Journal•ISSN: 0167-4943
Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics
Elsevier BV
About: Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics is an academic journal published by Elsevier BV. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Population & Medicine. It has an ISSN identifier of 0167-4943. Over the lifetime, 4915 publications have been published receiving 112680 citations.
Topics: Population, Medicine, Dementia, Internal medicine, Poison control
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TL;DR: Results from the following study indicated that non-fallers have significantly faster reaction times, have higher scores on the Berg balance scale and the ABC scale as well as sway at slower frequencies when compared to fallers.
860 citations
TL;DR: The reliability and validity of a multidimensional 13-item index of competence, called the TMIG Index of Competence, were tested with data of 6776 elderly community residents and confirmed high reliability of the index with reliability coefficients of Alpha, test-retest, and correlation between the second-order factor score and the total score.
744 citations
TL;DR: Loneliness was more common among rural elderly people than those living in cities and was associated with advancing age, living alone or in a residential home, widowhood, low level of education and poor income.
563 citations
TL;DR: There is a significant association between age, gender and dependence, as well as between dependence and morbidity and mortality, so that dependence could be used as a predictor of both.
428 citations
TL;DR: Multimorbidity was associated with an increase in risk of death and adjusted analysis which includes potential confounders might contribute to better understanding of causal relationships between multimorbidities and mortality.
404 citations