Age and Ageing

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• Atrial Fibrillation and Acceleration of Frailty
  Is atrial fibrillation associated with accelerated progression of frailty in older adults?

  April 22, 2022

• Resistance Exercise As a Treatment for Sarcopenia: Prescription and Delivery
  The authors offer practical guidance for designing and delivering effective resistance exercise programs to older adults with sarcopenia.

  March 22, 2022

• Do We AGREE on the Targets of Antihypertensive Drug Treatment in Older Adults
  This review highlights inconsistencies among currently used guidelines for thresholds and targets of antihypertensive drug therapy for older adults with frailty.

  February 25, 2022

• Global Cognitive Performance at 4-year Follow-up in Individuals With Atrial Fibrillation
  Is atrial fibrillation associated with increased risk of cognitive decline?

  January 19, 2022

• Aducanumab and the Certainty of Evidence
  In this commentary, the authors review the controversial approval of the monoclonal antibody aducanumab as a treatment for dementia.

  December 17, 2021

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• How quality improvement collaboratives work to improve healthcare in care homes: a realist evaluation. 

  February 16, 2021

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• The 'Wish to Die' in later life: prevalence, longitudinal course and mortality. Data from TILDA. 

  February 11, 2021

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• Patterns of multimorbidity trajectories and their correlates among Korean older adults. 

  February 11, 2021

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• Mortality risk associated with combinations of loneliness and social isolation. Findings from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA). 

  February 11, 2021

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• List of Reviewers 2020. 

  February 08, 2021

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• Age and frailty are independently associated with increased COVID-19 mortality and increased care needs in survivors: results of an international multi-centre study. 

  February 05, 2021

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• 'Real world' effectiveness of the Falls Management Exercise (FaME) programme: an implementation study. 

  February 03, 2021

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• Perceived versus objective sleep quality in long-stay hospitalised older adults-a mixed methods study. 

  February 02, 2021

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• Frailty is associated with in-hospital mortality in older hospitalised COVID-19 patients in the Netherlands: the COVID-OLD study. 

  January 30, 2021

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• A medical history of arterial thrombosis is a strong predictor of post-operative myocardial infarction and stroke in patients with hip fractures-a nationwide cohort study. 

  January 28, 2021

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• Pathways to help-seeking for sexual difficulties in older adults: qualitative findings from the third National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal-3). 

  January 28, 2021

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• Why we need to evaluate long-term antidepressant use in older patients with depression. 

  January 25, 2021

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• Smoking cessation in late life is associated with increased risk of all-cause mortality amongst oldest old people: a community-based prospective cohort study. 

  January 23, 2021

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• The effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of assistive technology and telecare for independent living in dementia: a randomised controlled trial. 

  January 23, 2021

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• Follow-up services for delirium after COVID-19-where now? 

  January 22, 2021

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• "Getting back to normality seems as big of a step as going into lockdown": The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on People with Early-Middle Stage Dementia. 

  January 22, 2021

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• "We have become prisoners of our own age": From a continuing care retirement community to a total institution in the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak. 

  January 22, 2021

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• COVID-19 testing in English care homes and implications for staff and residents. 

  January 22, 2021

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• The My Active and Healthy Aging ICT platform prevents quality of life decline in older adults: a randomised controlled study. 

  January 22, 2021

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• Older patients' perspectives toward lifestyle-related secondary cardiovascular prevention after a hospital admission-a qualitative study. 

  January 22, 2021

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• Vision, vision-specific functioning and mobility, and their relationship with clinically assessed cognitive impairment. 

  January 22, 2021

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• New horizons: managing antithrombotic dilemmas in patients with cerebral amyloid angiopathy. 

  January 22, 2021

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• Adopting an adaptation‑mitigation‑resilience framework to ageing. 

  January 22, 2021

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• Dual impairments in visual and hearing acuity and age-related cognitive decline in older adults from the Rancho Bernardo Study of Healthy Aging. 

  January 18, 2021

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• Social gradient of self-rated health in older people-the moderating/mediating role of sense of community. 

  January 18, 2021

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• The value of ambulatory blood pressure measurement to detect masked diastolic hypotension in older patients treated for hypertension. 

  January 18, 2021

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• Trends in prevalence and outcomes of frailty in a Swiss university hospital: a retrospective observational study. 

  January 16, 2021

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• What is the relationship between validated frailty scores and mortality for adults with COVID-19 in acute hospital care? A systematic review. 

  January 14, 2021

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• The COVID Rehabilitation Paradox: why we need to protect and develop Geriatric Rehabilitation Services in the face of the pandemic. 

  January 14, 2021

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