To investigate associations between leisure activities, examining each activity separately and in combination, and all-cause mortality among the Chinese oldest-old (≥80 years) population.
The Ethics Subcommittee of AMDA–The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine (“The Society”) presents arguments for and against Stopping Eating and Drinking by Advance Directives (SED by AD). SED by AD is a type of advance directive in which a proxy is instructed to stop offering food and fluids ...
The benefit of alerting clinical staff to low plasma glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) in patients aged 75 years and older who receive antidiabetic drugs remains uncertain.