Browsing Medical Gerontology (Scholarly Publications) by Title
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Testing the feasibility of a primary-care exercise intervention to prevent and reverse early frailty and build resilience in community-dwelling older adults
(2022)Background: Resistance exercises have been shown to prevent and reverse frailty but their application in clinical practice is low. We wished to test the feasibility of an optimised exercise intervention for mild or pre-frailty ... -
Title: Understanding a Low Vitamin D State in the Context of COVID-19
(2022)While a low vitamin D state has been associated with an increased risk of infection by SARS-CoV-2 in addition to an increased severity of COVID-19 disease, a causal role is not yet established. Here, we review the evidence ... -
Tooth loss and cognitive decline in community dwelling older Irish adults: A cross-sectional cohort study
(2022)Objectives: To investigate whether tooth loss and related loss of occluding tooth pairs, were associated with cognitive decline in a group of community dwelling older men and women from Ireland. Methods: A group of 2508 ... -
Towards Realistic and Flexible Advance Care Planning
(2013)The suffering of the many Irish people who bought houses at the height of the economic boom with variable mortgages is a topical and telling demonstration of the difficulties of planning for the future. What seemed like a ... -
Trail Making Test performance contributes to subjective judgment of visual efficiency in older adults
(PeerJ Inc., 2015)Introduction. The determinant factors that influence self-reported quality of vision have yet to be fully elucidated. This study evaluated a range of contextual information, established psychophysical tests, and in particular, ... -
Transitions between degrees of multidimensional frailty among older people admitted to intermediate care: a multicentre prospective study
(2022)Background: Frailty is a dynamic condition that is clinically expected to change in older individuals during and around admission to an intermediate care (IC) facility. We aimed to characterize transitions between degrees ... -
Transitions in frailty phenotype states and components over 8 years: evidence from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing
(2021)Aim: Fried's frailty phenotype (FP) is defined by exhaustion (EX), unexplained weight loss (WL), weakness (WK), slowness (SL) and low physical activity (LA). Three or more components define the frail state, and one or two ... -
Turkish version of the SHARE-Frailty Instrument for primary care: reliability and validity in the nursing home setting
(2023)In Turkey, physical frailty instruments have not been studied in the nursing home setting. We determined the reliability and validity of a Turkish version of the SHARE-Frailty Instrument for primary care (SHARE-FI) in ... -
The use of an implantable loop recorder in the investigation of unexplained syncope in older people
(2003)Introduction: Reveal is a patient activated implantable loop recorder device with an 18 month battery life now available to assist in the diagnosis of suspected syncope or arrhythmias. We present our experience using this ... -
The Use of the World Guidelines for Falls Prevention and Management's Risk Stratification Algorithm in Predicting Falls in The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA)
(2023)Background: the aim of this study was to retrospectively operationalise the World Guidelines for Falls Prevention and Management (WGFPM) falls risk stratification algorithm using data from The Irish Longitudinal Study on ... -
Using Explainable AI (XAI) for the prediction of falls in the older population
(2022)The prevention of falls in older people requires the identification of the most important risk factors. Frailty is associated with risk of falls, but not all falls are of the same nature. In this work, we utilised data ... -
Validation of the self-reported hearing questions in the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing against the Whispered Voice Test.
(2014)BACKGROUND: Self report questions are often used in population studies to assess sensory efficacy and decline. These questions differ in their validity in assessing sensory impairment depending on the wording of the ... -
Variability and agreement of frailty measures and risk of falls, hospital admissions and mortality in TILDA
(2022)Little is known about the within-person variability of different frailty instruments, their agreement over time, and whether use of repeat assessments could improve the strength of associations with adverse health outcomes. ... -
Vascular gait dyspraxia
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Vitamin D and orthostatic hypotension.
(2012)Introduction: we aimed to investigate on the potential relationship between vitamin D and orthostatic hypotension (OH) in a case-control model in older adults. Methods: all participants were community-dwelling adults who ... -
Voluntary fortification is ineffective to maintain the vitamin B12 and folate status of older Irish adults: evidence from the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA).
(2018)Mandatory fortification of staple grains with folic acid and/or vitamin B12 (B12) is under debate in many countries including Ireland, which has a liberal, but voluntary, fortification policy. Older adults can be at risk ... -
Were Frailty Identification Criteria Created Equal? A Comparative Case Study on Continuous Non-Invasively Collected Neurocardiovascular Signals during an Active Standing Test in the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA)
(2024)Background: In this observational study, we compared continuous physiological signals during an active standing test in adults aged 50 years and over, characterised as frail by three different criteria, using data from ... -
What Explains Socioeconomic Differences in the Speed of Heart Rate Recovery to Postural Challenge?
(2017)Background: Much recent work has focused on the value of heart rate recovery (HRR) as a marker of cardiovascular health and a predictor of mortality. This article explores socioeconomic variation in HRR following exposure ...
