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Incidence of cognitive impairment and dementia after hospitalisation for pneumonia: a UK population-based matched cohort study (2023)
Journal Article
Chalitsios, C. V., Baskaran, V., Harwood, R. H., Lim, W. S., & McKeever, T. M. (2023). Incidence of cognitive impairment and dementia after hospitalisation for pneumonia: a UK population-based matched cohort study. ERJ Open Research, 9(3), Article 00328-2022. https://doi.org/10.1183/23120541.00328-2022

Background Survivors of common infections may develop cognitive impairment or dementia; however, the risk of these conditions in people hospitalised with pneumonia is not well established.

Methods A matched cohort study was conducted using Hospit... Read More about Incidence of cognitive impairment and dementia after hospitalisation for pneumonia: a UK population-based matched cohort study.

Promoting continence in older people (2022)
Journal Article
Schlögl, M., Umbehr, M. H., Habib, M. H., Wagg, A., Gordon, A. L., & Harwood, R. (2022). Promoting continence in older people. Age and Ageing, 51(9), Article afac199. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afac199

The prevalence of urinary incontinence (UI) is strongly associated with increasing age. Twenty five percent of women over 80 years of age have clinically significant symptoms in population surveys, but prevalence is as high as 70% in older hospital i... Read More about Promoting continence in older people.

Impact of COVID-19 lockdown on physical exercise among participants receiving the Promoting Activity, Independence and Stability in Early Dementia (PrAISED) intervention: a repeated measure study (2022)
Journal Article
Di Lorito, C., van der Wardt, V., O'Brien, R., Gladman, J., Tahir, M., & Harwood, R. (2022). Impact of COVID-19 lockdown on physical exercise among participants receiving the Promoting Activity, Independence and Stability in Early Dementia (PrAISED) intervention: a repeated measure study. BMC Geriatrics, 22, Article 605. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-022-03239-5

Background
The potential decrease in daily physical activity associated with the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns may have a negative impact on people living with dementia. Given the limited literature around the effects of home confinement in people liv... Read More about Impact of COVID-19 lockdown on physical exercise among participants receiving the Promoting Activity, Independence and Stability in Early Dementia (PrAISED) intervention: a repeated measure study.

Mixed-Methods Study on Caregiver Strain, Quality of Life, and Perceived Health (2021)
Journal Article
Di Lorito, C., Bosco, A., Godfrey, M., Dunlop, M., Lock, J., Pollock, K., Harwood, R. H., & van der Wardt, V. (2021). Mixed-Methods Study on Caregiver Strain, Quality of Life, and Perceived Health. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 80(2), 799-811. https://doi.org/10.3233/JAD-201257

Background:
Caring for someone with dementia is associated with negative and positive experiences. There is little evidence based on large datasets.

Objective:
To present data around the experience of caring for someone with dementia, to identif... Read More about Mixed-Methods Study on Caregiver Strain, Quality of Life, and Perceived Health.

The geriatrician’s role in end-of-life care (2020)
Journal Article
Ahmed, N., Ahmedzai, S. H., & Harwood, R. H. (2021). The geriatrician’s role in end-of-life care. Age and Ageing, 50(2), 366-369. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afaa266

Healthcare aims to help older people to live well, but ultimately must also support them to die well. Most people die in old age, but predicting death in both short- and long-term is impossible for many, although not all, older people. Frail older pe... Read More about The geriatrician’s role in end-of-life care.

Association of frailty with mortality in older inpatients with Covid-19: a cohort study (2020)
Journal Article
Aw, D., Woodrow, L., Ogliari, G., & Harwood, R. (2020). Association of frailty with mortality in older inpatients with Covid-19: a cohort study. Age and Ageing, 49(6), 915-922. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afaa184

Background: COVID-19 has disproportionately affected older people.
Objective: to investigate whether frailty is associated with all-cause mortality in older hospital inpatients, with COVID-19.
Design: cohort study
Setting: secondary care acute hos... Read More about Association of frailty with mortality in older inpatients with Covid-19: a cohort study.

Atypical presentation of COVID-19 in a frail older person (2020)
Journal Article
Tay, H. S., & Harwood, R. (2020). Atypical presentation of COVID-19 in a frail older person. Age and Ageing, 49(4), 523-524. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afaa068

Common symptoms of pandemic coronavirus disease (COVID-19) include fever and cough.We describe a 94-year-old man
with well-controlled schizoaffective disorder, who presented with non-specific and atypical symptoms: delirium, low-grade
pyrexia and a... Read More about Atypical presentation of COVID-19 in a frail older person.

End-of-life care for frail older people (2019)
Journal Article
Harwood, R. H., & Enguell, H. (2019). End-of-life care for frail older people. BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care, https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjspcare-2019-001953

Most people die when they are old, but predicting exactly when this will occur is unavoidably uncertain. The health of older people is challenged by multimorbidity, disability and frailty. Frailty is the tendency to crises or episodes of rapid deteri... Read More about End-of-life care for frail older people.