JAMDA
August 28, 2015
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JAMDA
August 25, 2015
Brain Health: The Importance of Recognizing Cognitive Impairment: An IAGG Consensus Conference
Cognitive impairment creates significant challenges for patients, their families and friends, and clinicians who provide their health care. Early recognition allows for diagnosis and appropriate treatment, education, psychosocial support, and engagement in shared decision-making regarding life planning, he...
JAMDA
August 19, 2015
Mild Cognitive Impairment, Slow Gait, and Risk of Disability: A Prospective Study
Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) may be a risk for disability, and co-occurrence of slow gait (SG) and MCI may increase this risk.
JAMDA
August 5, 2015
Prevalence of Frailty in Nursing Homes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Nursing home patients are expected to be very frail. However, evidence on frailty in a nursing home setting is scarce in the literature. Especially prevalence of frailty in this population is unknown.
JAMDA
August 5, 2015
Frailty as a Predictor of Future Falls Among Community-Dwelling Older People: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Although multiple longitudinal studies have investigated frailty as a predictor of future falls, the results were mixed. Thus far, no systematic review or meta-analysis on this topic has been conducted.
JAMDA
July 10, 2015
Favorable Effect of Sympathetic Nervous Activity on Rehabilitation Outcomes in Frail Elderly
Previous studies have suggested the relationship between physical function, mortality, and autonomic nervous activity in frail elderly and that maintaining sympathetic nervous activity might lead to improved physical function and mortality in the elderly population. The aim of this study was to investigate...
JAMDA
June 30, 2015
A Pilot Study of the FRAIL Scale on Predicting Outcomes in Chinese Elderly People With Type 2 Diabetes
To determine the prevalence of frailty in older diabetic inpatients using the FRAIL scale and to evaluate the association of frailty with physical function and diabetic vascular complications, as well as its relationship to hospitalization and mortality.
JAMDA
June 16, 2015
Validity and Responsiveness of the FRAIL Scale in a Longitudinal Cohort Study of Older Australian Women
To assess the validity and responsiveness of the FRAIL scale and investigate whether validity is related to the number of points used on the scale.
JAMDA
May 16, 2015
Diabetes and Risk of Frailty and Its Potential Mechanisms: A Prospective Cohort Study of Older Adults
There is emerging evidence of the role of diabetes as a risk factor for frailty. However, the mechanisms of this association are uncertain.
JAMDA
May 13, 2015
Components of the Frailty Phenotype in Relation to the Frailty Index: Results From the Toulouse Frailty Platform
The frailty phenotype proposed by Fried and colleagues is a widely used frailty screening instrument, consisting of 5 components: weight loss, exhaustion, low grip strength, slow gait speed, and low physical activity. Although equally considered in the computation of the frailty phenotype score, each of th...
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