Browsing by Subject "Gerontology"
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Continuous noninvasive orthostatic blood pressure measurements and their relationship with orthostatic intolerance, falls, and frailty in older people.
(American Geriatrics Society, 2011)OBJECTIVES: To identify morphological orthostatic blood pressure (BP) phenotypes in older people and assess their correlation with orthostatic intolerance (OI), falls, and frailty and to compare the discriminatory performance ... -
The differential impact of subjective and objective aspects of social engagement on cardiovascular risk factors
(2010)Background: This article provides new insights into the impact of social engagement on CVD risk factors in older adults. We hypothesized that objective (social participation, social ties and marital status) and subjective ... -
Fifty plus in Ireland 2011: First results from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA)
(Trinity College Dublin, 2011)The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) is a large-scale, nationally representative study of people aged 50 and over in Ireland. It is the most ambitious study of ageing ever carried out in Ireland and represents ... -
A frailty instrument for primary care: findings from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE).
(2010)Background: A frailty paradigm would be useful in primary care to identify older people at risk, but appropriate metrics at that level are lacking. We created and validated a simple instrument for frailty screening in ... -
Functional Analysis of Continuous, High-Resolution Measures in Ageing Research: A Demonstration using Cerebral Oxygenation Data from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing
(2020)Background: A shift towards the dynamic measurement of physiologic resilience and improved technology incorporated into experimental paradigms in aging research is producing high-resolution data. Identifying ... -
The giants of education in geriatric medicine and gerontology
(2022)In 2014, the European undergraduate curriculum in Geriatric Medicine was published to cover the minimum requirements that a medical student should achieve by the end of medical school. In 2019, the European postgraduate ... -
Hand-held dynamometry: tester strength is paramount, even in frail populations.
(2011)To determine test-retest and inter-rater reliability of hand-held dynamometry when used to measure knee--extensor strength in patients with advanced cancer. SUBJECTS: Adults with metastatic or locally advanced cancer ... -
Multiple Indices of Diffusion Identifies White Matter Damage in Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer s Disease
(PLoS, 2011)The study of multiple indices of diffusion, including axial (DA), radial (DR) and mean diffusion (MD), as well as fractional anisotropy (FA), enables WM damage in Alzheimer's disease (AD) to be assessed in detail. Here, ... -
Orthostatic haemodynamics may be impaired in frailty.
(2011)Background: orthostatic hypotension (OH) is a physical sign that reflects a final common pathway of various forms of disordered physiology, which is the hallmark of geriatric frailty. Fried et al. recognise three increasing ... -
Prediction of Hip and Hand Fractures in older persons with or without a diagnosis of Periodontitis
(Elsevier, 2011)Purpose: In a prospective study, we assessed if a diagnosis of osteoporosis and periodontitis could predict hip and hand fractures in older persons. Materials and Methods: Bone density was assessed by a Densitometer. ...