A new research review published in BMC Nursing examines how nurses view older patients’ physical decline and frailty in nursing homes and home care settings versus how older adults themselves and ...

Background Muscle wasting and weakness (sarcopenia) are commonly associated with COPD causing frailty and reduced quality of ...

At the opening of the World Congress on Osteoporosis, Osteoarthritis & Musculoskeletal Diseases in Rome, Italy, on April 10th, the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) honoured Professor ...

In particular, nutrition plays a major role in healthy aging by reducing one’s risk of chronic disease, age-related muscle loss (sarcopenia ... of mental decline, frailty, poor heart health ...

Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the impact of a low-volume, remotely supervised resistance training protocol on physical frailty among frail older adults attending daycare centers. Secondary ...

A comprehensive training programme made care home staff better equipped to support residents with diabetes. This is a Journal Club article and comes with a handout that you can download and distribute ...

Celularity (CELU) announced a publication in the April 4 issue of peer-reviewed journal Frontiers in Immunology, the official journal of the ...

Cognitive frailty (CF) is an age-related condition that combines ... decline (SCD), mild cognitive impairment (MCI), motoric cognitive risk syndrome (MCR), and sarcopenia (Yamasaki and Ikeda, 2024).

Background Skeletal muscle mass (SMM) is inversely associated with cardiometabolic health and the ageing process. The aim of the present work was to evaluate the relation between SMM and 10 year ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis’ frailty was on full view as he left Rome’s Gemelli hospital last Sunday after five weeks battling pneumonia that nearly killed him. He could barely lift his arms to ...