Steve Iliffe

TL;DR: Developing more efficient methods to detect frailty and measure its severity in routine clinical practice would greatly inform the appropriate selection of elderly people for invasive procedures or drug treatments and would be the basis for a shift in the care of frail elderly people towards more appropriate goal-directed care.

TL;DR: It is found that more intensive follow-up of individuals in a placebo-controlled clinical trial of Ginkgo biloba for treating mild-moderate dementia resulted in a better outcome than minimal follow- up, as measured by their cognitive functioning.

TL;DR: Evaluating the performance of an abbreviated version of the Lubben Social Network Scale (LSNS-6), which was used to screen for social isolation among community-dwelling older adult populations in three European countries, concludes that abbreviated scales such as the LSNS- 6 should be considered for inclusion in practice protocols of gerontological practitioners.

TL;DR: This systematic review and meta-analysis was the first to quantitatively demonstrate that frailty measured by the FI is a significant predictor of mortality.

TL;DR: Education support for general practitioners should concentrate on epidemiological knowledge, disclosure of the diagnosis and management of behaviour problems in dementia, if earlier diagnosis is to be pursued as a policy objective in primary care.