Reversible Cognitive Frailty, Dementia, and All-Cause Mortality. The Italian Longitudinal Study on Aging.

Objectives: Cognitive frailty, a condition describing the simultaneous presence of physical frailty and mild cognitive impairment, has been recently defined by an international consensus group. We estimated the predictive role of a "reversible" cognitive frailty model on incident dementia, its subtypes, and all-cause mortality in nondemented older individuals. We verified if vascular risk factors or depressive symptoms could modify this predictive role.

Clinical and cytologic characteristics of allergic rhinitis in elderly patients.

Background: The constant increase in the elderly population worldwide has led to a greater interest in immunologic responses during aging. Thus, special attention to allergic diseases in elderly people has begun to emerge, but little is known about the effect and features of allergic rhinitis in elderly people.

Objective: To evaluate the clinical and cytologic characteristics of respiratory allergy and its impact on the quality of life in elderly people.