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Physically confident older adults are not afraid to fall, but only if they have positive images of older people: a cross-sectional study in Japan
Yuho Shimizu, Kenichiro Sato, Susumu Ogawa, Daisuke Cho, Yoshifumi Takahashi, Daichi Yamashiro, Yan Li, Tomoya Takahashi, Keigo Hinakura, Ai Iizuka, Tomoki Furuya, Hiroyuki Suzuki

A continuity care program in chronic, complex and frail patients: the PRO-CCF study protocol
Sarah Damanti, Giuseppe Alvise Ramirez, Enrica Paola Bozzolo, Carla Desa Pedroso, Gaia Deonette, Gianmaria Brambilla, Barbara Rizzi, Giada Lonati, Moreno Tresoldi

Exploring age-related changes in acoustic voice analysis parameters: insights from a study on older people
Giada Cavallaro, Maria Luisa Fiorella, Francesco Barbara, Nicola Quaranta, Vincenzo Di Nicola

Influence of family and social detachment on city-dwelling elderly demographic’s risk factors for malnutrition in South Korea. Social detachment and elderly’ malnutrition
Jeoung-Gyu Lee, Woo-Kyung Chung, Ae-Son Om

Relationship between grip strength and minimal clinically important differences in cognitive function in older adults with dementia in a long-term residential facility
Shigeya Tanaka, Tetsuya Yamagami

Laying the Foundation for Developing an Item Bank Measuring Presby-function Based on the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health
Liang Zhou, Chun Feng, Li-Juan Zhong, Jing Gao, Na Liu, Feng Lin, Zhong-Li Jiang

Evaluation of exercise capacity by means of cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) in older adult cancer patients undergoing antineoplastic treatments
Antonio Carannante, Umberto Attanasio, Alessandra Cuomo, Paolo Parrella, Giacomo Campi, Martina Iengo, Francesco Fiore, Lidia Cicia, Ester Topa, Remo Poto, Giancarlo Marone, Luigi Formisano, Roberto Bianco, Chiara Carlomagno, Marco Picardi, Carminia Maria Della Corte, Morena Fasano, Erika Martinelli, Stefania Napolitano, Teresa Troiani, Nicola Ferrara, Pasquale Abete, Valentina Mercurio, Carlo Gabriele Tocchetti

Research, clinical and theoretical training among geriatric medicine residents in Italy: a nationwide survey
Luca Soraci, Stefano Cacciatore, Enrico Brunetti, Davide Montini, Chukwuma Okoye, Caterina Trevisan, Panaiotis Finamore, Ilaria Parrotta, Leonardo Bencivenga, Matteo Candeloro, Diana Lelli, the YES group

Association between potentially inappropriate prescribing, polypharmacy, and functional/cognitive impairment among Egyptian geriatric patients
Khalid Elsayed Elsorady, Mohamed Abd El-Mohsen

The effect of leap motion controller based exergame therapy on hand function, cognitive function and quality of life in older adults. A randomised trial
Simay Akdemir, Devrim Tarakci, Miray Budak, Farzin Hajebrahimi

Posturographic study in older patients with instability associated with benign paroxysmal positional vertigo: a prospective analysis
Paula Peña Navarro, Sofía Pacheco López, Susana Marcos Alonso, Cristina Nicole Almeida Ayerve, Ana Belén Alonso San Eloy, Juan Carlos Del Pozo De Dios , Hortensia Sánchez Gómez, Santiago Santa Cruz Ruiz, Ángel Batuecas Caletrío

The impact of falls on the need for hospital care in older people: results from the Pro.V.A. study
Caterina Trevisan, Anna-Karin Welmer, Chiara Curreri, Marianna Noale, Stefania Maggi, Giuseppe Sergi

Clinical features and mortality predictors of older hospitalized patients with severe COVID-19 in Lima, Peru
Teodoro J. Oscanoa Espinoza, José Amado-Tineo, Ricardo Ayala-García, Roxana Mamani-Quiroz, Javier Matta-Pérez, Ángel Ardiles-Melgarejo, Carlos Marcos-Hernández, Waldo Taype-Huamaní, Jefferson Rojas-Guimaray, Sthephany Matos-Santiváñez, Loyda Miranda-Chávez, Ana Deza-Sime, Moisés Apolaya-Segura, Roman Romero-Ortuno

A randomized controlled trial on impact of group exercise programme on fall risk, balance, strength, fear of fall and quality of life of older adults
Nupoor Kulkarni, Elias Tsepis, Vaishali Phalke, Swanand Tilekar, Kalliopi Pouliasi, Marina Theodoritsi, Aashirwad Mahajan

Utility of lung ultrasound in selecting older patients with hyperinflammatory phase in COVID-19 pneumonia. A monocentric, cross-sectional pilot study
Riccardo Franchi, Chukwuma Okoye, Virginia Morelli, Daniela Guarino, Tessa Mazzarone, Giulia Coppini, Umberto Peta, Sara Rogani, Alessandra Fabbri, Antonio Polini, Fabio Monzani

Personal barriers to physical practice by older adults in different socio-economic locations: a qualitative study
Ricardo Martín-Moya, Pedro Jesús Ruiz-Montero, Enrique Rivera-García

The “Personhood in Dementia Questionnaire”: Italian translation and validation for the assessment of the level of personality attributed to people with senile dementia by health care personnel
Elsa Vitale, Roberto Lupo, Marta Visconti, Melissa Babini, Maicol Carvello, Luana Conte, Ivan Rubbi

Potentially Inappropriate Prescriptions and Hospital Outcome among Geriatric Patients
Khalid E. Elsorady, Lamiaa M. Matter , Dina S. Abdelrahim

Resilience among older adults living at home: urban-rural difference in a population-based study
Árún K. Sigurðardóttir, Jon A. Steingrimsson , Gísli K. Kristófersson, Elin D. Gunnarsdóttir

Food intake and prevalence of malnutrition in nursing homes. A multicenter observational study
Anna Castaldo, Ermellina Silvia Zanetti , Alessandro Nobili, Giuseppe Marano, Michele Zani, Miriam Magri, Annamaria Antonia Verardi, Aladar Ianes, Giuseppe Ardoino, Maria Chiara Gugiari, Maura Lusignani, Loris Bonetti

Presbyphagia: the importance of an early diagnosis in the aging population
Giada Cavallaro, Marco Pontrelli, Monia Sammali, Emer Nelson, Nicola Quaranta, Maria Luisa Fiorella

Feasibility and safety of peripherally inserted central catheters in hospitalized elderly patients
Sang Hee Kim, Su Hong Kim

Oral health status among the geriatric population - A cross sectional study
Denny E. Ceena, Karkera Navya, Sangeeta U. Nayak, Ramya Shenoy, Almas Binnal, Thattil Sebastian Bastian

Preoperative detection of serum phosphorylated neurofilament heavy chain subunit predicts postoperative delirium: a prospective observational study
Kazuhito Mietani, Maiko Hasegawa-Moriyama, Kouichi Yagi , Reo Inoue, Toru Ogata, Makoto Kurano, Nobutake Shimojo, Yasuyuki Seto, Masahiko Sumitani, Kanji Uchida

Role of PDW and MPV in stratification of heart failure severity in older adults
Diana Lelli, Veronica Adiletta, Gaetano Maddalena, Ilaria Bisconti, Raffaele Antonelli Incalzi, Claudio Pedone

Depressive symptoms and cognitive/ functional status in a sample of elderly subjects referring to a memory clinic
Lisa Marabini, Chiara Pazzaglini, Stefania Bonazzi, Patrizia Guasti, Gianluca Guerra, Amedeo Zurlo, Giovanni Zuliani, Gloria Brombo

Examining the Area Agencies on Aging nutrition program in response to the COVID-19
Fang Fang

Pain management, activities of daily living and the assessment of the WHOQOL-OLD module: results of a cross-sectional analysis of a cohort of older men with oncological diagnoses
Diego Chambergo-Michilot, Rodrigo Corcuera-Ciudad, Fernando M. Runzer-Colmenares, Ana Patricia Navarrete-Reyes, José F. Parodi

Verification of the causes of and countermeasures for falls using fall assessment score sheets in a municipal hospital
Mana Shibata, Akihiro Isoda, Tomoko Ogasawara, Kaneko Satio, Yutaka Inoue

The personhood in patients with dementia assessed in Italian healthcare professionals: an explorative study
Maicol Carvello, Elsa Vitale, Melissa Babini, Luana Conte, Roberto Lupo, Ivan Rubbi
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