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The relationship between back pain and mortality in older adults varies with disability and gender
BACKGROUND: This study aims to determine whether older adults reporting back pain (BP) are at increased risk of premature mortality, specifically, to examine the association with disabling/non-disabling pain separately. METHODS...
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Inability to get up after falling, subsequent time on floor, and summoning help
OBJECTIVES: To describe the incidence and extent of lying on the floor for a long time after being unable to get up from a fall among people aged over 90; to explore their use of call alarm systems in these circumstances....
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Place of death for the 'oldest old'
BACKGROUND: Deaths are rising fastest among the oldest old but data on their transitions in place of care at the end of life are scarce. AIM: To examine the place of residence or care of > or =85 year-olds less than a year...
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The oldest old in the last year of life
OBJECTIVES: To characterize people of advanced old age in their last year of life and compare those dying in their late 80s with those dying aged 90 and older to inform policy and planning. DESIGN: Retrospective analysis of...
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Falls in advanced old age
BACKGROUND: The "oldest old" are now the fastest growing section of most western populations, yet there are scarcely any data concerning even the common problem of falls amongst the very old. Prospective data collection is...
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Neuropathological correlates of falling in the CC75C population-based sample of the older old.
BACKGROUND: Previous imaging studies have suggested links between brain pathologies and factors that are associated with falls such as gait, balance and daily function. Possible neuropathological correlates of older people's...
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Epidemiology of back pain in older adults
OBJECTIVES: To determine the prevalence of disabling and non-disabling back pain across age in older adults, and identify risk factors for back pain onset in this age group. METHODS: Participants aged ≥ 75 years answered...
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Health-related quality of life in the Cambridge City over-75s Cohort (CC75C)
BACKGROUND: The assessment of Health Related Quality of Life (HRQL) is important in people with dementia as it could influence their care and support plan. Many studies on dementia do not specifically set out to measure...
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Pain reporting in older adults
OBJECTIVES: Evidence suggests that while disabling back pain (BP), and rheumatic diseases associated with pain, continues to increase with age, the prevalence of non-disabling BP reaches a plateau, or even decreases, in the...
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Frailty and neuropathology in relation to dementia status
OBJECTIVE: To examine the relative contributions of frailty and neuropathology to dementia expression in a population-based cohort study. DESIGN: Cross-sectional analysis of observational data. SETTING: Population-representative...
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A Novel Examination of Successful Aging Trajectories at the End of Life.
A successful aging (SA) index was captured in a longitudinal population-based cohort study of individuals aged 75 and older and examined longitudinally using growth mixture modelling (GMM) to identify groups with similar...
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When Frail Older People Relocate in Very Old Age, Who Makes the Decision?
Older people are likely to transition to a new home closer to family who can provide assistance or to long-term residential care as their health declines and their care needs increase. A minority choose to move to "age-friendly"...
Published by: Innovation in aging
The experience of transitions in care in very old age
BACKGROUND: It can be challenging for general practitioners to support their oldest old patients through the complex process of relocation. OBJECTIVE: To provide a typology of the experiences of moving in very old age that is...
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Temporal trends without seasonal effects on gestational diabetes incidence relate to reductions in indices of insulin secretion
Abstract: Aims: The incidence of gestational diabetes has been reported to have risen over the first decade of this century. Some studies have also found it to vary with seasons of the year. We investigated temporal and seasonal...
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