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Erkihun Amsalu, Ying Zhang, Christopher Harrison, Tan Van Nguyen and Tu Ngoc Nguyen
Advances in cardiovascular therapies and cancer treatments have resulted in longer patient survival. The coexistence of cancer and cardiovascular disease has been recognized as a complex clinical scenario. In addition to cardiovascular disease, older peo...
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Andrius Apsega, Liudvikas Petrauskas, Vidmantas Alekna, Kristina Daunoraviciene, Viktorija Sevcenko, Asta Mastaviciute, Dovydas Vitkus, Marija Tamulaitiene and Julius Griskevicius
Background and objectives: One of the greatest challenges facing the healthcare of the aging population is frailty. There is growing scientific evidence that gait assessment using wearable sensors could be used for prefrailty and frailty screening. The p...
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Yue Ting Tang and Roman Romero-Ortuno
The prevention of falls in older people requires the identification of the most important risk factors. Frailty is associated with risk of falls, but not all falls are of the same nature. In this work, we utilised data from The Irish Longitudinal Study o...
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Sammy Zahran, Levi Altringer and Ashok Prasad
By the end of spring (31 May), the COVID-19 death rate was remarkably unevenly distributed across the countries in Europe. While the risk of COVID-19 mortality is known to increase with age, age-specific COVID-19 death rates across Europe were similarly ...
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Pedro Madureira, Nuno Cardoso, Filipe Sousa, Waldir Moreira, Antonio Oliveira-Jr, Marco Bazzani and Philip Gouverneur
The population is getting old, and the use of technology has improved the quality of life of the senior population. This is confirmed by the increasing number of solutions targeting healthy and active ageing. Such solutions keep track of the daily routin...
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Beata Hornik and Jan Dulawa
Hemodialysis patients perform little physical activity. We formulated a hypothesis that some factors, i.e., frailty, medical and functional factors, psychological factors, quality of life, awareness of recommendations, and sociodemographic factors influe...
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Luca Mainetti,Luigi Patrono,Andrea Secco,Ilaria Sergi
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The ageing of population is a phenomenon that is affecting the majority of developed countries around the world and will soon affect developing economies too. In recent years, both industry and academia are focused on the development of several solutions...
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Leonardo Angelini, Stefano Carrino, Omar Abou Khaled, Susie Riva-Mossman and Elena Mugellini
The Senior Living Lab (SLL) is a transdisciplinary research platform created by four Universities that aims at promoting ageing well at home through the co-creation of innovative products, services and practices with older adults. While most living labs ...
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Minoru Yamada and Hidenori Arai
Preventing frailty and its adverse health outcomes is crucial in countries with a large elderly population, such as Japan. Since the long-term care insurance (LTCI) system was launched, the number of certified older adults with LTCI service requirement h...
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Sandi L. Pruitt, Jasmin A. Tiro, Lei Xuan and Simon J. Craddock Lee
To test the Hispanic and Immigrant Paradoxes?i.e., survival advantages despite a worse risk factor profile?and the modifying role of neighborhood context, we examined associations between patient ethnicity, birthplace, neighborhood Hispanic density and n...
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