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BMC Geriatrics volume 24, Article number: 155 (2024) Cite this article 1049 Accesses 6 Altmetric Metrics details Abstract Background The multidimensional and dynamically complex process of ageing presents key challenges to economic evaluation of geriatric interventions, including: (1) accounting for ...
BMC Biology,BMC Global and Public HealthandBMC Medicineare selective journals, publishing articles of special importance and broad interest. Their editorial threshold and structure are different from the other journals in the series. The Chief Editor for each journal has overall responsibility for the ...
Three hundred older adults with a history of falls will be recruited to participate in this study. This will include older adults (n=100), patients with mild cognitive impairment (n=100), and patients with Parkinson’s disease (n=100). These three sub-groups will be recruited in order to...
HRS has received honoraria as speaker from Sanofi Genzyme, Denmark and Novartis, Denmark, as consultant from Sanofi Genzyme, Denmark, Lophora, Denmark, and Lundbeck AS, Denmark, and as editor-in-chief (Neuroimage Clinical) and senior editor (NeuroImage) from Elsevier Publishers, Amsterdam, The...
The aim of the current study was to establish the prevalence and relationship of Body Mass Index (BMI) and Waist-Hip Ratio (WHR) with chronic health conditions and their associated socio-demographic correlates in the elderly population of Singapore. Methods The data was extracted from the Well-...
Participants for the psychometric testing were patients with KOA that have been diagnosed through clinical and physical tests, purposively recruited from the Surgical and Physiotherapy outpatient clinics, the Geriatrics rheumatology and Physiotherapy clinics of the Chief Tony Anenih Geriatric Centre, ...
BMC Geriatrics volume 17, Article number: 11 (2017) Cite this article 10k Accesses 41 Citations 4 Altmetric Metrics details Abstract Background Older inpatients are at risk of hospital-associated geriatric syndromes including delirium, functional decline, incontinence, falls and pressure injuries. These...
Older adults want to live at home as long as possible, even in the face of circumstances that limit their autonomy. Home care services reflect this emergent preference, allowing older adults to ‘age in place’ in familiar settings rather than receiving
Economic model of community-based falls prevention: seeking methodological solutions in evaluating the efficiency and equity of UK guideline recommendationsJoseph Kwon, Hazel Squires & Tracey Young BMC Geriatrics volume 23, Article number: 187 (2023) Cite this article ...