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Inadequate functional capacity and health-related outcomes in older adults living in nursing homes in Greece 希腊养老院老年人功能能力不足和健康相关结果

Aging and health research Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ahr.2023.100118

Vasilios Mitsiokapas , Eleni Siarampi , Virginia V Smixioti , Evanthia Mitsiokapa , Christina Karatzaferi , Panayiotis Koulouvaris , Andreas F. Mavrogenis , Christoforos D. Giannaki , Giorgos K. Sakkas

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Delirium education for geriatric patients and their families: A quality improvement initiative✰ 老年患者及其家属的谵妄教育：一项提高质量的举措

Aging and health research Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ahr.2023.100123

Serena P. Wong , Jennifer Tu , Stuart Downie , Mitchell T. Heflin , Shelley R. McDonald , Mamata Yanamadala

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Does pain matter in the Australian Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety? A text mining study 澳大利亚皇家老年护理质量与安全委员会认为疼痛重要吗？文本挖掘研究

Aging and health research Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ahr.2023.100126

Mustafa Atee , Matthew Andreotta , Rebecca Lloyd , Daniel Whiting , Marie Alford , Thomas Morris

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Digital technology use, in general and for health purposes, by older adults in Singapore 新加坡老年人对数字技术的总体使用情况和健康目的

Aging and health research Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ahr.2023.100117

Abhijit Visaria , Seema Aithal , Rahul Malhotra

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COVID-19 anxiety: The impact of older adults’ transmission of negative information and online social networks COVID-19焦虑:老年人负面信息传播和在线社交网络的影响

Aging and health research Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ahr.2023.100119

Linying Dong , Lixia Yang

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Decade in Healthy Ageing in Asia 亚洲健康老龄化十年

Aging and health research Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ahr.2023.100138

Qiushi Feng, Bei Wu

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Strategies for the study of neuroepigenetics and aging with a translational approach 用翻译方法研究神经表观遗传学和衰老的策略

Aging and health research Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ahr.2023.100122

María Araceli Ortiz-Rodríguez , María Fernanda Martínez-Salazar , Paola Kattyana Antunez-Bautista , Angélica Saraí Jiménez-Osorio

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Trust in physicians predicts COVID-19 booster uptake among older adults: Evidence from a panel survey 对医生的信任可以预测老年人对COVID-19增强剂的吸收:来自小组调查的证据

Aging and health research Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ahr.2023.100127

Filip Viskupič , David L. Wiltse

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Dysfunction in the right putamen is associated with drooling in de novo Parkinson's disease 帕金森病患者右侧壳核功能障碍与流口水有关

Aging and health research Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ahr.2022.100116

Hiroki Takatsu, Hidetomo Murakami, Tomotaka Shiraishi, Takeo Sato, Teppei Komatsu, Kenichiro Sakai, Tadashi Umehara, Shusaku Omoto, Hidetaka Mitsumura, Yasuyuki Iguchi

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Does GERAS DANCE improve gait in older adults? GERAS舞能改善老年人的步态吗?

Aging and health research Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ahr.2023.100120

Patricia Hewston , Steven R Bray , Courtney C Kennedy , George Ioannidis , Jackie Bosch , Sharon Marr , Alicia Hanman , Amanda Grenier , Genevieve Hladysh , Alexandra Papaioannou

{"title":"Does GERAS DANCE improve gait in older adults?","authors":"Patricia Hewston , Steven R Bray , Courtney C Kennedy , George Ioannidis , Jackie Bosch , Sharon Marr , Alicia Hanman , Amanda Grenier , Genevieve Hladysh , Alexandra Papaioannou","doi":"10.1016/j.ahr.2023.100120","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ahr.2023.100120","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><p>Older adults at increased fall risk walk slower with less rhythm and coordination. This study explored the effect of dance on spatiotemporal gait parameters in older adults.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>Participants (<em>N</em> = 23) in a single-arm trial were enrolled in the 12-week GERAS DANCE program (total dose of 36 h). Gait was assessed at baseline and 12-weeks under two experimental conditions: normal walking or walking while performing serial subtraction by 3. Outcome measures were gait speed, stride length time, double support time, stride length and stride width. Separate two-way repeated measures ANOVAs were used to determine estimates of the magnitude of effect of GERAS DANCE on spatiotemporal gait parameters and a paired <em>t</em>-test was used to examine differences in cognitive performance before and after dance.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>Older adults (72.50 ± 7.13 years; 75% female) had excellent attendance (82.73% adherence). GERAS DANCE resulted in increased gait speed (<em>p</em><0.001), reduced stride length time (<em>p</em> = 0.034), reduced double support time (<em>p</em> = 0.001), increased stride length (<em>p</em> = 0.003) and marginally reduced stride width (<em>p</em> = 0.064), regardless of the experimental condition. Improvements in walking performance were observed with sustained performance on the serial subtraction task before and after GERAS DANCE.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>GERAS DANCE may be a safe and feasible program to help improve spatiotemporal gait parameters in older adults with early memory or mobility impairments. Next steps include testing the efficacy for fall prevention to help inform clinical practice guidelines and virtual intervention implementation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72129,"journal":{"name":"Aging and health research","volume":"3 1","pages":"Article 100120"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41326064","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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