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Transition between inpatient hospital settings and community or care home settings for adults with social care needs

Older people make up a significant proportion of hospital admissions and many have complex medical, functional, psychological and social needs. Carrying out a comprehensive assessment helps ...
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Validation of a geriatric screening test to detect frailty in elderly cancer patients: Improving the G8 test.

Demographics, tumor characteristics, and survival in inflammatory breast cancer. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2015 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This abstract does not include a full text ...
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Geriatric Syndromes: A Call for Routine Assessment and Treatment

Credit: Getty Images Nurse practitioners call for routine assessment for geriatric syndromes, including screening for frailty, cognitive impairment, and malnutrition. As patients live longer, it ...
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Abnormal Mini-Cog test results linked to higher complication risk for geriatric patients with fractures

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Investigators of this study found more than one-third of geriatric patients with fractures who took the Mini-Cog ...
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After Heart Failure, Comprehensive Geriatric Test and Long-Term Mortality

AHA: Increased Cancer Risk for Patients With Heart Failure For older patients hospitalized with heart failure, a comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) score is associated with mortality over two ...