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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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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)

November 2024

Aging precisely: precision medicine through the lens of an older adult

Can an active lifestyle offset the relationship that poor lifestyle behaviours have on frailty?

Clinical impact of medication review and deprescribing in older inpatients: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Effect of group play therapy as holistic geriatric interventional modality on feelings of loneliness among older people: a randomized control trial

Exercise training effect on skeletal muscle motor drive in older adults: a systematic review with meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

“I make myself get busy”: resilience and social connection among low-income older adults living in subsidized housing

Identifying complex emotional and relational needs of service users in Later Life CMHTs within the Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

The impact of social isolation on functional disability in older people: a multi-cohort study

Intrinsic capacity decline as a predictor of functional disability in the elderly: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Introducing virtual reality to older adults: a qualitative analysis of a co-design innovation with care staff

Mapping of technological strategies for reducing social isolation in homebound older adults: a scoping review

Nutritional management interventions and multi-dimensional outcomes in frail and pre-frail older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Older women's perspectives on the ethics of persuasion in doctor-patient communication

Pain management inequities by demographic and geriatric-related variables in older adult inpatients

Psychological and educational interventions for preventing falls in older people living in the community (new Cochrane intervention review)

Relationship between tooth loss and progression of frailty: findings from the English longitudinal study of aging

Systematic review on attitudes towards death and dying in adults 50 years and older living in countries with community transmission of COVID–19

Updates in inspiratory muscle training for older adults: a systematic review

Sources

Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics (Oct-Dec); Cochrane Library (Sep-Oct); FPOP Bulletin: Psychology of Older People (Oct); Geriatrics and Gerontology International (Oct); Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (Oct)

September 2024

Antibiotics for delirium in older adults with pyuria or bacteriuria: a systematic review

Care needs for urinary incontinence in older adults: latent profile analysis

Challenges of antimicrobial stewardship among older adults

Cognitive, physical, and sensory deficits that can affect everyday medication use among older adults: a national view

Community health worker training on older adults: a qualitative needs assessment

Does frailty need a new name?

Effectiveness of an interdisciplinary home care approach for older adults with chronic conditions: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Emergency department visits and hospital readmissions after a deprescribing intervention among hospitalized older adults

Factors influencing central nervous system medication deprescribing and behavior change in hospitalized older adults

Frailty in older adults (NEJM review)

Immune checkpoint inhibitors plus platinum‐based chemotherapy compared to platinum‐based chemotherapy with or without bevacizumab for first‐line treatment of older people with advanced non‐small cell lung cancer (new Cochrane intervention review)

Longitudinal association between Body mass index (BMI), BMI trajectories and the risk of frailty among older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies

Medicines for an aging population: the EMA perspective and policies

Nutrition interventions for body composition, physical function, cognition in hospitalized older adults: a systematic review of individuals 75 years and older

Nutritional therapy for reducing disability and improving activities of daily living in people after stroke (new Cochrane intervention review)

The status of drug evaluation in older adults in the United Kingdom: bridging the representation gap

What exercise strategies are best for people with cognitive impairment and dementia? A systematic review and meta-analysis

Willingness to take less medication for type 2 diabetes among older patients: the Diabetes & Aging Study

Sources

Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics (Sep); BMJ, The (Jul); Cochrane Library (Aug-Sep); European Journal of Internal Medicine (Jun); Geriatrics and Gerontology International (Aug-Sep); Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (Jul-Sep); NEJM (Aug)

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