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: Vaccination in the population aged ≥60 years and the high-risk population between 12 and 59 years old in Peru was projected to yield substantial health and economic benefits. The impact could be substantially increased by expanding eligibility to younger age groups and increasing vaccine uptake.
CONCLUSIONS: Caregivers overwhelmingly advocated for the urgent need to raise awareness around the role of being a "carer," to see more individualized support provided, in addition to the recognition of treating mental health alongside drug and alcohol dependency in a supportive holistic approach.
CONCLUSION: A significant proportion of HCWs were not fully vaccinated. Targeting hospital workers and younger age groups and improving HCWs confidence in recommending vaccination can increase uptake.
CONCLUSIONS: Vaccination strategies targeting a broader age range with an adapted vaccine would result in considerable health and economic benefits and be cost-effective in Mexico.
INTRODUCTION: While eHealth became prevalent in healthcare during the pandemic, eHealth adoption by older adults has been slow. This digital divide could lead to worsening health and healthcare disparities. Guided by the push-pull-mooring perspective, this study explored factors influencing eHealth adoption among older adults.
CONCLUSION: This study found that the uncertainty about COVID-19 vaccine safety is a key barrier to its uptake. Therefore, targeted education and communication strategies to improve vaccine confidence are crucial.
Small businesses, which were disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, often lack the resources for effective operational risk management (ORM), with existing frameworks like International Standardization Organization (ISO) 31000 proving too complex and resource-intensive. There is, however, still minimal research into ORM frameworks tailored to the needs of Small, Micro, and Medium Enterprises (SMMEs) facing disaster risks. This study developed and evaluated a tailored ORM framework...
CONCLUSION: Elderly people with chronic diseases were the main group of severe pneumonia in adults. The pathogenic microorganisms that caused SP are complex, and mixed infection is common. mNGS enhanced the effectiveness of pathogen detection, makes up for the shortcomings of conventional methods, especially in identifying unexpected pathogens, and provides a new means for early targeted anti-infection treatment.
CONCLUSIONS: Findings of this NMA of observational studies support the effectiveness of XBB.1.5-adapted mRNA vaccines. Limitations included assumptions on EMs and sparse evidence networks.
CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: Age-inclusive triage better identifies ICU survivors than SOFA alone and is more equitable. Incorporating age into prioritization algorithms could save more lives in a crisis scenario.
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BMC Geriatrics (Open Access)
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Best Practices in Nursing Care to Older Adults With Dementia (Full-text available via NHS Athens)
Working with Older People : Community Care Policy and Practice ( Full-text available via NHS Athens after 12 months)
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New England Journal of Medicine- Geriatrics/Aging
Unhealthy alcohol use is common and includes severe alcohol use disorder. Screening tests identify patients who may benefit from preventive counseling, medications, or more intensive intervention.
Posted: May 1, 2025, 12:00 am
This review considers enteral nutrition in the context of disease-related malnutrition, provides evidence for the use of enteral nutrition in hospitalized patients, and discusses practice considerations.
Posted: April 17, 2025, 12:00 am
Few procedures have gone through a decade of practice-changing clinical trials as impressive as thrombectomy for stroke. Beginning in 2015 with multiple trials showing a benefit with thrombectomy in early large-vessel occlusion, followed by the extended-window trials in 2018 and then the large core trials in 2023, it seemed that...
Posted: April 10, 2025, 12:00 am
With the aging of the population, aortic stenosis affects a growing number of patients, with a prevalence of 12.4% among persons who are at least 75 years of age, among whom 3.4% have severe aortic stenosis.1 Aortic stenosis is generally well tolerated for a prolonged period of time,...
Posted: April 10, 2025, 12:00 am
Among older patients undergoing TAVI, dapagliflozin led to a lower incidence of a composite of death from any cause or worsening of heart failure than standard care at 1 year.
Posted: April 10, 2025, 12:00 am
In this trial involving 543 patients with stroke due to occlusion of medium or distal vessels, endovascular treatment within 24 hours after the onset of symptoms was not effective in improving functional outcome at 90 days.
Posted: April 10, 2025, 12:00 am
In a trial involving patients with ischemic stroke due to medium-vessel occlusion, thrombectomy within 12 hours did not lead to a better functional outcome and lower mortality at 90 days than usual care.
Posted: April 10, 2025, 12:00 am
Among U.S. and European adults, greater wealth was associated with lower mortality. The difference in mortality between the wealthiest and poorest appeared to be larger in the United States than in Europe.
Posted: April 3, 2025, 12:00 am
In patients with posterior circulation stroke for whom thrombectomy was not planned, alteplase administered 4.5 to 24 hours after stroke onset resulted in less disability at 90 days than standard treatment.
Posted: April 3, 2025, 12:00 am
In this randomized, placebo-controlled trial involving patients with giant-cell arteritis, the oral Janus kinase inhibitor upadacitinib (15 mg) significantly improved remission of disease, with less glucocorticoid use.
Posted: April 2, 2025, 12:00 am
Having lost trust in physicians when he lost his daughter, a man with newly diagnosed cancer declines care, leaving the oncologist to consider past failures of communication, connection, and trust.
Posted: March 13, 2025, 12:00 am
Watching a patient’s family respond adversely to the stock communication tools an intern deploys, a palliative care consultant draws on her training in psychiatry to add nuance to those tools.
Posted: February 27, 2025, 12:00 am
Nonacute subdural hematoma is common among older persons. With an aging population and increasing use of antiplatelet and anticoagulant agents, subdural hematoma is projected to become the most common cranial neurosurgical disease by 2030.1 Standard treatments — including glucocorticoids and statins for milder cases, with the addition of...
Posted: February 27, 2025, 12:00 am
Medical, behavioral, and socio-structural factors contribute to poor health among people who are incarcerated. Health risks are magnified by conditions of confinement and lack of access to quality health care.
Posted: February 27, 2025, 12:00 am
Among patients receiving surgical or nonsurgical standard treatment for chronic subdural hematoma, adjunctive middle meningeal artery embolization reduced the risk of treatment failure within 180 days.
Posted: February 27, 2025, 12:00 am
When her mother asks for medical aid in dying, a neurointensivist and palliative care researcher finds herself torn between her doctorly response and her daughterly one, wavering in her convictions.
Posted: February 13, 2025, 12:00 am
Roughly half the women who have reached menopause have fragility fractures.1 Such fractures impose major burdens, such as complications, cost, and death. A variety of effective therapies are available, yet in general they are underused.2 The risk of fracture increases as bone mineral density decreases; however,...
Posted: January 16, 2025, 12:00 am
Zoledronate administered every 12 to 18 months prevents fractures in older women. Ten years after initiation of this trial, zoledronate administered at baseline and 5 years prevented vertebral fracture.
Posted: January 16, 2025, 12:00 am
Making integrated fracture liaison services a routine part of postfracture care could help reduce disparities in care — and may offer a useful model for the management of other chronic diseases.
Posted: January 9, 2025, 12:00 am
Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction is noted for symptoms of heart failure, LVEF of at least 50%, and cardiac or structural abnormalities. Treatment includes diuretics and SGLT2 inhibitors.
Posted: January 9, 2025, 12:00 am
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