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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 ...
Associations between Cardiovascular Signal Entropy and Cognitive Performance over Eight Years
(2021)
In this study, the relationship between non-invasively measured cardiovascular signal
entropy and global cognitive performance was explored in a sample of community-dwelling older
adults from The Irish Longitudinal Study ...
The Syncope-Falls Index (SYFI): A tool for predicting risk of syncope and complex falls in the older adult based on cumulative health deficits
(2021)
Background
Syncope is aetiologically diverse and associated with adverse outcomes; in older people, there is clinical overlap with complex falls presentations (i.e. recurrent, unexplained, and/or injurious).
Aim
To ...
Choice reaction time and subsequent mobility decline: Prospective observational findings from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA)
(2020)
Background: Cognitive and motor function in ageing are intertwined, but whether slower motor response time (MRT) to a cognitive stimulus could herald accelerated mobility decline is unknown. Using data from The Irish ...
Is phenotypical prefrailty all the same? A longitudinal investigation of two prefrailty subtypes in TILDA
(2019)
Background: Fried's frailty phenotype is defined by five criteria: exhaustion, unexplained weight loss, weakness, slowness and low physical activity. Prefrailty (PF) meets one or two criteria. PF is of interest as a target ...
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 ...
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 ...
Frail by four different measures and new adverse events from lower blood pressure control in hypertensive older adults: a 2-year prospective study in The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA)
(2022)
Background: The 2018 European Society of Cardiology/European Society of Hypertension (ESC/ESH) guidelines for management of hypertension in adults aged ≥65 years recommend a blood pressure (BP) treatment target of 130–139/70–79 ...
Development and validation of an electronic postoperative morbidity score
(2018)
Background: Electronic health records are being adopted due to numerous potential benefits. This requires the development of objective metrics to characterize morbidity, comparable to studies performed in centers without ...
Health and social factors associated with a delayed discharge amongst inpatients in acute geriatric wards: A retrospective observational study
(2018)
Aim: In the English National Health Service there is an increasing interest in understanding the factors associated with delayed discharges in older hospitalized adults. The present study sought to analyze whether clinical ...