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Background: in 2010, the European Working Group on Sarcopenia in Older People (EWGSOP) published a sarcopenia definition that aimed to foster advances in identifying and caring for people with sarcopenia. In early 2018, ...

A 36-item short-form (SF-36) was constructed to survey health status in the Medical Outcomes Study. The SF-36 was designed for use in clinical practice and research, health policy evaluations, and general population surv...

OBJECTIVES: To develop a 10-minute cognitive screening tool (Montreal Cognitive Assessment, MoCA) to assist first-line physicians in detection of mild cognitive impairment (MCI), a clinical state that often progresses to...

Importance: Approximately 80% of US adults and adolescents are insufficiently active. Physical activity fosters normal growth and development and can make people feel, function, and sleep better and reduce risk of many c...

This study evaluated a modified, timed version of the "Get-Up and Go" Test (Mathias et al, 1986) in 60 patients referred to a Geriatric Day Hospital (mean age 79.5 years). The patient is observed and timed while he rises...

The National Institute on Aging and the Alzheimer's Association charged a workgroup with the task of revising the 1984 criteria for Alzheimer's disease (AD) dementia. The workgroup sought to ensure that the revised crite...

Materias / palabras clave: National Cholesterol Education Program; Medicine; Blood cholesterol; Cholesterol; Gerontology; Internal medicine; Metabolic syndrome; Obesity

Cathie Sudlow and colleagues describe the UK Biobank, a large population-based prospective study, established to allow investigation of the genetic and non-genetic determinants of the diseases of middle and old age.

Objectives To describe new WHO 2020 guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour. Methods The guidelines were developed in accordance with WHO protocols. An expert Guideline Development Group reviewed evidence...

BACKGROUND: About a third of home-dwelling older people fall each year, and institutionalized older people even report a two- or threefold higher rate for falling. Automatic fall detection systems have been developed to ...

Materias / palabras clave: ageing, longevity, lifespan, apoptosis, gerontology; Medicine: Internal medicine: Special situations and conditions: Geriatrics

Materias / palabras clave: ageing medicine, geriatrics, gerontology, chronic diseases; Medicine: Internal medicine: Special situations and conditions: Geriatrics

Materias / palabras clave: aging, population health, nursing, gerontology, geriatrics, social policy; Medicine: Internal medicine: Special situations and conditions: Geriatrics

Materias / palabras clave: ageing, immunology, gerontology, geriatrics; Medicine: Internal medicine: Specialties of internal medicine: Immunologic diseases. Allergy; Medicine: Internal medicine: Special situations and conditions: Geriatrics

Materias / palabras clave: psychogeriatrics, geriatrics, psychiatry, gerontology, psychology, mental health; Medicine: Internal medicine: Special situations and conditions: Geriatrics; Medicine: Internal medicine: Neurosciences. Biological psychia...

Materias / palabras clave: geriatrics, gerontology, elderly patients, elderly care, ageing; Medicine: Internal medicine: Special situations and conditions: Geriatrics

Materias / palabras clave: physical frailty, aging, age-related body composition modifications, geriatrics and gerontology, physiology, gerosciences; Medicine: Internal medicine: Special situations and conditions: Geriatrics; Medicine: Public aspe...

Materias / palabras clave: nutrition, geriatrics and gerontology, aging, internal medicine, healthy longevity, mental health; Medicine: Internal medicine

Materias / palabras clave: longevity, ageing, healthspan, gerontology, geriatrics; Medicine: Internal medicine: Special situations and conditions: Geriatrics

Materias / palabras clave: aging, age-associated disease, aging medicine, gerontology; Medicine: Internal medicine: Special situations and conditions: Geriatrics