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The Asia-Pacific Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Frailty
Elsa Dent,Christopher T. C. Lien,Wee Shiong Lim,Wei Chin Wong,Chek Hooi Wong,Tze Pin Ng,Jean Woo,Birong Dong,Shelley F. De La Vega,P J H Poi,Shahrul Bahyah Kamaruzzaman,Chang Won,Liang Kung Chen,Kenneth Rockwood,Hidenori Arai,Leocadio Rodríguez-Mañas,Li Cao,Matteo Cesari,Piu Chan,Edward M. F. Leung,Francesco Landi,Linda P. Fried,John E. Morley,Bruno Vellas,Leon Flicker +24 more
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The recommendations provided herein are intended for use by healthcare providers in their management of older adults with frailty in the Asia Pacific region and it is proposed that regional guideline support committees be formed to help provide regular updates to these evidence-based guidelines.About:
This article is published in Journal of the American Medical Directors Association.The article was published on 2017-07-01. It has received 363 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Deprescribing & Guideline.read more
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Physical comorbidities of dementia: Recognition and rehabilitation
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Wellbeing of Older Persons in Residential Aged Care Stage 1: Final Report
Lucy K. Lewis,Timothy Henwood,Jo Boylan,Sarah C. Hunter,Belinda Lange,Michael Lawless,Rachel Milte,Jasmine M. Petersen,Stacey Torode +8 more
Outcome of older adults at risk of frailty
Venugopalan Gunasekaran,Venugopalan Gunasekaran,Manicka Saravanan Subramanian,Vishwajeet Singh,Aparajit Ballav Dey +4 more
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Just what the doctor ordered: a guide to robust assessment and exercise prescription in older adults
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Frailty in Older Adults Evidence for a Phenotype
Linda P. Fried,Catherine M. Tangen,Jeremy D. Walston,Anne B. Newman,Calvin H. Hirsch,John S. Gottdiener,Teresa E. Seeman,Russell P. Tracy,Willem J. Kop,B Gregory Burke,Mary Ann McBurnie +10 more
TL;DR: This study provides a potential standardized definition for frailty in community-dwelling older adults and offers concurrent and predictive validity for the definition, and finds that there is an intermediate stage identifying those at high risk of frailty.
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The Timed “Up & Go”: A Test of Basic Functional Mobility for Frail Elderly Persons
TL;DR: This study evaluated a modified, timed version of the “Get‐Up and Go” Test (Mathias et al, 1986) in 60 patients referred to a Geriatric Day Hospital and suggested that the timed “Up & Go’ test is a reliable and valid test for quantifying functional mobility that may also be useful in following clinical change over time.
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ACSM's guidelines for exercise testing and prescription
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Grading quality of evidence and strength of recommendations.
David C. Atkins,Dana Best,Peter A. Briss,Martin P Eccles,Yngve Falck-Ytter,Signe Flottorp,Gordon H. Guyatt,Robin Harbour,Margaret C Haugh,David Henry,Suzanne Hill,Roman Jaeschke,Gillian Leng,Alessandro Liberati,Nicola Magrini,James Mason,Philippa Middleton,Jacek Mrukowicz,Dianne L. O'Connell,Andrew D Oxman,Bob Phillips,Holger J. Schünemann,Tessa Tan-Torres Edejer,H. Varonen,Gunn Elisabeth Vist,John W Williams,Stephanie Zaza +26 more
TL;DR: A system for grading the quality of evidence and the strength of recommendations that can be applied across a wide range of interventions and contexts is developed, and a summary of the approach from the perspective of a guideline user is presented.
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