The effect of social frailty on mental health and quality of life in older people: a cross-sectional study.

Purpose: This study aims to evaluate anxiety, depression, loneliness, death anxiety, and quality of life and investigate their relationship with social frailty in the geriatric population. Additionally, it aimed to identify social frailty predictors.

Methods: The study included 136 participants admitted to the geriatric outpatient clinic.

Which comorbidity index is more appropriate for geriatric patients from the frailty perspective?

Objectives: This study examined the relationship between comorbidity indices and physical, psychologic and social frailty and 1-year mortality.

Methods: A cross-sectional analysis was conducted with 136 community-dwelling older adults. The relationship of 4 comorbidity indices (CIRS-G, ACCI, GIC, ICED) with 3 different frailty scales (FRAIL, CFS, TFI) was examined.

Dysphagia is closely related to frailty in mild-to-moderate Alzheimer's disease.

Introduction: Physical phenotype and the cumulative deficit model are two well-known concepts of frailty. One of the main components of frailty is loss of muscle mass and function, which may also include swallowing muscles, therefore is a risk factor for dysphagia. Since dysphagia is seen starting from the early stages of Alzheimer's Disease (AD), in this study we aimed to reveal the relationship between frailty and dysphagia and dysphagia-related quality of life through Swallow Quality of Life (SwalQoL) tool in patients with AD and compare them with cognitively intact older adults.

Elasticity of leg muscles and incidence of falls in older adults: a prospective cohort analysis.

Purpose: Aging impacts muscle strength and elasticity, which in turn influence dynamic balance, walking speed, and physical performance. We aimed to evaluate the relationship between the elasticity of leg muscles and incidence of falls in older adults.

Methods: We conducted a prospective cohort analysis with outpatients from a geriatric clinic.

Cognitive assessment in the time of pandemics: mandatory surgical face mask usage affects cognitive test performance of older adults.

Background: The most important disadvantage of surgical mask usage is that it can aversely affect communication. This study aimed to evaluate the possible effects of face masks on the cognitive test performance of older adults.

Methods: A total of 198 geriatric patients were enrolled after applying the exclusion criteria.

Thiol/Disulfide Balance in Older Patients with BCR-ABL Negative Myeloproliferative Neoplasms.

Background: The trio Essential Thrombocytosis (ET), Polycythemia Vera (PV), and Primary Myelofibrosis (PM) are BCR-ABL negative myeloproliferative neoplasms. All three diseases have the risk of transforming into acute leukemia. Oxidative stress and some genetic mutations increase the risk of leukemic transformation.

Integration of low muscle mass into the IPS system and its prognostic significance in patients with Hodgkin's lymphoma.

The aim of this study is to determine whether a novel prognostic score can be obtained by including low muscle mass in the international prognostic score (IPS) system. Psoas muscle areas were determined in the PET/CT scans of the patients taken for staging at the time of diagnosis and after two cycles of ABVD. After evaluating the effect of low muscle mass on overall survival, receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analyzes were performed by including it in IPS systems.

Predictive ability of the G8 screening test to determine probable sarcopenia and abnormal comprehensive geriatric assessment in older patients with solid malignancies.

Background: Pre-treatment evaluation for sarcopenia is recommended in cancer patients. New screening tests that are less time-consuming and can identify patients who will potentially benefit from geriatric assessment are being developed; the G8 geriatric screening test is one such example. We aimed to investigate whether the G8 screening test can detect probable sarcopenia and is valid and reliable compared to a comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) in Turkish older adults with solid cancers.

The relationship between the severity of insomnia and falls in the elderly.

Background: Insomnia is associated with depression, cognitive impairment, hypertension, myocardial infarction, stroke, metabolic syndrome and prostate cancer in the elderly. The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between severity of insomnia and falls.

Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in a single geriatric outpatient clinic at a university teaching hospital.

Global Leadership Initiative on Malnutrition criteria with different muscle assessments including muscle ultrasound with hospitalized internal medicine patients.

Background: The aim of this study is to identify cutoff values for muscle ultrasound (US) to be used in Global Leadership Initiative on Malnutrition (GLIM) criteria, and to define the effect of reduced muscle mass assessment on malnutrition prevalence at hospital admission.

Methods: A total of 118 inpatients were enrolled in this cross-sectional study. Six different muscles were evaluated by US.

Validity and reliability of the G8 screening test in older non-cancer patients.

Purpose: A comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) is a time-consuming approach that requires a special team and a screening test, whereas the G8 screening test is a practical and validated test for screening cancer patients. This study aimed to evaluate the validity and reliability of the G8 test in older patients without cancer and to investigate its concordance with CGA in an outpatient clinic.

Methods: Two hundred older patients were included in the study.

Relationship between psychological pain and death anxiety with comprehensive geriatric assessment in older adults.

Aim: Psychological pain refers to the torment that results from adverse experiences, such as loneliness, guilt, frustration, hopelessness or loss. Psychological pain may impair physical and psychosocial functioning of older adults. Death anxiety is associated with cognitive function deterioration, change to social environment and increased risk of depression.

Frailty is associated with poor sleep quality in the oldest old.

Background/aim: Sleep disorders and frailty increase with advancing age, along with physical disabilities, cognitive dysfunction, mood disorders, and social vulnerability. Thus, the study objective was to evaluate the relationship between frailty and sleep quality in the oldest old patients.

Materials And Methods: In this study, 100 patients aged ≥80 years were assessed using comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) including basic activities of daily living (ADL), instrumental ADL, handgrip strength, the Geriatric Depression Scale-15, the Mini- Mental State Examination, and the Mini-Nutritional Assessment-Short Form.