Effectiveness of Ultra-Micronized Palmitoylethanolamide /Luteolin (PEALut) in Reducing Postoperative Delirium in Elderly Patients with Hip Fracture

Postoperative Delirium (POD), a common complication in elderly patients after surgery for hip fracture, is associated with negative outcomes including functional decline, mortality, prolonged in-hospital stay and institutionalization. The literature highlights the relation between neuroinflammation and delirium. The co-ultramicronized association of Palmitoylethanolamide and Luteolin (PEALut) is known to reduce th...

A Pilot Feasibility Study on the Effect of Dance on Patients with Dementia

Dementia is a common neurocognitive disorder, leading to dependence, reduced quality of life and functional decline. There are some symptomatic drug treatments, but there is no cure for the disease. Some non-pharmacological treatments such as music therapy, social activities and exercise are known to affect brain plasticity. In this way, non-drug therapy probably influences the quality of life and functioning of p...

Impact of Heart Rate Variability on the Risk of Neurocognitive Disorders in Older People

Introduction: Major Neurocognitive Disorders (NCD) are a major burden to society. The mechanisms involved in their development are not well understood. There is emerging evidence that variability in certain physiological parameters, may play a role in the development of NCD. In this study we focused on Atrial Fibrillation (AF), using the number of arrhythmia episodes per day as a marker of variability. The objecti...

Region-Dependent Dynamics of Visceral Lymph Nodes Aging

Aging alters the structure and function of many organs, including peripheral lymphoid organs. The operability of lymph nodes is determined by the unity of three functional systems: lymphoid tissue (compartments), water saturation and trace element balance. The change in each system is reflected in the morphofunctional status of the lymph node. These changes are region-dependent. Lymph nodes are indicators of age d...

Frailty and Life Expectancy Assessments are Essential in Older Adults but Remain Challenging

With more focus on the degree of frailty and life expectancy, in addition to patient characteristics, care could be more tailored, taking into account individual wishes and needs. A valid way of measuring frailty and life expectancy, however, is essential to providing equal treatment and objective judgment. In this short review, the authors aim to provide an insight into the challenges of assessing frailty and lif...

To Move or not to Move: The Housing Dilemmas Faced by Chinese Baby Boomer Migrants in Brisbane, Australia

This paper analyses the key dilemmas Australian Chinese Baby Boomer Migrants (ACBBMs) face as their housing needs change, to enable service providers to develop strategies to support their needs. Housing has strong implications for health and quality-of-life. Current policies pay little attention to the upcoming baby boomers’ changing housing needs. This is especially pronounced for ACBBMs, who not only experience...

Family-Centred Approach in Elderly Care

Individual, family and community health care cannot be separated. Family, as a social support network, increases its importance with the aging of its older members. Further, with aging the family problems become more complex. Thus, family care in the elderly has differential nuances that partly overlap: 1. Family life cycle (genogram is the instrument for the study and approach of the family); 2. Characterization...

Nutritional Education as the Road Map towards a Healthy Aging Society

Aging may be linked to the onset of diseases, thus more emphasis should be put on our well being as we age. Staying youthful and healthy as we age relies on changes in our way of life, which includes; indulging in physical activities, emotional wellbeing and more importantly nutrition. A healthy eating regimen has to do with the preparation of food and storage that preserves the nutrients. A decent diet ought to c...

Implications of Race and Ethnicity in Sarcopenia US National Prevalence of Sarcopenia by Muscle Mass, Strength, and Function Indices

Sarcopenia prevalence varies widely by definitions and populations, which led to the creation of new criteria by the Sarcopenia Definitions and Outcomes Consortium. Yet, the degree to which sarcopenia prevalence varies according to these criteria across race and ethnic groups in the U.S. population needs further investigation. We estimated the US national prevalence of sarcopenia using different indices among adul...

Voices of Ill Frail Older People: Personal Resources and Experiences of Health Care Services

Background: For many older people, ageing may become associated with frailty. Frequently reduced physical functioning and health are common in frailty; however, this is only one part of the big picture that may affect a frail older person’s well being. To understand a frail older person’s unique capability, the study aimed to identifying their personal resources’ to comprehend how they experienced receiving health...

Frail Older Adults

A geriatric patient is defined as a patient over 60 years of age, with one or more underlying chronic and evolved diseases, is the elderly adult in whom the balance between their needs and the capacity of the environment to satisfy them has been broken, with a high risk of dependency and with physical and cognitive disabilities [1 3]. Geriatrics is the branch that deals with the way medicine ages and diseases of t...

Use of Masks as a Preventative Public Health Strategy to Limit the Spread of COVID-19

SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus (COVID-19) is a respiratory infectious disease that has caused a global pandemic of unprecedented proportions. There has been a lot of discussion and debate in social media, and by public health experts about the effectiveness of masks as a preventative strategy to decrease transmission of this virus. There are two modes in which mask may be beneficial: (i) To serve as a physical barrier aga...

Perceptions of Aging Well Study: Exploring How HIV-Positive and HIV-Negative Older Adults Successfully Age

Although persons with HIV are living longer with treatment, they also prematurely experience chronic conditions associated with aging. HIV disproportionately affects older non-Hispanic Blacks, and will likely continue to affect Blacks in projected demographics. This study investigates how Blacks in a large, urban area living with HIV view aging as compared to counterparts without HIV. Through in-depth interviews a...

Frailty, from Humans to Mouse Models

The frailty corresponds to a syndrome of well-defined biological and clinical characteristics within its physical phenotype, is multidimensional, dynamic and non linear. It has a high prevalence in the elderly population and increases after 65 years of age. The syndrome of frailty can be considered as a state of predis-capacity or risk of developing a disability and dependence from a situation of incipient functio...

Adult Social Care Related Quality of Life

Japan faces unprecedented rapid growth of an ageing population and it is the most prominent in developed countries. In this trend, provision of social care services was introduced in 2000 to prevent the deterioration of health and to maintain independent living in the community under the Long-Term Care (LTC) policy. LTC services aim to sustain and/or improve the Quality of Life (QoL) among service users. QoL is mu...

Comparative Clinical Evaluation of Elder Abuse Impact Upon Prosthesis Maintenance In Geriatric Patients

Objective: To assess the prevalence of complete edentulous patients suffering from elder abuse and analyze the relative impact of elder abuse upon complete denture prosthesis maintenance. Methods: The study was conducted in the postgraduate section of the department of prosthodontics at Subharti University. Sixty four elderly subjects, living with financially independent children were randomly selected and distrib...

Classifying Elder Abuse – A Review

Existing geriatric sciences, particularly psychology, should foresee the future geriatric problems among which Elder Abuse (EA) will be challenging since geriatric patient practice is bound to increase drastically in coming decades. Currently one of the initial steps that demand to be initiated is to set a framework about which scientific refinements will be taken according to future research. The aim of this exha...

Sociodemographic and Clinical Profile of Older Adults with Cardiovascular Diseases According to the Conditions of Frailty

Objectives: To verify the occurrence of frailty among community-dwelling older adults with CVD; describe the socio-demographic and clinical characteristics, according to the frailty conditions and identify the factors associated with the frailty syndrome. Methods: Cross-sectional, quantitative study with 481 elderly with CVD. The analyses performed were: descriptive, bivariate and multiple logistic regressions (p

The Influence of Individual Characteristics and Early Life Factors on Medicare Spending

High costs in health care of United States make it difficult for individuals to afford their care and for government and businesses to subsidize through insurance and government programs especially Medicare. This paper explores whether personal characteristics and events in childhood affect health care costs later in life. We link a unique national survey dataset on nearly 400,000 American high school students in...

Age-Related Changes of Elements in Human Posterior Intercostal Arteries and Their Observation by Scanning Electron Microscopy

To elucidate changes of the posterior intercostal artery (PIA) with aging, the authors investigated age-related changes of elements in the PIAs by direct chemical analysis and endothelial changes by scanning electron microscopy. Used subjects consisted of 24 men and 6 women who ranged in age from 41 to 89 years (mean age, 70.6±11.8 years). The left fifth PIA was dissected out and the proximal site was used for ele...

Rhabdomiolysisin the Elderly

Rhabdomyolysis is a common clinical syndrome characterized by triad of symptoms that include muscle pain, weakness and dark urine. More than 50% of the patients do not complain of muscle pain or weakness and the classic triad is seen in10 times the normal value. The objective in management is to prevent or treat AKI and complications rhabdomyolysis-related in adult and in the elderly patients.

Dilinoleoylphosphatidylethanolamine May Restrain the Progress of MCI into Alzheimer’s Disease

Phosphatidylethanolamine, a component of the plasma membrane, regulates diverse cellular processes. The present review shows the beneficial effect of 1, 2-dilinoleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphoethanolamine (DLPE), a phospholipid, on mild cognitive impairment (MCI), a preliminary group of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Neuronal death (apoptosis) causes brain atrophy and cognitive disorders such as AD and senile dementia. DLPE...

Delirium, Dementia and "... I knew there was but One Way" Delirium Superimposed on Dementia: a Conceptual Approach

Delirium as a severe, acute neuropsychiatric syndrome is common in older persons. The high prevalence of Delirium Superimposed on Dementia (DSD) can be explained by the fact that increasing age, cognitive impairment and dementia are all important risk factors for delirium. Failure of existing tools and current diagnostic criteria to reliably detect DSD emphasize the need for specific diagnostic criteria that accou...

Medication Administration Issues in Residential Aged Care – Four Cases

Multiple morbidities with concomitant use of multiple medications are common in the elderly and the challenges of polypharmacy are recognized. An audit was undertaken over a 4 week period to identify any administration issues related to medications taken by residents at two aged care facilities. Polypharmacy was common amongst the 232 residents. The majority of residents were female (approximately 75%), with a mea...