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Resident funding and care home quality: a retrospective observational analysis of the impact of the two-tier care system in England
Anders Bach-Mortensen and others
Age and Ageing, Volume 54, Issue 5, May 2025, afaf100, https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afaf100
Published: 03 May 2025
... quality of care older people Carlsbergfondet 10.13039/100020038 Nuffield Foundation and Wellcome Trust Adult social care in England operates on a two-tier system of self-funded and state-funded residents. Using novel and population level data, we find that self-funded residents are more...
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‘Being that hopeful person’: The contribution of social workers to older people’s well-being
Denise Tanner and others
The British Journal of Social Work, bcaf080, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcaf080
Published: 30 April 2025
..., and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Drawing on the findings of research in adult teams in two local authorities in England, this article examines what social workers with older people do, how this contributes to older people’s well-being, and the impact...
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Falls and subsequent cognitive function in older adults in England and the USA, 2010–2020: a population-based, cross-nationally harmonized, longitudinal study
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Wenkai Kou and others
American Journal of Epidemiology, kwaf089, https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwaf089
Published: 29 April 2025
..., executive function, and orientation. Discussion: In this combined cohort study, including samples from ELSA and HRS, we discerned a marked association between the falls and both global and domain-specific cognitive decline. Cognitive decline Falls Multiple falls Older people ACCEPETED MANUSCRIPT...
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Meeting physical activity and resistance exercise guidelines associated with significantly reduced prevalence of diabetes in older adults
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Chiho Kim and others
Age and Ageing, Volume 54, Issue 4, April 2025, afaf109, https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afaf109
Published: 26 April 2025
... any. These findings highlight the crucial role of regular physical activity in preventing diabetes amongst older individuals, with the potential for a significant public health impact. diabetes resistance exercise physical activity meeting guideline older adults older people Meeting physical...
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Development of a core outcome set for clinical trials targeting interventions aiming to improve adherence to appropriate polypharmacy in older people—an international consensus study
Hanadi Al Shaker and others
Age and Ageing, Volume 54, Issue 4, April 2025, afaf102, https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afaf102
Published: 23 April 2025
... in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Medication non-adherence is prevalent in older people taking polypharmacy. Several interventions have been employed to improve adherence in this population. However, inconsistencies in outcomes have impeded comparisons...
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Low gait speed is better than frailty and sarcopenia at identifying the risk of disability in older adults
Aline Fernanda de Souza and others
Age and Ageing, Volume 54, Issue 4, April 2025, afaf104, https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afaf104
Published: 23 April 2025
... of functional decline in older adults. frail older people sarcopenic older people gait speed slowness older people Sao Paulo Research Foundation support Tiago da Silva Alexandre 2018/13917–3 Coordination for the Advancement of Higher Education Personnel 305,338/2023–4 Brazilian National...
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Association of multimorbidity patterns and order of physical frailty and cognitive impairment occurrence: a prospective cohort study
Shuomin Wang and others
Age and Ageing, Volume 54, Issue 4, April 2025, afaf101, https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afaf101
Published: 23 April 2025
.... Clinician should be aware of multimorbidity clusters and thus provide more effective strategies for comorbid older adults to prevent the onset of these two geriatric syndromes. multimorbidity pattern physical frailty cognitive impairment latent class analysis older people Changsha Science and Technology...
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Prediction models for severe treatment-related toxicities in older adults with cancer: a systematic review
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Wing-Lok Chan and others
Age and Ageing, Volume 54, Issue 4, April 2025, afaf095, https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afaf095
Published: 20 April 2025
... to improve the prediction of severe TRT in this vulnerable population. prediction models geriatric assessment adverse events chemotherapy cancer geriatric oncology systematic review older people This systematic review analysed 12 studies involving 90,819 participants, identifying 15 prediction models...
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A hospital-based special care unit for dementia decreased hospital readmission rates for behaviour while reducing rates of falls and occupational violence across medical wards
Frederick A Graham and others
Age and Ageing, Volume 54, Issue 4, April 2025, afaf096, https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afaf096
Published: 20 April 2025
... behaviours and psychological symptoms of dementia dementia-enabling environment falls occupational violence older people Targeted evidence-based models of care for inpatients with behaviours and psychological symptoms of dementia are lacking. Special Care Units (SCU) hold promise but a barrier...
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Adherence to exercise intervention for community-dwelling older adults with sarcopenia: a systematic review and meta-analysis
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Shuang Wu and others
Age and Ageing, Volume 54, Issue 4, April 2025, afaf094, https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afaf094
Published: 20 April 2025
... studies incorporated only a small number of BCTs into their exercise interventions. Such an approach may be insufficient to enhance adherence in this population effectively. Future studies with theory-informed interventions to improve adherence in the field of exercise for older people with sarcopenia...
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What can we learn from 68 000 clinical frailty scale scores? Evaluating the utility of frailty assessment in emergency departments
Hugh Logan Ellis and others
Age and Ageing, Volume 54, Issue 4, April 2025, afaf093, https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afaf093
Published: 20 April 2025
...Hugh Logan Ellis; Liam Dunnell; Ruth Eyres; Julie Whitney; Cara Jennings; Dan Wilson; Jane Tippett; Dan F Stein; James Teo; Zina Ibrahim; Kenneth Rockwood clinical frailty scale (CFS) emergency department (ED) electronic health records (EHRs) frailty assessment older people In 68 067 emergency...
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Opportunistic screening for atrial fibrillation among frail older patients, little effort for a high diagnostic yield. Outcomes of the Dutch-GERAF study
Lennaert A R Zwart and others
Age and Ageing, Volume 54, Issue 4, April 2025, afaf105, https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afaf105
Published: 20 April 2025
... opportunistic screening photoplethysmography eHealth older people Figure 1 Means of detection of AF within the GERAF study. Abbreviations. AF, atrial fibrillation. SR, Sinus Rhythm. PPG, photoplethysmography. ECG, electrocardiogram. Table 3 Factors associated with protocol adherence...
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The effects of in-hospital orthogeriatric care on health-related quality of life: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Karin Vleeshouwers and others
Age and Ageing, Volume 54, Issue 4, April 2025, afaf106, https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afaf106
Published: 20 April 2025
... people systematic review older people Assessment of the methodological quality of the included studies was performed by two authors independently. The Revised Cochrane Risk-of-Bias tool for randomised trials (RoB 1) was applied to randomised trials, while the Newcastle–Ottawa Scale (NOS) was used...
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From biology of ageing to geroscience: where will knowledge take us?
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Aurélie Mailliez and others
Age and Ageing, Volume 54, Issue 4, April 2025, afaf098, https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afaf098
Published: 19 April 2025
... therapies and aim for healthy ageing. biology ageing geroscience older people Other studies focused on anti-inflammatory drugs, sirtuins 1 to 7 [Silent Information Regulator Two homologue (SIRT) 1–7], which are NAD (Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide) dependent histone deacetylases that affect cell...
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Lifestyle, inflammageing, and poor physical performance in middle-aged and older adults: a prospective cohort study in Taiwan
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Chu-Chih Chen and others
Age and Ageing, Volume 54, Issue 4, April 2025, afaf107, https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afaf107
Published: 19 April 2025
... in societal events to increase their physical performance. To avoid further deterioration in physical frailty, screening for PPP may be adopted as a standard clinical practice for older adults. conversion frailty physical activity poor physical performance psychosocial health reversion older people...
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Digital biomarkers for real-life, home-based monitoring of frailty: a systematic review and meta-analysis
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Jundan Huang and others
Age and Ageing, Volume 54, Issue 4, April 2025, afaf108, https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afaf108
Published: 19 April 2025
... monitoring. Further longitudinal studies involving larger sample sizes are necessary to validate the effectiveness of these digital biomarkers as diagnostic tools or prognostic indicators. frailty digital biomarkers digital phenotyping older adults real-world study systematic review older people...
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Physical activity and protein-intake strategies to prevent sarcopenia in older people
Eunjae Lee and others
International Health, ihae064, https://doi.org/10.1093/inthealth/ihae064
Published: 18 April 2025
... aimed to determine the physical activity level and protein intake of older people with sarcopenia and investigate the adequate protein intake of older people in Korea. Methods A total of 1215 older people were recruited from the ninth Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey...
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Small vessel disease contributions to acute delirium: a pilot feasibility MRI study
Una Clancy and others
Age and Ageing, Volume 54, Issue 4, April 2025, afaf099, https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afaf099
Published: 16 April 2025
... delirium- and non-delirium–related presentations, supporting the need for larger studies. delirium cerebral small vessel diseases cerebrovascular disorders magnetic resonance imaging cognitive dysfunction older people Delirium is understudied in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) research. MRI...
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Quadriceps muscle thickness as measured by point-of-care ultrasound is associated with hospital length of stay among hospitalised older patients
Uyanga Ganbat and others
Age and Ageing, Volume 54, Issue 4, April 2025, afaf103, https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afaf103
Published: 16 April 2025
... of POCUS for assessing patient outcomes. point-of-care ultrasound muscle thickness muscle ultrasound length of stay older people Hospital length of stay (LOS), defined as the number of days from admission to discharge, is a hospital management and patient outcome indicator directly affecting...
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Risk-factors and multimorbidity in oral anticoagulant-related intracerebral haemorrhage: a comparison of patients in pivotal trials and real life
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Josefine Grundtvig and others
Age and Ageing, Volume 54, Issue 4, April 2025, afaf091, https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afaf091
Published: 16 April 2025
... the importance of recruiting adequate numbers of older people and women to cardio-vascular trials to ensure sufficient safety data to advice prescriptions in these very prevalent sub-groups of patients. intracerebral haemorrhage oral anticoagulants (OAC) stroke direct oral anticoagulant (DOAC) older people...
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