All Outputs (17)

Frailty identification and management among Brazilian healthcare professionals: a survey (2024)
Journal Article

Background: National and international guidelines on frailty assessment and management recommend frailty screening in older people. This study aimed to determine how Brazilian healthcare professionals (HCPs) identify and manage frailty in practice.... Read More about Frailty identification and management among Brazilian healthcare professionals: a survey.

The effects of neuromuscular electrical stimulation on hospitalised adults: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials (2023)
Journal Article

Introduction Neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) is a treatment to prevent or reverse acquired disability in hospitalised adults. We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of its effectiveness. Method We searched MEDLINE, EMBASE, Cum... Read More about The effects of neuromuscular electrical stimulation on hospitalised adults: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials.

Identifying and Managing Frailty: A Survey of UK Healthcare Professionals (2023)
Journal Article

Frailty is a common condition that leads to multiple adverse outcomes. Frailty should be identified and managed in a holistic, evidence-based and patient-centered way. We aimed to understand how UK healthcare professionals (HCPs) identify and manage... Read More about Identifying and Managing Frailty: A Survey of UK Healthcare Professionals.

A multidomain decision support tool to prevent falls in older people: the FinCH cluster RCT (2022)
Journal Article

Background Falls in care home residents are common, unpleasant, costly and difficult to prevent. Objectives The objectives were to evaluate the clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of the Guide to Action for falls prevention in Care Hom... Read More about A multidomain decision support tool to prevent falls in older people: the FinCH cluster RCT.

Multifactorial falls prevention programme compared with usual care in UK care homes for older people: Multicentre cluster randomised controlled trial with economic evaluation (2021)
Journal Article

Objectives To determine the clinical and cost effectiveness of a multifactorial fall prevention programme compared with usual care in long term care homes. Design Multicentre, parallel, cluster randomised controlled trial. Setting Long term care home... Read More about Multifactorial falls prevention programme compared with usual care in UK care homes for older people: Multicentre cluster randomised controlled trial with economic evaluation.

Feasibility RCT of neuromuscular electrical stimulation; an Intervention to Maintain and improve neuroMuscular function during periods of Immobility (IMMI): Protocol (2021)
Working Paper

East Midlands Research into Ageing Network (EMRAN) is a research collaboration across the East Midlands to facilitate collaborative applied clinical research into ageing and the care of older people. EMRAN was set up by NIHR CLAHRC East Midlands and... Read More about Feasibility RCT of neuromuscular electrical stimulation; an Intervention to Maintain and improve neuroMuscular function during periods of Immobility (IMMI): Protocol.

Effects of neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) in acutely hospitalised adult patients -protocol for a systematic review of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) (2021)
Working Paper

Learning from a successful process evaluation in care homes (2021)
Journal Article

Introduction process evaluations (PE) are increasingly used in parallel with randomised controlled trials (RCT) to inform the implementation of complex health interventions. This paper explores the learning accrued from conducting a PE within the Fa... Read More about Learning from a successful process evaluation in care homes.

Optimal care for the management of older people non-weight bearing after lower limb fracture: a consensus study (2021)
Journal Article

Background: Older people who are non-weight-bearing after a lower limb fracture are at risk of poor outcomes but there are no clinical guidelines for this group of patients. Given the paucity of the research evidence base, we conducted a consensus ex... Read More about Optimal care for the management of older people non-weight bearing after lower limb fracture: a consensus study.

Optimal management of older people with frailty non-weight bearing after lower limb fracture: a scoping review (2021)
Journal Article

Background Patients with lower limb fractures who are non-weight bearing are at risk of the complications of the associated immobility and disability, particularly people with frailty, but there is lack of clarity about what constitutes optimal ca... Read More about Optimal management of older people with frailty non-weight bearing after lower limb fracture: a scoping review.

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.

Developing the React to Falls resources to support care home staff in managing falls (2019)
Journal Article

Objectives: Care home residents are falling three times more often than elderly frail people living in their own homes and as such, the management of falls is an important area for care home staff to consider. This paper outlines the development of t... Read More about Developing the React to Falls resources to support care home staff in managing falls.

Systematic scoping review of frameworks used to develop rehabilitation interventions for older adults (2019)
Journal Article

Objectives: Rehabilitation interventions for older adults are complex as they involve a number of interacting components, have multiple outcomes of interest and are influenced by a number of contextual factors. The importance of rigorous intervention... Read More about Systematic scoping review of frameworks used to develop rehabilitation interventions for older adults.

Evaluation of the Guide to Action Care Home fall prevention programme in care homes for older people: protocol for a multi-centre, single blinded, cluster randomised controlled trial (FinCH) (2019)
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Background: Falls in older care home residents are at least five times more frequent than in community dwelling adults and have higher direct costs. Care home research is limited but suggests that fall-related injuries might be prevented by fall prev... Read More about Evaluation of the Guide to Action Care Home fall prevention programme in care homes for older people: protocol for a multi-centre, single blinded, cluster randomised controlled trial (FinCH).

Chair based exercise in community settings: a cluster randomised feasibility study (2018)
Journal Article

Background: Some older people who find standard exercise programmes too strenuous may be encouraged to exercise while remaining seated - chair based exercises (CBE). We previously developed a consensus CBE programme (CCBE) following a modified Delphi... Read More about Chair based exercise in community settings: a cluster randomised feasibility study.

Developing the principles of chair based exercise for older people: a modified Delphi study (2014)
Journal Article

Chair-Based Exercises for Frail Older People: A Systematic Review (2013)
Journal Article