Medical Gerontology: Recent submissions
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Sustained Attention Is Associated With Frailty In The Older Adult Population.
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The Impact of Positive Affect on Falls Efficacy in the Older Adult Population.
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The Impact of Positive Affect on Falls and Fear of Falling in the Older Adult Population.
(Oxford Journals, 2013)Falling can have detrimental impacts both physically and psychologically on older people. Recent falls prevention guidelines from the American and British Geriatric Societies tend to minimise the psychological factors ... -
Validation of the self-reported hearing questions in the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing against the Whispered Voice Test.
(2014)BACKGROUND: Self report questions are often used in population studies to assess sensory efficacy and decline. These questions differ in their validity in assessing sensory impairment depending on the wording of the ... -
Antidepressants are Independently Associated with Gait Deficits in Single and Dual Task Conditions
(2015)Objectives This study examined the relationships between late-onset depressive symptoms, antidepressants, and single and dual task gait in older adults. Design Cross-sectional study. Setting The Irish Longitudinal ... -
The frailty index in Europeans: assocation with age and mortality.
(2012)BACKGROUND: the frailty index (FI) is an approach to the operationalisation of frailty based on accumulation of deficits. It has been less studied in Europeans. OBJECTIVE: to construct sex-specific FIs from a large ... -
Inappropriate prescribing in older fallers presenting to an Irish emergency department.
(2014)BACKGROUND: certain medications increase falls risk in older people. OBJECTIVE: to assess if prescribing modification occurs in older falls presenting to an emergency department (ED). DESIGN: before-and-after ...
