Browsing Medical Gerontology (Scholarly Publications) by Subject "Visual impairment"
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Comparison of gait speed reserve, usual gait speed, and maximum gait speed of adults aged 50+ in Ireland using explainable machine learning
(2021)Gait speed is a measure of general fitness. Changing from usual (UGS) to maximum (MGS) gait speed requires coordinated action of many body systems. Gait speed reserve (GSR) is defined as MGS–UGS. From a shortlist of 88 ... -
COVID-19 deaths in Irish Nursing Homes: exploring variation and association with the adherence to national regulatory quality standards
(CPEC-LSE, 2020)The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected nursing home residents worldwide, with Ireland having one of the highest reported proportions of COVID-19 deaths in this setting. In Ireland, the publication of a ... -
Deep Learning Retinal Image Analysis for the Detection of CKD and Cardiovascular Risk Factors in the General Population
(2022)Background: Retinal blood vessel patterns provide an opportunity to personalize an individuals risk assessment for CKD and cardiovascular risk factors (CVRF). In this study we propose a deep learning (DL) based prediction ... -
Development of a Frailty Index in the Irish Hip Fracture Database
(2022)Introduction In older people, hip fracture can lead to adverse outcomes. Frailty, capturing biological age and vulnerability to stressors, can indicate those at higher risk. We derived a frailty index (FI) in the Irish ... -
Hospital-associated deconditioning: not only physical, but also cognitive
(2022)Introduction Hospital-associated deconditioning (HAD) or post-hospital syndrome is well recognized as reduced functional performance after an acute hospitalization. Recommendations for the management of HAD are still ... -
The Importance of Age in the Prediction of Mortality by a Frailty Index: A Machine Learning Approach in the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing
(2021)The quantification of biological age in humans is an important scientific endeavor in the face of ageing populations. The frailty index (FI) methodology is based on the accumulation of health deficits and captures variations ... -
The Lived Experience of Frailty: Beyond Classification and Towards a Holistic Understanding of Health
(2024)Purpose: Frailty is characterised by decreased physiological reserves and vulnerability to stressors. Although scales such as the Fried’s Frailty Phenotype (FP), Frailty Index (FI), and Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) are ... -
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 ...
