Tag: older adults

A qualitative study of 33 stakeholders in Shenyang, China, identified 24 barriers and 25 facilitators to implementing a physical activity ...

A cross-sectional study of 255 Malaysian older adults from low-income households found a combined cognitive frailty prevalence of 38.4 percent, ...

The American Geriatrics Society reports that seven health systems achieved modest improvements in influenza and COVID-19 vaccination rates among older ...

A scoping review of 93 studies finds that only 16.1 percent of research primarily focuses on older walking aid users, ...

A 10-week dual-task healthy ageing program at a regional university clinic was associated with improved occupational performance, walking capacity and ...

A large community-based cohort study in Wuhan found that the triglyceride-glucose index and its anthropometric derivatives showed distinct, non-linear and ...

A 20-year analysis of 2.3 million U.S. emergency department records shows head, face, and neck injuries rose 35.2 percent, driven ...

Bioethicists argue that intersectionality, while valuable for revealing entangled discrimination, needs Nancy Fraser's justice theory to explain the origins of ...

A five-year Madrid cohort study found that older adults who exceeded a 60-point Barthel Index threshold after the COVID-19 lockdown ...

A cross-sectional study of 303 older Italian adults with cardiometabolic diseases found malnutrition in 39.9%, sarcopenia in 30.9%, and frequent ...

A cross-sectional study of 300 older Chinese adults with chronic diseases links stronger family functioning to more positive good death ...

A systematic review of six randomized trials finds preliminary cognitive gains from probiotics in older adults with existing deficits, while ...

A prospective study of 308 older surgical patients in China found day-seven MMSE scores clustered into three severity-ordered profiles, with ...

A new Perspective article proposes a clinician-governed framework limiting generative AI to organizing and reviewing pain-assessment information for older adults ...

Interviews with 40 older residents of two Indian old age homes show that institutional care provides security and routine medical ...

A retrospective study of 127 older adults found that concomitant rib fractures and higher New Injury Severity Scores were strongly ...

A systematic review of seven studies suggests intergenerational exercise interventions may improve activity levels and physical performance in older adults, ...

An analysis of US hospital death records finds that a larger share of older adults who died of influenza had ...

A new perspective argues that pharmacogenomic testing could improve emergency department prescribing, but no randomized controlled trials have yet tested ...

A cross-sectional study of 821 community-dwelling older adults found internet search use, rather than device ownership alone, was associated with ...