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HSC Medicine, Dentistry and Healthcare Sciences Current Awareness Bulletins: Elderly Care

Elderly Care current awareness bulletin

Frequency: Bi-monthly

Links to articles in the current and previous 2 issues of this bulletin are displayed below.

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May 2025

Acute pain trajectories in elderly patients with fragility hip fractures

Association between physical frailty and social support in community-dwelling older adults

Association of chronic pain with frailty and pre-frailty in older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis

The association of loneliness and social isolation with multimorbidity over 14 years in older adults in England: a population-based cohort study

Care for older adults living with dementia in the emergency department: a systematic review and meta-synthesis of care partner roles and perspectives

Communication challenges and response strategies of late-deafened older adults

The diagnostic performance of phase angle for sarcopenia among older adults: a systematic review and diagnostic meta-analysis

Dietary indices to measure diet quality in older cancer survivors: A scoping review on tools, their components and association with health outcomes

Differential effects of exercise training protocols on blood pressures and lipid profiles in older adults patients with hypertension: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Effect of geriatric care on health outcomes in older patients with cardiac disease: a systematic review

Frailty and pre-frailty prevalence in community-dwelling elderly with multimorbidity: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Global, regional, and national burdens of hip fractures in elderly individuals from 1990 to 2021 and predictions up to 2050: a systematic analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021

The global, regional, and national late-life depression burden and trends from 1990 to 2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021

Life-course socioeconomic inequalities, social mobility and healthy aging in older adults: a multi-cohort study

Perioperative outcome of primary total hip arthroplasty in octogenarians – a systematic review

Projections for prevalence of Parkinson’s disease and its driving factors in 195 countries and territories to 2050: modelling study of Global Burden of Disease Study 2021

Risk factors for sarcopenia in community setting across the life course: a systematic review and a meta-analysis of longitudinal studies

Service robots in caring for older adults: uncovering the current conceptual and intellectual structures and future research agenda

Withdrawal of antihypertensive drugs in older people (updated Cochrane intervention review)

Sources

Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics (Apr-Jun); BMJ, The (Mar); Bone (Apr); Cochrane Library (Mar-Apr); Emergency Medicine Journal (Mar); Journal of Orthopaedics (Feb)

March 2025

Accelerating the pace of elder justice policy to meet the needs of a growing aging population

Adverse changes in close social ties in aging women and men: a population-based longitudinal study of the CLSA (2011–2021)

Association of lower-limb strength with different fall histories or prospective falls in community-dwelling older people: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Association of trajectories of physical frailty status and incident disability in community-dwelling older adults: a longitudinal study

Development of loneliness and social isolation after spousal loss: a systematic review of longitudinal studies on widowhood

The effect of social exclusion on the cognitive health of middle-aged and older adults: a systematic review

Frailty as a predictor of mortality in the oldest old: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Global burden and cross-country inequalities of nutritional deficiencies in adults aged 65 years and older, 1990–2021: population-based study using the GBD 2021

Groove into ageing: exploring the effects of rhythmic exercise on the well-being of older adults

Life-space mobility and cognition in community-dwelling late-life women: a cross-sectional analysis

Neural correlates of age-related hearing loss: an MRI and FDG-PET study

Occurrence of sleep disorders and the value of body mass index of seniors and the quality of their aging

Older adults’ recognition of medical terminology in hospital noise

A public health/hospital partnership to improve emergency department transitions of care for vulnerable older adults

Recent advances in biomarkers for senescence: bridging basic research to clinic

Reduced functional independence and multimorbidity increases the risk of severe infection among older patients with Omicron: a multicenter retrospective cohort study

Rehabilitation program for elderly to improve physical and cognitive activities using Nintendo Switch: a feasibility study in care settings

Social frailty in older adults: a concept analysis

Thyroid hormones and frailty in older adults: systematic review and dose–response meta-analysis

Underestimation of fall risks by older adults: the need for professional evaluation to identify home hazards

Vaccinations in older adults: optimization, strategies, and latest guidelines

Sources

Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics (Mar); Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics Plus (Mar); BMC Geriatrics (Feb); Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications (Dec); Geriatrics and Gerontology International (Jan-Feb); Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (Jan-Feb)

January 2025

The association between employment and cognitive function in older adults: a systematic review

Association of sleep duration with obesity in older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Associations among frailty conditions and pain indicators: data from 22 356 European older adults

Associations between hearing loss, peripheral neuropathy, balance, and survival in older primary care patients

Change in frailty among older COVID-19 survivors

Cognitive functioning and falls in older people: a systematic review and meta-analysis

The correlation between frailty trajectories and adverse outcomes in older patients: a systematic review

Discontinuation versus continuation of statins: a systematic review

Dressings and topical agents for preventing pressure ulcers (updated Cochrane intervention review)

Effectiveness of non-pharmacological therapies for preventing frailty in older people: an umbrella review

Effect of interventions for health care students to develop positive attitude toward the elderly: a meta-analysis study

The effects of Nordic walking on the cardiovascular risk factors in older adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Individualized treatment of diabetes mellitus in older adults

Lessons from a geriatric clinical case from the 19th century: a bridge to modern geriatric medicine

Prescribing pattern insights from a longitudinal study of older adult inpatients with polypharmacy and chronic non-cancer pain

Prevalence of successful aging in older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Recurrent pericarditis in older adults: clinical and laboratory features and outcome

The relationship between insomnia and multidimensional frailty in community-dwelling older adults: a systematic review

The role of training and medication reminder wristwatch in adherence to treatment in geriatric patients diagnosed with hypertension: a randomized controlled trial

Unleashing frailty from laboratory into real world: A critical step toward frailty-guided clinical care of older adults

Sources

Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics (Jan-Feb); Cochrane Library (Nov-Dec); European Journal of Pain (Nov); Geriatrics and Gerontology International (Nov-Dec); Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (Nov-Dec)

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