Polypharmacy is widespread among older people, but the adverse outcomes associated with it are unclear. We aim to synthesize current evidence on the adverse health, social, medicines management, and health care utilization outcomes of polypharmacy in older people.
To leverage secondary data extracted using a natural language processing algorithm to examine relationships between adverse social determinants of health and urinary incontinence (UI) among older adult women in home health care.
Because older adults may present with atypical symptoms of infection, accurate thresholds for fever are critical for diagnosis and treatment. Accuracy of oral thresholds for rectal fever detection in older adults and those with frailty has not been well described in the hospital setting. The study's a...