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Erkihun Amsalu, Ying Zhang, Christopher Harrison, Tan Van Nguyen and Tu Ngoc Nguyen
Advances in cardiovascular therapies and cancer treatments have resulted in longer patient survival. The coexistence of cancer and cardiovascular disease has been recognized as a complex clinical scenario. In addition to cardiovascular disease, older peo...
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Silvia Giovannini, Fabrizio Brau, Vincenzo Galluzzo, Domenico Alessandro Santagada, Claudia Loreti, Lorenzo Biscotti, Alice Laudisio, Giuseppe Zuccalà and Roberto Bernabei
A fall is an event where a person unintentionally and traumatically finds themselves on the floor or a lower level. Falls are very common, especially in the older adult population. One in four people falls at least once a year after age 65. Because of fa...
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Andrius Apsega, Liudvikas Petrauskas, Vidmantas Alekna, Kristina Daunoraviciene, Viktorija Sevcenko, Asta Mastaviciute, Dovydas Vitkus, Marija Tamulaitiene and Julius Griskevicius
Background and objectives: One of the greatest challenges facing the healthcare of the aging population is frailty. There is growing scientific evidence that gait assessment using wearable sensors could be used for prefrailty and frailty screening. The p...
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Adrián Romero-Garcés, Jesús Martínez-Cruz, Juan F. Inglés-Romero, Cristina Vicente-Chicote, Rebeca Marfil and Antonio Bandera
Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) is an integrated clinical process to evaluate frail elderly people in order to create therapy plans that improve their quality and quantity of life. The whole process includes the completion of standardized questi...
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Yukie Hayashi, Steven M. Schmidt, Agneta Malmgren Fänge, Tanji Hoshi and Toshiharu Ikaga
The aim of this paper was to explore the effect of seasonal temperature differences and cold indoor environment in winter on the physical performance of older people living in the community based on a field study. We recruited 162 home-dwelling older peo...
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Minoru Yamada and Hidenori Arai
Preventing frailty and its adverse health outcomes is crucial in countries with a large elderly population, such as Japan. Since the long-term care insurance (LTCI) system was launched, the number of certified older adults with LTCI service requirement h...
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Li-Fan Liu
A good understanding of the health heterogeneity of elderly people, their characteristics, patterns of health care utilization and subsequent expenditures is necessary to adequately evaluate the policy options and interventions aimed at improving quality...
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