• Tackling frailty and functional decline: background of the action group A3 of the European innovation partnership for active and healthy ageing 

  Cano, Antonio; Dargent, Guy; Carriazo, Ana; López-Samaniego, Luz; Apostolo, Joao; Campos, Elzbieta; Holland, Carol; Varela-Nieto, Isabel; Sánchez-Sánchez, M. Luz; Illario, Maddalena; Iaccarino, Guido; Roller, Regina E.; Goossens, Edwig; Vollenbroek-Hutten, Miriam; Pais, Sandra; Schena, Federico; Musian, Daniele; Alvino, Serena; Maggio, Marcello; Liotta, Giuseppe; Ussai, Silvia; Orfila, Francisco; O'Caoimh, Rónán; Paul, Costança; Pazzi, Stefania; Romano, Valeria; Obbia, Paola (Elsevier B.V., 2018-06-20)

  Ageing populations represent a challenge to the sustainability of current healthcare systems. The need to balance these demographic changes with gains in healthy life years and quality of life (QoL) constitutes an additional ...
• General practitioners’ knowledge, attitudes and experiences of managing behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia: protocol of a mixed methods systematic review and meta-ethnography 

  Jennings, Aisling A.; Foley, Tony; Walsh, Kieran A.; Coffey, Alice; Browne, John P.; Bradley, Colin P. (BioMed Central, )

  Background: In the context of rising dementia prevalence, the workload of general practitioners (GPs) in dementia care is set to increase. However, there are many aspects of dementia care that GPs find challenging. Behavioural ...
• Prevalence of potentially inappropriate prescribing in a subpopulation of older European clinical trial participants: a cross-sectional study 

  O'Riordan, David; Aubert, Carole Elodie; Walsh, Kieran A.; Van Dorland, Anette; Rodondi, Nicolas; Du Puy, Robert S.; Poortvliet, Rosalinde K. E.; Gussekloo, Jacobijn; Sinnott, Carol; Byrne, Stephen; Galvin, Rose; Jukema, J Wouter; Mooijaart, Simon P.; Baumgartner, Christine; McCarthy, Vera J. C.; Walsh, Elaine K.; Collet, Tinh-Hai; Dekkers, Olaf M.; Blum, Manuel R.; Kearney, Patricia M. (BMJ Publishing Group:, 2018)

  Objectives: To estimate and compare the prevalence and type of potentially inappropriate prescribing (PIP) and potential prescribing omissions (PPOs) among community-dwelling older adults (≥65 years) enrolled to a clinical ...
• Patient reported outcome measures of quality of end-of-life care: a systematic review 

  Kearns, Tara; Cornally, Nicola; Molloy, D. William (Elsevier Ireland Ltd, 2017)

  End-of-life (EoL) care is increasingly used as a generic term in preference to palliative care or terminal care, particularly with reference to individuals with chronic disease, who are resident in community and long-term ...
• Validation of the 6-Item Cognitive Impairment Test and the 4AT test for combined delirium and dementia screening in older Emergency Department attendees 

  O'Sullivan, Dawn; Brady, Noeleen; Manning, Edmund; O'Shea, Emma; O'Grady, Síle; O'Regan, Niamh; Timmons, Suzanne (Oxford University Press, 2017)

  Background screening for cognitive impairment in Emergency Department (ED) requires short, reliable tools. Objective to validate the 4AT and 6-Item Cognitive Impairment Test (6-CIT) for ED dementia and delirium screening. ...

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