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

Elderly Care current awareness bulletin

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September 2025

Burden of skin cancer in older adults from 1990 to 2021 and modelled projection to 2050

Cardiovascular regulation during active standing orthostatic stress in older adults living with frailty: a systematic review

Combined association of social isolation and loneliness with frailty onset among independent older adults: a JAGES cohort study

Data driven elder care

Enhancing vision and well-being: eyewear design opportunities for older adults

Excess mortality of critically ill patients aged ≥90 years in intensive care units: a retrospective cohort study

Falls among older adults: an exploration of trends, clinical outcomes, predisposing risk factors, and intervention strategies

Head injury in older people taking anticoagulants

Hearing intervention, social isolation, and loneliness: a secondary analysis of the ACHIEVE randomized clinical trial

Influence of age and underlying etiologies on outcomes of strabismus surgery in the elderly population

Loneliness and social isolation in the care of older adults (articles from Clinics in Geriatric Medicine):

Malnutrition in older adults

Nutrition and oral health in care homes: a qualitative study of stakeholder perspectives

Olfactory deficits and mortality in older adults

Pharmacological treatment of anxiety in older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Staff and referrer experiences and challenges with a new emergency department avoidance service for older people: a qualitative study

Sources

American Journal of Ophthalmology (Aug); American Journal of Surgery, The (Jul); Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics (Sep); BMJ, The (Jun); Clinics in Geriatric Medicine (Aug); Emergency Medicine Australasia (Aug); European Journal of Internal Medicine (Jul); JAMA Dermatology (Jul); JAMA Internal Medicine (Jul); JAMA Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery (Jun); Journal of Dentistry (Aug); Lancet Psychiatry, The (Jun); NEJM (Jun); Today’s Geriatric Medicine (Summer)

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)

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