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December 16, 2013
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December 7, 2013
The Costs of Dementia From the Societal Perspective: Is Care Provided in the Community Really Cheaper than Nursing Home Care?
To compare the costs of care for community-dwelling dementia patients with the costs of care for dementia patients living in nursing homes from the societal perspective.
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December 7, 2013
Effectiveness of Influenza Vaccination in Institutionalized Older Adults: A Systematic Review
Influenza infection is common among institutionalized older adults. Many nonrandomized observational studies on influenza vaccination suggested that it could reduce influenza-related hospitalizations and mortality in institutionalized older adults. Criticism regarding the effectiveness of influenza vaccine...
JAMDA
December 3, 2013
One-Year Stability of Care Dependency in Patients With Advanced Chronic Organ Failure
Care dependency is a determinant of quality of life and survival among patients with advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), chronic heart failure (CHF), or chronic renal failure (CRF). The objectives of this study were to explore the profiles of care dependency in patients with advanced COP...
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December 3, 2013
The Measurement of Disability in the Elderly: A Systematic Review of Self-Reported Questionnaires
To analyze the contents and formats of general self-reported questionnaires on disability that are designed for and/or are widely applied in the elderly population to depict a complete picture of this field and help researchers to choose proper tools more efficiently.
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December 3, 2013
Parkinson Disease in Long Term Care Facilities: A Review of the Literature
Parkinson disease (PD) is common in long term care (LTC) facilities. The number of institutionalized patients with PD will rise sharply in the coming decades because of 2 concurrent phenomena: aging of the population leads to an increased PD prevalence and improved quality of care has led to a prolonged su...
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December 3, 2013
Cardiac and Inflammatory Biomarkers and In-hospital Mortality in Older Medical Patients
Increasing evidence has mounted in recent years on the potential prognostic role of biomarkers out of cardiac-specific medical settings. We aimed to test whether cardiac and inflammatory biomarkers are independently associated with in-hospital mortality in older unselected medical inpatients undergoing sta...
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December 3, 2013
Frailty Predicts New and Persistent Depressive Symptoms Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults: Findings From Singapore Longitudinal Aging Study
This study aimed to examine the cross-sectional and longitudinal relationships between physical frailty at baseline and depressive symptoms at baseline and at follow-up.
JAMDA
December 1, 2013
Disability Associated With Obesity, Dynapenia and Dynapenic-Obesity in Chinese Older Adults
Whether the combination of obesity and low muscle strength (dynapenic-obesity) would cause greater impairment of the activities of daily living (ADL)/instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) than obesity alone and low muscle strength alone (dynapenia) remains unclear. The aim of this study was to rev...
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December 1, 2013