Aging is characterized by rising susceptibility to development of multiple chronic diseases and, therefore, represents the major risk factor for multimorbidity. From a gerontological perspective, the progressive accumulation of multiple diseases,...
Easily employed measures of frailty are needed in the evaluation of elderly people. Recently, a frailty index (FI) based on deficits in commonly used laboratory tests (the FI-LAB) has been proposed. To address the usefulness of the FI-LAB in long-...
To characterize outcomes of patients experiencing a fall and subsequent hip fracture while in a nursing home receiving skilled nursing facility (SNF) services.
The majority of scales to measure family member distress in dementia are designed for community settings and do not capture the unique burdens of the nursing home (NH) environment. We report the psychometric properties of a new Family Distress in...
Fortes et al1 remind us that clinical assessment of volume status can be difficult, especially in the elderly. In an attempt to facilitate this determination, the authors studied several markers of hydration in hospitalized elderly people and found...
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...
