Development and feasibility of an exercise therapy intervention for older women with advanced epithelial ovarian cancer referred to neoadjuvant chemotherapy prior to possible interval debulking surgery.

Objective: This study describes the development and examines the feasibility of an exercise therapy program for women aged 70 years or older with advanced EOC, receiving neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT) before possible major surgery.

Methods: In this feasibility study, patients participated in a mainly home-based exercise therapy program, including progressive resistance training, physical activity, and support from the supervising physiotherapist. The program included both supervised virtual and face-to-face sessions and self-administered daily exercise.

Comparative analysis of hand-held and stationary ultrasound for detection of sarcopenia in acutely hospitalised older adults-a validity and reliability study.

Background And Purpose: Sarcopenia is a growing health concern among geriatric patients. Early diagnostics is importance to intervene and better muscle status and thus physical function. Ultrasound can be a valuable tool for patient-near diagnostics of sarcopenia.

Exercise in newly diagnosed patients with multiple myeloma: A randomized controlled trial of effects on physical function, physical activity, lean body mass, bone mineral density, pain, and quality of life.

Reduced physical function caused by bone destruction, pain, anemia, infections, and weight loss is common in multiple myeloma (MM). Myeloma bone disease challenges physical exercise. Knowledge on the effects and safety of physical exercise in newly diagnosed patients with MM is limited.

External validation and diagnostic value of the Elderly Functional Index version 2.0 for assessing functional status and frailty in older Danish patients with gastrointestinal cancer receiving chemotherapy: A prospective, clinical study.

Introduction: Patient perspectives on functioning are often overlooked in oncology practice. This study externally validates the ELderly Functional Index (ELFI), a patient-reported measure for assessing multidimensional functioning, in older patients with gastrointestinal cancer receiving chemotherapy. The study compares ELFI scoring methods, evaluates its diagnostic value with geriatric oncology tools, and proposes a cut-off point for clinical use.

Needs assessment in patients with inflammatory bowel disease in the encounter and communication with healthcare professionals: A fieldwork study.

Aim: To explore how patients with Inflammatory bowel disease experienced encounters with healthcare professionals in two gastrointestinal outpatient clinics to demonstrate what matters in the communication between patients and healthcare professionals.

Design: This fieldwork study is part of a larger study developing an application for patients with inflammatory bowel disease in a framework inspired by Participatory Design. Participatory design consists of three phases and this study focused on the first phase, needs assessment.

Symptoms of total pain experienced by older people with advanced gastrointestinal cancer receiving palliative chemotherapy.

Objective: Little is known about concurrent physical, psychological, social and spiritual distress experienced by older patients during early stages of advanced cancer while receiving life-prolonging treatment. Drawing on the concept of total pain, this study explored the multi-faceted symptoms of pain in older patients with advanced gastrointestinal cancer while receiving palliative chemotherapy.

Methods: A total of 14 in-depth interviews with seven participants were conducted, one interview at the beginning and one after completion of chemotherapy.

Transformations of practice in online exercise training for patients with COPD led by physiotherapists - a qualitative study.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to characterize the practice of telemediated training for patients with very severe Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and to inform the development of clinical/professional practice.

Methods: Inspired by ethnographic methodology, participating observation, informal and formal interviews were conducted with patients (11), their partners (4), and physiotherapists (6) at sites where the telemediated training was practiced. Postphenomenology was used as theoretical and analytical framework.

Frailty screening for predicting rapid functional decline, rapid progressive disease, and shorter overall survival in older patients with gastrointestinal cancer receiving palliative chemotherapy - a prospective, clinical study.

Objectives: A growing number of older patients with cancer require well-founded clinical decision-making. Frailty screening is suggested as a service to improve outcomes in vulnerable older patients with cancer. This prospective study examined the value of frailty screening to predict rapid functional decline, rapid progressive disease (PD) and shorter overall survival (OS) in older patients with gastrointestinal cancer receiving palliative chemotherapy.

Long-term follow-up 3 years after a randomized rehabilitation study among radiated prostate cancer survivors.

Purpose: In the Rehabilitation of Prostate Cancer (RePCa) study, the intervention reduced early adverse effects in prostate cancer 6 months after radiotherapy. This 3-year follow-up study assesses late adverse effects, evaluates rehabilitative long-term effects and identifies patients who benefit the most.

Design: RePCa was a randomized clinical trial with multidisciplinary rehabilitation (n = 79) or usual care (n = 82).

Healthcare Utilization After Stroke: A 1-Year Prospective Study.

Objectives: This study was undertaken to investigate the predictive value of disease-related factors, contextual factors, and functioning on the use of healthcare for 1 year after stroke.

Design: A prospective study.

Setting And Participants: In total, 219 patients with stroke admitted to a hospital stroke unit were included.

Physical function in patients newly diagnosed with multiple myeloma; a Danish cohort study.

Background: Multiple myeloma is a cancer in the bone marrow causing bone destruction. Patients experience various symptoms related to the disease and/or treatment, such as pain and fatigue, leading to poorer quality of life. The symptom burden might affect physical function and physical activity levels, posing a risk of physical deterioration.

Effectiveness of Physical Therapy- and Occupational Therapy-Based Rehabilitation in People Who Have Glioma and Are Undergoing Active Anticancer Treatment: Single-Blind, Randomized Controlled Trial.

Background: It is recommended that people with gliomas engage in rehabilitation, but high-quality evidence to support this recommendation is lacking.

Objective: This study assesses the effectiveness of a physical therapy- and occupational therapy-based rehabilitation intervention compared with usual rehabilitation care for quality of life (QoL) during active anticancer treatment.

Design: This study was a randomized controlled trial.

Supervised and home-based physical exercise in patients newly diagnosed with multiple myeloma-a randomized controlled feasibility study.

Background: The study evaluated the feasibility and safety of the exercise intervention and physical test procedures of our ongoing randomized controlled trial, examining the effect of physical exercise in newly diagnosed patients with multiple myeloma.

Methods: Patients are randomized 1:1 to a control group (usual care) or an intervention group (usual care and exercise) by block randomization with stratification of planned treatment, WHO performance status, and study site. The exercise intervention consists of eight supervised exercise sessions combined with home-based exercise over a 10-week period.

"Caught in a Generation Gap": A Generation Perspective on Refugees Getting Old in Denmark-A Qualitative Study.

Purpose: Older non-Western migrants in Europe are a vulnerable population, due to old age and multiple disadvantages related to language barriers and different understandings of care, health, and disease. Our aim was to gain a better understanding and insight into the care needs of families with refugee background Method: The study was designed as a qualitative exploration using semistructured individual interviews and family group interviews.

Results: The results illustrate how vulnerability can "transmit" from one family member to another.

Older migrants in exile: the past holding hands with the present - a qualitative study.

The aim of this study was to explore the everyday life conditions experienced by older migrants and their reasons for specific age- and health-related behaviour during the conduct of everyday life. The study comprised 16 qualitative interviews with migrants aged 56-96 years from Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq and Somalia. The three themes that emerged from the conditions, meanings and reasons analysis illustrated that the older persons were trapped in various ways -without language, in fragmented families and in an unfamiliar structure.

A 12-week interdisciplinary rehabilitation trial in patients with gliomas - a feasibility study.

Purpose: This report aims to assess the safety and feasibility of using an interdisciplinary rehabilitation intervention for a future randomized controlled trial in patients with gliomas in the initial treatment phase.

Method: We conducted an outpatient two-part rehabilitation intervention that involved six weeks of therapeutic supervised training (part one) and six weeks of unsupervised training in a local gym following a training protocol (part two).

Results: Predefined feasibility objectives of safety (100%), consent rate (>80%), drop-out (<20%), adherence (>80%) and patient satisfaction (>80%) was achieved at part one.

Male coping through a long-term cancer trajectory. Secondary outcomes from a RTC examining the effect of a multidisciplinary rehabilitation program (RePCa) among radiated men with prostate cancer.

Background: The objective of this study was to examine if rehabilitation influenced self-reported male coping styles during and up to three years after treatment with radiotherapy for prostate cancer.

Materials And Methods: In a single-center oncology unit in Odense, Denmark, 161 prostate cancer patients treated with radiotherapy and androgen deprivation therapy were included in a randomized controlled trial from 2010 to 2012. The trial examined the effect of a multidisciplinary rehabilitation program within six months of treatment consisting of two nursing counseling sessions and two instructive sessions with a physical therapist (n = 79), or standard care (n = 82).

Occurrence and Predictors of Falls in People With Stroke: Six-Year Prospective Study.

Background And Purpose: The purpose was to investigate the occurrence of self-reported falls in people with stroke at 3, 6, and 12 months and 6 years post stroke and predictors for falls during 6 years.

Methods: A prospective study involving 121 people with stroke. Data were obtained through structured interviews and assessments.

Mediating the effect of self-care management intervention in type 2 diabetes: a meta-analysis of 47 randomised controlled trials.

Objective: To perform a meta-analysis assessing the effects of self-care management interventions in improving glycaemic control in type 2 diabetes by analysing the impact of different study characteristics on the effect size.

Methods: A literature search in eight scientific databases up to November 2007 included original studies of randomised controlled trials involving adult patients diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and evaluating a self-care management intervention.

Results: The 47 included studies yielded 7677 participants.