Publications by authors named "M G M Marcel Olde Rikkert"
Background: Elder abuse is a worldwide problem with serious consequences for individuals and society. To effectively deal with elder abuse, a timely identification of signals as well as a systematic approach towards (suspected) elder abuse is necessary. This study aimed to develop and test the acceptability and appropriateness of ERASE (EldeR AbuSE) in the emergency department (ED) setting.
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- A study looked into factors that can help reduce the risk of dementia and checked if the "LIBRA" score needs updating!
- After reviewing many research studies and getting input from experts, they found six important factors, but highlighted three: hearing problems, social contact, and sleep!
- The study suggests that it's important to keep updating the ways we measure dementia risk, and future work will check how well the new LIBRA score works!
Background: Count scores, disease clustering, and pairwise associations between diseases remain ubiquitous in multimorbidity research despite two major shortcomings: they yield no insight into plausible mechanisms underlying multimorbidity, and they ignore higher-order interactions such as effect modification.
Objectives: We argue that two components are currently missing but vital to develop novel multimorbidity metrics. Firstly, networks should be constructed which consists simultaneously of signs, symptoms, and diseases, since only then could they yield insight into plausible shared biological mechanisms underlying diseases.
Policymakers around the world were generally unprepared for the global COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, the virus has led to millions of cases and hundreds of thousands of deaths. Theoretically, the number of cases and deaths did not have to happen (as demonstrated by the results in a few countries).
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