The articles “COVID-19 in Italy: Ageism and decision making in a pandemic” by Cesari and Proietti1 and “The geriatrician: The frontline specialist in the treatment of COVID-19 patients - Gemelli against COVID-19 Geriatrics Team” by Landi et al.2...
To assess the internal consistency, convergent and divergent validity, and concurrent validity of the Tilburg Frailty Indicator (TFI) within community-dwelling older people in Spain, Greece, Croatia, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom.
To estimate the prevalence of understated cognitive impairment by administering the Clock-Drawing Test (CDT) to community-dwelling individuals aged ≥50 years and to investigate the associated clinical phenotype.
To describe the prevalence of sarcopenia in a large group of community-dwelling older adults using the Asian Working Group for Sarcopenia (AWGS) 2019 definition and algorithm.
Oropharyngeal dysphagia is a geriatric syndrome that is usually underdiagnosed in older patients. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence and identify the main risk factors of dysphagia in the oldest old patients admitted to an acute...
It is unknown whether muscle mass measured by the D3-creatine dilution method is a superior predictor of incident mobility disability than traditional components of sarcopenia definitions (including grip strength, walking speed, appendicular lean...
At least a third of the individuals with a noncommunicable disease (NCD), such as diabetes, chronic lung disease, or heart disease, are diagnosed with another NCD in their lifetime.1 This high burden of co-occurring chronic diseases (“multimorbidity...
The novelty and fast spread of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) have made it impossible to scientifically determine the best approach for its management and to take evidence-based political measures to try to tackle...
To date, coronavirus severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has infected 2.2 million people and has killed more than 150,000.1 The population groups most susceptible to severe and fatal coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) are...
Older people are often socially deprived, which may predispose them to frailty. The aim of the study was to identify the independent effects of social deficits and their combined effects with frailty (“social frailty”) in predicting functional...
