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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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July 2025

Active surveillance for prostate cancer in older men

Acute kidney injury in older adults: laying the groundwork for sustained kidney health and overall well-being in the long term

Bidirectional relationship between diabetes and frailty in middle-aged and older adults

Exploring the association between aging, ferroptosis, and common age-related diseases

Extreme heat and hospitalization among older persons with Alzheimer disease and related dementias

Friends and trends: friendship across life phases and cohorts

Global, regional, and national burden of vertebral fractures due to falls from 1990 to 2021 and predictions for the next 15 years: a systematic analysis of the Global Burden of Disease 2021 Study

Global trends and burden of age-related hearing loss: 32-year study

Hospice, palliative, and end-of-life care considerations in geriatric urology

Intrinsic capacity and its dimensions in relation to functional ability in older adults

Management approaches for advanced pelvic organ prolapse in the geriatric population

Multi-trajectories of physical activity and health in aging

New paradigms for bladder cancer management in geriatrics

Optimizing urologic care for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer/questioning older adults

Overactive bladder medications in geriatrics—risks and realities

Probiotics' impact: a simple ingredient to improving elder care

Sarcopenia and intrinsic capacity in older adults: a systematic review

Systematic review of interventions for pre-frail and frail older adults

Testosterone replacement therapy for testosterone deficiency in older men

Understanding physical aging in relation to biological aging, telomere length: a systematic review

Urethral stricture disease and urethroplasty in older men

Voiding dysfunction and Parkinson disease in geriatric patients

Sources

Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics (Jul-Aug); Clinics in Geriatric Medicine (May); JAMA Internal Medicine (Apr); Today’s Geriatric Medicine (Spring)

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)

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