, Peder L. Myhre, Kristian Laake, Trine B. Opstad, Arnljot Tveit, Erik B. Schmidt, Svein Solheim, Harald Arnesen and Ingebjørg Seljeflot
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2019 19:376
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  12. Heart failure (HF) is a chronic condition with a variety of diverse symptoms. Patients with HF are usually elderly with multimorbidity, which are both multifaceted and challenging. Being a next of kin to patie...

    Authors: Malin Östman, Siv Bäck-Pettersson, Ann-Helén Sandvik and Annelie J. Sundler
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2019 19:375
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  13. Chile has one of the highest life expectancies within Latin American. This is the first study to determine health expectancies in older populations in Chile, considering cognitive status as a health indicator.

    Authors: Ximena Moreno, Lydia Lera, Francisco Moreno and Cecilia Albala
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2019 19:374
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  14. Stroke patients have increased risks of falls. We examined national registry data to evaluate the association between post-stroke functional level and the risk of low falls among post-stroke patients.

    Authors: Wycliffe E. Wei, Deirdre A. De Silva, Hui Meng Chang, Jiali Yao, David B. Matchar, Sherry H. Y. Young, Siew Ju See, Gek Hsiang Lim, Ting Hway Wong and Narayanaswamy Venketasubramanian
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2019 19:373
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  15. The burden of sepsis represents a global health care problem. We aimed to assess the case fatality rate (CFR) and its predictors in subjects with sepsis admitted to a general Italian hospital from 2009 to 2016...

    Authors: Andrea Fabbri, Giulio Marchesini, Barbara Benazzi, Alice Morelli, Danilo Montesi, Cesare Bini and Stefano Giovanni Rizzo
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2019 19:372
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  16. one of the most important age-dependent physiologic alterations in the body composition of older adult people is obesity and overweight, increasing the risk of cardiovascular disease and mortality rate.

    Authors: Aliakbar Vaisi-Raygani, Masoud Mohammadi, Rostam Jalali, Akram Ghobadi and Nader Salari
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2019 19:371
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  17. Reduced glomerular filtration rate and increased asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA) are prevalent in elderly people. However, most of the studies that have examined the association between the two conditions w...

    Authors: Hye Rin Choi, Seung Won Lee, Da-Hye Jeon, Nam Wook Hur, Yoosik Youm and Hyeon Chang Kim
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2019 19:370
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  18. Older adults, who are living in nursing homes that provide a high level of long-term nursing care, are characterized by multimorbidity and a high prevalence of dependency in activities of daily living. Results...

    Authors: Thomas Cordes, Laura L. Bischoff, Daniel Schoene, Nadja Schott, Claudia Voelcker-Rehage, Charlotte Meixner, Luisa-Marie Appelles, Michael Bebenek, Andre Berwinkel, Claudia Hildebrand, Thomas Jöllenbeck, Bettina Johnen, Wolfgang Kemmler, Thomas Klotzbier, Heide Korbus, Julian Rudisch…
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2019 19:369
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  20. Sarcopenia is a decrease in skeletal muscle mass, physical performance, and muscle strength in older people. In this study, we aimed to explore the correlation between comorbidity and skeletal muscle mass and ...

    Authors: Ge Gong, Wenhui Wan, Xinghu Zhang, Yu Liu, Xinhui Liu and Jian Yin
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2019 19:367
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  21. Little is known about the effects of continued antiplatelet therapy in patients who receive physician home visits. This study aimed to evaluate the association of survival with the continuation of antiplatelet...

    Authors: Yasuhiro Osugi, Teruo Ino, Daiki Kobayashi, Mitsunaga Iwata and Kanichi Asai
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2019 19:366
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  22. The Internet is increasingly becoming an infrastructure for a number of services, both commercial, public (including health related) and personal. Using the internet have the potential to promote social intera...

    Authors: Hanna Falk Erhag, Felicia Ahlner, Therese Rydberg Sterner, Ingmar Skoog and Annika Bergström
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2019 19:365
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  23. Interpreting data about intervention effectiveness requires an understanding of which intervention components were delivered and whether they were delivered as planned (fidelity of delivery). These studies aim...

    Authors: Holly Walton, Ildiko Tombor, Jane Burgess, Hilary Groarke, Tom Swinson, Jennifer Wenborn, Aimee Spector, Martin Orrell, Gail Mountain and Susan Michie
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2019 19:364
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  24. 52% of all deaths in Norway occur in nursing homes. Still advance care planning (ACP) is scarce and heterogeneous. To improve the implementation and practice of ACP in nursing homes, knowledge about health car...

    Authors: Lisbeth Thoresen, Reidar Pedersen, Lillian Lillemoen, Elisabeth Gjerberg and Reidun Førde
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2019 19:363
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  26. Patients with multimorbidity often receive diverse treatments; they are subjected to polypharmacy and to a high treatment burden. Hence it is advocated that doctors set individual health and treatment prioriti...

    Authors: Ulrike Junius-Walker, Tanja Schleef, Ulrike Vogelsang and Marie-Luise Dierks
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2019 19:362
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  27. To date much research into nutrition and cognitive function has been at the nutrient or food level, with inconsistent results. There is increasing interest in the dietary pattern approach to assess whole diet ...

    Authors: Catherine M. Milte, Kylie Ball, David Crawford and Sarah A. McNaughton
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2019 19:361
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  28. A possible connection on vascular basis between impaired kidney function and cognitive dysfunction has been suggested in previous studies. Contradictory results regarding specific cognitive domains have been r...

    Authors: Tomas Månsson, Marieclaire Overton, Mats Pihlsgård and Sölve Elmståhl
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2019 19:360
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  29. The demographic changes towards ageing of the populations in developed countries impose a challenge to trauma centres, as geriatric trauma patients require specific diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. This ...

    Authors: Lorenz Peterer, Christian Ossendorf, Kai Oliver Jensen, Georg Osterhoff, Ladislav Mica, Burkhardt Seifert, Clément M. L. Werner, Hans-Peter Simmen, Hans-Christoph Pape and Kai Sprengel
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2019 19:359
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  30. Challenges of future dementia care include increasing shortage of qualified healthcare providers and decreasing potential of informal care by relatives. In order to meet those challenges, changes in dementia c...

    Authors: Johanna Forstner, Michel Wensing, Jan Koetsenruijter and Pamela Wronski
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2019 19:358
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  31. Prescribing for older people is complex, and many studies have highlighted that appropriate prescribing in this cohort is not always achieved. However, the long-term effect of inappropriate prescribing on outc...

    Authors: Cristín Ryan, Ruth Teh, Simon Moyes, Tim Wilkinson, Martin Connolly, Anna Rolleston, Mere Kepa and Ngaire Kerse
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2019 19:357
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  32. Dysphagia is prevalent in geriatric patients, such as elderly hip fracture patients, and is associated with a poor prognosis. This study investigated (1) the prevalence of dysphagia based on clinical screening...

    Authors: Seong-Eun Byun, Kyeu Back Kwon, Sang Ho Kim and Seung-Jae Lim
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2019 19:356
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  33. Due to improved healthcare, more people reach extreme ages. Oral health in the oldest-old has thus far been poorly described. Here, we investigated self-reported oral health factors, use of professional oral h...

    Authors: Nina Beker, Claar D. van der Maarel-Wierink, Cees de Baat and Henne Holstege
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2019 19:355
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  34. We tested the feasibility of delivering and evaluating a complex therapy intervention which aimed to promote activity and independence for people with early dementia (PrAISED). Feasibility questions were on: r...

    Authors: Sarah E. Goldberg, Veronika van der Wardt, Andy Brand, Clare Burgon, Rupinder Bajwa, Zoe Hoare, Pip L. Logan and Rowan H. Harwood
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2019 19:353
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  36. Today many older persons in ordinary housing receive home health care. It is stipulated that the care is to provide security; however, deficiencies in home health care are reported in many countries. It may be...

    Authors: Inger James, Margaretha Norell Pejner and Annica Kihlgren
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2019 19:351
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  37. Few empirical studies support a bio-psycho-social conceptualization of frailty. In addition to physical frailty (PF), we explored mental (MF) and social (SF) frailty and studied the associations between multid...

    Authors: Nigel Teo, Pei Shi Yeo, Qi Gao, Ma Shwe Zin Nyunt, Jie Jing Foo, Shiou Liang Wee and Tze Pin Ng
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2019 19:350
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  38. Lack of physical activity (PA) is a recognised global public health problem, which is increasing in prevalence with a detrimental impact on the pattern of disease worldwide. In the UK, older adults comprise th...

    Authors: Asiya Maula, Natasher LaFond, Elizabeth Orton, Steve Iliffe, Sarah Audsley, Kavita Vedhara and Denise Kendrick
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2019 19:349
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  39. Unassisted falls are more likely to result in injury than assisted falls. However, little is known about risk factors for falling unassisted. Furthermore, rural hospitals, which care for a high proportion of o...

    Authors: Dawn M. Venema, Anne M. Skinner, Regina Nailon, Deborah Conley, Robin High and Katherine J. Jones
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2019 19:348
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  40. Understanding how living arrangements may affect psychological well-being (PWB) is critical in China, a society with the largest older population in the world. However, few studies have examined the moderating...

    Authors: Zi Zhou, Lun Cai, Meilan Zhuang, Y. Alicia Hong and Ya Fang
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2019 19:347
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  41. Many instruments to identify frail older people have been developed. One of the consequences is that the prevalence rates of frailty vary widely dependent on the instrument selected. The aims of this study wer...

    Authors: Michael C. J. Van der Elst, Birgitte Schoenmakers, Linda P. M. Op het Veld, Ellen E. De Roeck, Anne Van der Vorst, Gertrudis I. J. M. Kempen, Nico De Witte, Jan De Lepeleire and Jos M. G. A. Schols
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2019 19:346
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  42. Falls risk increases sharply with older age but many older people are unaware or underestimate their risk of falling. Increased population-based efforts to influence older people’s falls prevention behavior ar...

    Authors: Lex D. de Jong, Jacqueline Francis-Coad, Chris Wortham, Terry P. Haines, Dawn A. Skelton, Tammy Weselman and Anne-Marie Hill
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2019 19:345
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  43. In institutional care, oral liquid pharmaceutical products are widely prescribed for older patients, especially for those with swallowing disorders. As medicines acceptability is a key factor for compliance in...

    Authors: Emilie Belissa, Thibault Vallet, Sandra Laribe-Caget, Alain Chevallier, François-Xavier Chedhomme, Fattima Abdallah, Nathalie Bachalat, Sid-Ahmed Belbachir, Imad Boulaich, Vanessa Bloch, Anne Delahaye, Mathieu Depoisson, Amélie Dufaÿ Wojcicki, Stéphane Gibaud, Anne-Sophie Grancher, Caroline Guinot…
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2019 19:344
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  44. Five-factor model (FFM) personality traits have been associated consistently with risk of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD). Less is known about how these traits are associated with functioning ...

    Authors: Angelina R. Sutin, Yannick Stephan, Martina Luchetti and Antonio Terracciano
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2019 19:343
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  45. Anemia and frailty contribute to poor health outcomes in older adults; however, most current research in lower income countries has concentrated on anemia or frailty alone rather than in combination. The aim o...

    Authors: Ye Ruan, Yanfei Guo, Paul Kowal, Ye Lu, Chazhen Liu, Shuangyuan Sun, Zhezhou Huang, Yang Zheng, Wenjing Wang, Gan Li, Yan Shi and Fan Wu
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2019 19:327
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  46. Regarding the health care of older populations, WHO recommends shifting from disease-driven attention models towards a personalized, integrated and continuous care aimed to the maintenance and enhancement of f...

    Authors: Itziar Vergara, Maider Mateo-Abad, María Carmen Saucedo-Figueredo, Mónica Machón, Alonso Montiel-Luque, Kalliopi Vrotsou, María Antonia Nava del Val, Ana Díez-Ruiz, Carolina Güell, Ander Matheu, Antonio Bueno, Jazmina Núñez and Francisco Rivas-Ruiz
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2019 19:342
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  47. Whether exercise prevents fall-related injuries in different health conditions and with different training protocols is still unclear. This study aimed to determine the effect of exercise on fall-related injur...

    Authors: Renqing Zhao, Wenqian Bu and Xianghe Chen
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2019 19:341
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  49. World population is living longer, demanding adjustments in public health policies. Body mass index (BMI) is widely known and used as a parameter and predictor of health status although an adapted criterion fo...

    Authors: Damaris Francis Estrella-Castillo and Lizzette Gómez-de-Regil
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2019 19:339
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  50. Hearing and vision (sensory) impairments are highly prevalent in people with dementia (PwD) and exacerbate the impact of living with dementia. Assessment of sensory or cognitive function may be difficult if pe...

    Authors: Lucas Wolski, Iracema Leroi, Jemma Regan, Piers Dawes, Anna Pavlina Charalambous, Chryssoula Thodi, Juliana Prokopiou, Roxane Villeneuve, Catherine Helmer, Abebaw Mengistu Yohannes and Ines Himmelsbach
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2019 19:328
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