• Advance care planning within survivorship care plans for older cancer survivors: a systematic review 

  O'Caoimh, Rónán; Cornally, Nicola; O'Sullivan, Ronan; Hally, Ruth; Weathers, Elizabeth; Lavan, Amanda H.; Kearns, Tara; Coffey, Alice; McGlade, Ciara; Molloy, D. William (Elsevier, 2017-06-23)

  Advances in the medical treatment of cancer have increased the number of survivors, particularly among older adults, who now represent the majority of these. Survivorship care plans (SCPs) are documents that cancer patients ...
• European multicentre double-blind placebo-controlled trial of Nilvadipine in mild-to-moderate Alzheimer's disease - The substudy protocols: NILVAD frailty; NILVAD blood and genetic biomarkers; NILVAD cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers; NILVAD cerebral blood flow 

  Meulenbroek, Olga; O'Dwyer, Sarah; de Jong, Daan; van Spijker, Gerrita; Kennelly, Sean; Cregg, Fiona; Olde Rikkert, Marcel; Abdullah, Laila; Wallin, Anders; Walsh, Cathal; Coen, Robert; Kenny, Rose Anne; Daly, Leslie; Segurado, Ricardo; Borjesson-Hanson, Anne; Crawford, Fiona; Mullan, Michael; Lucca, Ugo; Banzi, Rita; Pasquier, Florence; Breuilh, Laetitia; Riepe, Matthias; Kalman, Janos; Molloy, William D.; Tsolaki, Magda; Howard, Robert; Adams, Jessica; Gaynor, Siobhan; Lawlor, Brian (BMJ Publishing Group, 2016-05-04)

  Introduction: In conjunction with the NILVAD trial, a European Multicentre Double-Blind Placebo Controlled trial of Nilvadipine in Mild-to-Moderate Alzheimer's disease (AD), there are four NILVAD substudies in which eligible ...
• Exploring the housing needs of older people in standard and sheltered social housing 

  Fox, Siobhan; Kenny, Lorna; Day, Mary Rose; O'Connell, Cathal; Finnerty, Joe; Timmons, Suzanne (Sage Publications, 2017-04-10)

  Objective: Our home can have a major impact on our physical and mental health; this is particularly true for older people who may spend more time at home. Older people in social (i.e., public) housing are particularly ...
• Sleep-wake cycle disturbances in elderly acute general medical inpatients: longitudinal relationship to delirium and dementia 

  FitzGerald, James M.; O'Regan, Niamh; Adamis, Dimitrios; Timmons, Suzanne; Dunne, Colum P.; Trzepacz, Paula T.; Meagher, David J. (Elsevier Inc. on behalf of the Alzheimer’s Association, 2017)

  Introduction: Sleep disturbances in elderly medical inpatients are common, but their relationship to delirium and dementia has not been studied. Methods: Sleep and delirium status were assessed daily for a week in 145 ...
• Acute hospital dementia care: results from a national audit 

  Timmons, Suzanne; O'Shea, Emma; O'Neill, Desmond; Gallagher, Paul F.; de Siún, Anna; McArdle, Denise; Gibbons, Patricia; Kennelly, Sean (BioMed Central, 2016-05-31)

  Background: Admission to an acute hospital can be distressing and disorientating for a person with dementia, and is associated with decline in cognitive and functional ability. The objective of this audit was to assess the ...

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