Potentially inappropriate prescribing among older adults is a rising concern, attributed mainly by polypharmacy and multimorbidity. We aimed to identify key components and strategies for con...
Transitional care (TC) has become increasingly important for elders with chronic diseases (CDs) discharged from hospital as the population ages. This study aims to analyze the health quality...
Wearable activity monitors (WAMs, e.g. Fitbits and research accelerometers) show promise for helping health care professionals (HCPs) measure and intervene on patients' activity patterns. Th...
To establish reliability, validity, and minimal detectable change in measures of function in older long-term cancer survivors.Older cancer survivors were recruited to perform functional meas...
Late-Life Depression (LLD) is characterized by deficits in cognitive control. We investigated the effect of LLD on a subset of cognitive control functions, the Cognitive Action Control (CAC)...
The Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery (CANTAB) is widely used in research and clinical settings. However, little is known about the use of the CANTAB in the local aging con...
Different staffing configurations in primary and geriatric care practices could have implications for how best to deliver services that are essential for a growing population of older adults...
Detecting drug-related problems (DRPs) is important in pharmaceutical care in for better therapeutic outcomes. Clinical pharmacists-led comprehensive medication management plays a crucial ro...
Geriatric emergency department (ED) care has gained increasing importance and interest due to increasing visits in seniors.Among ED front-line nurses and physicians, to assess and compare ra...
This research project examined the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the required curriculum in graduate medical education for family medicine residencies.Our questions were part of a larg...
eConsult allows primary care providers (PCPs) to access timely specialist advice and informs patient care. To understand the use of eConsult in long-term care (LTC) settings, we examined the...
“Acute illnesses requiring hospitalization serve as a sentinel event, with many older adults requiring assistance with activities of daily living (ADLs) upon discharge,” explains Cameron...
To determine the association between tobacco consumption and self-reported visual impairment. We performed a cross-sectional study based on an original cohort study. A non-probabilistic samp...
So far, advances in vascular surgery and geriatrics have developed largely independent of each other, and there are - unlike orthogeriatrics - hardly any overlaps in daily clinical pract...
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Against the background of aging, there is an increase in the number of diseases associated with age, geriatric syndromes that contribute to the development of disorders of physical and funct...
The established Beers Criteria consider side effects and safety concerns when prescribing drugs to the elderly. As the criteria suggest that attention should be paid toward prescriptions rat...
This review summarizes best practices for the perioperative care of older adults, as recommended by the American Geriatrics Society, American Society of Anesthesiologists, and American Colle...
Few definitive guidelines exist for rigorous large-scale prospective evaluation of nonrandomized programs and policies that require longitudinal primary data collection. In Veterans Affairs ...
Older patients account for a significant proportion of patients undergoing colorectal cancer surgery and are vulnerable to a number of preoperative risk factors that are not often present in...
Over the past 30 years, the clock drawing test (CDT) has generated considerable interest due to its usefulness in the early detection of cognitive impairments, particularly those seen in neu...
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