Osteoporosis and dementia often coexist, but the association between the 2 diseases remains unclear. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between bone mineral density (BMD) and the risk of incident dementia.
This position paper prepared by the Japanese Working Group on Integrated Nutrition for Dysphagic People (JWIND) aims to summarize the need for nutritional management in adult patients with dysphagia, the issues that nutrition professionals should address, and the promising approaches as well as to propose ...
Early identification of older people at risk of falling is the cornerstone of fall prevention. Many fall prediction tools exist but their external validity is lacking. External validation is a prerequisite before application in clinical practice. Models developed with electronic health record (EHR) data ar...
Primary care physician-led community hospitals provide basic hospital care for older people in Finland. Yet little is known of the outcomes of the care. We investigated factors associated with discharge destination after hospitalization in a community hospital and the role of active rehabilitation during t...