The Korean elderly population is rapidly increasing; currently, approximately 13.4% of the population is 65 years or older,1 and this proportion is expected to reach 37.0% by 2050, which will give Korea the second-highest elderly population...
Background: On August 13, 2014, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) met and approved changes to their recommendations for pneumococcal vaccination. Of note, the ACIP now recommends the routine use of 13-valent pneumococcal...
The concept of vascular lesions in the brain leading to cognitive dysfunction was first shown by Otto Binswagner in 1894.1 Little attention was paid to these asymptomatic vascular lesions until 1986 when both Hachinski2,3 and Awad4,5 separately...
We examined possible associations between different red blood cell (RBC) transfusion strategies, overall quality of life (OQoL), and recovery of activities of daily living (ADL) in operated frail elderly hip fracture patients, and the possibility...
Numerous observational studies have reported an increased risk of mortality for conventional antipsychotics in elderly patients, and for haloperidol in particular. Subsequently, health authorities have warned against use of conventional...
With an aging population, a growing number of older adults experience physical or cognitive decline that necessitates admission to residential aged care facilities (RACF). Each year a considerable proportion of these residents has at least 1...
The loss of skeletal muscle mass with advancing age is a universal phenomenon. The trajectory of this loss of muscle is remarkably variable and its etiology complex and multifactorial. The term, sarcopenia, was initially described as the age-...
JAMDA published in 2008 practical recommendations about the treatment of behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) in nursing homes.1 Five years later, an update of the relevant scientific literature was undertaken to assess potential...
In older patients, hospitalization is often associated with new or worsening disability. This hospitalization-associated disability may be explained in part by the cumulative effect of aging, frailty, comorbidities, and illnesses that led to...
