The Oldest Old
Pharmacological treatment of osteoporosis in the oldest old
... In old age, osteoporosis is associated with a substantial burden in terms of morbidity and ...in old age continues to be underdiagnosed and ...the oldest old ($80 ...in old age, these ...
13
A Population-based study of dementia in the oldest old: the Monzino 80-plus Study
... of oldest old inves- tigated has usually been too small to accurately estimate the prevalence and incidence of dementia in this segment of the elderly ...of oldest old included was large ...
14
A bibliometric study of research pertaining to the oldest-old (age eighty-five and older)
... the oldest-old population is growing alongside increasing research on this ...the oldest-old (eighty-five+) may have very different interests and needs, including with regard to health, ...
8
What matters for life satisfaction among the oldest old? Evidence from China
... the oldest-old in China is particularly important for understanding the general role that factors such as age, sex, education, place of residence, relative income, physical and mental health, co-residence ...
16
Family structure and support for the oldest old: A cross-sectional study in Dujiangyan, China
... There is a paucity in the literature documenting the needs of nonagenarians and centenarians in terms of family sup- port. Most existing studies recruited participants in their 60s. Although those older people who are ...
10
Prediction models for dementia and neuropathology in the oldest old: the Vantaa 85+ cohort study
... While APOE was not related to cerebral macroinfarcts in general in the present study, the ε4 allele predicted cortical macroinfarcts, and the ε2 allele predicted white matter macroinfarcts. A meta-analysis of studies in ...
12
Much more medicine for the oldest old: trends in UK electronic clinical records.
... The oldest old make up a small proportion of the overall CPRD patient ...the oldest old (but weighted all analyses back to the UK popula- tion structure 2011 to obtain representative estimates ...
8
Polypharmacy in the oldest old (≥80 years of age) patients in China: a cross-sectional study
... participants’ advanced age, as the regression analysis results showed that medication knowledge declined with increasing age, which is supported by previous studies in different populations worldwide [40–42]. Previous ...
8
Resilience to cognitive impairment in the oldest-old: design of the EMIF-AD 90+ study
... the oldest-old Table 2 summarizes the findings on the protective fac- tors for cognitive impairment or dementia of the ten ...the oldest-old and one study indicated that high cognitive ...
16
Dementia in the oldest old: a multi-factorial and growing public health issue
... Based on these eight large epidemiological studies, dementia prevalence ranges from 18 to 38% among those aged 85 and older, and from 28 to 44% among those aged 90 and older (Table 2). Th e Eurodem collaboration provided ...
11
Inappropriate prescribing to the oldest old patients admitted to hospital: prevalence, most frequently used medicines, and associated factors
... Appropriate prescribing of medicines in the elderly and especially in the very elderly is a major clinical and eco- nomic issue. The group of the oldest old people (85 years and over) is increasing and will ...
9
Association between traditional cardiovascular risk factors and mortality in the oldest old: untangling the role of frailty
... the oldest age groups (aged 80 years and older), the predictive value of classical cardiovascular risk factors, such as hypertension or hypercholesterol- aemia, is lost or even inverted [6, ...the oldest ...
8
Clinically diagnosed infections predict disability in activities of daily living among the oldest-old in the general population: the Leiden 85-plus Study.
... The present study is based on a unique sample of parti- cipants aged ≥86 years. The population-based study struc- ture and almost complete follow-up of the participants allow us to generalise our results to the ...
7
Associations between cognitive abilities and life satisfaction in the oldest-old. Results from the longitudinal population study Good Aging in Skåne
... Previous studies have either included selective healthy study samples or they have not taken potential confounders into account. The null hypothesis for this study was that cognitive abilities in the ...
9
Self-awareness of heart failure in the oldest old–an observational study of participants, ≥ 80 years old, with an objectively verified heart failure
... the oldest old with ...the oldest old with HF, an elderly cohort known with high morbidity and mortal- ity ...those oldest old who are very old or very morbid at HF ...
8
Unmet needs in long-term care and their associated factors among the oldest old in China
... While previous studies have examined the factors de- scribed by Andersen’ s model as well as other factors, some limitations exist. First, with a few exceptions [1,15], most previous studies were conducted in Western ...
11
Advance directives and power of attorney for health care in the oldest-old – results of the AgeQualiDe study
... in oldest-old individuals, our study adds significantly to the currently available ...in oldest-old age in ...in oldest-old age simply trust their relatives/physicians in making ...
12
Patterns and predictors of place of cancer death for the oldest old
... 'younger old' (aged 75–79 years) and the 'oldest' old (the over 100's) in place of ...'younger old' to 56.3% of the 'oldest old' (Figure ...'younger old', hospital was the ...
8
The oldest old and the risk of social exclusion
... the Oldest Old, there is a greater risk of being excluded from social contact as measured by the indicator used here, even when living alone, car use, location and health are taken into ...
33
Alcohol use and health outcomes in the oldest old
... The aging of the US population calls for more research on the prevalence, risk factors and consequences of alcohol use in late-life. In contrast to the vast literature on alcohol use and abuse in younger age groups, ...
8