Some books available in the Library
- Abc of dementia
- Acute medical illness in old age
- Blackwell’s primary care essentials: geriatrics
- Brocklehurt’s textbook of geriatrics and gerontology
- The dimensions of elder abuse
- Elder abuse: critical issues in policy and practice
- Epidemiology in old age
- Geriatric medicine: an evidence-based approach
- Geriatric physical diagnosis : a guide to observation and assessment
- Geriatrics in orthopaedics
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Accidental Falls Evidence Summary
COVID-19 and elderly/geriatric/aged patients – pubmed results
CONCLUSION: In this insured US adult population, mRNA-1273 demonstrated greater effectiveness against medically attended COVID-19 and hospitalization with COVID-19 than the protein-based NVX-CoV2705. These findings highlight the potential public-health importance of considering vaccine platform and variant selection when planning for upcoming seasons.
CONCLUSIONS: Long COVID patients had reduced HRQoL. Female gender, young-age, thin BMI or pre-existing psychological disorders were associated with lower HRQoL.
CONCLUSIONS: In older critically ill adults, pre-admission frailty is a major driver of mortality. After explicit adjustment for frailty and illness severity, male sex was associated with only a small residual increase in 30-day mortality. Bayesian analyses suggest that large clinically meaningful sex-based mortality differences are unlikely after accounting for case mix and treatment intensity.
CONCLUSION: These findings highlight the persistent impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on hematologic and circulatory system disease mortality, emphasizing the need for continued monitoring of vulnerable populations.
CONCLUSIONS: In this nationwide ecological analysis, full implementation of physical activity and cognitive training programs planned for FY2020 was associated with smaller subsequent increases in municipal LTCI certification rates. These findings suggest that municipal implementation status during the COVID-19 pandemic may be related to population-level care-need trends. However, causal interpretation is limited by the ecological design, single-time assessment of implementation status,...
CONCLUSION: The study found lower MoCA-Blind scores and reduced quality of life in hospitalized individuals, but adjusted analyses showed no significant link between COVID-19 severity and cognition or quality of life.
CONCLUSION: Considering the mediating role of resilience in the relationship between social support and HRQoL among older people during the Covid-19 pandemic and the possibility of emergencies and pandemics in the future, it is necessary to carry out interventions focusing on improving resilience skills to make social support more effective in the elderly and to improve the quality of life related to health.
CONCLUSION: Dementia underdiagnosis in Brazil is high and unequally distributed, worsening after the COVID-19 pandemic. Expanding diagnostic access is critical to address disparities and improve care.
CONCLUSIONS: The stepped counseling intervention had a small positive effect on depressive symptoms in a sample of caregivers with below-average socioeconomic status in one of the very few translational studies. The effectiveness of the intervention was likely reduced due to challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).
We evaluated 2024/25 KP.2 vaccine effectiveness (VE) against COVID-19 hospitalization among adults ≥60 years old eligible for publicly-funded vaccination during fall and/or spring campaigns in the province of Quebec, Canada. We included Quebec residents tested for COVID-19-compatible symptoms in an acute-care hospital between October 13, 2024 (epi-week 2024-42) and August 23, 2025 (2025-34), linking vaccine, hospital, chronic diseases and laboratory administrative records to assess VE through...
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Best Practices in Nursing Care to Older Adults With Dementia (Full-text available via NHS Athens)
Elderly Health Journal
New England Journal of Medicine- Geriatrics/Aging
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Posted: May 14, 2026, 12:00 am
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Posted: May 14, 2026, 12:00 am
An 86-year-old man presented to the neurology clinic with 2 years of progressive memory loss and difficulty walking. An MRI showed microbleeds that appeared as hypointense foci throughout the lobar regions.
Posted: May 7, 2026, 12:00 am
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Posted: May 7, 2026, 12:00 am
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Posted: May 7, 2026, 12:00 am
This article summarizes the pathogenesis, diagnosis, and management of Barrett’s esophagus, a reflux-related condition with increased adenocarcinoma risk, highlighting endoscopic diagnosis, surveillance, and early curative therapy.
Posted: April 30, 2026, 12:00 am
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Posted: April 23, 2026, 12:00 am
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Posted: April 23, 2026, 12:00 am
Among survivors of intracerebral hemorrhage, a single pill with three low-dose antihypertensive agents added to standard care was associated with a lower incidence of stroke and major cardiovascular events than placebo.
Posted: April 23, 2026, 12:00 am
This Double Take video reviews the differential diagnosis for a woman with night sweats and unintentional weight loss and how it evolves as new clinical findings are presented.
Posted: April 16, 2026, 12:00 am
Despite the implementation of efficacious interventions for secondary prevention, patients with ischemic stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA) remain at substantial residual risk for short- and long-term recurrent ischemic stroke and coronary events.1,2 Approximately three quarters of ischemic strokes or TIAs are noncardioembolic and may be attributable to...
Posted: April 16, 2026, 12:00 am
In a placebo-controlled trial involving patients with noncardioembolic ischemic stroke or high-risk TIA, asundexian added to antiplatelet therapy led to a lower risk of ischemic stroke without increasing major bleeding.
Posted: April 16, 2026, 12:00 am
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Posted: April 13, 2026, 12:00 am
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Posted: April 13, 2026, 12:00 am
This Double Take video explores how a comprehensive patient-centered approach can provide high-value care for older patients.
Posted: April 9, 2026, 12:00 am
A 68-year-old man who had undergone intubation 25 days earlier had difficulty swallowing after extubation. A swallowing study showed fluid penetrating into the trachea without triggering a cough reflex (shown in a video).
Posted: April 9, 2026, 12:00 am
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Posted: April 2, 2026, 12:00 am
If the future of primary care lies in teams, what makes a team and how should it function? NOS host Lisa Rosenbaum and her guests consider the possibilities of team-based care.
Posted: March 12, 2026, 12:00 am
This review summarizes the diagnosis and management of polymyalgia rheumatica in adults older than 50 years of age, emphasizing clinical diagnosis, glucocorticoids as first-line therapy, relapses, and glucocorticoid-sparing options.
Posted: March 12, 2026, 12:00 am
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