Burden, satisfaction caregiving, and family relations in informal caregivers of older adults.

Introduction: Family caregivers of older persons devote much of their time and energy to caring for another person. This exposure may burden caregivers and compromise their health and quality of life.

Objective: To investigate the relationship between burden, sociodemographic, caregiving, and health characteristics of informal caregivers of dependent older adults.

Association between frailty and depression among hemodialysis patients: a cross-sectional study.

Background: Frailty is consensually understood to be a clinical syndrome in which minimal stressors can lead to negative outcomes such as hospitalization, early institutionalization, falls, functional loss and death. Frailty is more prevalent among patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), and those on dialysis are the frailest. Depression contributes towards putting patients with CKD into the frailty cycle.

25-hydroxyvitamin D in older adults: Which factors really matter?

Background And Objectives: This study investigated the interaction between a set of factors commonly associated with vitamin D production and nutritional intake and serum 25(OH)D levels among older adults.

Methods: Cross-sectional study on 346 adults over 60 years. Serum 25(OH)D levels were measured following routine biochemical laboratory protocols.

Social and health-related predictors of family function in older spousal caregivers: a cross-sectional study.

Unlabelled: Given the benefits of adequate family function for the health and well-being of older adults, it is important to understand what factors predict adequate family function in older people who care for their spouses.

Objective: Analyse predictors of family function in older spousal caregivers.

Methods: A cross-sectional study design was used to investigate a non-probabilistic sample of 298 older spousal caregivers.

Are body fat and inflammatory markers independently associated with age-related muscle changes?

Background & Aims: A growing number of studies have shown that body fat and inflammation are associated with age-related changes in body muscle composition. However, most of these studies did not control for potential confounders. The aim was to determine whether there is an association between body fat and inflammatory cytokines with muscle mass/strength decline in community-dwelling older adults.

Factors associated with depressive symptoms in older adults in context of social vulnerability.

Objective: To identify factors associated with depressive symptoms in the elderly inserted in a context of high social vulnerability.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out with 302 elderly people enrolled in Primary Care. We used a sociodemographic questionnaire, Geriatric Depression Scale, Mini Nutritional Assessment, Shor-form-6D Quality of Life Questionnaire and Medical Outcome Study Scale.