Medical Gerontology: Recent submissions
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The Frailty Instrument for primary care of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe predicts mortality similarly to a frailty index based on comprehensive geriatric assessment.
(2013)AIM: Frailty is an emerging concept in primary care, which potentially can provide healthcare commissioners with a clinical focus for targeting resources at an aging population. However, primary care practitioners need ... -
The relationship between increased body mass index and frailty on falls in community dwelling older adults
(2013)Background The global population is becoming older and more overweight. The inter-relationship between frailty and falls is often seen in the older adult and is associated with poor health outcomes. Little is known about ... -
Orthostatic hypotension is associated with lower cognitive performance in adults aged 50 plus with supine hypertension.
(2014)OBJECTIVES: This study investigated the association between orthostatic hypotension (OH), supine hypertension (SH), and cognitive performance. METHODS: Four thousand six hundred and ninety participants of The Irish ... -
Does that look heavy to you? Perceived weight judgment in lifting actions in younger and older adults
(2013)When interpreting other people's movements or actions, observers may not only rely on the visual cues available in the observed movement, but they may also be able to "put themselves in the other person's shoes" by engaging ... -
The effect of multiple chronic conditions on self-rated health, disability and quality of life among the older populations of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland: a comparison of two nationally representative cross-sectional surveys.
(2013)OBJECTIVES: Multimorbidity is common in the older population, but the impact of combinations of chronic conditions on disability and quality of life (QoL) is not well known. This analysis explores the effect of specific ... -
Insights into the clinical management of the syndrome of supine hypertension - orthostatic hypotension (SH-OH): The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA)
(2013)BACKGROUND: Our previously proposed morphological classification of orthostatic hypotension (MOH) is an approach to the definition of three typical orthostatic hemodynamic patterns using non-invasive beat-to-beat ... -
Susceptibility to a multisensory speech illusion in older persons is driven by perceptual processes.
(2013)Recent studies suggest that multisensory integration is enhanced in older adults but it is not known whether this enhancement is solely driven by perceptual processes or affected by cognitive processes. Using the "McGurk ... -
The SHARE operationalized frailty phenotype: a comparison of two approaches.
(2013)PURPOSE: the phenotype defined by Fried et al. is one of the main operationalizations of frailty. Santos-Eggimann et al. pioneered the adaptation of the phenotype criteria to the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement ... -
An alternative method for Frailty Index cut-off points to define frailty categories.
(2013)PURPOSE: the Frailty Index (FI) is a popular operationalization of frailty. FI cut-off points have been proposed to define, regardless of age, frailty categories with increasing risk. Here, an alternative method is ... -
Cognitive Function Is Preserved in Older Adults With a Reported History of Childhood Sexual Abuse.
(2013)Childhood sexual abuse (CSA) is associated with mood and cognitive deficits in children and young adults. Evidence suggests that the effects of early-life adversity persist throughout adulthood; however, the impact of CSA ... -
Relationship between fear of falling and mobility varies with visual function among older adults
(2013)AIM: The present study examined the association between vision, fear of falling and fear-related activity restriction, and assessed the effect of vision on the relationship between fear of falling and mobility, using ... -
The Importance of Proximity to Death in Modelling Community Medication Expenditures for Older People: Evidence From New Zealand
(2014)BACKGROUND: Concerns about the long-term sustainability of health care expenditures (HCEs), particularly prescribing expenditures, has become an important policy issue in most developed countries. Previous studies suggest ... -
The Lasting Legacy of Childhood Adversity for Disease Risk In Later Life
(2015)Objective: There has been an increased interest in the role of the childhood social environment in the etiology of adult diseases in recent years. The present study examines whether the experience of adversity during ... -
Growing Up in Ireland - National Longitudinal Study of Children: Overweight and Obesity Among 9-Year-Olds
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Frailty syndrome and sedative load of drugs
(Serdi Edition, 2014)
