The Association of Dementia With Incident Adverse Drug Reactions in Hospitalized Older Adults.

Background: Older adults with dementia commonly receive multiple medications and have higher hospitalization rates, elevating the risk of potentially inappropriate prescribing and in-hospital adverse drug reactions (ADRs). There is limited evidence examining ADRs in older adults with dementia during hospitalization.

Objectives: Our aim was to assess the association between dementia and incidence of ADRs during hospitalization and to identify prevalent types of ADRs and medications linked to ADRs.

Effect of Milk and Other Dairy Products on the Risk of Frailty, Sarcopenia, and Cognitive Performance Decline in the Elderly: A Systematic Review.

Nutrition is a modifiable factor potentially related to aging. Milk and other dairy products may contribute to the prevention of physical and cognitive impairment. We conducted a systematic review to investigate the effectiveness of dairy product intake for preventing cognitive decline, sarcopenia, and frailty in the elderly population.

Association between urinary incontinence and frailty: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Purpose: Urinary incontinence (UI) and frailty are common geriatric syndromes. Although literature increasingly supports a relationship between these two conditions, no systematic review and meta-analysis has been performed on this topic. Therefore, we aimed to investigate the potential association between UI and frailty, through a meta-analytic approach.

[Consensus document on overactive bladder in older patients].

Overactive nladder (OAB) is a clinical entity with a high prevalence in the population, having a high impact on quality of life, especially when it occurs with urge urinary incontinence. It is very important to highlight the low rate of consultation of this condition by the older population. This appears to depend on several factors (educational, cultural, professional), and thus leads to the low percentage of older patients who receive appropriate treatment and, on the other hand, a large percentage of older patients with a significant deterioration in their quality of life.

[University studies plan in geriatric medicine developed using a modified Delphi technique].

Introduction: The increase in the number of frail elderly people has led to the necessity that all doctors of the future acquire sufficient knowledge on human ageing and the skills in the management of the patient of advanced age, as well as the diseases associated with ageing. Few countries offer geriatric medicine within undergraduate training. The purpose of the present project was to obtain a consensus between European geriatricians on the minimum requirements that medical students must achieve at the end of their university degree course.

[Flu vaccination in the elderly].

Seasonal flu is a very serious public health problem in the elderly due to its morbidity and mortality and financial and social costs arising from this. The aim of this review is to describe the magnitude and importance of seasonal flu in this population group, and its prevention by means of vaccination. For this reason, an updated account of the composition of the vaccine, its dosage and administration route, vaccine safety and the evaluation of the immunogenicity and effectiveness of vaccination.

[Prevalence and main characteristics of urinary incontinence among institutionalized older people in Madrid (Spain)].

Introduction: Urinary incontinence (UI) has been poorly studied in Spanish nursing homes. The objective is to determine the prevalence and related factors of UI in institutionalized older people in Madrid, Spain.

Methods: A probabilistic sample of 754 subjects 65 years of age and older living in public and private institutions in Madrid was randomly selected through stratified cluster sampling.

[Prognostic value of functional assessment at admission in an emergency short-stay unit].

Introduction: To determine the prognostic value of functional impairment on the final destination of elders admitted for acute medical illness to an emergency short-stay unit (ESSU).

Material And Methods: We performed a prospective analysis of patients aged more than 65 years old admitted to the ESSU of Hospital Clínico San Carlos in Madrid in April 2008. A protocol was designed that included epidemiologic variables (age and gender), clinical variables (reason for admission, comorbidity measured by the Charlson Index [CI]) and functional variables (previous, admission and functional decline [FD] measured with the Barthel [BI] and Lawton Indexes [LI]).