Length of Stay in Older Patients Undergoing Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: Value of a Geriatric Approach
Conclusion: Our results favor the preoperative screening for major neurocognitive disorders in order to reduce LOS. Furthermore, the proposed individual-care plans after CGA were poorly followed. Practitioners may perceive the preoperative CGA as a screening tool, but its primary objective is to develop an individualized-care plan as a prehabilitation plan in order to optimize the physical, functional, and social issues.Gerontology (Source: Gerontology)
Source: Gerontology - November 26, 2021 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Communicating Bad News to Older Patients from the Physician ’s Point of View: Focus on the Influence of Gender and Length of Work Experience
Conclusions: Gender and work experience may influence how physicians communicate with patients and how often they seek psychological support.Gerontology (Source: Gerontology)
Source: Gerontology - November 18, 2021 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Risk Factors of COVID-19 Symptoms in Old Subjects
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Source: Gerontology - November 16, 2021 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Does Whole-Body Vibration Training Have a Concurrent Effect on Bone and Muscle Health? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Conclusion: While there were no significant results, the included studies are limited by small sample size and variable intervention protocols and follow-up periods. Further trials should endeavor to measure both bone and muscle outcomes concurrently with a longer follow-up time. Osteoporosis status in participants must also be considered as it is not yet possible to exclude that WBV may have a significant effect on BMD in people with known osteoporosis. WBV does not appear to simultaneously influence bone and muscle health in older people, and future research is required to establish a regimen that may lead to measurable ...
Source: Gerontology - November 15, 2021 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Antibody Response 3 Months after 2 Doses of BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine in Residents of Long-Term Care Facilities
Conclusions: These findings support monitoring COVID-19 vaccination response trend in older adults, in order to optimize future disease prevention and control strategies in this vulnerable population.Gerontology (Source: Gerontology)
Source: Gerontology - November 10, 2021 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Factors Leading to Institutionalization among the Oldest Old: Longitudinal Findings from the AgeCoDe-AgeQualiDe Study
Conclusion: Our findings stress the importance of gender, age, widowhood, and functional decline for institutionalization among the oldest old. Preventing or at least postponing functional decline might help to delay institutionalization as far as possible.Gerontology (Source: Gerontology)
Source: Gerontology - November 10, 2021 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Is There a “Weekend Effect” in Intertrochanteric Fracture Surgery?
Conclusions: Older patients with intertrochanteric fracture surgery have similar mortality and adverse outcomes rates when admitted on weekends or holidays compared with weekdays. Our findings suggest that collaborative multidisciplinary team care seems both effective and efficient in the management of older patients with intertrochanteric fractures on any day of the week.Gerontology (Source: Gerontology)
Source: Gerontology - November 9, 2021 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Erratum
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Source: Gerontology - October 27, 2021 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Self-Rated Health and Frailty in Older Adults from the Population-Based Three-City Bordeaux Cohort
Conclusions: In a French cohort of community dwellers aged 75 years or older, poorer SRH was associated with concomitant frailty and 70% higher risk of slowness over 4 years.Gerontology (Source: Gerontology)
Source: Gerontology - October 18, 2021 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Minimal Clinically Important Difference of Executive Function Performance in Older Adults Who Fall: A Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial
Conclusions: These established MCIDs will allow clinicians to interpret meaningful changes in executive function following exercise amongst older adults who have fallen. The DSST, Stroop, and TMT demonstrated good construct validity, supporting their use in comprehensive fall-risk assessments in older adults who fall.Gerontology (Source: Gerontology)
Source: Gerontology - October 15, 2021 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Does Participation in Sport Protect Former Saudi Arabian Athletes from High Blood Glucose after Retirement?
Conclusion: It was concluded that no statistically significant differences were found between the former athlete groups.Gerontology (Source: Gerontology)
Source: Gerontology - October 15, 2021 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Erratum
Gerontology (Source: Gerontology)
Source: Gerontology - October 6, 2021 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Gene Polymorphisms of Interleukin-27 Correlate with the Susceptibility, Severity, and Clinical Outcomes of Elderly People with Guillain-Barr é Syndrome
Conclusion: The rs153109 SNP is more prevalent in GBS patients with the GG and G allele and is associated with severer GBS, poorer clinical outcomes, and higher IL-27 levels.Gerontology (Source: Gerontology)
Source: Gerontology - October 4, 2021 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Comparison between Original and Reviewed Consensus of European Working Group on Sarcopenia in Older People: A Probabilistic Cross-Sectional Survey among Community-Dwelling Older People
Conclusion: The new EWGSOP2 consensus underestimates the prevalence of sarcopenia, compared with EWGSOP using conventional cut-off points. The prevalence of presarcopenia with EWGSOP (low muscle mass) was lower than probable sarcopenia (low muscle strength) with the new EWGSOP2. In both cases, agreements between EWGSOP2 and EWGSOP were moderated. Discrepancies between the original and new consensus have implications on the primary health setting for identifying old and new cases for prevention and treatment.Gerontology (Source: Gerontology)
Source: Gerontology - September 30, 2021 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Association between Stress-Coping Strategy and Functional Disability in the General Older Adult Population: The Takashima Study
Conclusions: Some subcomponents of stress-coping strategies might be associated with future incidence of functional disability among older adults.Gerontology (Source: Gerontology)
Source: Gerontology - September 30, 2021 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
