Geriatric Assessment

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A Coordinated Multi-study Analysis of the Longitudinal Association Between Handgrip Strength and Cognitive Function in Older Adults. 
  • A Cumulative Deficit Laboratory Test-based Frailty Index: Personal and Neighborhood Associations. 
  • A New Method of Identifying Characteristics of Needing Help to Take Medications in an Older Representative Community-Dwelling Population: The Older Adults Medication Assist Scale. 
  • A Simplified Approach for Classifying Physical Resilience among Community-Dwelling Older Adults: The Health, Aging, and Body Composition Study. 
  • A brief metacognition questionnaire for the elderly: comparison with cognitive performance and informant ratings the Cache County Study. 
  • A controlled trial of geriatric evaluation. 
  • A controlled trial of inpatient and outpatient geriatric evaluation and management. 
  • A longitudinal study of differences in late- and early-onset geriatric depression: depressive symptoms and psychosocial, cognitive, and neurological functioning. 
  • A multidisciplinary approach in the evaluation of demented drivers referred to geriatric assessment centers. 
  • A necessity not a luxury: preparing advanced practice nurses to care for older adults. 
  • A new classification of function and disability in China: subtypes based on performance-based and self-reported measures. 
  • A path model of chronic stress, the metabolic syndrome, and coronary heart disease. 
  • A report on older-age bipolar disorder from the International Society for Bipolar Disorders Task Force. 
  • A short physical performance battery assessing lower extremity function: association with self-reported disability and prediction of mortality and nursing home admission. 
  • A systematic review of antidepressant placebo-controlled trials for geriatric depression: limitations of current data and directions for the future. 
  • A taxonomy for classification of stroke rehabilitation services. 
  • A team approach: comprehensive evaluation for functional decline in older patients. 
  • A three-factor analytic model of the MADRS in geriatric depression. 
  • APOE related hippocampal shape alteration in geriatric depression. 
  • Accelerated accumulation of health deficits as a characteristic of aging. 
  • Accuracy of self-reported stroke among elderly veterans. 
  • Accuracy of the Emergency Severity Index triage instrument for identifying elder emergency department patients receiving an immediate life-saving intervention. 
  • Activities, function, and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of older adults with cancer. 
  • Adjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer in older women: emerging evidence to aid in decision making. 
  • Aging male. 
  • Aging-related diagnostic variations: need for diagnostic criteria appropriate for elderly psychiatric patients. 
  • Agitation in cognitive disorders: International Psychogeriatric Association provisional consensus clinical and research definition. 
  • Alternative diet therapy for elderly patients. Unique concerns for a high-risk population. 
  • American Society for Enhanced Recovery and Perioperative Quality Initiative Joint Consensus Statement on Postoperative Delirium Prevention. 
  • Amnestic mild cognitive impairment and incident dementia and Alzheimer's disease in geriatric depression. 
  • An abbreviated Mini-Mental State Exam for medically ill older adults. 
  • An efficient screening tool for preoperative depression: the Geriatric Depression Scale-Short Form. 
  • An integrative review on screening for frailty in acute care: Accuracy, barriers to implementation and adoption strategies. 
  • Anemia and its impact on function in nursing home residents: what do we know? 
  • Anthropometric assessment of 10-y changes in body composition in the elderly. 
  • Anticipation of monetary gain but not loss in healthy older adults. 
  • Apolipoprotein E genotype and subcortical vascular lesions in older depressed patients and control subjects. 
  • Application of assessing care of vulnerable elders-3 quality indicators to patients with advanced dementia and poor prognosis. 
  • Arti Hurria and the progress in integrating the geriatric assessment into oncology: Young International Society of Geriatric Oncology review paper. 
  • Assessing diagnostic approaches to depression in medically ill older adults: how reliably can mental health professionals make judgments about the cause of symptoms? 
  • Assessing falls in the elderly: should we use simple screening tests or a comprehensive fall risk evaluation? 
  • Assessing health-related quality of life in elderly outpatients: telephone versus face-to-face administration. 
  • Assessments of frailty in bladder cancer. 
  • Association between cognitive activity and cognitive function in older Hispanics. 
  • Association between patient-reported hearing and visual impairments and functional, psychological, and cognitive status among older adults with cancer. 
  • Association of Body Mass Index With Disability in Activities of Daily Living Among Chinese Adults 80 Years of Age or Older. 
  • Association of Sleep and β-Amyloid Pathology Among Older Cognitively Unimpaired Adults. 
  • Association of a cancer diagnosis with vulnerability and frailty in older Medicare beneficiaries. 
  • Association of attentional shift and reversal learning to functional deficits in geriatric depression. 
  • Associations between published quality ratings of skilled nursing facilities and outcomes of medicare beneficiaries with heart failure. 
  • Attendance at religious services, interleukin-6, and other biological parameters of immune function in older adults. 
  • Baseline disability in activities of daily living predicts dementia risk even after controlling for baseline global cognitive ability and depressive symptoms. 
  • Biological, clinical, and psychosocial correlates at the interface of cancer and aging research. 
  • Blood Pressure Trajectory, Gait Speed, and Outcomes: The Health, Aging, and Body Composition Study. 
  • Breaking the cycle of functional decline in older dialysis patients. 
  • Breast and ovarian cancer in the older woman. 
  • Can historical and functional risk factors be used to predict fractures in community-dwelling older adults? development and validation of a clinical tool. 
  • Cancer Screening in Older Adults. 
  • Cancer and the functional status of the elderly. 
  • Cardiac Rehabilitation in Older Adults with Heart Failure: Fitting a Square Peg in a Round Hole. 
  • Caregiving-related needs of family caregivers of older Singaporeans. 
  • Changes in functional status among persons over age sixty-five undergoing total knee arthroplasty. 
  • Changes in older adults' life space during lung cancer treatment: A mixed methods cohort study. 
  • Changes in the prevalence of chronic disability in the United States black and nonblack population above age 65 from 1982 to 1999. 
  • Characteristics and treatment options of elderly Chinese patients with cancer as determined by Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA). 
  • Circulating Estrogen Levels and Self-Reported Health and Mobility Limitation in Community-Dwelling Men of the Framingham Heart Study. 
  • Clinical Update on Nursing Home Medicine: 2016. 
  • Clinical Update on Nursing Home Medicine: 2017. 
  • Clinical and phenomenological comparisons of late-onset and early-onset depression. 
  • Clinical characteristics of magnetic resonance imaging-defined subcortical ischemic depression. 
  • Clinically important drug-disease interactions and their prevalence in older adults. 
  • Cognitive and sociodemographic risk factors for mortality in the Seattle Longitudinal Study. 
  • Cognitive function and acute care utilization. 
  • Cognitive function and oral health-related quality of life in older adults. 
  • Cognitive function, physical performance, health, and disease: norms from the georgia centenarian study. 
  • Cognitive functioning in late-life schizophrenia: a comparison of elderly schizophrenic patients and patients with Alzheimer's disease. 
  • Cognitive impairment and depression outcomes in the IMPACT study. 
  • Cognitive performance and informant reports in the diagnosis of cognitive impairment and dementia in African Americans and whites. 
  • Cognitive screening tests: an aid in the care of elderly outpatients. 
  • Combined Inflammation and Metabolism Biomarker Indices of Robust and Impaired Physical Function in Older Adults. 
  • Community-based nursing: continence care for older rural women. 
  • Comorbid cognitive impairment and functional trajectories in low vision rehabilitation for macular disease. 
  • Comorbidity and functional status are independent in older cancer patients. 
  • Comorbidity in older adults with cancer. 
  • Comparison of older depressed hospitalized patients with and without heart failure/pulmonary disease. 
  • Compensatory strategies used by older adults facing mobility disability. 
  • Comprehensive geriatric assessment: mission not yet accomplished. 
  • Congestive heart failure patients' perceptions of quality of life: the integration of physical and psychosocial factors. 
  • Construct validity of cognitive reserve in a multiethnic cohort: The Northern Manhattan Study. 
  • Contemporary management of comorbid anxiety and depression in geriatric patients. 
  • Correlates of functional capacity among centenarians. 
  • Correlation between symptoms and function in older adults with comorbidity. 
  • Cumulative deficits better characterize susceptibility to death in elderly people than phenotypic frailty: lessons from the Cardiovascular Health Study. 
  • Curative Treatment for Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer in Elderly Patients: A Systematic Review. 
  • Delaying Elective Surgery in Geriatric Patients: An Opportunity for Preoperative Optimization. 
  • Delirium detection and improved delirium management in older patients hospitalized for hip fracture. 
  • Dementia assessment and management. 
  • Demographic characteristics do not decrease the utility of depressive symptoms assessments: examining the practical impact of item bias in four heterogeneous samples of older adults. 
  • Depression and medical illness in late life: report of a symposium. 
  • Depression morbidity in later life: prevalence and correlates in a developing country. 
  • Detecting geriatric needs in older patients with breast cancer through use of a brief geriatric screening tool. 
  • Developing a cancer-specific geriatric assessment: a feasibility study. 
  • Development of a Non-invasive Device for Swallow Screening in Patients at Risk of Oropharyngeal Dysphagia: Results from a Prospective Exploratory Study. 
  • Development of a Pigmented Facial Lesion Scale Based on Darkness and Extent of Lesions in Older Veterans. 
  • Development of a new patient-reported outcome measure in sarcopenia. 
  • Development of an Administrative Data-Based Frailty Index for Older Adults Receiving Dialysis. 
  • Development of an activities of daily living scale to screen for dementia in an illiterate rural older population in India. 
  • Development, Construct Validity, and Predictive Validity of a Continuous Frailty Scale: Results From 2 Large US Cohorts. 
  • Diagnostic performance of short portable mental status questionnaire for screening dementia among patients attending cognitive assessment clinics in Singapore. 
  • Dietary Diversity Was Positively Associated with Psychological Resilience among Elders: A Population-Based Study. 
  • Differences in psychosocial and health correlates of major and minor depression in medically ill older adults. 
  • Difficult behaviors in long-term care patients with dementia. 
  • Disability and frailty among elderly Canadians: a comparison of six surveys. 
  • Disability as a function of social networks and support in elderly African Americans and Whites: the Duke EPESE 1986--1992. 
  • Disparities in pain management between cognitively intact and cognitively impaired nursing home residents. 
  • Distribution of important and word-cued autobiographical memories in 20-, 35-, and 70-year-old adults. 
  • Do nutrition indicators predict death in elderly Canadians with cognitive impairment? 
  • Do people turn to religion in times of stress?: an examination of change in religiousness among elderly, medically ill patients. 
  • Do statins reduce risk of incident dementia and Alzheimer disease? The Cache County Study. 
  • Dyspnea in Community-Dwelling Older Persons: A Multifactorial Geriatric Health Condition. 
  • Early Recognition of Preventable Factors Associated with Delirium Saves Lives and Costs. 
  • Educating primary care physicians in geriatric rehabilitation. 
  • Effects of cardiovascular medications on rate of functional decline in Alzheimer disease. 
  • Effects of cognitive performance on change in physical function in long-stay nursing home residents. 
  • Effects of geriatric evaluation and management on adverse drug reactions and suboptimal prescribing in the frail elderly. 
  • Efficacy and Safety of Doxepin 1 mg and 3 mg in a 12-week Sleep Laboratory and Outpatient Trial of Elderly Subjects with Chronic Primary Insomnia. 
  • Electronic Geriatric Assessment: Is It Feasible in a Multi-Institutional Study That Included a Notable Proportion of Older African American Patients? (Alliance A171603). 
  • Emergency Department Care Transitions for Patients With Cognitive Impairment: A Scoping Review. 
  • End points and trial design in geriatric oncology research: a joint European organisation for research and treatment of cancer--Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology--International Society Of Geriatric Oncology position article. 
  • End-stage renal disease in nursing homes: a systematic review. 
  • Endothelial Progenitor Cell Levels Predict Future Physical Function: An Exploratory Analysis From the VA Enhanced Fitness Study. 
  • Epidemiology of over-the-counter drug use in community dwelling elderly: United States perspective. 
  • Equivalence of two screens of cognitive functioning: the Short Portable Mental Status Questionnaire and the Orientation-Memory-Concentration test. 
  • Evaluation of agreement between physicians' notation of 'no evidence of disease' (NED) and patients' report of cancer status. 
  • Evolution of Geriatric Assessment in Oncology. 
  • Examining indirect associations between physical activity, function, and disability in independent- and assisted-living residents. 
  • Factors associated with falls in older adults with cancer: a validated model from the Cancer and Aging Research Group. 
  • Factors associated with falls in older women with breast cancer: the use of a brief geriatric screening tool in clinic. 
  • Fall prevention through patient partnerships. 
  • Frailty Assessment in Hospitalized Older Adults Using the Electronic Health Record. 
  • Frailty and health-related quality of life in older women with breast cancer. 
  • Frailty and length of stay in older adults with blunt injury in a national multicentre prospective cohort study. 
  • Frailty and risk in proximal aortic surgery. 
  • Frailty as an instrument for evaluation of elderly patients with non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: A follow-up after more than 5 years. 
  • Frailty as determined by a comprehensive geriatric assessment-derived deficit-accumulation index in older patients with cancer who receive chemotherapy. 
  • Frailty assessment in the cardiovascular care of older adults. 
  • Frailty: A Vital Sign for Older Adults With Cardiovascular Disease. 
  • Function in elderly cancer survivors depends on comorbidities. 
  • Functional Impairments Mediate Association Between Clinical Fracture Risk and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Older Women. 
  • Functional aging in health and heart failure: the COmPLETE Study. 
  • Functional assessment and the cancer survivor: something old, something new. 
  • Functional decline in older adults. 
  • Functional outcomes for clinical trials in frail older persons: time to be moving. 
  • Functional status and the elderly cancer patient. 
  • Futility, benefit, and transcatheter aortic valve replacement. 
  • Genetic and non-genetic factors associated with the phenotype of exceptional longevity & normal cognition. 
  • Geriatric Assessment Reveals Actionable Impairments in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Candidates Age 18 to 80 Years. 
  • Geriatric Assessment as a Predictor of Tolerance, Quality of Life, and Outcomes in Older Patients With Head and Neck Cancers and Lung Cancers Receiving Radiation Therapy. 
  • Geriatric Assessment of Physical and Cognitive Functioning in a Diverse Cohort of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Patients: A Pilot Study. 
  • Geriatric Preoperative Optimization: A Review. 
  • Geriatric assessment among older adults receiving intensive therapy for acute myeloid leukemia: Report of CALGB 361006 (Alliance). 
  • Geriatric assessment and comorbidity. 
  • Geriatric assessment for oncologists: rationale and future directions. 
  • Geriatric assessment with management in cancer care: Current evidence and potential mechanisms for future research. 
  • Geriatric conditions and treatment burden following diagnosis of non-muscle- invasive bladder cancer in older adults: A population-based analysis. 
  • Geriatric emergency department guidelines. 
  • Geriatric evaluation and management units in the care of the frail elderly cancer patient. 
  • Geriatric oncology health services research: Cancer and Aging Research Group infrastructure core. 
  • Geriatric principles of treatment applied to medical oncology: an overview. 
  • Geriatric rehabilitation: state of the art. 
  • Geriatric rehabilitation: what do physicians know about it and how should they use it? 
  • Getting meaningful informed consent from older adults: a structured literature review of empirical research. 
  • Group treatment improves trunk strength and psychological status in older women with vertebral fractures: results of a randomized, clinical trial. 
  • Health Services Use and Functional Recovery Following Blunt Trauma in Older Persons - A National Multicentre Prospective Cohort Study. 
  • Health behaviour, depression and religiosity in older patients admitted to intermediate care. 
  • Health consequences of familial longevity influence among the Chinese elderly. 
  • Health decline, aging and mortality: how are they related? 
  • Health-related quality of life in older depressed psychogeriatric patients: one year follow-up. 
  • High prevalence of geriatric syndromes in older adults. 
  • High, usual and impaired functioning in community-dwelling older men and women: findings from the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Successful Aging. 
  • Higher dietary variety is associated with better nutritional status in frail elderly people. 
  • Histamine2 receptor antagonist use and decline in cognitive function among community dwelling elderly. 
  • Hygiene self-care of older adults in West Virginia: effects of gender. 
  • Hypertension: how does management change with aging? 
  • Identifying the frailty phenotype: The evidence for good enough. 
  • Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors in the Aged. 
  • Immune-endocrine biomarkers as predictors of frailty and mortality: a 10-year longitudinal study in community-dwelling older people. 
  • Impact of age and comorbidity on treatment and outcomes in elderly cancer patients. 
  • Impact of inappropriate drug use on mortality and functional status in representative community dwelling elders. 
  • Implementing a geriatric assessment in cooperative group clinical cancer trials: CALGB 360401. 
  • Improved Function With Enhanced Protein Intake per Meal: A Pilot Study of Weight Reduction in Frail, Obese Older Adults. 
  • Improved fitness narrows the symptom-reporting gap between older men and women. 
  • Improving nutritional quality of life for older adults: bringing global unity to the field. 
  • Improving the quality of survivorship for older adults with cancer. 
  • In-home assessment of dementia by nurses: experience using the CERAD evaluations. Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer's Disease. 
  • Incidence and predictors of all and preventable adverse drug reactions in frail elderly persons after hospital stay. 
  • Incidence of frailty among community-dwelling older adults: a nationally representative profile in China. 
  • Incorporating Geriatric Assessment into a Nephrology Clinic: Preliminary Data from Two Models of Care. 
  • Incorporation of Medicare Annual Wellness Visits into the Routine Clinical Care of Nursing Home Residents. 
  • Increased plasma complement factor H is associated with geriatric depression. 
  • Increased risk for patient safety incidents in hospitalized older adults. 
  • Independent Association Between Preoperative Cognitive Status and Discharge Location After Surgery: A Strategy to Reduce Resource Use After Surgery for Deformity. 
  • Index of Healthy Aging in Chinese Older Adults: China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study. 
  • Indications, labeling, and outcomes assessment for drugs aimed at improving functional status in older persons: a conversation between aging researchers and FDA regulators. 
  • Influence of the MTHFR C677T polymorphism on magnetic resonance imaging hyperintensity volume and cognition in geriatric depression. 
  • Inpatient Mobility Measures As Useful Predictors of Discharge Destination in Hospitalized Older Adults. 
  • Inpatient care for elderly cancer patients: the role for Geriatric Evaluation and Management Units in fulfilling goals for care. 
  • Integrating Frailty Research into the Medical Specialties-Report from a U13 Conference. 
  • Intensity of grandparent caregiving and life satisfaction among rural chinese older adults: a longitudinal study using latent difference score analysis. 
  • Interventions Against Disability in Frail Older Adults: Lessons Learned from Clinical Trials. 
  • Is the prevalence of dehydration among community-dwelling older adults really low? Informing current debate over the fluid recommendation for adults aged 70+years. 
  • Is there a threshold between peak oxygen uptake and self-reported physical functioning in older adults? 
  • Issues with care in the elderly patient presenting with acute ischemia. 
  • Launching a Geriatric Surgery Center: Recommendations from the Society for Perioperative Assessment and Quality Improvement. 
  • Leukocyte telomere length is associated with disability in older u.s. Population. 
  • Lifestyle behavior pattern is associated with different levels of risk for incident dementia and Alzheimer's disease: the Cache County study. 
  • Long-Term Outcomes Among Elderly Survivors of Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest. 
  • Longitudinal analysis of the relationship between regular eye examinations and changes in visual and functional status. 
  • Longitudinal magnetic resonance imaging vascular changes, apolipoprotein E genotype, and development of dementia in the neurocognitive outcomes of depression in the elderly study. 
  • Lower extremity function and subsequent disability: consistency across studies, predictive models, and value of gait speed alone compared with the short physical performance battery. 
  • Lower extremity physical performance, self-reported mobility difficulty, and use of compensatory strategies for mobility by elderly women. 
  • Lower levels of circulating progenitor cells are associated with low physical function and performance in elderly men with impaired glucose tolerance: a pilot substudy from the VA Enhanced Fitness trial. 
  • MDS 3.0 perspective: a better tool for patient care. 
  • MRI signal hyperintensities in geriatric depression. 
  • Management of Prostate Cancer in the Elderly. 
  • Measuring Biologic Resilience in Older Cancer Survivors. 
  • Medical assessment for health advocacy and practical strategies for exercise initiation. 
  • Mental and behavioral disturbances in dementia: findings from the Cache County Study on Memory in Aging. 
  • Mobility Improvements are Found in Older Veterans After 6-Months of Gerofit Regardless of BMI Classification. 
  • Mortality and cognitive status among elderly Canadians living in the community and in institutions: the Canadian Study of Health and Aging. 
  • Multicenter Validation of an Emergency Department-Based Screening Tool to Identify Elder Abuse. 
  • My grandmother said, "if you have your health, you have everything." What did she mean? 
  • NCCN Guidelines® Insights: Older Adult Oncology, Version 1.2021. 
  • Natural history of change in physical function among long-stay nursing home residents. 
  • Neuropsychological correlates of magnetic resonance imaging-defined subcortical ischemic depression. 
  • Neuropsychological functioning and MRI signal hyperintensities in geriatric depression. 
  • New version of brief depression scale. 
  • Nondisease-specific problems and all-cause mortality among older adults with CKD: the REGARDS Study. 
  • Not your grandparents' cardiac care: The future of geriatric cardiology. 
  • Novel metabolomics markers are associated with pre-clinical decline in hand grip strength in community-dwelling older adults. 
  • Number of rib fractures thresholds independently predict worse outcomes in older patients with blunt trauma. 
  • Nutrition and function: is there a relationship between body mass index and the functional capabilities of community-dwelling elderly? 
  • Nutritional risk and time to death; predictive validity of SCREEN (Seniors in the Community Risk Evaluation for Eating and Nutrition). 
  • Older Adults in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit: Factoring Geriatric Syndromes in the Management, Prognosis, and Process of Care: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association. 
  • Older Adults with Cancer: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Occupational and Physical Therapy. 
  • Older person behavioral and psychological symptoms (BPS) and functional limitations mediate the association between older person cognitive impairment and depressive symptoms in the caregiver. 
  • Osteoporosis and depression: shedding more light upon a complex relationship. 
  • Outcomes of Hip Arthroscopy in the Medicare Patient: A Growing Population. 
  • Outcomes of older cognitively impaired individuals with current and past depression in the NCODE study. 
  • Paradigm Shift in Geriatric Low Back Pain Management: Integrating Influences, Experiences, and Consequences. 
  • Pathways from physical activity to quality of life in older women. 
  • Patient-related predictors of rehabilitation use for community-dwelling older Americans. 
  • Patterns and predictors of recovery from exhaustion in older adults: the cardiovascular health study. 
  • Perceived stress and everyday memory complaints among older adult women. 
  • Perioperative Optimization of Senior Health (POSH): A Descriptive Analysis of Cancelled Surgery. 
  • Perioperative Optimization of Senior Health in Spine Surgery: Impact on Postoperative Delirium. 
  • Perioperative cognitive decline in the aging population. 
  • Perioperative frailty: lessons learned and future directions. 
  • Perioperative neurocognitive and functional neuroimaging trajectories in older APOE4 carriers compared with non-carriers: secondary analysis of a prospective cohort study. 
  • Persistent Pain Among Older Adults Discharged Home From the Emergency Department After Motor Vehicle Crash: A Prospective Cohort Study. 
  • Personality Structure Among Centenarians: The Georgia Centenarian Study. 
  • Phase II study of dose-attenuated bortezomib, cyclophosphamide and dexamethasone ("VCD-Lite") in very old or otherwise toxicity-vulnerable adults with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma. 
  • Physical Function Does Not Predict Care Assessment Need Score in Older Veterans. 
  • Physical Performance Predictor Measures in Older Adults With Falls-Related Emergency Department Visits. 
  • Planning for a Safe Discharge: More Than a Capacity Evaluation. 
  • Polypharmacy in patients with advanced cancer and the role of medication discontinuation. 
  • Polypharmacy management in Medicare managed care: changes in prescribing by primary care physicians resulting from a program promoting medication reviews. 
  • Potential drug-disease interactions in frail, hospitalized elderly veterans. 
  • Practical Assessment and Management of Vulnerabilities in Older Patients Receiving Chemotherapy: ASCO Guideline for Geriatric Oncology. 
  • Pre- and intraoperative variables affecting early outcomes in elderly patients undergoing pancreaticoduodenectomy. 
  • Predicting functional status outcomes in hospitalized patients aged 80 years and older. 
  • Predicting the trajectories of depressive symptoms among southern community-dwelling older adults: the role of religiosity. 
  • Prediction of survival for older hospitalized patients: the HELP survival model. Hospitalized Elderly Longitudinal Project. 
  • Predictors of Unplanned Hospitalizations Among Older Adults Receiving Cancer Chemotherapy. 
  • Predictors of and health services utilization related to depressive symptoms among elderly Koreans. 
  • Predictors of antidepressant use among older adults: have they changed over time? 
  • Predictors of cognitive change in older persons: MacArthur studies of successful aging. 
  • Predictors of five-year mortality in older Canadians: the Canadian Study of Health and Aging. 
  • Predictors of longevity: evidence from the oldest old in China. 
  • Predictors of two-year post-hospitalization mortality among elderly veterans in a study evaluating a geriatric consultation team. 
  • Prefrontal neuropsychological predictors of treatment remission in late-life depression. 
  • Preoperative Cognitive Impairment As a Predictor of Postoperative Outcomes in a Collaborative Care Model. 
  • Preoperative Frailty Increases Risk of Nonhome Discharge after Elective Vascular Surgery in Home-Dwelling Patients. 
  • Preoperative Screening. 
  • Presence of and correction for interviewer error on an instrument assessing cognitive function of older adults. 
  • Prevalence and Correlates of Frailty Among Community-Dwelling Chinese Older Adults: The China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study. 
  • Prevalence and health correlates of anaemia among community-dwelling Chinese older adults: the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study. 
  • Prevalence of dementia in the United States: the aging, demographics, and memory study. 
  • Profile of depressive symptoms in younger and older medical inpatients with major depression. 
  • Profiles of depressive symptoms in older adults diagnosed with major depression: latent cluster analysis. 
  • Proxy response patterns among the aged: effects on estimates of health status and medical care utilization from the 1982-1984 long-term care surveys. 
  • Psychosocial and clinical predictors of unipolar depression outcome in older adults. 
  • Quantifying and Classifying Physical Resilience Among Older Adults: The Health, Aging, and Body Composition Study. 
  • Rapid Geriatric Assessment: A Tool for Primary Care Physicians. 
  • Rapid assessment of rehabilitation options for functional disability. 
  • Rapid measurement of total body water to facilitate clinical decision making in hospitalized elderly patients. 
  • Recent Literature on Medication Errors and Adverse Drug Events in Older Adults. 
  • Recent declines in chronic disability in the elderly U.S. population: risk factors and future dynamics. 
  • Recent developments in the treatment of older individuals with acute myeloid leukemia: 2014. 
  • Reducing frailty and falls in older persons: an investigation of Tai Chi and computerized balance training. Atlanta FICSIT Group. Frailty and Injuries: Cooperative Studies of Intervention Techniques. 
  • Reframing Surgical Risk Using Geriatric Assessment Measures. 
  • Regional atrophy of the corpus callosum in dementia. 
  • Relationship between persistent pain and 5-year mortality: a population-based prospective cohort study. 
  • Reliability of physical performance tests in four different randomized clinical trials. 
  • Reliability, Validity, and Feasibility of a Computer-Based Geriatric Assessment for Older Adults With Cancer. 
  • Religion, spirituality, and health in medically ill hospitalized older patients. 
  • Religiosity and mental health in southern, community-dwelling older adults. 
  • Religiosity and remission of depression in medically ill older patients. 
  • Religious attendance reduces cognitive decline among older women with high levels of depressive symptoms. 
  • Religious coping and cognitive symptoms of depression in elderly medical patients. 
  • Religiousness affects mental health, pain and quality of life in older people in an outpatient rehabilitation setting. 
  • Renal Toxicity Associated with Salsalate in Elderly Adults with Anemia. 
  • Repeatable battery for the assessment of neuropsychological status effort index performance in a medically ill geriatric sample. 
  • Reply to: Comment on: "Incorporating Geriatric Assessment into a Nephrology Clinic: Preliminary Data from Two Models of Care". 
  • Reported activities of daily living: agreement between elderly subjects with and without dementia and their caregivers. 
  • Response inhibition and everyday memory complaints in older adult women. 
  • Risk Factors for Hospitalizations Among Older Adults with Gastrointestinal Cancers. 
  • Risk factors for hospital admission among older persons with newly diagnosed heart failure: findings from the Cardiovascular Health Study. 
  • Risk factors for neuropsychiatric symptoms in dementia: the Cache County Study. 
  • Robotic Mitral Valve Repair in Older Individuals: An Analysis of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Database. 
  • Role of frailty in patients with cardiovascular disease. 
  • Screening for depression in hospitalized elderly medical patients: taking a closer look. 
  • Screening tools for multidimensional health problems warranting a geriatric assessment in older cancer patients: an update on SIOG recommendations†. 
  • Sedative, hypnotic, and antianxiety medication use in an aging cohort over ten years: a racial comparison. 
  • Senior adult oncology clinical practice guidelines in oncology. 
  • Senior adult oncology, version 2.2014: clinical practice guidelines in oncology . 
  • Severity of symptoms in chronically institutionalized geriatric schizophrenic patients. 
  • Short- and long-term rehospitalization and mortality for heart failure in 4 racial/ethnic populations. 
  • Short-Term Changes in the Prevalence of Probable Dementia: An Analysis of the 2011-2015 National Health and Aging Trends Study. 
  • Should physicians screen for depression in elderly medical inpatients?: Results of a decision analysis. 
  • Social participation predicts cognitive functioning in aging adults over time: comparisons with physical health, depression, and physical activity. 
  • Sociodemographic and health correlates of sleep quality and duration among very old Chinese. 
  • Sociodemographic and health indicators of older women with urinary incontinence: 2010 National Survey of Residential Care Facilities. 
  • Socioeconomic status and outcome following acute myocardial infarction in elderly patients. 
  • Special care unit research: ethical issues. 
  • Special care unit research: ethical issues. 
  • Spiritual turning points and perceived control over the life course. 
  • Statistical impact of truncated sampling or alteration of administration: the case of the Geriatric Depression Scale. 
  • Studying acute confusion in long-term care: clinical investigation or secondary data analysis using the minimum data set? 
  • Studying disability trends in aging populations. 
  • Survival, disabilities in activities of daily living, and physical and cognitive functioning among the oldest-old in China: a cohort study. 
  • Symptom management in the elderly cancer patient: fatigue, pain, and depression. 
  • Symptoms of depression among community-dwelling elderly African-American and white older adults. 
  • Tea drinking and cognitive function in oldest-old Chinese. 
  • Temporal trends in self-reported functional limitations and physical disability among the community-dwelling elderly population: the Framingham heart study. 
  • The Association between Frailty and Healthcare Expenditure among Chinese Older Adults. 
  • The Association of Frailty With In-Hospital Bleeding Among Older Adults With Acute Myocardial Infarction: Insights From the ACTION Registry. 
  • The Boston FICSIT study: the effects of resistance training and nutritional supplementation on physical frailty in the oldest old. 
  • The Design of a Prospective Trial to Evaluate the Role of Preoperative Frailty Assessment in Older Women Undergoing Surgery for the Treatment of Pelvic Organ Prolapse: The FASt Supplemental Trial. 
  • The Duke Center for the Study of Aging: one of our earliest roots. 
  • The Effect and Relationship of Frailty Indices on Survival After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement. 
  • The Evolving Complexity of Treating Hormone Receptor-Positive, Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor-2 (HER2)-Negative Breast Cancer: Special Considerations in Older Breast Cancer Patients-Part I: Early-Stage Disease. 
  • The Evolving Complexity of Treating Hormone Receptor-Positive, Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor-2 (HER2)-Negative Breast Cancer: Special Considerations in Older Breast Cancer Patients-Part II: Metastatic Disease. 
  • The Informant AD8 Can Discriminate Patients with Dementia From Healthy Control Participants in an Asian Older Cohort. 
  • The NEECHAM Confusion Scale: construction, validation, and clinical testing. 
  • The Oldest Old: A National Analysis of Outcomes for Patients 90 Years or Older With Lung Cancer. 
  • The assessment of acute confusion as part of nursing care. 
  • The assessment of discomfort in elderly confused patients: a preliminary study. 
  • The association between successful treatment of depression and physical functioning in older people seeking primary care. 
  • The comprehensive assessment of community dwelling elderly: why functional status is not enough. 
  • The effect of geriatrics evaluation and management on nursing home use and health care costs: results from a randomized trial. 
  • The effects of age on health-related quality of life in cancer populations: A pooled analysis of randomized controlled trials using the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) QLQ-C30 involving 6024 cancer patients. 
  • The effects of antidepressant medication adherence as well as psychosocial and clinical factors on depression outcome among older adults. 
  • The epidemiology of at-risk and binge drinking among middle-aged and elderly community adults: National Survey on Drug Use and Health. 
  • The health burden of diabetes for the elderly in four communities. 
  • The impact of anemia on nursing home residents. 
  • The impact of depressive symptomatology on physical disability: MacArthur Studies of Successful Aging. 
  • The impact of functional dependency on outcomes after complex general and vascular surgery. 
  • The incidence of mental and behavioral disturbances in dementia: the cache county study. 
  • The older cancer patient. 
  • The prevalence and 3-year incidence of dementia in older Black and White community residents. 
  • The prevalence of potentially modifiable functional deficits and the subsequent use of occupational and physical therapy by older adults with cancer. 
  • The relative effect of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias, disability, and comorbidities on cost of care for elderly persons. 
  • The relative importance of strength and balance in chair rise by functionally impaired older individuals. 
  • The reliability, validity, and stability of a measure of physical activity in the elderly. 
  • The role of geriatric palliative care in hospitalized older adults. 
  • The role of the built environment in the disablement process. 
  • The use of the Minimum Data Set to identify depression in the elderly. 
  • The use of the Modified Telephone Interview for Cognitive Status (TICS-M) in the detection of amnestic mild cognitive impairment. 
  • Thirteen dimensions of health in elderly Sri Lankans: results from a National Sri Lanka Aging Survey. 
  • Thirty-Day Readmission Risk Model for Older Adults Hospitalized With Acute Myocardial Infarction. 
  • Time of day affects episodic memory in older adults. 
  • Toward a threshold for subthreshold depression: an analysis of correlates of depression by severity of symptoms using data from an elderly community sample. 
  • Trajectories of leg strength and gait speed among sedentary older adults: longitudinal pattern of dose response. 
  • Trajectory of declines in physical activity in community-dwelling older women: social cognitive influences. 
  • Translation of clinical and neuropsychological instruments into French: the CERAD experience. 
  • Traumatic Brain Injury in the Elderly: Burden, Risk Factors, and Prevention. 
  • Treatment considerations for elderly and frail patients with neuropathic pain. 
  • Trends in the Incidence of Activities of Daily Living Disability Among Chinese Older Adults From 2002 to 2014. 
  • Triglycerides Paradox Among the Oldest Old: "The Lower the Better?". 
  • Twenty-year depressive trajectories among older women. 
  • Type II odontoid fractures in the elderly: early failure of nonsurgical treatment. 
  • Understanding chronic pain in older adults: abdominal fat is where it is at. 
  • Understanding dementia prevalence among centenarians. 
  • Update on preoperative assessment for geriatric patients prior to elective surgery. 
  • Use and Interpretation of Propensity Scores in Aging Research: A Guide for Clinical Researchers. 
  • Use of Functional Assessment to Define Therapeutic Goals and Treatment. 
  • Use of comprehensive geriatric assessment in older cancer patients: recommendations from the task force on CGA of the International Society of Geriatric Oncology (SIOG). 
  • Using a geriatric oncology assessment to link with services (GOAL). 
  • Using a modified nominal group technique to elicit director of nursing input for an osteoporosis intervention. 
  • Utility of the Easy-Care Standard 2010 in the Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment of Adults Aging with Developmental Disabilities. 
  • Validation of a Prediction Tool for Chemotherapy Toxicity in Older Adults With Cancer. 
  • Validation of the JEN frailty index in the National Long-Term Care Survey community population: identifying functionally impaired older adults from claims data. 
  • Validation of the Minimum Data Set Items on Falls and Injury in Two Long-Stay Facilities. 
  • Visit-to-Visit Variability in Blood Pressure Is Related to Late-Life Cognitive Decline. 
  • Visual Impairment in Old and Very Old Community-dwelling Asian Adults. 
  • Vitamin D Levels and the Risk of Cognitive Decline in Chinese Elderly People: the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey. 
  • Weight change in Alzheimer's disease. 
  • What does it mean to be "at nutritional risk"? Seeking clarity on behalf of the elderly. 
  • What is perfect health to an 85-year-old?: evidence for scale recalibration in subjective health ratings. 
  • Why gerontologists should care about empirical research on religion and health: transdisciplinary perspectives. 
  • Working group recommendations: research on content and efficacy of geriatric evaluation and management interventions. 
  • [Investigation of disability prevalence in men and women of advanced age]. 
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  • Anderson, Ruth A., Professor Emerita in the School of Nursing, School of Nursing
  • Grambow, Steven C., Associate Professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • McConnell, Eleanor Schildwachter, Associate Professor in the School of Nursing, School of Nursing
  • Wu, Li-Tzy, Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medicine, General Internal Medicine