Background Frailty is a multidimensional construct that represents an age-related reduction in physiologic reserve and resistance to stressors. Health-related quality of life was found be significantly low for the frail older adults. Method VOS viewer program graphically them through bibliometric analysis. Using Web Science data program, we analyzed adults life. We identified incorporated 194 p...

Functional and physical impairment are factors believed to lead to declined life satisfaction among older adults. This study aimed to examine life satisfaction among older adults and the influence of frailty. Baseline data from two studies addressing frail older adults aged 80+ in Gothenburg, Sweden, (n=577) were used. Frailty was measured through eight indicators. Life satisfaction was measure...

OBJECTIVES Although the presence of dysphagia is a key determinant of nutritional status among older adults, few studies have focused on the association between malnutrition and dysphagia risk in community-dwelling frail older adults. This study estimated the prevalence of malnutrition and quantified the association between malnutrition and dysphagia risk among community-dwelling older Japanese...

Abstract Background Increased awareness has been given to the value of identifying frail for risk stratification and assist in providing frailty attuned care rather than disease specific input. This increased both nationally internationally led many ED’s introducing Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) triage however as a service we wanted evaluate which tool would best meet our needs screen appropriat...

INTRODUCTION Physical activity helps diabetic older adults who have physical impairments or comorbid conditions to control their disease. To enable state planners to select physical activity programs for these adults, we calculated synthetic state-specific estimates of inactive older adults with diabetes, categorized by defined health status groups. METHODS Using data from the 2000 through 20...

The concept of "rational dental care" was developed 20 years ago when it became clear that idealized treatment plans for frail and functionally dependent older adults were often inappropriate. This first in a series of 2 articles reviews the reasons for developing the concept.

Cardiac structure and function change with age. The higher prevalence of left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) concentric remodeling is indicative a typical geometric pattern aging associated cardiovascular (CV) risk diseases. recent associations found between low skeletal mass in older patients frailty sarcopenia have raised great interest investigating cardiac characteristics determinants (LVM) ...

BACKGROUND Hip fractures are common in frail elderly adults worldwide. We investigated the effect of an anatomically designed external hip protector on the risk of these age-related fractures. METHODS We randomly assigned 1801 ambulatory but frail elderly adults (1409 women and 392 men; mean age, 82 years), in a 1:2 ratio, either to a group that wore a hip protector or to a control group. Fra...