Browsing Medical Gerontology (Scholarly Publications) by Title
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Obesity and Employment in Ireland: Moving Beyond BMI
(ESRI, 2012)I use data from the first wave of the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) to investigate the impact of obesity on the labour market status of older Irish individuals. I employ an anthropometric indicator of body ... -
Objective Sleep Duration in Older Adults: Results From The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing
(Wiley, 2020)Objective: This study assessed the distribution and correlates of objective sleep duration in the older population in Ireland. Design: Cross-sectional study using population-derived data from wave 3 of The Irish Longitudinal ... -
Older adults shielding at home
(TILDA, 2020)Two thirds of adults aged 60 and older agreed or strongly agreed with shielding. Interestingly, a higher percentage of those most affected by policy, the over 70s, agreed with it. Whether people lived alone or with others ... -
Older adults' experience of ageism during the COVID-19 pandemic
(TILDA, 2020)Despite the fact that the vast majority of older adults are not physically, cognitively or mentally impaired, age-related stereotypes persist. These stereotypes commonly portray older adults as physically and cognitively ... -
Older Hospitalised Patients' Reported Confidence in Managing Discharge Needs: a Retrospective Observational Study
(2023)Objectives: To evaluate the introduction of a patient-reported outcome measure (PROM) of self-confidence in managing discharge needs in an acutely hospitalised older adult population. Methods: A retrospective service evaluation ... -
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. Friedet al. recognise three increasing ... -
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 ... -
Orthostatic hypotension and novel blood pressure associated gene variants in older adults: data from the TILDA Study
(2020)Orthostatic hypotension (OH) is associated with increased risk of trauma and cardiovascular events. Recent studies have identified new genetic variants that influence orthostatic blood pressure (BP). The aim of this study ... -
Orthostatic hypotension is associated with lower cognitive performance in adults aged 50 plus with supine hypertension.
(2014)OBJECTIVES: This study investigated the association between orthostatic hypotension (OH), supine hypertension (SH), and cognitive performance. METHODS: Four thousand six hundred and ninety participants of The Irish ... -
Orthostatic intolerance in adults reporting long COVID symptoms was not associated with postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome
(2022)In this observational cross-sectional study, we investigated predictors of orthostatic intolerance (OI) in adults reporting long COVID symptoms. Participants underwent a 3-min active stand (AS) with Finapres® NOVA, followed ... -
Patients with recurrent falls attending Accident & Emergency benefit from multifactorial intervention - a randomised controlled trial
(2005)OBJECTIVES: To determine the effectiveness of multifactorial intervention to prevent falls in cognitively intact older persons with recurrent falls. DESIGN: Randomised controlled trial of multifactorial (medical, physiotherapy ... -
Perceived stress before and during the COVID-19 pandemic
(2020)Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, perceived stress has increased significantly among older adults. This increase will likely negatively affect both physical and psychological wellbeing among this population. ... -
Perspective: Vitamin D deficiency and COVID-19 severity - plausibly linked by latitude, ethnicity, impacts on cytokines, ACE2 and thrombosis.
(2020)SARS‐CoV‐2 coronavirus infection ranges from asymptomatic through to fatal COVID‐19 characterized by a ‘cytokine storm’ and lung failure. Vitamin D deficiency has been postulated as a determinant of severity. -
Perspective: Vitamin D supplementation prevents rickets and acute respiratory infections when given as daily maintenance but not as intermittent bolus: Implications for COVID-19
(2021)The value of vitamin D supplementation in the treatment or prevention of various conditions is often viewed with scepticism as a result of contradictory results of randomised trials. It is now becoming apparent that there ... -
A pharmacological perspective of Chloroquine in SARS-CoV-2 infection
(2020)The pandemic caused by the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is having serious consequences on health and the economy worldwide. All evidence-based treatment strategies need to be ... -
Physical activity and exercise for the prevention and management of mild cognitive impairment and dementia: a collaborative international guideline
(2023)Background: Physical activity and exercise have been suggested as effective interventions for the prevention and management of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and dementia, but there are no international guidelines. Objectives: ... -
Physical activity partially mediates associations between ¿Big¿ personality traits and incident generalized anxiety disorder: Findings from the irish longitudinal study on ageing
(Elsevier BV, 2020)Background: This study aimed to examine associations of personality with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and physical activity (PA), PA with GAD, and PA mediates associations between personality and incident GAD. Methods: ...