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  The traditional Chinese Baduanjin exercise for the enhancements in health of older adults: a narrative review

  Fung Kei Cheng

  17-09-2018

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gc.2018.7449

  2106

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  Emotional geriatric care: a health worker development framework for advancing health care for the elderly

  Nestor Asiamah, Samuel A. Azinga

  05-07-2017

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gc.2017.6741

  1879

  Downloads: 933

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  Chances and challenges of comprehensive geriatric assessment training for healthcare providers

  Maria Cristina Polidori, Regina Elisabeth Roller-Wirnsberger

  14-12-2018

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gc.2018.7853

  2551

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• Position paper on essential strategies for healthy aging: focus on preventing sarcopenia and cardiovascular diseases from the 38^th National Congress of the Italian Society of Geriatrics Hospital and Territory (SIGOT)

  Virginia Boccardi, Francesco Vetta, Luca Cipriani, Andrea Fabbo, Alberto Cella, Moira Ceci, Margherita Azzini, Claudia Bauco, Giuseppe Benati, Alberto Castagna, Maria Lia Lunardelli, Patrizia Mecocci, Michela Passamonte, Marcello Romano, Salvatore Tardi, Liliana Mazza, Gianluca Ottomanelli, Piero Secreto, Vincenzo Solfrizzi, Nicola Vargas, Filippo Luca Fimognari, Lorenzo Palleschi

  22-07-2024

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gc.2024.12702

  1062

  Downloads: 582

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  Pet ownership and cognitive decline in older people

  Nicola Veronese, Lee Smith, Vania Noventa, Guillermo F. López-Sánchez, Jacopo Demurtas, Christopher F. Sharpley, Vicki Bitsika, Sarah E. Jackson

  04-11-2019

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gc.2019.8568

  2617

  Downloads: 1005

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• Cracking geriatric complexity: key messages from the Italian Society of Geriatrics Hospital and Territory Young Masterclass

  Liliana Mazza, Francesca Crosta, Roberto Caragnulo, Moira Ceci, Claudio De Lucia, Simone Dini, Lorenzo Palleschi

  01-07-2025

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gc.2025.13734

  767

  Downloads: 456

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  Falls prevention among older adults at a Nursing home in a northern suburban of Perth in Western Australia

  Horatius Musembi Malilu, Deborah Sundin

  25-11-2019

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gc.2019.8358

  1818

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  Participatory community-based arts for older people living with dementia in the community: how are they evaluated? A scoping review

  Azam Bazooband, Helen Courtney-Pratt, Kathleen Doherty

  23-02-2021

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gc.2021.9470

  10709

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  An evaluation of the appropriateness of prescribing and frailty in elderly patients using STOPP criteria and Frailty Index in tertiary care teaching hospital

  Sweta Nariya, Ajita Pillai, Sneha Agravat

  25-11-2021

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gc.2021.9845

  2805

  Downloads: 426

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• Assessing the health implications of anticholinergic drugs in older people

  Mariangela Boccardi, Virginia Boccardi

  22-01-2025

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gc.2025.13311

  1437

  Downloads: 625

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  New trends in drug treatment of heart failure in old age

  Klara Komici, Leonardo Bencivenga, Angela Spezzano, Pierangela Nocella, Graziamaria Corbi, Nicola Ferrara, Giuseppe Rengo

  29-11-2018

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gc.2018.7833

  1384

  Downloads: 724

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  International classification of function, disability and health framework for fall risk stratification in community dwelling older adults

  Majumi M. Noohu, Aparajit B. Dey, Shashi Sharma, Mohammed E. Hussain

  09-05-2017

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gc.2017.6526

  2830

  Downloads: 1282

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  Sarcopenia in the elderly: from clinical aspects to therapeutic options

  Angelo Bianchetti, Andrea Novelli

  24-04-2019

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gc.2019.8033

  3402

  Downloads: 1596

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  An interdisciplinary intervention is associated with overall improvement of older inpatients in a non-geriatric setting: A retrospective analysis of an observational, longitudinal study with one-year follow up

  Franziska M. Müller, Anna M. Meyer, Lena Pickert, Annika Heeß, Ingrid Becker, Thomas Benzing, M. Cristina Polidori

  09-07-2021

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gc.2021.9723

  709

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  Including prognosis evaluation in the management of older patients across different healthcare settings: The Cologne Experience

  Anna Maria Meyer, M. Cristina Polidori

  02-12-2019

  864

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  Physical frailty and sarcopenia: taking advantage of their commonalities

  Matteo Cesari

  24-11-2015

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gc.2015.5588

  1782

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  Physical functional profile of hospitalized Brazilian older adults in preoperative vascular surgery

  Juliana Verdini de Carvalho Pinheiro, Mariana Fonseca Vaz, Ana Paula Novello, Leonardo Fonseca, Tiago Batista da Costa Xavier, Luciana Moisés Camilo, Marco Orsini, Marco Antonio Alves Azizi, Cristiane Sousa Nascimento Baez Garcia, Mauricio de Sant Anna Jr

  28-05-2020

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gc.2020.8784

  884

  Downloads: 509

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  Challenges in the performance of real-life studies in older patients: focus on long-term care facilities

  Johanna Marietta Christiansen, Anna Maria Meyer, Lena Pickert, Roman Pfister, Maria Cristina Polidori

  24-03-2022

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gc.2022.10384

  772

  Downloads: 427

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  BrainProtect® - A cognitive training program with nutritional and physical counseling components: a retrospective analysis of its effects in healthy individuals

  Julia Maria Falkenreck, Mandy Roheger, Hannah Weigert, Andrea Friese, Petra Jahr, Ingrid Becker, Gereon Nelles, Elke Kalbe, Maria Cristina Polidori

  12-11-2020

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gc.2020.9328

  824

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  Antiplatelet therapy is not a safer alternative to oral anticoagulants, even in older hospital-discharged patients with atrial fibrillation

  Mario Bo, Yolanda Falcone, Enrica Grisoglio, Margherita Marchetti, Federica Li Puma, Marina Iacovino, Enrico Brunetti, Gianfranco Fonte

  04-10-2016

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gc.2016.6120

  1367

  Downloads: 729

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  Delirium as a marker of vulnerability in the elderly

  Giuseppe Bellelli, Paolo Mazzola, Alessandro Morandi

  24-11-2015

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gc.2015.5472

  3682

  Downloads: 1500

  HTML: 1436
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  Entropy as a method to investigate complex biological systems. An alternative view on the biological transition from healthy aging to frailty

  Roberto Siciliano

  07-07-2017

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gc.2017.6755

  1797

  Downloads: 879

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  Dementia in the old age: a gloomy wood later in life

  Virginia Boccardi, Lucia Paolacci, Patrizia Mecocci

  28-11-2018

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gc.2018.7756

  1399

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  A preliminary cross-sectional study to investigate the presence of sarcopenic dysphagia in a Portuguese geriatric population

  Susana Portinha, Pedro Sa-Couto, Maria Assunção Matos

  08-05-2023

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gc.2023.10972

  1845

  Downloads: 529

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• Education and training in geriatrics: guiding the generational change of health professionals

  Liliana Mazza, Lorenzo Palleschi

  22-01-2025

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gc.2025.13378

  1305

  Downloads: 454

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• A survey among hospital members of the Italian Hospital and Territory Society

  Filippo Fimognari, Klara Komici, Vincenza Frisardi, Mariagiovanna Cozza, Carlo De Matteis, Carlo Custodero, Lorenzo Palleschi

  07-10-2025

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gc.2025.13770

  254

  Downloads: 250

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  Pattern of morbidity among elders attending general practice: health needs assessment of geriatric patients in Oman

  Shaikh Muhammad Naeem, Firdous Jahan, Muhammad Asadullah Siddiqui, Muhammad Moazzam Khan

  28-11-2018

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gc.2018.7774

  1595

  Downloads: 743

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  Relationship between chronic diseases and diet in older persons in nursing homes

  Melahat Kizil, Kamile Nazan Turhan, Ramazan Kizil, Nursun Ustunkarli

  12-11-2020

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gc.2020.8920

  1645

  Downloads: 734

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  Health related quality of life of the geriatric population living in rural areas of West Tripura district of India: a cross-sectional study

  Arpita Debnath, Himadri Bhattacharjya

  20-12-2021

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gc.2021.10036

  1838

  Downloads: 405

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  The unavoidable costs of frailty: a geriatric perspective in the time of COVID-19

  Maria Cristina Polidori, Stefania Maggi, Francesco Mattace-Raso, Alberto Pilotto

  30-03-2020

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gc.2020.8989

  2818

  Downloads: 1478

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  A study of group reminiscence therapy and emotional intelligence among elderly members

  Azam Bazooband, Abdolvahab Baghbanian, Ghazal Torkfar

  19-09-2016

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gc.2016.5927

  3145

  Downloads: 1128

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• Palliative geriatrics and dementia: key issues and challenges

  Mariagiovanna Cozza, Joanna Polom, Annalisa Paglia, Simone Dini, Filippo Luca Fimognari, Virginia Boccardi

  15-10-2025

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gc.2025.13984

  634

  Downloads: 334

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• Anticholinergic and sedative medication burden in older adults: an observational analysis

  Jehath Syed, Prathibha Pereira, Tejaswini C J, Shilpa Avarebeel, Kshama Ramesh, Madhan Ramesh, Krishna Undela, Sri Harsha Chalasani

  06-11-2025

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gc.2025.14173

  645

  Downloads: 389

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  The role of healthy nutrition and diet in the prevention of non-communicable diseases among the aged

  Israel Ayenigbara

  17-04-2019

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gc.2019.7961

  3107

  Downloads: 1134

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• Sepsis and septic shock in geriatrics

  Aurora Vitali, Simone Dini, Mariagiovanna Cozza, Vincenzo Gianturco, Mattia Brunori, Liliana Mazza

  28-11-2024

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gc.2024.11709

  3713

  Downloads: 1054

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  Non-invasive assessment of gastric secretory function in centenarians

  Antonio Tursi, Rudi De Bastiani, Marilisa Franceschi, Elisabetta Goni, Matteo Riccò, Marino Venerito, Massimo Rugge, Carmelo Scarpignato, Marcello Picchio, Francesco Di Mario, the Primary Care collaborative group

  22-05-2017

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gc.2017.6682

  1565

  Downloads: 755

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  How hospital geriatric care is changing during COVID-19 pandemic: drawbacks and possible solutions

  Liliana Mazza, Daniela Pinto, Pietro Calogero

  25-05-2020

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gc.2020.9043

  1238

  Downloads: 646

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• Cost of care among older people with chronic medical conditions in a healthcare facility in southwestern Nigeria

  Olumuyiwa Akingunola, Taiwo Sogunle, Lydia Egua, Yesiru Kareem

  21-03-2025

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gc.2025.13118

  2576

  Downloads: 622

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• The medical treatment needs and in-home care service utilization of the elderly: a population-based data analysis of long-term care insurance payments in Tokyo, Japan

  Hiromi Watanabe, Tomoko Onouchi, Ilhee Yoon, Chiho Oshima

  25-03-2024

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gc.2024.11824

  2454

  Downloads: 548

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  The impact of elderly social care in the United Kingdom: migrants’ perspective

  Osinachi Akanwa Ekeagwu, Stanley Idika Ukpai

  28-03-2018

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gc.2018.7316

  1334

  Downloads: 586

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  Aging changes complexity of heart rate dynamics assessed by entropy and Lyapunov exponent analysis

  Roberto Siciliano, Giuseppe Agapito, Sarah Siciliano, Filippo Luca Fimognari

  17-04-2019

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gc.2019.8038

  1294

  Downloads: 635

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  Multidimensional frailty in older people in general practitioners’ clinical practice: the SELFY-MPI SIGOT project

  Alberto Pilotto, Stefania Maggi, Alberto Ferrari, Giuseppe Rengo, Vincenzo Solfrizzi, Sabrina Zora, Ovidio Brignoli, Pierangelo Lora Aprile, Giuseppe Fascella, Ligia J. Dominguez, Nicola Veronese, Alberto Cella, on behalf of the SELFY-MPI SIGOT Project

  18-03-2022

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gc.2022.10388

  2716

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• 33 | Premature ovarian ageing as a potential risk factor for Parkinson’s disease V. Giordano¹, M. Giudice², M. Palese², G. Cuomo³, D. Leosco⁴, M. Guida², I. Strina⁵, F. Saccà⁶ | ¹Department of Internal Medicine, S. Maria Incoronata dell'Olmo, AOU S. Giovanni di Dio e Ruggi d'Aragona, Cava de' Tirreni; ²Department of Neurosciences and Reproductive and Odontostomatological Sciences, University "Federico II", Naples, Italy; ³Department of Internal Medicine, Ospedale Del Mare, ASL Napoli 1 Centro, Naples; ⁴Department of Translational Medical Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Naples; ⁵Department of Public Health, University "Federico II", Naples; ⁶Cava De' Tirreni.

  Segreteria SIGOT

  11-06-2026

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gc.2026.15784

  71

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  Oral anticoagulant therapy for older patients with atrial fibrillation

  Mario Bo, Enrico Brunetti

  29-09-2017

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gc.2017.7038

  1657

  Downloads: 912

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  The role of comprehensive geriatric assessment in older patients affected by knee osteoarthritis: a systematic review

  Nicola Veronese, Anna Fazzari, Maela Caudal, Maria Cristina Polidori, Eva Topinkova, Francesco Mattace Raso, Marina Barbagelata, Mario Barbagallo, Alberto Pilotto

  30-12-2022

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gc.2022.11049

  1031

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  The Se.Ko.Ph. study: a European multicentre study on falls in elderly subjects living in residential homes

  Aladar Bruno Ianes, Giorgio Ricci, for the Se.Ko.Ph. Study Group

  16-05-2017

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gc.2017.6712

  1243

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  The Multidimensional Prognostic Index (MPI) for the prognostic stratification of hospitalized older patients with COVID-19: a prospective multicenter observational cohort study. Objectives, study design and expected outcomes (MPI_COVID-19)

  Carlo Custodero, Alberto Cella, Nicola Veronese, Margherita Azzini, Filippo Fimognari, Francesco Mattace-Raso, Maria Cristina Polidori, Carlo Sabbà, Alberto Pilotto

  27-04-2020

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gc.2020.9038

  1676

  Downloads: 709

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  To translate pharmacogenetics in geriatrics: towards a personalized medicine

  Davide Seripa, Giulia Paroni, Michele Lauriola, Antonio Greco

  24-11-2015

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gc.2015.5461

  2224

  Downloads: 817

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  Occupational therapy in special respite care: a new multicomponent model for challenging behavior in people with dementia

  Barbara Manni, Lucia Federzoni, Alessandro Lanzoni, Glenda Garzetta, Maud Graff, Andrea Fabbo

  16-10-2018

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gc.2018.7649

  2615

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• Vitamin D supplementation enhances neuromuscular function in older adults: controlled clinical trial

  Sandeep Saxena, Anuradha Yadav

  24-03-2026

  https://doi.org/10.4081/gc.2026.14527

  544

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