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Filter by:Perioperative neurocognitive impairment (PND) mainly includes acute postoperative delirium (POD) and persistent postoperative cognitive impairment (POCD), which are common postoperative complications in elderly patients. Perioperative neurocognitive impairment (PND) is attracting increasing attention, but its exact mechanism is still unclear. The diagnosis of PND lacks the gold standard, so it is difficult to determine the incidence rate. At present, the diagnosis is mainly conducted through the scale. Therefore, this study aims to explore the correlation between peripheral blood biomarkers and PND in elderly frail patients undergoing gastrointestinal surgery.
Declines in cognitive function and walking function are highly intertwined in older adults. A therapeutic approach that combines complex (cognitively engaging) aerobic walking exercise with non-invasive electrical brain stimulation may be effective at restoring lost function. This study tests whether electrical stimulation of prefrontal brain regions is more beneficial than sham stimulation.
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of a home-based exergame program on physical function, fall efficacy, depression, and quality of life in older adults. For the purpose of the study, we established the following hypotheses. Older adults who participate in a home-based exergame program will experience significant improvements in physical function, fall efficacy, depression, and quality of life compared to those who do not participate in the program.
CDI is a major cause of antibiotics-associated diarrhoea. More than half of the patients affected are 70 years or older and frail. Mortality among older patients with CDI is high. Faecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) is a life-saving therapy which reduce symptom duration and mortality. The FMT procedure usually requires hospital attendance, and frail old patients often are too weak to tolerate transportation to hospital and may therefore be withheld treatment. The overall aim of the present project is to investigate whether a multimodal geriatric assessment, treatment and follow-up of frail older patients with CDI can improve patient survival compared with standard care. In particular, it is explored whether an expanded collaboration between the geriatric wards, early clinical assessment and home treatment with FMT contribute to increased patient survival rates.
The objective of this project is to pilot test an ADL (activities of daily living)-enhanced program as an adjuvant therapy to usual home health rehabilitation to improve patient outcomes. The project will compare the ADL-enhanced program plus usual care with usual care using an RCT design in home health patients.
The GISSG+2201 study was launched by Shandong Gastrointestinal Surgery Study Group (GISSG). The intention is to establish a multimodal prehabilitation protocol in frail elderly patients who undergo gastric cancer radical surgery, explore the feasibility and effectiveness of the measures and evaluate the effect of program on short-term clinical outcome, recovery index and the long-term tumor-related outcome.
Care transitions are the movement of a person from one healthcare setting to another. Older adults who require skilled home health care ("home health") services (e.g., home-based nursing) after hospital discharge are at high risk of experiencing early re-hospitalization. Home health agencies need strategies to ensure safe transitions, yet there is relatively little research to guide improvement efforts. The goal of the study is to develop and test tools to allow home health agencies to identify and act upon threats to older adults' safety in real time. The investigators first analyzed threats to older adult safety during hospital-to-home health transitions and refined a bundle of interventions through stakeholder engagement. This prospective pilot will implement and measure the bundle of interventions.
Older people have been one of the most affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. Restrictive measures to prevent the spread of the virus have affected the lifestyle of older people, which have reduced their level of physical activity. A sedentary lifestyle has negative health consequences, such as increased frailty and decreased functional capacity. The aim of the study is to apply a program of therapeutic exercise in outdoor fitness parks to prevent the complications of sedentary lifestyle. Community-dwelling older adults belonging will participate in an outdoor program to keep security measures and prevent contagion.
The aim of the study is to evaluate the effect of a shared decision-making conference and three-week prehabilitation program on the outcome "care dependency" one year after surgery. The cost-effectiveness of the intervention will also be evaluated in this N = 1400 patient, national multicenter, assessor-blinded, randomized, pragmatic, controlled, parallel-group, clinical trial. The objective of PRÄP-GO is to establish and employ a suitable preoperative case-care management system to improve the short and long-term outcome of elderly surgical patients with signs of a frailty syndrome, improving postoperative quality of life and reducing care dependency by a three-week individualized prehabilitation program.
The final goals of the present study is to propose a new approach in the hip fracture rehabilitation in elderly subjects, focused on the use of robotic device and to check the results not only at the end of the treatment but also in the long term, foreseeing 3 follow-up.