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Comparative Analysis of Gait Speed Measurement Protocols: Static Start Versus Dynamic Start in a Cross-Sectional Study Using Light Detection and Ranging
Comparative Analysis of Gait Speed Measurement Protocols: Static Start Versus Dynamic Start in a Cross-Sectional Study Using Light Detection and Ranging
There is currently no standardized protocol for the measurement of gait speed in older adults, particularly regarding the ...
Fecal Microbiota Transplantation Modulates Gut Microbiome Composition and Glial Signaling in Brain and Colon of Rats with Neuropathic Pain: Evidence for Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis
Fecal Microbiota Transplantation Modulates Gut Microbiome Composition and Glial Signaling in Brain and Colon of Rats with Neuropathic Pain: Evidence for Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis
Despite evidence linking the gut microbiome to neuropathic pain (NP), it is not known if altering gut microbiota can allev...
The Saliva and Muscle Study (SaMu): Rationale and Protocol for Associations between Salivary Microbiome and Accelerated Muscle Ageing
The Saliva and Muscle Study (SaMu): Rationale and Protocol for Associations between Salivary Microbiome and Accelerated Muscle Ageing
The gut microbiome is recognized as a pivotal factor in the pathophysiology of sarcopenia—a condition marked by the ...
Utilisation and Outcome of Cranial CT Imaging in Older Adults Attending ED Following a Fall
Utilisation and Outcome of Cranial CT Imaging in Older Adults Attending ED Following a Fall
Healthcare demand from falls in older adults is increasing, but guidance from the literature is lacking on the value of ne...
Objective Measures of Physical Activity and Frailty in Ambulatory Adults Aged 85–89 Years in Kawasaki, Japan: A Cross-sectional Study
Objective Measures of Physical Activity and Frailty in Ambulatory Adults Aged 85–89 Years in Kawasaki, Japan: A Cross-sectional Study
While physical activity (PA) can reduce physical frailty, the specific intensity and duration of PA required to prevent fr...
Frailty Index, Not Age, Predicts Treatment Outcomes and Adverse Events for Older Adults with Cancer
Frailty Index, Not Age, Predicts Treatment Outcomes and Adverse Events for Older Adults with Cancer
Frailty is an indicator of individual vulnerability and differentiates health status among people of the same chronologica...
Five-Time Sit-To-Stand Lower Limb Muscle Power in Older Women: An Explorative, Descriptive and Comparative Analysis
Five-Time Sit-To-Stand Lower Limb Muscle Power in Older Women: An Explorative, Descriptive and Comparative Analysis
Muscle power assessment entails the use of complex equipment which impacts its clinical applicability. Recently, equations...
The Efficacy of 12-Week Progressive Home-Based Strength and Tai-Chi Exercise Snacking in Older Adults: A Mixed-Method Exploratory Randomised Control Trial
The Efficacy of 12-Week Progressive Home-Based Strength and Tai-Chi Exercise Snacking in Older Adults: A Mixed-Method Exploratory Randomised Control Trial
Maintaining physical function is important for independence and frailty prevention in later life, but very few older adult...
Exercise Modalities in Multi-Component Interventions for Older adults with Multi-Morbidity: A Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis
Exercise Modalities in Multi-Component Interventions for Older adults with Multi-Morbidity: A Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis
Exercise is efficacious in older adults, including those with multi-morbidity. However, the optimum mode is not known and ...
Application of a Social Vulnerability Index and Its Associations with Physical Frailty and Disability in a Cross-sectional Study of Older Kenyan Women Living with and without HIV
Application of a Social Vulnerability Index and Its Associations with Physical Frailty and Disability in a Cross-sectional Study of Older Kenyan Women Living with and without HIV
Social vulnerability reflects deficits in social resources that may disproportionally impact older women with HIV (WWH) in...
Polyphenol Supplementation and Sarcopenia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Clinical Trials
Polyphenol Supplementation and Sarcopenia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Clinical Trials
Experimental evidence suggests that polyphenols, a large group of phytochemicals found in fruits and vegetables, may prese...
Association of Finger Tapping Movements with Frailty Status in older Japanese Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study
Association of Finger Tapping Movements with Frailty Status in older Japanese Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study
Finger tapping impairment and frailty share overlapping pathophysiology and symptoms in older adults, however, the relatio...
Prognostic Value of a Laboratory Index of Frailty in Older Patients Hospitalized for COVID-19: The COMEPA Study
Prognostic Value of a Laboratory Index of Frailty in Older Patients Hospitalized for COVID-19: The COMEPA Study
Several indexes based on clinical and laboratory tests to identify frailty and to predict mortality have been produced. On...
Intrinsic Capacity and Its Biological Basis: A Scoping Review
Intrinsic Capacity and Its Biological Basis: A Scoping Review
In 2015, the World Health Organization (WHO) introduced the concept of intrinsic capacity (IC) to define healthy aging bas...
Food Insecurity, Vision Impairment, and Longitudinal Risk of Frailty and Falls in The National Health and Aging Trends Study
Food Insecurity, Vision Impairment, and Longitudinal Risk of Frailty and Falls in The National Health and Aging Trends Study
Both food insecurity (FI) and vision impairment (VI), which are linked, have been independently associated with frailty an...
Impact of Frailty on Gait Speed Improvements in Home Health after Hospital Discharge: Secondary Analysis of Two Randomized Controlled Trials
Impact of Frailty on Gait Speed Improvements in Home Health after Hospital Discharge: Secondary Analysis of Two Randomized Controlled Trials
More than half of older adults are frail or prefrail in the United States, and hospital-associated deconditioning likely i...
Body composition, Falls, and Freezing of Gait in Parkinson’s Disease: Gender-Specific Effects
Body composition, Falls, and Freezing of Gait in Parkinson’s Disease: Gender-Specific Effects
Postural instability and gait difficulties (PIGD) are a significant cause of mobility loss and lower quality of life in Pa...
The Prevalence of Frailty and Associated Factors, Including Food Security in Community Dwelling Older Adults with Multimorbidity: A Cross-Sectional Analysis from the Longitudinal Aging Study in India
The Prevalence of Frailty and Associated Factors, Including Food Security in Community Dwelling Older Adults with Multimorbidity: A Cross-Sectional Analysis from the Longitudinal Aging Study in India
The global increase in multimorbidity among older adults is a result of ongoing epidemiological and demographic transition...
Circulating Angiogenic and Senescent T Lymphocytes in Ageing and Frailty
Circulating Angiogenic and Senescent T Lymphocytes in Ageing and Frailty
There is a need to identify vascular and geroscience-relevant markers and mediators that can physiologically link ageing t...
Integrated Service Delivery Model in Primary Care to Improve Frailty in Older Malaysians: GeKo Integrated Service Delivery
Integrated Service Delivery Model in Primary Care to Improve Frailty in Older Malaysians: GeKo Integrated Service Delivery
This study aimed to evaluate the implementation stage of Malaysia’s GeKo-Integrated Service Delivery (ISD) model for...
Characterizing Deficit Accumulation Among Gulf War Era Veterans
Characterizing Deficit Accumulation Among Gulf War Era Veterans
Veterans of the first Gulf War (1990–1991) are reaching middle and older adulthood in differing degrees of health an...
Analysis of the Correspondence of the Degree of Fragility with the Way to Exercise the Force of the Hand
Analysis of the Correspondence of the Degree of Fragility with the Way to Exercise the Force of the Hand
Frailty is a geriatric syndrome characterized by increased individual vulnerability with an increase in both dependence an...
Most Hospital-Acquired Complications among Older Adults Are Associated with Frailty: The South-Western Sydney Frailty and Hospital-Acquired Complications Study
Most Hospital-Acquired Complications among Older Adults Are Associated with Frailty: The South-Western Sydney Frailty and Hospital-Acquired Complications Study
People live longer, and frailty has become an important problem in the acute hospital setting. Increasingly the associatio...
Admission of Older Patients to Geriatric Inpatient Care from the Emergency Department Compared with Admission through Acute Medical Unit: Cost and Length of Stay Outcomes
Admission of Older Patients to Geriatric Inpatient Care from the Emergency Department Compared with Admission through Acute Medical Unit: Cost and Length of Stay Outcomes
To investigate whether direct admission to geriatric inpatient care from the emergency department (EMD) was associated wit...
Blood Pressure Variability and Frailty in End-Stage Kidney Disease
Blood Pressure Variability and Frailty in End-Stage Kidney Disease
High blood pressure variability (BPV) is a predictor of cardiovascular events and all-cause mortality in people with end-s...
Evaluation of Handgrip Strength Asymmetry to Assess Sarcopenia in Older Patients with Chronic Low Back Pain: A Retrospective Cross-Sectional Study
Evaluation of Handgrip Strength Asymmetry to Assess Sarcopenia in Older Patients with Chronic Low Back Pain: A Retrospective Cross-Sectional Study
Handgrip strength (HGS) is a crucial measurement for diagnosing sarcopenia, and HGS asymmetry indicates functional impairm...
Are General Practitioners More Reluctant to Give Advice for Exercise to Older Women? A Cross-Sectional Survey of European Adults
Are General Practitioners More Reluctant to Give Advice for Exercise to Older Women? A Cross-Sectional Survey of European Adults
Despite the importance of physical exercise for older people, only a fraction of them receive advice to do so by primary c...
Front-Door Geriatrics: Frailty-Ready Emergency Department to Achieve the Quadruple Aim
Front-Door Geriatrics: Frailty-Ready Emergency Department to Achieve the Quadruple Aim
Gomes, J.C.P., Dias, R.D., de Barros, J.V. et al. The growing impact of older patients in the emergency department: a 5-ye...
Relationship among Age, Education and Frailty in Older Persons
Relationship among Age, Education and Frailty in Older Persons
Preliminary data suggest that frailty tend to increase with age and is associated with fewer years of formal education. Ho...
The Association of Bone Turnover Markers with Muscle Function, Falls, and Frailty in Older Women in Long-Term Care
The Association of Bone Turnover Markers with Muscle Function, Falls, and Frailty in Older Women in Long-Term Care
Osteoporosis and sarcopenia commonly coexist in older adults. There is strong evidence that bone and muscle impact each ot...
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