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
CONCLUSIONS: There was a dramatic decline in hip fracture incidence in Oslo during the last decade, which was consistent across sociodemographic subgroups.
CONCLUSIONS: These findings support a role for CMTM8 in regulating the suppressive activity of specific immune cells, and suggest a potential interplay among genetic, humoral, and cellular mechanisms underlying the immune response to SARS-CoV-2 vaccination.
CONCLUSION: Vaccinated individuals had a lower all-cause mortality rate than unvaccinated individuals during 2021-2023. This difference was larger among men and most prominent following the removal of COVID-19 control measures in 2022 but persisted throughout the study period.
CONCLUSIONS: Among patients undergoing major cardiac, thoracic and abdominal surgery, adding gabapentin to multimodal analgesic regimes did not result in a change in length of stay, opiate use in two specialties, acute pain, or health-related quality of life, nor was it cost-effective.
Vaccine effectiveness of BNT162b2 KP.2 vaccine against COVID-19 hospital admissions was 49% (95% CI, 30-63) and 45% (95% CI, 35-54) against emergency department/urgent care encounters (vs no KP.2 vaccine at <3 months). Protection persisted >90 days from vaccination with some waning. Vaccine effectiveness remained high regardless of prior COVID-19 vaccination and among older adults.
Older adults are at risk of low mood and depression, which can be exacerbated by long-term physical health conditions, leading to poorer health outcomes and increased mortality. The restrictions on social mixing during the COVID-19 pandemic heightened these risks. BASIL+ (Behavioural Activation in Social IsoLation) was a pragmatic randomised controlled trial conducted with patients recruited from general practices in England and Wales. It was designed to assess the effectiveness of behavioural...
CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: In this comparative effectiveness research using target trial emulation of outpatient telemedicine and in-person visits, telemedicine visits overall were associated with lower charges and fewer subsequent visits within the 30-day episode than were in-person visits. For mental and behavioral conditions, charges were comparable. These findings suggest that telemedicine may serve as a lower-charge alternative to in-person care without increasing the need for subsequent...
A global pandemic is a hardly typical and anxiety-dampening event. Research in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic tells of associations between advancing age and anxiety dampening. The aim of this study was to further investigate this by examining and creating a blueprint of older Canadians' symptoms of pandemic-related anxiety and coping strategies, and linkages among and between them. A national e-survey was conducted in the second year of the pandemic with 1,327 older Canadians, when...
Over the past three decades, China's rapid economic development, social transformation, and the COVID-19 pandemic, have reshaped the landscape of mental disorders and self-harm burden. The raw data were sourced from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2021. Our study presented the burden by disability-adjusted life-years (DALY) of mental disorders and self-harm at both national and provincial levels in China from 1990 to 2021, by age and sex. We also analysed the...
To estimate the survival function and identify risk factors for loss to follow-up (LTFU) among elderly patients with schizophrenia treated at the National Institute of Mental Health (INSM) in Peru. A retrospective cohort study was conducted using clinical records from 138 randomly selected patients diagnosed with schizophrenia. Eligible patients had attended at least one appointment between April 15, 2018, and April 15, 2022. Clinical and attendance data were recorded for each psychiatric...
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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
An 80-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of cough and hypoxemia (oxygen saturation, 83%). CT of the chest showed diffuse ground-glass opacities in both lungs. A diagnosis was made.
Posted: January 29, 2026, 12:00 am
The retina is a specialized patch of central nervous system tissue located at the back of the eye. When the principal source of oxygen and metabolic substrates to the retina — the central retinal artery — is occluded, rapid retinal cell death and loss of visual function ensue. This acute...
Posted: January 29, 2026, 12:00 am
The U.S. government can combat chronic disease among Medicare patients by strengthening primary care, expanding access to preventive care, making care more affordable, and modernizing Medicare benefits.
Posted: January 29, 2026, 12:00 am
Peripheral artery disease is linked to cardiovascular risk and impaired mobility. Diagnosis relies on ankle–brachial index testing, and management involves cardiovascular risk reduction, exercise, and selective revascularization.
Posted: January 29, 2026, 12:00 am
In acute central retinal artery occlusion treated within 4.5 hours after onset, intravenous tenecteplase did not result in greater recovery of vision at 30 days than aspirin and was associated with serious safety concerns.
Posted: January 29, 2026, 12:00 am
How can health care organizations balance physicians’ interests with patient safety in designing programs to ensure that cognitive and physical decline in older physicians doesn’t harm patients?
Posted: January 22, 2026, 12:00 am
A key barrier to effective government oversight and optimal allocation of health care resources is the use of “related-party transactions” between health care organizations and affiliated entities.
Posted: January 22, 2026, 12:00 am
The author describes the scientific foundations of restoring vision through the implantation of a retinal prosthetic chip in persons with geographic atrophy.
Posted: January 15, 2026, 12:00 am
In high-grade asymptomatic carotid stenosis, addition of stenting to medical therapy led to a lower risk of stroke over a 4-year period. Endarterectomy did not lead to a significant benefit.
Posted: January 15, 2026, 12:00 am
In persons with geographic atrophy due to age-related macular degeneration, a neurostimulation system composed of glasses, a processor, and a subretinal implant restored central vision and significantly improved visual acuity.
Posted: January 15, 2026, 12:00 am
The management of carotid-artery stenosis that has not caused recent symptoms — asymptomatic carotid stenosis — has been controversial. Clinical trials that began more than 30 years ago showed a small benefit of carotid endarterectomy as compared with medical treatment, but improvements in medical prevention of stroke call into question...
Posted: January 15, 2026, 12:00 am
In this open-label, randomized trial, the RSV vaccine reduced the incidence of hospitalization for RSV-related respiratory tract disease as compared with no vaccine among adults 60 years of age or older.
Posted: January 8, 2026, 12:00 am
Twelve former commissioners of the FDA express concern that the agency’s recent moves will undermine a regulatory model designed to ensure vaccine safety, effectiveness, and availability.
Posted: January 1, 2026, 12:00 am
Grieving over a beloved patient who’d invited her into the private, sacred space of her planned day of death, a palliative care physician finds it hard to switch gears as she sits in a PTA meeting.
Posted: January 1, 2026, 12:00 am
Randomized, placebo-controlled trials are widely accepted as the scientific reference standard to determine a causal association between an intervention and an outcome. They are pivotal for product licensure. Although such trials establish safety and efficacy with the assumption that bias has been eliminated, limitations remain. For vaccines, establishing the duration...
Posted: December 11, 2025, 12:00 am
Among adults 65 years of age or older, a high-dose influenza vaccine did not result in a significantly lower incidence of hospitalization for influenza or pneumonia than a standard-dose vaccine.
Posted: December 11, 2025, 12:00 am
In adults 65 to 79 years of age, there appeared to be fewer hospitalizations for influenza or pneumonia with high-dose influenza vaccine than with the standard dose, with a similar incidence of serious adverse events.
Posted: December 11, 2025, 12:00 am
Idiopathic normal-pressure hydrocephalus typically causes gait, cognitive, and urinary impairment. The diagnosis is aided by a medical evaluation, imaging findings, and tests that predict improvement with CSF shunting.
Posted: December 4, 2025, 12:00 am
Results from recently published, peer-reviewed studies support the safety and effectiveness of immunizations against Covid-19, RSV, and influenza.
Posted: December 4, 2025, 12:00 am
In patients with idiopathic normal-pressure hydrocephalus responsive to CSF drainage, shunting improved gait and balance at 3 months, but not cognition or incontinence, and was associated with some procedure-related risks.
Posted: December 4, 2025, 12:00 am
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