Tag: older adults

Researchers have built an age-aware color vision model and used it to design white-light spectra that significantly improve color discrimination ...

A new evidence-based review in the Journal of General Internal Medicine concludes that daily low-dose aspirin does not reduce cancer ...

A study of more than 23,000 Medicare beneficiaries finds that clinical need often fails to predict who receives occupational and ...

A study of 8,664 older South Koreans finds that age, education, income, cognitive decline, and self-rated health together shape technology ...

A landmark cross-national study finds that wealthy countries with formal care systems show higher unmet end-of-life care needs than China ...

A 16-year study of over 16,000 facial trauma patients shows that older adults with isolated facial fractures face nearly tripled ...

A geriatric medicine essay uses Van Gogh's Sorrowing Old Man to show why appearance cannot reveal social frailty and why ...

A systematic review of 27 economic studies finds that hearing aids, cochlear implants and rehabilitation are generally cost-effective for older ...

French researchers have developed and externally validated a 17-point score based on the standardised Geriatric Core Dataset that predicts six-, ...

A nationwide German registry study of over 1.3 million geriatric admissions finds that dehydration and dysphagia each independently raise in-hospital ...

A decades-long follow-up of London civil servants shows heavy drinking raises mortality risk in men over 70, while the apparent ...

A network meta-analysis of 16 randomized trials finds that combined physical-cognitive exercise is the most effective intervention for improving global ...

A retrospective cohort study in northern Haiti finds that over 70 percent of older adults living with HIV on antiretroviral ...

A study of nearly 7,000 Chinese older adults finds a linear dose–response relationship between remaining natural teeth and cognitive impairment, ...

A qualitative study of ten Chinese integrated care institutions finds that an app-based electronic geriatric assessment tool was widely valued ...

A new cross-sectional study in Beijing finds that all five SERVQUAL dimensions, especially assurance and empathy, shape how older adults ...

A virtual reality experiment with ninety older adults in Ghent, Belgium, found that more greenery and less traffic independently increased ...

A blood-based Metabolic Vulnerability Index combining inflammation and metabolic malnutrition markers strongly predicted one-year to ten-year mortality in a cohort ...

A large SEER-Medicare analysis found that after the 2016 CDC opioid guideline, prescribing and high-risk co-prescribing fell far more among ...

A Swedish population-based study found that a low-intensity health assessment and counseling program for 70-year-olds was associated with a 24 ...