• 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 ...
• Worldwide prevalence of tocophobia in pregnant women: systematic review and meta-analysis 

  O'Connell, Maeve A.; Leahy-Warren, Patricia; Khashan, Ali S.; Kenny, Louise C.; O'Neill, Sinéad M. (Wiley, 2017-03-30)

  Introduction: Tocophobia is defined as a severe fear of pregnancy and childbirth. There is increasing evidence that tocophobia may have short-term and long-term adverse effects on mother and baby. We performed a systematic ...
• Thyroid hormone therapy for older adults with subclinical hypothyroidism 

  Stott, David J.; Rodondi, Nicolas; Kearney, Patricia M.; Ford, Ian; Westendorp, Rudi G.J.; Mooijaart, Simon P.; Sattar, Naveed; Aubert, Carole E.; Aujesky, Drahomir; Bauer, Douglas C.; Baumgartner, Christine; Blum, Manuel R.; Browne, John P.; Byrne, Stephen; Collet, Tinh-Hai; Dekkers, Olaf M.; den Elzen, Wendy P.J.; Du Puy, Robert S.; Ellis, Graham; Feller, Martin; Floriani, Carmen; Hendry, Kirsty; Hurley, Caroline; Jukema, J. Wouter; Kean, Sharon; Kelly, Maria; Krebs, Danielle; Langhorne, Peter; McCarthy, Gemma; McCarthy, Vera; McConnachie, Alex; McDade, Mairi; Messow, Martina; O'Flynn, Annemarie; O'Riordan, David; Poortvliet, Rosalinde K.E.; Quinn, Terence J; Russell, Audrey; Sinnott, Carol; Smit, Jan W.A.; Van Dorland, H. Anette; Walsh, Kieran A.; Walsh, Elaine K.; Watt, Torquil; Wilson, Robbie; Gussekloo, Jacobijn (Massachusetts Medical Society, 2017-04-03)

  BACKGROUND: The use of levothyroxine to treat subclinical hypothyroidism is controversial. We aimed to determine whether levothyroxine provided clinical benefits in older persons with this condition. Full Text of Background... ...
• 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 ...
• Muscle strength and functional ability in recreational female golfers and less active non-golfers over the age of 80 Years 

  Stockdale, Alison; Webb, Nicholas; Wootton, Jessica; Drennan, Jonathan; Brown, Simon; Stokes, Maria (MDPI, 2017-03-04)

  Muscle strength and functional ability decline with age. Physical activity can slow the decline but whether recreational golf is associated with slower decline is unknown. This cross-sectional, observational study aimed ...

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