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  1. People with dementia receive differential access to palliative care services despite suffering from a significant burden of the disease in the advanced stage. Professional and familial caregivers may not view ...

    Authors: Allyn Hum, Palvinder Kaur, Wen Yang Goh, Riyin Tay, Han Yee Neo, Mervyn Yong Hwang Koh, Noorhazlina Binte Ali, Wee Shiong Lim, Yu-Ling Jackie Tan, Huei Yaw Wu, Palvannan Kannapiran, Hwee Teng Robyn Tan, Yan Sun, Chin Ee Ong, Ravinder Singh Sachdev, Zhi Jun Low…
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2025 25:303
  2. In China, long-term care (LTC) system has been implemented in recent years to improve the quality of care for older adults. To address healthcare needs of older adults with disabilities, this study investigate...

    Authors: Lijun Zeng, Huaicheng Tan, Shujuan Yang, Lisha Hou, Jinhui Wu, Birong Dong, Adam Gordon and Qingyu Dou
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2025 25:302
  3. The aim of this study is to analyse the associations of annual Intrinsic Capacities (IC) impairment evolution with the annual cost of care in Nursing Home (NH) residents. This was a prospective, longitudinal a...

    Authors: N Costa, E Gombault, C Marcélo, A Pagès, L Molinier, P de Souto Barreto and Y Rolland
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2025 25:301
  4. Drug–drug interactions (DDIs) are significant causes of adverse drug reactions among patients with cancer. We aimed to identify the prevalence, severity, and predictors of potential DDIs among geriatric oncolo...

    Authors: Munirah A. Alkathiri, Reem F. Bamogaddam, Hanaa Ali Alhabshi, Mohammed Nasser AlAjmi, Abdulmalik Alasmar Alashgaai, Ghadah A. Assiri, Majed S. Al Yami and Omar A. Almohammed
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2025 25:300
  5. Even when older people are discharged directly home after an emergency department (ED) visit, the risk of deterioration of health status and loss of independence persists. We hypothesize that among older adult...

    Authors: Manuel Sanchez, Philippine Eloy, Virginie Godard, Marina Coutauchaud, Christine Lenouvel, Mathilde Charpigny, Pauline Manchon, Thi Hong Lien Han, Agathe Raynaud-Simon and Claire Patry
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2025 25:299
  6. This longitudinal study analyzed the association between informal caregiving inside and caregiving outside the household with changes in grip strength, and whether these associations varied based on caregivers...

    Authors: Larissa Zwar, Hans-Helmut König and André Hajek
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2025 25:298
  7. Life-space mobility (LSM) measures the size of the real-world geographic area an individual purposely transverses in their daily life. While older cancer survivors often have declines in LSM that negatively af...

    Authors: Richard A. Taylor, Marie Bakitas, Rachel Wells, J. Nicholas Odom, Richard. Kennedy, Grant R. Williams, Jennifer Frank and Peng Li
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2025 25:297
  8. Nursing students, as future healthcare professionals, hold a crucial role in delivering high-quality care to older adults. Their ability to provide effective geriatric care depends significantly on comprehensi...

    Authors: Bahaaeddin M. Hammad, Basma Salameh, Faeda A. Eqtait, Kassabry Maysa, Imad H. Fashafsheh, Ahmad J. Ayed, Mohamed E.H. Elzeky, Rasmieh Anabtawi and Mohammed F. Hayek
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2025 25:296
  9. Few studies have assessed sarcopenia identified by erector spinae muscle (ESM) using thoracic computed tomography (CT) before cardiac surgery. We aimed to explore the relationship between sarcopenia evaluated ...

    Authors: Xiaoqian Wang, Zhen Wang, Yongqing Cheng and Xiaotian Chen
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2025 25:295
  10. Good self-management behaviors can improve the physical function and quality of life of patients with heart failure and reduce hospitalization, mortality, and medical expenses. While the overall self-managemen...

    Authors: Wen Ding, Jingyu Lu, Fei Wang, Ling Bai, Juan Liu and Ru Wang
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2025 25:294
  11. Chronic disease self-management is very important for the progression and treatment of diseases worldwide. The management of chronic diseases among elderly individuals in rural areas is an urgent public health...

    Authors: Xuefang Liu, Xiaomin Gan, Guangqin Ren, Zhongrui Mao, Jiuying Hu, Chengcheng Sha and Juan Wu
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2025 25:293
  12. Among very older patients with atrial fibrillation (AF), the frequency of inappropriate direct oral anticoagulant (DOAC) dosing, associated factors, and temporal trends in practice are unknown.

    Authors: Ya-Tong Zhang, Jun-Peng Liu, Zi-Nan Zhao, Hong-Qiu Gu, Yi-Fan Na, Tian-Qi Zhang, Min Dong, Yu-Hao Wan, Min Zeng, Ning Sun, Cheng Wu and Jiefu Yang
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2025 25:292
  13. Social isolation and loneliness are highly prevalent in older adults. Older adults who are receiving home health services (HHS) post hospital discharge are at high risk for social isolation and loneliness rela...

    Authors: Chava Pollak, Yolanda Pham, Amy Ehrlich, Joe Verghese and Helena M. Blumen
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2025 25:290
  14. This study examined the moderating effects of built environment attributes on the relationship between family support and depressive symptoms among community-dwelling older adults in urban China.

    Authors: Qian Sun, Yingqi Guo, Yanlong Yin, Youwei Wang and Nan Lu
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2025 25:289
  15. The ability to predict older people’s functional independence has implications for the development and provision of services to improve individual sense of self and wellbeing.

    Authors: Emily Taylor, Victoria A Goodwin, Andrew Clegg, Lesley Brown, Julia Frost and Susan Ball
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2025 25:288
  16. In older adults, medium and high levels of life satisfaction can coexist with mental health symptoms. The combination of these variables continues to be a challenge for public mental health; even more so for m...

    Authors: Sandra Saldivia, Claudio Bustos, Joseph Aslan, Carolina Inostroza, Anabel Castillo-Carreño and Félix Cova
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2025 25:287
  17. Age-friendly communities (AFCs) aim to create inclusive societies for older adults. The World Health Organization (WHO) highlights dementia considerations in AFC development; however, few community-level indic...

    Authors: Satoko Fujihara, Taiji Noguchi, Kazushige Ide, Seungwon Jeong, Katsunori Kondo and Toshiyuki Ojima
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2025 25:285
  18. Chronic disease self-management is a critical concern in public health, in which perceived social support plays an important role. However, the underlying pathways and mechanisms linking perceived social suppo...

    Authors: Chunni Lin, Xiayi Zhu, Xiaohui Wang, Lingyue Wang, Ying Wu, Xiang Hu, Jing Wen and Li Cong
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2025 25:284
  19. Quality of life (QOL) has been reported to be associated with sociodemographic characteristics and geriatric syndromes in older adults, but the impact of interactions among multiple geriatric syndromes on QOL ...

    Authors: Chien-Chou Su, Yung-Chen Yu and Deng-Chi Yang
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2025 25:283
  20. As Canada's aging population continues to grow, a larger number of older adults will be residing in assisted living (residences with some on-site care and services). Research is needed to understand how to sup...

    Authors: Irmina Klicnik, Brianna Leadbetter, Milena Zdjelar, Danielle R. Bouchard, Jennifer L. Copeland and Shilpa Dogra
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2025 25:281
  21. This report examines how European geriatricians understand the concept of ‘cognitive frailty’, which was first formally defined by the International Academy on Nutrition and Aging (IANA) and the International ...

    Authors: Suzanne Timmons, Mary Faherty, Catriona Curtin, Maria Cristina Ferrara, Giuseppe Bellelli, Enrico Brunetti, Mario Bo, Alessandro Morandi, Antonio Cherubini, Massimiliano Fedecostante, Alessandra Coin, Susan D. Shenkin and Pinar Soysal
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2025 25:280
  22. Due to population aging, residential care homes are increasingly providing end-of-life care for residents with multiple chronic illnesses and cognitive decline. Proactive end-of-life communication, a component...

    Authors: Ã…sa Mikaelsson, Lars E. Eriksson, Terese Stenfors and Ida Goliath
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2025 25:279
  23. Sarcopenia is characterized by the progressive loss of muscle mass and function due to aging. Dual-specificity tyrosine-regulated kinase 1b (Dyrk1b) plays a key role in muscle differentiation by regulating tra...

    Authors: Xin-Feng Jiao, Guang-Jian Mu, Wen-Ya Zhao, Ran Ni, Can Zhao, Xiang Lu, Jian-Qing Wu, Wei Gao and Lan Luo
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2025 25:278
  24. The increasing importance of sexual expression among older Europeans calls for a more comprehensive understanding of the process of sexual aging. Combining social gerontological and sexological theories, the c...

    Authors: Aleksandar Štulhofer, Laura Pietras, Ivan Landripet and Goran Koletić
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2025 25:277
  25. Knowledge about age-related changes in factors associated with self-rated health (SRH) in older adults is still limited.

    Authors: Karolina Thörnqvist, Lena Johansson, Maria Solevid, Anne Ingeborg Berg, Ingmar Skoog and Hanna Falk Erhag
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2025 25:275
  26. Risk assessment tools such as the Nottingham Hip Fracture Score (NHFS) are crucial in guiding prognostic discussions and benchmarking in hip fracture care. These scores have scope to be improved, which may hel...

    Authors: Shivam N. Kolhe, Richard Holleyman, Andrew Chaplin, Sarah Langford, Mike R. Reed, Miles D. Witham and Antony K. Sorial
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2025 25:274
  27. The aim of the study was to ascertain the efficacy of interferential current-transcutaneous electrical sensory stimulation (IFC-TESS) in treating patients with severe dementia accompanied by dysphagia who resi...

    Authors: Yoshiko Hara, Ayako Nakane, Yu Yoshizumi, Kazuharu Nakagawa, Kohei Yamaguchi, Kanako Yoshimi and Haruka Tohara
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2025 25:273
  28. Currently, there is no effective way to identify older patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) at high risk of long-term death. We aimed to develop and validate a pneumonia scoring system to predict 1...

    Authors: Bingxuan Weng, Lixue Huang, Wenshu Jiao, Yuanqi Wang, Mengyuan Wang, Xuefeng Zhong, Xunliang Tong, Jin Jin and Yanming Li
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2025 25:271
  29. This study aims to analyze the association between different pain phenotypes and depressive symptom trajectory among community-dwelling older adults, and whether and how providing caregiving render older adult...

    Authors: Shuqing Zhao, Longhui Chen, Yanfang Duan, Haochen Wang, Chongzhong Liu and Xiaoyun Wang
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2025 25:270
  30. Intrinsic capacity (IC), a composite of physical and mental capacities, is a marker of healthy aging. However, the association between changes in IC and trajectories in older adults and the onset of cardiovasc...

    Authors: Zhiting Guo, Yuling Chen, Binu Koirala, Jiaying Li, Yingying Jia, Cheryl R. Dennison Himmelfarb and Jingfen Jin
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2025 25:269
  31. Acute heart failure (AHF) has become a significant challenge in older people with hip fractures. Timely identification and assessment of preoperative AHF have become key factors in reducing surgical risks and ...

    Authors: Qili Yu, Mingming Fu, Zhiyong Hou and Zhiqian Wang
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2025 25:268
  32. Social isolation and loneliness have been recognized as important psychosocial factors affecting human health. We aimed to examine the relationships of social isolation and loneliness with the likelihood of he...

    Authors: Meng-Yuan Miao, Fei Fang, Jie-Qiong Lyu, Zhong-Yue Liu, Zhong-Xiao Wan, Li-Qiang Qin, Guo-Chong Chen and Hai-Peng Wang
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2025 25:267
  33. The triglyceride–glucose (TyG) index and triglyceride–glucose/body mass index (TyG–BMI) have been shown to be associated with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disorders and the risk of death. The aim of this...

    Authors: Shiju Yan, Wenjing Dong, Yue Niu, Lingyun Song, Ping Pang, Di Sun, Yue Zhang, Wei Wang, Hongyan Hu, Xinye Jin, Jie Zhang, Qing Luo, Ding Sun, Hao Li, Zehao Zhang, Zeyu Qu…
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2025 25:266
  34. Hypertension, commonly known as the silent killer, is one of the most prevalent cardiovascular disorders among older adults and represents a significant burden on healthcare systems worldwide. Spiritual well-b...

    Authors: Navid Alinejad, Fateme Khosromanesh, Mostafa Bijani, Ali Taghinezhad, Zahra Khiyali and Azizallah Dehghan
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2025 25:265
  35. Cognitive frailty, the co-occurrence of physical frailty and cognitive impairment, has emerged as an essential factor affecting the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) among older adults; however, the role ...

    Authors: Zhaozhao Hui, Yayi Zhao, Qianhui Gong, Yajing Li, Feng Liu, Xiaoyun Zhao and Xiaohong Liu
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2025 25:264
  36. Spontaneous multiple small bowel perforation refers to the complete transmural disruption of the intestinal wall and is often associated with conditions such as inflammatory bowel disease, infectious enteritis...

    Authors: Cheru Lilay Gebrehiwet, Aklilu Yiheyis Abereha, Dawit Aysheshim Mulualem, Misgana Lemma Gurmu, Samuel Addisu Abera, Amanuel Kassa Tadesse, Girma Damtew Adisu, Ermias Teklehaimanot Yefter and Melaku Tessema kassie
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2025 25:263
  37. Despite the growing use of social robots in geriatric care, there is a lack of standardized ethical guidelines to inform and guide professionals in their implementation.

    Authors: Caitlin Ware, Anne-Sophie Rigaud, Lauriane Blavette, Souad Damnée, Sebastien Dacunha, Hermine Lenoir, Matthieu Piccoli, Victoria Cristancho-Lacroix and Maribel Pino
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2025 25:260
  38. The subject of personal values prompts deep reflection in the context of foster care provided by kinship carers, in particular grandparents, towards their biological grandchildren. Taking over the care of thei...

    Authors: Marta Giezek, Marek Landowski, Paulina Zabielska and Beata Karakiewicz
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2025 25:258
  39. New approaches to health care delivery, including telecare, provide an opportunity to address the challenges in an aging population. Thus, this study aims to identify the challenges of the telecare system esta...

    Authors: Forough Saraee, Alireza Atashi, Alireza Namazi Shabestari, Akbar Rasouli and Mohammad Arab
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2025 25:256
  40. Glaucoma is one of the leading causes of visual impairment and blindness globally, mainly affecting older adults. Disproportionately affecting people of African descent, its high prevalence, combined with the ...

    Authors: Jacob Owusu Sarfo, Prince Mordi, Esi Kyirba Aggrey, Adjoa Safoa Panyin Quaicoe and Priscilla Yeye Adumoah Attafuah
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2025 25:255
  41. Falls among older adults (individuals aged 60 and above) are a substantial health issue worldwide. This study aimed to analyze the burden of falls and its attributable risk factors among older adults at the na...

    Authors: Hoomaan Ghasemi, Mohammad Amin Kharaghani, Ali Golestani, Morvarid Najafi, Sepehr Khosravi, Mohammad-Reza Malekpour, Ozra Tabatabaei-Malazy, Nazila Rezaei, Afshin Ostovar and Seyyed-Hadi Ghamari
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2025 25:253

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