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https://read.qxmd.com/read/38546107/healthcare-provider-communication-and-data-informed-message-strategies-for-encouraging-older-adults-to-stay-up-to-date-on-covid-19-vaccination
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Dan Totzkay, Julia Daisy Fraustino, Lisa M Costello, Christine E Kunkle
Older adults are a high in risk of severe COVID-19 disease outcomes and experience "vaccine hesitancy." Guided by health communication models such as the Reasoned Action Approach and the Extended Parallel Process Model, online surveys designed to inform statewide public health communication efforts were administered in West Virginia, a primarily rural and fully Appalachian state, in Winter 2021 ( n = 272) and Fall 2022 ( n = 248). Adults ages 50+ years ( N = 520) reported attitudes, intentions, and behaviors regarding COVID-19 vaccination and their related patient-provider communication...
March 28, 2024: Journal of Applied Gerontology: the Official Journal of the Southern Gerontological Society
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38545964/perceived-balance-balance-performance-and-falls-among-community-dwelling-older-adults-a-retrospective-cross-sectional-study
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Hanne R Dolan, Janet Pohl, Keenan Pituch, David W Coon
Objectives: To examine the extent to which older adults' perceived balance, a balance performance test, and fear of falling (FOF) were associated with falls in the last month. Methods: The Health Belief Model served as the theoretical framework. A retrospective, cross-sectional, secondary analysis using data from the National Health and Aging Trends Study was conducted ( N = 7499). Results: Multiple logistic regression analysis revealed that the odds of reporting a fall in the past month were 3.3 times ( p < ...
March 28, 2024: Journal of Aging and Health
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38544734/the-critical-role-of-primary-care-health-care-professionals-in-referring-older-adults-to-community-based-fall-prevention-programs
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jonathan Howland, Elizabeth W Peterson
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
2024: Frontiers in Public Health
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38544259/concurrent-supra-postural-auditory-hand-coordination-task-affects-postural-control-using-sonification-to-explore-environmental-unpredictability-in-factors-affecting-fall-risk
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Dobromir Dotov, Ariel Motsenyat, Laurel J Trainor
Clinical screening tests for balance and mobility often fall short of predicting fall risk. Cognitive distractors and unpredictable external stimuli, common in busy natural environments, contribute to this risk, especially in older adults. Less is known about the effects of upper sensory-motor coordination, such as coordinating one's hand with an external stimulus. We combined movement sonification and affordable inertial motion sensors to develop a task for the precise measurement and manipulation of full-body interaction with stimuli in the environment...
March 21, 2024: Sensors
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38541803/multicomponent-exercise-intervention-for-preventing-falls-and-improving-physical-functioning-in-older-nursing-home-residents-a-single-blinded-pilot-randomised-controlled-trial
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Munseef Sadaqa, Wesam A Debes, Zsanett Németh, Zsófia Bera-Baka, Marianna Vachtler-Szepesi, Loretta Nácziné Földes, Viktória Prémusz, Márta Hock
Background: Older nursing home residents are at a greater risk of falling due to frailty. Exercise is effective at hampering frailty and related adverse events, including falls. Objectives: Our purpose was to evaluate the effect of a 12-week moderate-intensity multicomponent exercise programme on the number of falls and physical functioning among older nursing home residents. Also, we examined the association between the number of falls and demographics as well as physical and cognitive baseline data. Methods: The study protocol was registered on clinicaltrials...
March 10, 2024: Journal of Clinical Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38541318/low-physical-performance-could-be-associated-with-adverse-health-outcomes-over-time-results-from-a-cohort-of-older-adults
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Darlise Rodrigues Dos Passos Gomes, Leonardo Pozza Santos, Edgar Ramos Vieira, Andréa Dâmaso Bertoldi, Elaine Tomasi, Flávio Fernando Demarco, Maria Cristina Gonzalez, Simone Farias-Antunez, Renata Moraes Bielemann
A few studies on physical performance (PP) decline among community-dwelling older adults have simultaneously evaluated various outcomes in Brazil. This longitudinal cohort study aimed to verify the association between PP and health outcomes (negative health self-perception-NHSP; consultations with health professionals; disability; falls; and hospitalization) in older Brazilians (N = 476, 68 ± 6.7 years). PP assessments included Gait Speed (GS) and Timed Up and Go (TUG) tests, and changes were evaluated over time (2014 to 2019-2020)...
March 9, 2024: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38541248/nursing-interventions-to-empower-family-caregivers-to-manage-the-risk-of-falling-in-older-adults-a-scoping-review
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REVIEW
Ana Silva Almeida, Ana Paguia, Ana Paula Neves
Falls pose a significant risk to older adults, resulting in injuries and declining quality of life. The psychological impact, particularly the fear of falling, impairs their well-being. This pervasive fear affects daily activities, leading to self-imposed limitations and reduced engagement. This review aimed to identify nursing interventions to empower family caregivers to manage the risk of falling in older adults. A scoping review was developed following the JBI framework. We searched the CINAHL, MEDLINE, Nursing & Allied Health Collection, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, MedicLatina, and Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews...
February 21, 2024: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38541137/using-an-arabic-version-of-the-life-space-assessment-to-evaluate-how-gait-speed-and-gender-predict-mobility-restrictions-among-older-adults
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Alia A Alghwiri, Faten S Obeidat, Joud Al-Jaghbeer, Reham A Abuatiq, Susan L Whitney
Background and Objectives : The Life-Space Assessment (LSA) serves as an assessment tool for evaluating mobility and participation in older adults. To date, no studies have investigated the validity and reliability of the LSA within Arabic-speaking communities. The purpose of this study was to examine the reliability and validity of an Arabic version of the LSA and to investigate the potential predictors of mobility restrictions in older Arabic-speaking adults. Materials and Methods : This study involved a cohort of 75 Arabic-speaking older adults (with a mean age of 67...
February 28, 2024: Medicina
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38539089/validation-of-a-fall-rate-prediction-model-for-community-dwelling-older-adults-a-combined-analysis-of-three-cohorts-with-1850-participants
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Christina Wapp, Anne-Gabrielle Mittaz Hager, Toni Rikkonen, Roger Hilfiker, Emmanuel Biver, Serge Ferrari, Heikki Kröger, Marcel Zwahlen, Philippe Zysset
BACKGROUND: Fragility fractures in older adults are often caused by fall events. The estimation of an expected fall rate might improve the identification of individuals at risk of fragility fractures and improve fracture prediction. METHODS: A combined analysis of three previously developed fall rate models using individual participant data (n = 1850) was conducted using the methodology of a two-stage meta-analysis to derive an overall model. These previously developed models included the fall history as a predictor recorded as the number of experienced falls within 12 months, treated as a factor variable with the levels 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 and ≥ 5 falls...
March 27, 2024: BMC Geriatrics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38536680/lower-limb-exoskeletons-appeal-to-both-clinicians-and-older-adults-especially-for-fall-prevention-and-joint-pain-reduction
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Michael Raitor, Sandra Ruggles, Scott L Delp, C Karen Liu, Steven H Collins
Exoskeletons are a burgeoning technology with many possible applications to improve human life; focusing the effort of exoskeleton research and development on the most important features is essential for facilitating adoption and maximizing positive societal impact. To identify important focus areas for exoskeleton research and development, we conducted a survey with 154 potential users (older adults) and another survey with 152 clinicians. The surveys were conducted online and to ensure a consistent concept of an exoskeleton across respondents, an image of a hip exoskeleton was shown during exoskeleton-related prompts...
March 27, 2024: IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38536167/risk-assessment-and-prevention-of-falls-in-older-community-dwelling-adults-a-review
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Cathleen S Colón-Emeric, Cara L McDermott, Deborah S Lee, Sarah D Berry
IMPORTANCE: Falls are reported by more than 14 million US adults aged 65 years or older annually and can result in substantial morbidity, mortality, and health care expenditures. OBSERVATIONS: Falls result from age-related physiologic changes compounded by multiple intrinsic and extrinsic risk factors. Major modifiable risk factors among community-dwelling older adults include gait and balance disorders, orthostatic hypotension, sensory impairment, medications, and environmental hazards...
March 27, 2024: JAMA
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38536162/falls-prevention-for-older-adults
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Peggy B Leung, Jason T Alexander, Karin E Ouchida
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
March 27, 2024: JAMA
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38535412/comparing-the-effects-of-multicomponent-and-concurrent-exercise-protocols-on-muscle-strength-in-older-adults
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Filipe Rodrigues, Miguel Jacinto, Raul Antunes, Diogo Monteiro, Diogo Mendes, Rui Matos, Nuno Amaro
This study aimed to compare the effects of a multicomponent exercise program and a concurrent exercise program on muscle strength in community-dwelling elderly subjects. Participants ( n = 35; male = 17; female = 18; Mage = 69.17, SD = 5.01 years) were screened and included in the study. Among them, 19 individuals were assigned to the multicomponent group, while 16 were assigned to the concurrent group. The results of the repeated-measures ANOVA revealed significant main effects for the group factor (F(1,15) = 66...
December 20, 2023: Journal of Functional Morphology and Kinesiology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38534978/association-between-dietary-practice-and-gait-speed-in-community-dwelling-older-adults-with-overweight-and-obesity-a-cross-sectional-study
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Leila Itani, Massimo Pellegrini, Dana Saadeddine, Hanen Samouda, Dima Kreidieh, Hana Tannir, Marwan El Ghoch
Slow gait speed is associated with poorer clinical outcomes and higher rates of functional limitation and mortality in older adults, especially when combined with overweight or obesity. Aging is also associated with nutritional deficits. The aim of our study was to assess the potential association between dietary practice and gait speed performance in community-dwelling older adults with overweight and obesity. Participants underwent body composition measurement with the Tanita MC-780MA Bioimpedance Analyzer (BIA)...
March 8, 2024: Diseases (Basel)
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38533419/integrating-fall-prevention-strategies-into-ems-services-to-reduce-falls-and-associated-healthcare-costs-for-older-adults
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Kathlene Camp, Sara Murphy, Brandon Pate
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study is to detail the implementation of fall prevention initiatives through emergency medical services (EMS) and associated outcomes. METHODS: Paramedics with MedStar Mobile Healthcare utilized the Stopping Elderly Accidents, Deaths, and Injuries (STEADI) fall prevention model to screen and direct intervention through 9-1-1 emergency response, High Utilization Group (HUG), and 30-day Hospital Readmission Avoidance (HRA) programs. Outcomes from 9-1-1 calls measured the number of older adults screened for falls and identified risk factors...
2024: Clinical Interventions in Aging
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38532263/diagnostic-and-prognostic-value-of-cardiac-troponins-in-emergency-department-patients-presenting-after-a-fall-a-prospective-multicenter-study
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Tanguy Espejo, Lukas Terhalle, Alexandra Malinovska, Henk B Riedel, Laura Arntz, Livia Hafner, Karen Delport-Lehnen, Joanna Zuppinger, Nicolas Geigy, Jörg Leuppi, Rajan Somasundaram, Roland Bingisser, Christian H Nickel
BACKGROUND: Emergency department (ED) presentations after a ground-level fall (GLF) are common. Falls were suggested to be another possible presenting feature of a myocardial infarction (MI), as unrecognized MIs are common in older adults. Elevated high-sensitivity cardiac troponin (hs-cTn) concentrations could help determine the etiology of a GLF in ED. We investigated the prevalence of both MI and elevated high-sensitivity cardiac troponin T (hs-cTnT) and I (hs-cTnI), as well as the diagnostic accuracy of hs-cTnT and hs-cTnI regarding MI, and their prognostic value in older ED patients presenting after a GLF...
March 26, 2024: Academic Emergency Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38530379/reducing-falls-among-residents-of-retirement-homes-a-dnp-project
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Alanna Coleman
Falls among older adults (OAs) living in retirement homes (RHs) in Canada are a major public health concern due to high morbidity and mortality as well as significant healthcare expenditures. This quality improvement (QI) initiative, conducted for the author's Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) project, aimed to decrease fall rates and ED transfers related to falls among OAs in six RHs across the Greater Toronto Area in Ontario, Canada through a multipart intervention with two primary goals. First, the project aimed to facilitate RH NPs' implementation of a comprehensive fall risk assessment and fall prevention strategy in their practice by incorporating the Stopping Elderly Accidents, Deaths & Injuries (STEADI) toolkit into their armamentarium...
April 1, 2024: Nurse Practitioner
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38529017/tizanidine-advances-in-pharmacology-therapeutics-and-drug-formulations
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REVIEW
Ling-Ling Zhu, Yan-Hong Wang, Quan Zhou
BACKGROUND: Skeletal muscle relaxants (SMRs) are widely used in treating musculoskeletal conditions. All SMRs, with the exception of baclofen and tizanidine, are on the list of 2023 American Geriatrics Society Beers Criteria® for potentially inappropriate medication use in older adults. In our geriatric practice, off-label use of tizanidine as preemptive analgesia drove us to find recent advances in its pharmacology and therapeutics. An update review of tizanidine was thus presented, aiming to bring the latest knowledge to clinicians and promote further research and practical exploration...
2024: Journal of Pain Research
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38528015/the-characteristics-and-risk-factors-of-fatal-falls-among-adults-aged-60-and-above-in-southwest-china
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Rui Deng, Benyan Li, Mingfang Qin, Xinyi Yu, Junli Sun, Feng Jiao, Yuan Huang
Falls constitute a leading cause of unintentional injury deaths among older adults. This study aimed to examine the comprehensive characteristics of fatal falls among older individuals in Yunnan Province, China, to highlight the challenges faced in elderly care. A total of 22,798 accidental fall-related deaths were extracted from China's National Disease Surveillance Points System aged 60 and above between 2015 and 2019. Quantitative and textual data were analyzed to assess the incidence rates of initiating factors, locations, symptoms, and overall survival (OS) outcomes after falling...
March 25, 2024: Scientific Reports
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38527324/the-prevalence-of-incontinence-and-its-association-with-urinary-tract-infections-dermatitis-slips-and-falls-and-behavioral-disturbances-among-older-adults-in-medicare-fee-for-service
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Ian Duncan, Andrew Stocking, Karen Fitzner, Tamim Ahmed, Nhan Huynh
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to examine the prevalence of urinary (UI), fecal (FI), and dual incontinence (DI) in older adults and their association with urinary tract infections, dermatitis, slips and falls, and behavioral disturbances based on Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) claims data. DESIGN: Retrospective analysis. SUBJECTS AND SETTINGS: Data from administrative claims from the CMS Medicare Limited Data Set (5% sample) for all months in 2018 were reviewed...
March 2024: Journal of Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Nursing
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