Anticholinergic Drug Use and Risk to Cognitive Performance in Older Adults with Questionable Cognitive Impairment
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- Advance care planning and palliative medicine in advanced dementia: a literature review
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- Development and psychometric evaluation of the Pain Assessment in Advanced Dementia (PAINAD) scale.
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- Plasma homocysteine as a risk factor for dementia and Alzheimer's disease.
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- Frailty and the Prediction of Negative Health Outcomes: A Meta-Analysis.
- Frailty in Older Adults: Evidence for a Phenotype
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- The effectiveness of a comprehensive geriatric assessment intervention program for frailty in community-dwelling older people: a randomized, controlled trial.
- The impact of frailty and delirium on mortality in older inpatients
- Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment for community-dwelling, high-risk, frail, older people (Protocol)
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- Frailty in the critically ill: a novel concept
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- Risk factors for death in adult COVID-19 patients: Frailty predicts fatal outcome in older patients
- Geriatric syndromes: clinical, research, and policy implications of a core geriatric concept
- Health outcome prioritization to elicit preferences of older persons with multiple health conditions
- Older age and frailty are the chief predictors of mortality in COVID-19 patients admitted to an acute medical unit in a secondary care setting- a cohort study
- Association between anemia and frailty in 13,175 community-dwelling adults aged 50 years and older in China
- Hemoglobin concentration is associated with self-reported disability and reduced physical performance in a community dwelling population of nonagenarians: the Mugello Study
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- 2012 Update: Guidelines for Adult Urinary Incontinence Collaborative Consensus Document for the Canadian Urological Association
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- AUA White Paper on Nonneurogenic Chronic Urinary Retention: Consensus Definition, Treatment Algorithm, and Outcome End Points.
- Development of a core set of outcome measures for OAB treatment
- Diagnosis and treatment of overactive bladder (non-neurogenic) in adults: AUA/SUFU guideline.
- Flexible-Dose Fesoterodine in Elderly Adults with Overactive Bladder: Results of the Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo- Controlled Study of Fesoterodine in an Aging Population Trial
- Persistence and adherence with the new beta-3 receptor agonist, mirabegron, versus antimuscarinics in overactive bladder: Early experience in Canada
- The Association Between Anticholinergic Medication Burden and Health Related Outcomes in the ‘Oldest Old’
- The efficacy and tolerability of the Beta 3-adrenoceptor agonist mirabegron for the treatment of symptoms of overactive bladder in older patients
- The neural control of micturition
- Urinary incontinence in frail elderly persons- Report from the 5th International Consultation on Incontinence
- Use of Bladder Antimuscarinics in Older Adults with Impaired Cognition
- Results after sacral nerve stimulation for chronic constipation.
- American Geriatrics Society 2015 Updated Beers Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in Older Adults
- Anticholinergic Drug Use and Risk to Cognitive Performance in Older Adults with Questionable Cognitive Impairment
- Association of Anticholinergic Burden with Cognitive Impairment and Health Care Utilization Among a Diverse Ambulatory Older Adult Population
- Bladder antimuscarinics and cognitive decline in elderly patients
- Consensus validation of the FORTA (Fit fOR The Aged) List- a clinical tool for increasing the appropriateness of pharmacotherapy in the elderly
- Cumulative use of strong anticholinergics and incident dementia- a prospective cohort study
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- Clinical Evidence for Utilizing Cannabinoids in the Elderly
- Effect of Risperidone for the Treatment of Nightmares in Veterans with PTSD
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- Position Paper for the Treatment of Nightmare Disorder in Adults: An American Academy of Sleep Medicine Position Paper
- Simplified guideline for prescribing medical cannabinoids in primary care
- Systematic review of systematic reviews for medical cannabinoids
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- The Use of a Synthetic Cannabinoid in the Management of Treatment-Resistant Nightmares in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Trial of Prazosin for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Military Veterans
- The influence of cannabinoids on generic traits of neurodegeneration
- Marijuana Use Among Adults 50 Years or Older in the 21st Century
- Topical Medical Cannabis: A New Treatment for Wound Pain-Three Cases of Pyoderma Gangrenosum
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- Characteristics and Patterns of Marijuana Use in Community-Dwelling Older Adults
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- Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments (CANMAT) 2016 Clinical Guidelines for the Management of Adults with Major Depressive Disorder: Section 3. Pharmacological Treatments
- Comorbid anxiety disorders in late-life depression: results of a cohort study.
- Comparison of diagnostic performance of Two-Question Screen and 15 depression screening instruments for older adults: Systematic review and meta-analysis
- Depression among older adults: A 20 year update on give common myths and misconceptions
- Depression and risk for Alzheimer Disease: Systematic Review, Meta-analysis, and Metaregression Analysis
- Depression in the elderly
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- Exercise for depression
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- Magnetic Resonance Imaging Predictors of Treatment Response in Late-Life Depression
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- Mid-life versus late-life depressive symptoms and risk of dementia: Differential effects for Alzheimer’s disease and vascular dementia
- Phenomenology of depression in older compared with younger adults: meta-analysis.
- Progression of subcortical ischemic disease from vascular depression to vascular dementia.
- Provisional diagnostic criteria for depression of Alzheimer disease.
- Risk factors for late-onset generalized anxiety disorder: results from a 12-year prospective cohort (the ESPRIT study).
- The prognosis of depression in older patients in general practice and the community. A systematic review.
- Age differences in the prevalence and co-morbidity of DSM-IV major depressive episodes: Results from the WHO World Mental Health Survey Initiative
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- Sertraline and Mirtazapine Versus Placebo in Subgroups of Depression in Dementia: Findings From the HTA-SADD Randomized Controlled Trial
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- Successful knowledge translation intervention in long-term care: final results from the vitamin D and osteoporosis study (ViDOS) pilot cluster randomized controlled trial
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- Additional Resources
- American Geriatrics Society 2015 Updated Beers Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in Older Adults
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- Efficacy of nonpharmacologic interventions for agitation in advanced dementia: a randomized, placebo-controlled trial.
- Predictors of the impact of nonpharmacologic interventions for agitation in nursing home residents with advanced dementia.
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- Additional Resources
- Ageing Is Associated with Decreases in Appetite and Energy Intake—A Meta-Analysis in Healthy Adults
- Short Sleep Duration and Dietary Intake: Epidemiologic Evidence, Mechanisms, and Health Implications
- Unintentional Weight Loss in Older Adults
- An Approach to the Nonpharmacologic and Pharmacologic Management of Unintentional Weight Loss Among Older Adults
- Anorexia of ageing: a key component in the pathogenesis of both sarcopenia and cachexia
- Mechanisms of the anorexia of aging—a review
- Whey protein ingestion in elderly results in greater muscle protein accrual than ingestion of its constituent essential amino acid content
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- Abbey Pain Scale for Dementia Patients
- Additional Resources
- Cognigram
- Dementia Observational System (DOS) Tool
- Lawton –Brody Instrumental Activities of Daily Living Scale (IADL)
- MoCA Test
- PAINAD
- Recommendations on screening for cognitive impairment in older adults.
- The GPCOG: a new screening test for dementia designed for general practice.
- The Abbey pain scale: a 1-minute numerical indicator for people with end-stage dementia
- ABC Dementia Scale: A Quick Assessment Tool for Determining Alzheimer’s Disease Severity
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- Articles coming soon
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