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Age and Ageing During the COVID-19 Pandemic; Challenges to Public Health and to the Health of the Public

A. Mark Clarfield, A. Mark Clarfield, Tzvi Dwolatzky, Tzvi Dwolatzky • Frontiers in Public Health (2021)

The distribution of the SARS-CoV-2 virus has reached pandemic proportions. While COVID-19 can affect anyone, it is particularly hazardous for those with “co-morbidities.” Older age is an especially strong and independent risk factor for hos...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.655831

The effect of structured medication review followed by face-to-face feedback to prescribers on adverse drug events recognition and prevention in older inpatients – a multicenter interrupted time series study

Joanna E. Klopotowska, Paul F. M. Kuks, Peter C. Wierenga, Clementine C. M. Stuijt et al. • BMC Geriatrics (2022)

Abstract Background The effectiveness of interventions to improve medication safety in older inpatients is unclear, given a paucity of properly designed intervention studies applying clinically relevant endpoints such as hospital-acquired p...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12877-022-03118-z

Optimal@NRW: optimized acute care of nursing home residents using an intersectoral telemedical cooperation network — study protocol for a stepped-wedge trial

David Brücken, Jenny Unterkofler, Sophie Pauge, Jonas Bienzeisler et al. • Trials (2022)

Abstract Background Increasing life expectancy is associated with a growing number of people living in nursing homes, while the availability of outpatient medical care, especially from family doctors, is stagnating in this sector. Consequen...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s13063-022-06613-1

Future History: Medical Informatics in Geriatrics

Jonathan R. Nebeker, John F. Hurdle, Byron D. Bair • The Journals of Gerontology Series A (2003)

With deference to Isaac Asimov's The Foundation, which is the inspiration for this series, we briefly describe the "present history" of medical informatics (the application of information technology in medicine) in geriatrics, and then proj...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/gerona/58.9.m820

Psychogeriatrics and Medical Informatics

Sanford I. Finkel, Gene D. Cohen, Manfred Bergener, Kazuo Hasegawa • International Psychogeriatrics (1991)

The rapid growth of the field of psychogeriatrics, spurred on by aging populations, substantially increased funding, and growing interest by professionals, government, and society, has led, in turn, to a rapid growth of medical information....

OPENALEX cc-by-nc-nd DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s1041610291000467

Prevalence of Constipation in Elderly and Its Association With Dementia and Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Cross-Sectional Study

Fei Wang, Fei Wang, Min Fei, Min Fei et al. • Frontiers in Neuroscience (2022)

BackgroundConstipation and dementia have similar epidemiological characteristics. Changes in intestinal flora and characteristics of the brain-gut axis play roles in the pathogeneses of the two diseases, suggesting that there may be a close...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2021.821654

Predicting hospital admissions from individual patient data (IPD): an applied example to explore key elements driving external validity

Rafael Perera, Marjan Van Den Akker, Kym I E Snell, Joerg J Meerpohl et al. • BMJ Open (2021)

Objective To explore factors that potentially impact external validation performance while developing and validating a prognostic model for hospital admissions (HAs) in complex older general practice patients.Study design and setting Using ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-045572

The central inflammatory regulator IκBζ: induction, regulation and physiological functions

Yanpeng Feng, Zhiyuan Chen, Yi Xu, Yuxuan Han et al. • Frontiers in Immunology (2023)

IκBζ (encoded by NFKBIZ) is the most recently identified IkappaB family protein. As an atypical member of the IkappaB protein family, NFKBIZ has been the focus of recent studies because of its role in inflammation. Specifically, it is a key...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2023.1188253

Discovering subtypes with imaging signatures in the Motoric Cognitive Risk Syndrome Consortium using weakly supervised clustering

Bhargav Teja Nallapu, Ali Ezzati, Helena M. Blumen, Kellen K. Petersen et al. • Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring (2025)

ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION Understanding the heterogeneity of brain structure in individuals with the Motoric Cognitive Risk Syndrome (MCR) may improve the current risk assessments of dementia. METHODS We used data from six cohorts from the MCR ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1002/dad2.70197