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  1. Falling is a significant challenge in old age, often leading to isolation, self-imposed limitation, reduced movement, and muscle strength. This study aimed to explore the fear of falling and its related factor...

    Authors: Fatemeh Sadat Izadi-Avanji, Azade Safa, Masoumeh Abedzadeh-Kalahroudi and Negin Shaterian
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:965
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Geriatrics 2025 25:5

  3. It is unclear whether antiparkinsonism anticholinergics (AAs) increase hip fracture (HFx) risk in Parkinson’s disease (PD) patients. This study examined associations between AAs, HFx and mortality in PD using ...

    Authors: Po-Yen Ko, Po-Ting Wu, I-Ming Jou, Renin Chang and Ching-Hou Ma
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:961
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  4. The lesions observed in very old populations exhibit a wide spectrum of characteristics. Histopathological evaluation may be necessary for accurate diagnosis in this demographic. There is limited amount of dat...

    Authors: Begüm Çalım-Gürbüz, İrem Güvendir, Müzeyyen Müge Savaş and Itır Ebru Zemheri
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:960
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  5. Hip fractures in older adults are common and carry a high risk of morbidity and mortality. Preoperative dehydration, a key risk factor for adverse outcomes, is often underdiagnosed at admission. It is importan...

    Authors: Nicole Vollenweider, Beate Poblete, Reto Babst, Frank J. P. Beeres, Dirk Lehnick and Björn-Christian Link
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:959
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  6. To investigate the efficacy of both multicomponent exercise and nutritional interventions on frailty by conducting a systematic review and meta-analysis to examine changes in frailty incidence.

    Authors: Wachiranun Sirikul, Nida Buawangpong, Kanokporn Pinyopornpanish and Penprapa Siviroj
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:958
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  7. There are various frailty assessment tools in the world, and the application choice of frailty assessment tools for the elderly perioperative population varies. It remains unclear which frailty assessment tool...

    Authors: Muxin Chen, Hao Liang, Yidi Zhao, Ruotong Liao, Jiamin Fang, Lijun Lin, Ping Tan, Yiyin Xu, Shaohua Chen, Hongyun Chen and Lin Wei
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:957
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  8. Epithelioid Hemangioendothelioma (EHE) is an extremely rare malignancy originating from endothelial cells, with an incidence rate of less than 1/100,000. To date, there have been no documented cases of Diaphra...

    Authors: Qin Yan, Shuai Li, Li Zhang, Sishi Tang, Nianyong Chen and Lang He
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:956
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  9. Adverse drug reactions are more prevalent in geriatric patients and are frequently associated with a range of polypharmacy-related issues as well as some physiological aging-related alterations. These affect t...

    Authors: Samuel Berihun Dagnew, Tilaye Arega Moges, Teklie Mengie Ayele, Samuel Agegnew Wondm, Taklo Simeneh Yazie and Fisseha Nigussie Dagnew
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:955
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  10. Cardiovascular risk factors represent an important health issue in older adults. Previous findings suggest that meditation training could have a positive impact on these risk factors. The objective of this stu...

    Authors: Antoine Garnier-Crussard, Julie Gonneaud, Francesca Felisatti, Cassandre Palix, Eglantine Ferrand Devouge, Anne Chocat, Géraldine Rauchs, Vincent de la Sayette, Denis Vivien, Harriet Demnitz-King, Antoine Lutz, Gaël Chételat and Géraldine Poisnel
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:954
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  11. Psychotropic medications are frequently utilised in residential aged care facilities (RACFs). Longitudinal medication administration data can offer crucial insights into the potential inappropriate use of psyc...

    Authors: Narjis Batool, Magdalena Z. Raban, Karla L. Seaman, Johanna I. Westbrook and Nasir Wabe
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:953
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  12. Research to date suggests that frailty is higher in women and is associated with functional difficulty. This study builds on the evidence by examining the association between frailty and functional difficulty ...

    Authors: Nestor Asiamah, Emelia Danquah, Edgar Ramos Vieira, Peter Hjorth, Reginald Arthur-Mensah Jnr, Simon Mawulorm Agyemang, Hafiz T. A. Khan, Cosmos Yarfi and Faith Muhonja
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:952
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  13. Choline alfoscerate, a cholinergic precursor with limited evidence of efficacy in dementia management, has been used for various cognitive impairments in Korea. Partly due to its insurance coverage, this agent...

    Authors: Khanh Linh Duong, Heeyoon Jung, Hyun-kyoung Lee, Young Jin Moon, Sang Ki Lee, Bo Ram Yang, Hwi-yeol Yun and Jung-woo Chae
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:951
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  14. Regular dental l check-ups and good oral hygiene are challenging for nursing home residents, resulting in poor oral health. The interRAI instrument for Long-Term Care Facilities (LTCF) enables caregivers to ev...

    Authors: Emilie Schoebrechts, Johanna de Almeida Mello, Patricia A. I. Vandenbulcke, Hein P. J. van Hout, Jan De Lepeleire, Anja Declercq, Dominique Declerck and Joke Duyck
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:950
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  16. People post-hip fracture have reported experiences of fragmented care and poor discharge planning, therefore improvements in patient flow are required. This study reports the challenges people face during the ...

    Authors: A Welsh, S Hanson, K Pfeiffer, R Khoury, A Clark, K Grant, P-A Ashford, S Hopewell, PA Logan, M Crotty, ML Costa, SE Lamb and TO Smith
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:948
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  17. A core component of older adult health care assessment includes identifying fall risk, which also includes identifying those with subtle balance deficits.

    Authors: Daniela Cristina Carvalho de Abreu, Anne Caroline Lima Bandeira, Paola Errera Magnani, Douglas Augusto de Oliveira Grigoletto, José Roberto de Faria Junior, Vitor Roberto Sanchez Teixeira, Victoria Message Fuentes and Roberta de Matos Brunelli Braghin
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:947
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  18. Eating performance is the functional ability to get food into the mouth and chew/swallow it. Nursing home residents with dementia commonly experience compromised eating performance and subsequent consequences....

    Authors: Wen Liu, Kyuri Lee, Elizabeth Galik and Barbara Resnick
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:946
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  19. Eosinophilic gastrointestinal diseases are the rare gastrointestinal disorders. To our knowledge, there have been no reports of eosinophilic gastrointestinal diseases with overall gastrointestinal tract involv...

    Authors: Yifan Ke, Yi Jiang, Yuping Yuan, Yihan Chen, Jianbin Huang and Chunwei Huang
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:945
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  20. The increased life expectancy and prevalence of spondylarthrosis have led to a growing frequency of spinal surgery in older people. This study aims to assess whether there is an excess mortality concerning tha...

    Authors: Raquel Gutiérrez-González, Marta Macarrón, Ana Royuela, Alberto Vallejo-Plaza and Alvaro Zamarron
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:944
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  21. This study aimed to examine the association between the American Heart Association’s (AHA) newly revised Life’s Essential 8 (LE8) algorithm, designed for assessing cardiovascular health (CVH), and cognitive im...

    Authors: Hui Wang, Sensen Wu, Dikang Pan, Yachan Ning, Cong Wang, Jianming Guo and Yongquan Gu
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:943
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  22. Many older adults experience disabling back and leg pain. This study aimed to identify factors associated with back pain causing severe interference with daily activities over 2 years.

    Authors: Esther Williamson, Maria T. Sanchez-Santos, Jeremy Fairbank, Lianne Wood and Sarah E. Lamb
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:942
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  23. Home-based primary care (HBPC) is an emerging patient-centered, interprofessional healthcare service model that can address unmet medical needs and care burdens for homebound older adults. In December 2022, th...

    Authors: Chang-O. Kim, Taehoon Lee, Ahreum Choi, Eunhee Choi, Haesong Kim, Jakyung Lee, Jongwon Hong, Daehoon Song, Hyejin Jung, Jiyoung Park, Jonghee Kim, Hyejin Lee and Soong-Nang Jang
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:941
    Content type: Study Protocol Published on:

  24. Loneliness is prevalent among the elderly and has intensified due to global aging trends. It adversely affects both mental and physical health. Traditional scales for measuring loneliness may yield biased resu...

    Authors: Youbei Lin, Chuang Li, Xiuli Wang and Hongyu Li
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:939
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:966

  25. Proximity to parks has been suggested as a factor influencing physical activity in older adults. However, it remains unclear the optimal distance between residences and parks for promoting physical activity an...

    Authors: Chien-Yu Lin, Ting-Fu Lai, Chin-Yi (Fred) Fang, Ming-Chun Hsueh and Yung Liao
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:938
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  26. Sarcopenia, gait disturbance, and intradialytic hypotension are among the various factors that contribute to fall risk. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between risk of sarcopenia, hemodialysis...

    Authors: Chien-Yao Sun, Lin-Chieh Hsu, Chien-Chou Su, Chung-Yi Li, Chia-Ter Chao, Yu-Tzu Chang, Chia-Ming Chang, Wen-Fong Wang and Wei-Chih Lien
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:937
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  27. Although the prevalence of poor oral health among older populations in Australia and the United States is higher, the contribution of ethnicity status is unknown. We aimed to estimate the contribution of socia...

    Authors: Lisa Jamieson, Bei Wu, Sergio Chrisopoulos, Liana Luzzi, Gloria Mejia and Xiangqun Ju
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:936
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  28. As one of the key features of sleep, sleep duration (SD) has been confirmed to be associated with multiple health outcomes. However, the link between SD and cognitive function (CF) is still not well understood.

    Authors: Peng Qiu, Cheng Dong, Aifen Li, Juanjuan Xie and Junyu Wu
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:935
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  29. As intrinsic capacity (IC) declines, older adults are at a significantly increased risk of frailty, care dependency, and death. Currently, the research on IC among older adults in China was still insufficient....

    Authors: Shiya Yu, Jialin Wang, Ying Xia and Qi Tang
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:934
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  30. As global aging accelerates, depression among the elderly becomes more common. Research had revealed that patients with late-life depression (LLD) face a higher risk of suicide compared to their counterparts i...

    Authors: Fei Liu, Junrong Ye, Yanheng Wei, Yuanxin Pan, Wen Wang, Jiao Chen, Tingwei Zhou, Shengwei Wu, Zezhi Li, Jianxiong Guo and Aixiang Xiao
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:933
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  31. Sarcopenia is typically assessed through hand grip strength, walking speed, and chair stand tests. However, it has been inadequately examined in terms of other physical fitness (PF) components in community-dwe...

    Authors: Wang-Sheng Lin, Nai-Wei Hsu, Shung-Haur Yang, Yu-Ting Chen, Chih-Chun Tsai and Po-Jung Pan
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:932
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  32. Pericapsular nerve group (PENG) block has emerged as a reliable analgesia technique for hip arthroplasty (HA). However, the effects of PENG block on perioperative neurocognitive disorder (PND) after HA has not...

    Authors: Manhua Zhu, Qilu Ying, Lingzhi Wang, Ruifen Zhou and Yuliu Mei
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:931
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  33. Depression is the most common psychiatric disorder in older adults, even though it is commonly misdiagnosed and undertreated, leading to exacerbations of preexisting medical conditions and even a higher mortal...

    Authors: Hebatalla Ahmed, Heba Khaled, Ahmed A. Allam, Bassima Alodini, Ahmed Azzam, Anees Adel Hjazeen, Hassan Samy Hassan, Sarah Mohamed Hussein and Fatma E. Hassan
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:930
    Content type: Systematic Review Published on:

  34. Hearing impairment is a known risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease (AD), although less is known about vision impairment or dual sensory impairment (DSI) as risk factors for AD. We studied the association betwee...

    Authors: Blair Rajamaki, Kaisa Hokkinen, Aarno Dietz, Kai Kaarniranta, Sirpa Hartikainen and Anna-Maija Tolppanen
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:929
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  35. The prevalence of hypertension increases with age, and older people with this condition are at increased risk of developing orthostatic hypotension (OH) due to age-related changes in blood pressure regulation ...

    Authors: Workagegnehu Hailu, Tsebaot Tesfaye, Lemma Derseh, Awraris Hailu and A. Mark Clarfield
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:928
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  36. While racial inequities in dementia risk are well-documented in the United States, research has paid less attention to role of US Southern context in shaping dementia risk through life course exposures. In thi...

    Authors: Mateo P. Farina, Eileen M. Crimmins and Mark D. Hayward
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:927
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  37. Pre-frailty is a window of opportunity for frailty reversal and can be enhanced by multicomponent exercise. The Lifestyle-integrated Functional Exercise (LiFE) program may be a promising alternative to overcom...

    Authors: Na Li, Chuxin Liu, Nan Wang, Siyang Lin, Yin Yuan, Feng Huang and Pengli Zhu
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:926
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  38. Numerous studies have indicated an obesity paradox in observational research on aging health, where being normal weight or underweight adversely affects cognitive function, while moderate obesity may offer pro...

    Authors: Zhenzhen Liang, Wei Jin, Li Huang and Huajian Chen
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:925
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  39. Hospital-associated functional decline affects nearly one-third of the hospitalized older adults. The aim of this trial is to investigate the effect of a cognitive stimulation intervention provided via immersi...

    Authors: Antón de la Casa-Marín, Fabiola Zambom-Ferraresi, Maria Cristina Ferrara, Iranzu Ollo-Martínez, Arkaitz Galbete, Belén González-Glaría, Débora Moral-Cuesta, Itxaso Marín-Epelde, Chenhui Chenhuichen, Marta Lorente-Escudero, Rodrigo Molero-de-Ávila, Agurne García Baztán, Fabricio Zambom-Ferraresi and Nicolás Martínez-Velilla
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:924
    Content type: Study Protocol Published on:

  40. COVID-19 provides an opportunity to examine biological phenotypes (observable morphological, functional and biological characteristics) in individuals who experience the same acute condition, potentially revea...

    Authors: Alberto Zucchelli, Marta Parigi, Silvia Giliani, Davide Liborio Vetrano, Daniela Lucente, Emanuele Marzetti, Riccardo Calvani, Giuseppe Bellelli and Alessandra Marengoni
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:923
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  41. Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a major risk factor for delirium. Few studies with mid- to long-term follow-up periods have examined delirium, MCI, and the conversion of MCI to dementia. This prospective, l...

    Authors: Kyoung Ja Moon and Mina Park
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:922
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  42. Older adults often experience adverse health outcomes including malnutrition following discharge from emergency departments (ED). Discharge to community care is a transitionary time where nutritional vulnerabi...

    Authors: Cerenay Sarier, Mairéad Conneely, Sheila Bowers, Liz Dore, Rose Galvin and Anne Griffin
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:921
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  43. The latest evidence on health literacy in China revealed that only 8% of individuals aged 65–69 years, a segment of the geriatric population, possess adequate health literacy levels, indicating a low level in ...

    Authors: Jie Zhu, Haiyan Fu, Angela Y. M. Leung, Yining Zhang, Jingwen Lin, Yijing Li, Yanru Kang, Runjie Sun, Xinqi Xu, Ping Hou, Pei Duan, Jiayuan Tu, Jin Xue, Xine Mao, Jingwen Qin and Yongbing Liu
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:920
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  44. With the rapid ageing of the global population, the number of older adults with physical frailty has been gradually increasing, making ageing at home a key strategy for coping with this demographic change. The...

    Authors: Xuan Wang, Yifan Jiang, Zhiyong Xu, Lin Qi, Yibo Wu and Min Zhang
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:919
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  45. Social networks play a critical role in the mental health of older adults. This pilot study investigates the feasibility of a newly developed intervention to enhance older adults’ social networks. This interve...

    Authors: Jiangning Fu, Zhiwei Zheng, Boyu Zhai, Rongxia Guo, Nuo Kong, Xiaomei Liu and Juan Li
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:918
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  46. Occupational balance (OB) has been associated with health indicators in informal caregivers (CGs) such as well-being and subjective health. Consequently, maintaining an adequate OB could be crucial to providin...

    Authors: Daniel Prieto-Botella, Paula Fernández-Pires, Paula Peral-Gómez, Cristina Espinosa-Sempere, Verónica Company-Devesa, José-Ángel Pastor-Zaplana, Loreto González-Román, Jessica Garrido-Pedrosa, Inmaculada Zango-Martín, Petra Wagman and Alicia Sánchez-Pérez
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:917
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  49. This study aims to evaluate the impact of Quebec’s first hospital-at-home-inspired mobile Seniors’ Clinic, the “Clinique des Ainés (CDA)”, on frail older adults’ returns to the Emergency Department (ED), morta...

    Authors: Valérie Boucher, Eva-Marie Jouhair, Marie-Josée Sirois, Luc Tailleur, Philippe Voyer, Éric Mercier, Anik Giguère, Clermont E. Dionne, France Légaré, Clémence Dallaire, Stéphane Bergeron, Pierre-Hugues Carmichael and Marcel Emond
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:914
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  50. In community settings, relatives often provide care to their older family members, which is sometimes perceived as a high burden, overwhelming and stressful, contributing to an increased risk of elder abuse. I...

    Authors: Anja Botngård, Arne Henning Eide, Laura Mosqueda, Lene Blekken and Wenche Malmedal
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:912
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