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Polypharmacy, benzodiazepines, and antidepressants, but not antipsychotics, are associated with increased falls risk in UK care home residents: a prospective multi-centre study (2020)
Journal Article

Purpose: Falls and polypharmacy are both common in care home residents. Deprescribing of medications in residents with increased falls risk is encouraged. Psychotropic medications are known to increase falls risk in older adults. These drugs are ofte... Read More about Polypharmacy, benzodiazepines, and antidepressants, but not antipsychotics, are associated with increased falls risk in UK care home residents: a prospective multi-centre study.

Research with older people in a world with COVID-19: identification of current and future priorities, challenges and opportunities (2020)
Journal Article

Older people are disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has had a profound impact on research as well as clinical service delivery. This commentary identifies key challenges and opportunities in continuing to conduct research wit... Read More about Research with older people in a world with COVID-19: identification of current and future priorities, challenges and opportunities.

COVID-19 highlights the need for universal adoption of standards of medical care for physicians in nursing homes in Europe (2020)
Journal Article

The nursing home sector has seen a disproportionately high number of deaths as part of the COVID-19 pandemic. This reflects, in part, the frailty and vulnerability of older people living in care homes but has also, in part, been a consequence of the... Read More about COVID-19 highlights the need for universal adoption of standards of medical care for physicians in nursing homes in Europe.

Protocol for a realist review of General Practitioners’ Role in Advancing Practice in Care Homes (GRAPE study) (2020)
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Introduction Older people who live in care homes have a high level of need with complex health conditions. In addition to providing medical care to residents, general practitioners (GPs) play a role as gatekeeper for access to services, as well as l... Read More about Protocol for a realist review of General Practitioners’ Role in Advancing Practice in Care Homes (GRAPE study).

Setting Priorities to Inform Assessment of Care Homes’ Readiness to Participate in Healthcare Innovation: A Systematic Mapping Review and Consensus Process (2020)
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Organisational context is known to impact on the successful implementation of healthcare initiatives in care homes. We undertook a systematic mapping review to examine whether researchers have considered organisational context when planning, conducti... Read More about Setting Priorities to Inform Assessment of Care Homes’ Readiness to Participate in Healthcare Innovation: A Systematic Mapping Review and Consensus Process.

Ethnic disparity in access to the memory assessment service between South Asian and white British older adults in the United Kingdom: A cohort study (2020)
Journal Article

Background: Equality of access to memory assessment services by older adults from ethnic minorities is both an ethical imperative and a public health priority. Objective: To investigate whether timeliness of access to memory assessment service diffe... Read More about Ethnic disparity in access to the memory assessment service between South Asian and white British older adults in the United Kingdom: A cohort study.

What is geriatric rehabilitation and how should it be organized? A Delphi study aimed at reaching European consensus (2019)
Journal Article

© 2019, The Author(s). Purpose: Many European countries have developed services to rehabilitate the increasing number of older people who experience an acute or subacute decrease in function after a medical event such as a hip fracture or stroke. How... Read More about What is geriatric rehabilitation and how should it be organized? A Delphi study aimed at reaching European consensus.

Effectiveness of exercise interventions for adults over 65 with moderate-to-severe dementia in community settings: a systematic review (2019)
Journal Article

Purpose To conduct a systematic review of the literature to evaluate the effectiveness of exercise interventions for people with moderate-to-severe dementia in community settings. Methods Eight electronic databases (MEDLINE, Embase, CINAHL, AMED... Read More about Effectiveness of exercise interventions for adults over 65 with moderate-to-severe dementia in community settings: a systematic review.

The treatment of hypertension in people with dementia: a multi-centre prospective observational cohort study (2019)
Journal Article

Objectives To describe the treatment of hypertension in people with dementia and collate evidence on adverse health events whilst on treatment. Design A multicenter prospective observational cohort study. Setting and participants People with... Read More about The treatment of hypertension in people with dementia: a multi-centre prospective observational cohort study.

Toward common data elements for international research in long-term care homes: advancing person-centered care (2019)
Journal Article

To support person-centered, residential long-term care internationally, a consortium of researchers in medicine, nursing, behavioral, and social sciences from 21 geographically and economically diverse countries have launched the WE-THRIVE consortium... Read More about Toward common data elements for international research in long-term care homes: advancing person-centered care.

Measuring health related quality of life of care home residents: comparison of self-report with staff proxy responses (2019)
Journal Article

Introduction: Care home residents are often unable to complete Health Related Quality of Life questionnaires for themselves because of prevalent cognitive impairment. This study compared care home resident and staff proxy responses for two measures,... Read More about Measuring health related quality of life of care home residents: comparison of self-report with staff proxy responses.

Advancing Long-Term Care Science Through Using Common Data Elements: Candidate Measures for Care Outcomes of Personhood, Well-Being, and Quality of Life (2019)
Journal Article

To support the development of internationally comparable common data elements (CDEs) that can be used to measure essential aspects of long-term care (LTC) across low-, middle-, and high-income countries, a group of researchers in medicine, nursing, b... Read More about Advancing Long-Term Care Science Through Using Common Data Elements: Candidate Measures for Care Outcomes of Personhood, Well-Being, and Quality of Life.

Comparing knowledge and attitudes to dementia care in Brazilian and UK GPs to guide future decisions about educational interventions (2018)
Journal Article

Background: Dementia training for Brazilian GPs is underdeveloped. We investigated knowledge and attitudes to dementia management amongst Brazilian GPs and compared these with previous UK findings to inform future decisions about how training is stru... Read More about Comparing knowledge and attitudes to dementia care in Brazilian and UK GPs to guide future decisions about educational interventions.