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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 ... -
The effect of acute traumatic brain injury on cardiovascular homeostasis
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Medicine. Discipline of Medical Gerontology, 2008)Acute traumatic brain injury (TBI) remains the most common cause of death from multiple trauma. The cardiovascular homeostatic responses to haemorrhage and injury are co-coordinated in the central nervous system. Coincidental ... -
The influence of perceptions of ageing on frailty and cognitive function
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Medicine. Discipline of Medical Gerontology, 2015)The aim of this thesis is to investigate whether perceptions of ageing influence cognition and frailty in later life. Although much experimental work has shown that priming older adults with negative stereotypes about ... -
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 ... -
Treatment of osteoporosis with recombinant parathyroid hormone, its effects on bone, total body muscle and fat composition and factors determining response to this therapy
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Medicine. Discipline of Medical Gerontology, 2015)Total body bone mineral density (BMD) is relatively underutilised as an assessment tool for osteoporosis. Studies to date on Body composition have not clearly identified key factors which contribute to total body BMD, ... -
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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Vasovagal Syncope in the older adult
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Medicine. Discipline of Medical Gerontology, 2013)Vasovagal Syncope (VVS) is a common form of neurally mediated syncope which affects at least one third of the population at least once in their lifetime. Commonly referred to as a “simple faint” and often described as ...