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  1. Hypovitaminosis D is particularly common among older people with a proximal femoral (hip) fracture. There are currently no agreed strategies for vitamin D replenishment after hip fracture surgery. The REVITAHI...

    Authors: Jenson CS Mak, Linda A Klein, Terry Finnegan, Rebecca S Mason and Ian D Cameron
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:101
  2. Turning is a common activity for older people, and is one of the activities commonly associated with falls during walking. Falls that occur while walking and turning have also been associated with an increased...

    Authors: Ashari Asmidawati, Tengku Aizan Hamid, Rizal M Hussain and Keith D Hill
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:100
  3. Although dementia at the end of life is increasingly being studied, we lack prospective observational data on dying patients. In this study symptoms were observed in patients with dementia in the last days of ...

    Authors: Maartje S Klapwijk, Monique AA Caljouw, Mirjam C van Soest-Poortvliet, Jenny T van der Steen and Wilco P Achterberg
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:99
  4. To determine if risk stratification followed by rapid geriatric screening in an emergency department (ED) reduced functional decline, ED reattendance and hospitalisation.

    Authors: Chik Loon Foo, Vivan Wing Yin Siu, Hou Ang, Madeline Wei Ling Phuah and Chee Kheong Ooi
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:98
  5. Dizziness in older people is associated with disability and reduced quality of life. Few studies have investigated how daily life is affected from the older person’s perspective. Identifying barriers and resou...

    Authors: Ulrika Olsson Möller, Eva Ekvall Hansson, Charlotte Ekdahl, Patrik Midlöv, Ulf Jakobsson and Jimmie Kristensson
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:97
  6. Delirium is associated with substantial morbidity and mortality rates in elderly hospitalised patients, and a growing problem due to increase in life expectancy. Implementation of standardised non-pharmacologi...

    Authors: Edmée JM Schrijver, Oscar J de Vries, Astrid Verburg, Karola de Graaf, Pierre M Bet, Peter M van de Ven, Ad M Kamper, Sabine HA Diepeveen, Sander Anten, Andrea Siegel, Esther Kuipéri, Anne M Lagaay, Rob J van Marum, Astrid M van Strien, Leo Boelaarts, Douwe Pons…
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:96
  7. Older people resident in care homes have a limited life expectancy and approximately two-thirds have limited mental capacity. Despite initiatives to reduce unplanned hospital admissions for this population, li...

    Authors: Sarah Amador, Claire Goodman, Derek King, Ina Machen, Natasha Elmore, Elspeth Mathie and Steve Iliffe
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:95
  8. In the modern world with new family structures, international migration and increased life expectancy, there is a growing need for legal ways of assisting elderly with impaired mental capacity to decide about ...

    Authors: Karin S Björkstén, Kerstin Fälldin and Johanna Ulfvarson
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:94
  9. Although the number of elderly people needing care is increasing rapidly in the home setting in Japan, family size and ability to provide such support are declining. The purpose of this study was to identify t...

    Authors: Emiko Saito, Shouzoh Ueki, Nobufumi Yasuda, Sachiko Yamazaki and Seiji Yasumura
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:93
  10. The simultaneous use of several medications is an important risk factor for injurious falls in older people. The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of the number of medications dispensed to elderly...

    Authors: Björg Helgadóttir, Lucie Laflamme, Joel Monárrez-Espino and Jette Möller
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:92
  11. Falls are very common, especially in adults aged 65 years and older. Within the current international European Commission’s Seventh Framework Program (FP7) project ‘iStoppFalls’ an Information and Communicatio...

    Authors: Yves J Gschwind, Sabine Eichberg, Hannah R Marston, Andreas Ejupi, Helios de Rosario, Michael Kroll, Mario Drobics, Janneke Annegarn, Rainer Wieching, Stephen R Lord, Konstantin Aal and Kim Delbaere
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:91
  12. Numerous social factors, generally studied in isolation, have been associated with older adults’ health. Even so, older people’s social circumstances are complex and an approach which embraces this complexity ...

    Authors: Melissa K Andrew and Janice M Keefe
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:90
  13. The rate of falls in community dwelling older people with cognitive impairment (CI) is twice that of a cognitively intact population, with almost two thirds of people with CI falling annually. Studies indicate...

    Authors: Jacqueline CT Close, Jacqueline Wesson, Catherine Sherrington, Keith D Hill, Sue Kurrle, Stephen R Lord, Henry Brodaty, Kirsten Howard, Laura N Gitlin, Sandra D O’Rourke and Lindy Clemson
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:89
  14. Up to half the residents of nursing homes for the elderly have asymptomatic bacteriuria (ABU), which should not be treated with antibiotics. A complementary test to discriminate between symptomatic urinary tra...

    Authors: Pär-Daniel Sundvall, Marie Elm, Peter Ulleryd, Sigvard Mölstad, Nils Rodhe, Lars Jonsson, Bengt Andersson, Mirjana Hahn-Zoric and Ronny Gunnarsson
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:88
  15. In the general population, the epidemiological relationships between delirium and adverse outcomes are not well defined. The aims of this study were to: (1) construct an algorithm for the diagnosis of delirium...

    Authors: Daniel HJ Davis, Linda E Barnes, Blossom CM Stephan, Alasdair MJ MacLullich, David Meagher, John Copeland, Fiona E Matthews and Carol Brayne
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:87
  16. The Engaging with older adults in the development of strategies for the self management of chronic pain (EOPIC) study aims to design and develop self management strategies to enable older adults to manage thei...

    Authors: Pat Schofield, Blair H Smith, Denis Martin, Derek Jones, Amanda Clarke, Paul McNamee, Ron Marsh, Michael Morrison, Rosemary Morrison, Sheena Fowler, Geraldine Anthony and Carrie Stewart
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:86
  17. An association between cognition and physical function has been shown to exist but the roles of muscle and brain structure in this relationship are not fully understood. A greater understanding of these relati...

    Authors: Alixe HM Kilgour, Oliver M Todd and John M Starr
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:85
  18. The aim of this process evaluation was to provide insight into facilitators and barriers to the delivery of community-based personalized dementia care of two different case management models, i.e. the linkage ...

    Authors: Lisa D Van Mierlo, Franka JM Meiland, Hein PJ Van Hout and Rose-Marie Dröes
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:84
  19. Within the context of an exploratory case study, the authors assessed the perceptions of family caregivers about the decision-making process regarding relocating their relative and about the applicability of a...

    Authors: France Légaré, Dawn Stacey, Nathalie Brière, Hubert Robitaille, Marie-Claude Lord, Sophie Desroches and Renée Drolet
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:83
  20. Sexuality is a key component of quality of life and well-being and a need to express one’s sexuality continues into old age. Staff and families in residential aged care facilities often find expressions of sex...

    Authors: Michael Bauer, Deirdre Fetherstonhaugh, Laura Tarzia, Rhonda Nay and Elizabeth Beattie
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:82
  21. Across Ontario, home care professionals collect standardized information on each client using the Resident Assessment for Home Care (RAI-HC). However, this information is not consistently shared with those pro...

    Authors: Dawn M Guthrie, Robyn Pitman, Paula C Fletcher, John P Hirdes, Paul Stolee, Jeffrey W Poss, Alexandra Papaioannou, Katherine Berg and Helen Janzen Ezekiel
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:81
  22. Residents of long-term care facilities have a high risk of acute care admission. Estimates of the frequency of inappropriate transfers vary substantially throughout the studies and various assessment tools hav...

    Authors: Anna Renom-Guiteras, Lisbeth Uhrenfeldt, Gabriele Meyer and Eva Mann
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:80
  23. In line with a rapidly ageing global population, the rise in the frequency of falls will lead to increased healthcare and social care costs. This study will be one of the few randomized controlled trials evalu...

    Authors: Pey June Tan, Ee Ming Khoo, Karuthan Chinna, Keith D Hill, Phillip JH Poi and Maw Pin Tan
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:78
  24. Late-life depression is common among elderly patients. Ignorance of the health problem, either because of under-diagnosis or under-treatment, causes additional medical cost and comorbidity. For a better health...

    Authors: Jui-Hung Lin, Min-Wei Huang, Deng-Wu Wang, Yi-Ming Chen, Chu-Sheng Lin, Yi-Jing Tang, Shu-Hui Yang and Hsien-Yuan Lane
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:77
  25. This study examined medical resource utilisation patterns in the United Kingdom (UK) prior to and following Alzheimer’s disease (AD) diagnosis.

    Authors: Lei Chen, Catherine Reed, Michael Happich, Allen Nyhuis and Alan Lenox-Smith
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:76
  26. The coexistence of several chronic diseases in one same individual, known as multimorbidity, is an important challenge facing health care systems in developed countries. Recent studies have revealed the existe...

    Authors: José María Abad-Díez, Amaia Calderón-Larrañaga, Antonio Poncel-Falcó, Beatriz Poblador-Plou, José Manuel Calderón-Meza, Antoni Sicras-Mainar, Mercedes Clerencia-Sierra and Alexandra Prados-Torres
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:75
  27. Both epidemiological and randomized clinical studies suggest that supplementation with very-long-chain marine polyunsaturated n-3 fatty acids (n-3 PUFA) have cardioprotective effects, however these results are...

    Authors: Kristian Laake, Peder Myhre, Linn M Nordby, Ingebjørg Seljeflot, Michael Abdelnoor, Pål Smith, Arnljot Tveit, Harald Arnesen and Svein Solheim
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:74
  28. Preventing and rehabilitating gait disorders in people with dementia during early disease stage is of high importance for staying independent and ambulating safely. However, the evidence gathered in randomized...

    Authors: Michael Schwenk, Tania Zieschang, Stefan Englert, Gurtej Grewal, Bijan Najafi and Klaus Hauer
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:73
  29. Potentially inappropriate prescribing (PIP) in older people is associated with increases in morbidity, hospitalisation and mortality. The objective of this study was to estimate the prevalence of and factors a...

    Authors: Marie C Bradley, Nicola Motterlini, Shivani Padmanabhan, Caitriona Cahir, Tim Williams, Tom Fahey and Carmel M Hughes
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:72
  30. Older people living with dementia prefer to stay at home to receive support. But they are at high risk of death and/or hospital admissions. This study primarily aimed to determine risk factors for time to deat...

    Authors: Emily (Chuanmei) You, David Robert Dunt, Vanessa White, Stephen Vander Hoorn and Colleen Doyle
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:71
  31. Not only single, but also multiple, chronic conditions are becoming the normal situation rather than the exception in the older generation. While many studies show a correlation between multimorbidity and vari...

    Authors: Daniela Koller, Gerhard Schön, Ingmar Schäfer, Gerd Glaeske, Hendrik van den Bussche and Heike Hansen
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:70
  32. Delirium occurs frequently in older hospitalised patients and is associated with several adverse outcomes. Ignorance among healthcare professionals and a failure to recognise patients suffering from delirium h...

    Authors: Lotte van de Steeg, Roelie IJkema, Maaike Langelaan and Cordula Wagner
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:69
  33. Recovery after stroke is dependent on how much time can be spent on rehabilitation. Recently, we found that therapy time for older stroke patients on a rehabilitation unit of a nursing home could be increased ...

    Authors: Marleen Huijben-Schoenmakers, Arno Rademaker, Peter van Rooden and Erik Scherder
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:68
  34. Insight in the natural course of care dependency of vulnerable older persons in long-term care facilities (LTCF) is essential to organize and optimize individual tailored care. We examined changes in care depe...

    Authors: Monique AA Caljouw, Herman JM Cools and Jacobijn Gussekloo
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:67
  35. Chair based exercise (CBE) is suggested to engage older people with compromised health and mobility in an accessible form of exercise. A systematic review looking at the benefits of CBE for older people identi...

    Authors: Katie R Robinson, Paul Leighton, Philippa Logan, Adam L Gordon, Kevin Anthony, Rowan H Harwood, John RF Gladman and Tahir Masud
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:65
  36. Advancing age is associated with increased vulnerability to chronic health problems. Identifying factors that predict oldest-old status is vital for developing effective clinical interventions and public healt...

    Authors: Nicolás Martínez-Velilla, Koldo Cambra-Contin and Berta Ibáñez-Beroiz
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:64
  37. Hong Kong has one of the highest life expectancy rankings in the world. The number of centenarians and near-centenarians has been increasing locally and internationally. The relative growth of this population ...

    Authors: Wai-Ching Paul Wong, Hi-Po Bobo Lau, Chun-Fong Noel Kwok, Yee-Man Angela Leung, Man-Yee Grace Chan, Wai-Man Chan and Siu-Lan Karen Cheung
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:63
  38. Depressive symptoms in older home care clients are common but poorly recognized and treated, resulting in adverse health outcomes, premature institutionalization, and costly use of health services. The objecti...

    Authors: Maureen Markle-Reid, Carrie McAiney, Dorothy Forbes, Lehana Thabane, Maggie Gibson, Gina Browne, Jeffrey S Hoch, Thomas Peirce and Barbara Busing
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:62
  39. Little is known about the type of care older people of different ages receive at the end of life. The goal of treatment is an important parameter of the quality of end-of-life care. This study aims to provide ...

    Authors: Tinne Smets, Rebecca Verhofstede, Joachim Cohen, Nele Van Den Noortgate and Luc Deliens
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:61
  40. The aim of this paper is to ascertain if the subjective perception of the economic situation of a household is associated with the prevalence of disability in old age, net of education level. Subjective econom...

    Authors: Angel Rodriguez-Laso, Antonio Abellan, Mayte Sancho, Rogelio Pujol, Ignacio Montorio and Purificación Diaz-Veiga
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:60
  41. This study explored the effects of an integrated care model aimed at the frail elderly on the perceived health, objective burden, subjective burden and quality of life of informal caregivers.

    Authors: Benjamin Janse, Robbert Huijsman, Ruben Dennis Maurice de Kuyper and Isabelle Natalina Fabbricotti
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:58
  42. Older adults are susceptible to adverse effects from the concomitant use of prescription medications and alcohol. This study estimates the prevalence of exposure to alcohol interactive (AI) medications and con...

    Authors: Gráinne Cousins, Rose Galvin, Michelle Flood, Mary-Claire Kennedy, Nicola Motterlini, Martin C Henman, Rose-Anne Kenny and Tom Fahey
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:57
  43. A significant proportion of patients in an acute hospital is made up of older people, many of whom have cognitive impairment or dementia. Rightly or wrongly, if a degree of confusion is apparent, it is often q...

    Authors: Marie Poole, John Bond, Charlotte Emmett, Helen Greener, Stephen J Louw, Louise Robinson and Julian C Hughes
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:56
  44. Given the increasing incidence of bacteraemia causing significant morbidity and mortality in older patients, this study aimed to compare the clinical features, laboratory findings and mortality of patients ove...

    Authors: Jessica Emily Green, Yohanes Ariathianto, Si Mun Wong, Craig Aboltins and Kwang Lim
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:55
  45. We tested the hypothesis that harm avoidance, a trait associated with behavioral inhibition, is associated with the rate of change in parkinsonism in older adults.

    Authors: Aron S Buchman, Lei Yu, Robert S Wilson, Joshua M Shulman, Patricia A Boyle and David A Bennett
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:54
  46. Cognitive function, psychosocial wellbeing and health are important domains of function. Consistencies and inconsistencies in patterns of wellbeing across these domains may be informative about wellbeing in ol...

    Authors: Andrea R Zammit, John M Starr, Wendy Johnson and Ian J Deary
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:53
  47. The Older Persons and Informal Caregivers Survey Minimal Dataset’s (TOPICS-MDS) questionnaire which measures relevant outcomes for elderly people was successfully incorporated into over 60 research projects of t...

    Authors: Cynthia S Hofman, Peter Makai, Han Boter, Bianca M Buurman, Anton JM de Craen, Marcel GM Olde Rikkert, Rogier ART Donders and René JF Melis
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:51

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