Details not for publication O46 Clinical Characteristics of Older Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV+) Patients E Moloney, D Morley, E Murphy, M Horgan, A Jackson, J Clare Cork University Hospital, Cork, Ireland Background: HIV positive patients attending infectious disease services are increasingly reaching older decades of life. This reflects better patient survival in an era of modern antiret...

Background The older adults who are in the middle of health and disability called frail because they vulnerable to disability. Although relationship between chronic diseases frailty has been reported through a number previous studies, latest studies examining prevalence based on multifaceted factors limited. Method In this study, data from 5th Survey Living Conditions Older study conducted 2020...

Frailty is a major health issue associated with aging. Diet affects frailty status; however, studies on the associations between low-carbohydrate diet (LCD) score, low-fat (LFD) score and in older Chinese adults are scarce. This study aimed to examine LCD LFD risk of adults. We analyzed data from 6414 participants aged ≥ 60 years China Northwest Natural Population Cohort: Ningxia Project. was m...

Preventive care for frail older adults includes providing tailor-made diet information suited to their health conditions. The present study aims to explore the current situation and challenges of home nutrition advice for Japanese frail older adults using qualitative data from a ten-person group discussion among care managers. As the results of our analysis, nine themes were identified: (1) Hom...

Caring for older adults is a major function of emergency medical services (EMS). Traditional EMS systems were designed to treat single acute conditions; this approach contrasts with best practices for the care of frail older adults. Care might be improved by the early identification of those who are frail and at highest risk for adverse outcomes. Paramedics are well positioned to play an import...

Abstract Background Frailty is a dynamic, multidimensional syndrome that highly prevalent in older adults (65 years or older), which increases one’s dependency and vulnerability to adverse health outcomes, including mortality. The Edmonton Frail Scale (EFS) commonly used screening tool for identifying frailty adults. purpose of this systematic review meta-analysis determine the diagnostic test ...

ABSTRACT Objective: To analyze the association between cognitive impairment and physical frailty in older adults secondary health care. Method: This is a cross-sectional study carried out with people aged ≥ 60 years, assisted at geriatric gerontology outpatient clinic. For screening, Mini Mental State Examination, semantic verbal fluency test, assessment using phenotype were used. The likelihoo...

BACKGROUND With the number of older adults in society rising, frailty becomes an increasingly prevalent health condition. Regular physical activity can prevent functional decline and reduce frailty symptoms. In particular, home-based exercise programs can be beneficial in reducing frailty of older adults and fall risk, and in improving associated physiological parameters. However, adherence to ...

This systematic review examines the effectiveness of current exercise interventions for the management of frailty. Eight electronic databases were searched for randomized controlled trials that identified their participants as "frail" either in the title, abstract, and/or text and included exercise as an independent component of the intervention. Three of the 47 included studies utilized a vali...

INTRODUCTION Self-rated health (SRH) has beeen considered an important marker of quality of life and an independent predictor of mortality in older adults. OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of poor SRH and identify risk factors associated with poor SRH among older adults residing in the Commune 18 of the city of Cali, Colombia, in 2009. METHODS A population-based cross-sectional study w...