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Mashup Score: 22023 Spring Meeting | British Geriatrics Society - 1 year(s) ago
The 2023 BGS Spring Meeting will be a hybrid meeting. Flexible attendance options include, attending in person in Edinburgh or attending virtually. Register today to book your place!Programme Topics The three-day, interactive 2023 BGS Spring Meeting Programme focuses on the importance of cross specialty multidisciplinary teams working together to improve healthcare for older people. It covers…
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Mashup Score: 3
Abstract. There is an increasing proportion of the general population surviving to old age with significant chronic disease, multi-morbidity, and disability. Th
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Mashup Score: 2Professor Jugdeep Dhesi awarded prestigious William Farr Medal by the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries | British Geriatrics Society - 1 year(s) ago
Professor Jugdeep Dhesi, President Elect of the British Geriatrics Society and Deputy Director for the Centre for Perioperative Care, has been awarded the prestigious William Farr Medal 2022 by the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries. Professor Dhesi will be presented with her medal at the Galen & Farr Awards Ceremony and Dinner on Wednesday 24 May.
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Mashup Score: 0Guideline for the care of people living with frailty undergoing elective and emergency surgery | British Geriatrics Society - 1 year(s) ago
The Centre for Perioperative Care, working in collaboration with the British Geriatrics Society, has published guidance for the care of people living with frailty undergoing elective and emergency surgery that encompasses the whole perioperative pathway.
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ICU COVID-19 survivors showed improvement in disability, frailty and cognitive impairment 1 year after discharge, according to study results published in Annals of the American Thoracic Society.However, some survivors did not struggle with these burdens prior to their infection, according to researchers.
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Mashup Score: 0Steps in the right direction for physical frailty research - 1 year(s) ago
In this issue of The Lancet Digital Health, Rongtao Jiang and colleagues1 present a broad and well powered observational study of the correlates of physical frailty among nearly half a million middle-aged and older adults in the UK Biobank. Using a modification of the Fried frailty phenotype2 (based on weakness, walking speed, inactivity, exhaustion, and weight loss), the strongest correlates of…
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Physical frailty is associated with diverse unfavourable health-related outcomes, which can be mediated by differences in brain structure. Our findings offer a framework for guiding preventative strategies targeting both frailty and psychiatric disorders.
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Mashup Score: 11Wolters Kluwer Health - 1 year(s) ago
JavaScript Error JavaScript has been disabled on your browser. You must enable it to continue. Here’s how to enable JavaScript in the following browsers: Internet Explorer From the Tools menu, select Options Click the Content tab Select Enable JavaScript Firefox From the Tools…
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Mashup Score: 1The concurrent impact of mild cognitive impairment and frailty syndrome in heart failure - 1 year(s) ago
Pathological processes associated with ageing increase the risk of cognitive deficits and dementia. Frailty syndrome, also known as weakness or reserve depletion syndrome, may significantly accelerate these pathological processes in the elderly population. Frailty syndrome is characterized by…
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Mashup Score: 0Change in Frailty Status Among Older Patients Undergoing Locoregional Therapy for Early-Stage Breast Cancer - The ASCO Post - 1 year(s) ago
By Matthew Stenger Posted: 3/28/2023 11:11:00 AM Last Updated: 3/28/2023 1:01:01 PM In a cohort study reported in a research letter in JAMA Surgery, Minami et al found that frailty status worsened in a sizable proportion of older patients receiving locoregional therapy—including lumpectomy or mastectomy—for…
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Only 2 days until our Spring Meeting 17-19 May! Hear talks about key issues affecting older people's healthcare including #cardiology #dementia #frailty #perioperative & #rehabilitation. Join us @eicc Edinburgh in person or online. Register here https://t.co/dC1zRp7KSW #BGSconf https://t.co/ubDz8xvgc3