Nick Evans
Nick Evans
Screening programmes need to be introduced to detect irregular heart rates among older patients, according to an international collaboration of experts.
Horse-riding simulation can be part of balance training for people with knee osteoarthritis [0.03%]
骑马模拟可作为膝关节骨关节炎患者的平衡训练项目
This study explores whether simulated horse-riding exercises can help older people with osteoarthritis of the knee.
Matthew Mckew
Matthew Mckew
Academics conducting a £1.8 million research project are recruiting care homes to test a new falls procedure. Funded by the National Institute for Health Research, the three-year project involves trials of a new training package and guidel...
Short-term corticosteroid use may be associated with increased risk of adverse events [0.03%]
短期使用皮质类固醇或与不良事件风险增加有关
The aim of this study was to determine the frequency of serious adverse events associated with corticosteroid use, specifically fracture, sepsis and venous thromboembolism (VTE).
The unachievable cost of dementia care is revealed in a new report that also highlights the loneliness of carers.
Vicky Queen
Vicky Queen
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a common progressive neurological condition. There are 127,000 people with the disease in the UK, that is, one in every 500 of the population. In 2014-15 there were 14,000 hospital admissions of people with PD in...
Hazel Robinson
Hazel Robinson
I am a single woman of a certain age. I have Alzheimer's disease and I live alone without a carer. I manage as best I can, but I am often in terror of inevitable future deterioration.
Preventable iatrogenic disability in elderly patients during hospitalisation [0.03%]
老年人住院期间可预防的医源性残疾事件
A French study involving 503 patients of 75 years and over reviewed the frequency, causes and preventability of disability induced by a hospital stay.
Kortebein and colleagues published a seminal paper in 2008 that reported a study involving 11 older participants older than 67 who underwent ten days of enforced bed rest. Such a study would not gain ethical consent today.
A paper published in 1991 in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society describes hospitalisation as a 'devastating' event for an older person. This was conceptualised as stemming from three discrete processes: the illness itself, adver...