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

Elderly Care current awareness bulletin

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November 2025

Association between sleep duration and frailty in older adults: systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies

Association between social isolation and depression, and sex differences in older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Attitudes of older patients toward artificial intelligence in decision-making in healthcare

Behind bars and beyond reach: systemic barriers to preventive and palliative healthcare for justice-involved older adults

Effectiveness of interventions to improve frailty among community-dwelled older adults: a systematic review

Facilitators of and barriers to deprescribing diabetes medications in older adults: a qualitative study

A fall prevention program integrated in primary health care for older people in rural China: the FAMILY cluster randomized clinical trial

General health-related quality of life and oral health in older adults: a systematic review

Geroscience: a translational review

Have we forgotten about therapeutic failure in older adults?

The implementation of frailty assessment tools in the acute care setting: a scoping review

The influence of the built environment and perceived neighborhood on physical frailty and sarcopenia in older adults: a systematic review

Influencing factors for multi-dimensional frailty of older adults in community

Insights from seven communities improving eldercare for their populations

Longitudinal association of inflammatory diets on cognition in older adults: insights from the oral–gut–brain axis

Obesity and transition to assisted living services in older adults: an analysis from the National Health and Aging Trends Study

Pharmacotherapy for hypertension in adults 60 years or older (updated Cochrane review)

Preoperative biofluid biomarkers for predicting postoperative neurocognitive disorders in older adults: a systematic review

Prospective association between plasma amino acids and healthy aging in older adults

Successful aging rates of global older adults: a subgroup meta-analysis

Tooth loss and 12-year mortality risk in 8494 older adults from Ireland

What changed your mind? Influencers of older adults changing decisions about aging-in-place versus long-term care

Why older people are still excluded from health research—and what can be done

Sources

Anesthesia & Analgesia (Sep); Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics (Oct); BMJ (Oct); Cochrane Library (Sep-Oct); JAMA (Sep); Journal of Dentistry (Oct); Journal of Internal Medicine (Aug); Journal of Medicine, Surgery, and Public Health (Aug); Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (Aug-Sep)

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)

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