- Effects of dairy product intake and home-based resistance exercise on the physical function in Japanese community-dwelling older adults: results of a real-world randomized controlled trial. [Randomized Controlled Trial]BMC Geriatr. 2026 Aug 04; 26(1).BG
- CONCLUSIONS: Adding modest dairy product intake to home-based resistance training did not provide additional overall benefits compared to exercise alone. However, exploratory findings suggest that baseline dairy consumption may influence the responsiveness of older adults to combined nutrition and exercise interventions.
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- Staff experiences of person-centred care and quality of life in nursing homes as influenced by leadership and work situation: a qualitative study. [Journal Article]BMC Geriatr. 2026 Oct 30; 26(1).BG
- CONCLUSIONS: Staff described a strong intrinsic commitment to providing PCC that supports residents' QoL. However, their ability to do so was shaped by leadership and organisational conditions. Enabling PCC in nursing homes therefore requires not only staff commitment, but also supportive leadership, adequate staffing and work environments that allow time, communication and continuity in care.
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- Functional health, environmental engagement and mental wellbeing as interrelated components of healthy ageing: a cross-sectional comparative study of community-dwelling and institutionalized older adults. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: The findings suggest that healthy ageing in this sample was characterized by multidimensional, heterogeneous and interrelated profiles rather than residential status alone. Functional movement quality and environmental engagement were associated with several healthy ageing indicators, but causal mechanisms cannot be inferred. The results should be interpreted as exploratory and hypothesis-generating, warranting confirmation in larger longitudinal and intervention studies.
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- Delirium in elderly critically ill patients: the value of cerebral regulation. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: Cerebral regulation-targeted optimal blood pressure management was associated with a reduced incidence of delirium and shorter ICU stay in elderly critically ill patients, without increasing mortality. Larger multicenter randomized controlled trials are needed to confirm these findings and guide clinical implementation.
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- Qualitative study on the experience and needs of social isolation in older adults with stroke. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: The social isolation experience of older adults with stroke is influenced by the interaction of multiple factors at the individual, family, and social environmental levels. Future interventions should move beyond a singular physiological rehabilitation perspective to construct a cross-system comprehensive support system encompassing individual psychological empowerment, family resilience enhancement, and social environment optimization, in order to improve their social isolation status and enhance their quality of life.
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- Living alone, socioeconomic status, and mortality among older adults: a population-based cohort study. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: We found that although living alone is associated with mortality, adjustment for social and functional factors may attenuate this association. However, specific subgroups with low income, and scarce social relation lead to increased CCV mortality. Further study with a larger sample size is necessary to confirm this finding.
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- Associations between health literacy and selected lifestyle behaviors among community-dwelling older adults. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: Approximately one-third of older adults had problematic-limited / inadequate health literacy. An independent association was observed between limited HL and a higher probability of being physically inactive. However, health literacy was not independently related to smoking. These findings imply that health literacy may be an important factor underlying differences in physical activity engagement among older adults. Community-based strategies integrating health literacy support and promotion of physical activity may contribute to healthy ageing.
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- Changing care work and support needs across the home-based dementia care trajectory: a qualitative study of family caregivers in China. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: Caregivers' support needs were shaped not only by dementia-related changes, but also by the reorganisation of family care work and encounters with fragmented services. These findings suggest that support may be more responsive when aligned with transitions in caregiving responsibilities and service engagement rather than with dementia severity alone.
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- Orthostatic blood pressure fluctuations and risk of falls in community-dwelling older adults: the role of recovery time. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: Overall, only sOH was associated with falls. When RT was considered, those with Delayed and No Recovery showed higher risk of falls regardless of the OH definition used.
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- Eating disorder-related attitudes as predictors of pre-frailty/frailty in older adults: a cross-sectional clinical study. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: Eating disorder-related attitudes may be associated with increased frailty risk in older adults, highlighting the potential importance of integrating disordered eating assessments into geriatric evaluation.
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- Network analysis of frailty, sleep quality, and life satisfaction in older patients: a cross-sectional study stratified by chronic disease burden. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: Among older patients, life satisfaction-related nodes showed relatively high overall connectivity, while several sleep-related nodes showed notable statistical associations within the estimated network. Given the high prevalence of multimorbidity in this sample, multidisciplinary assessment and health management should consider the interrelations among sleep problems, frailty, and life satisfaction in the context of chronic disease burden. Network analysis may provide exploratory evidence on cross-domain associations in complex health problems among older patients, but apparent differences across chronic disease burden groups require confirmation using formal network comparison tests and longitudinal designs.
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- The experience of cross-setting care transitions of long-term care residents to the emergency department: a qualitative study. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: The cross-setting care transition of LTC facility residents to the ED is a dynamic process of information reinterpretation and responsibility redistribution. Future transfer mechanisms should address the complex medical histories and care-oriented characteristics of facility residents and establish information-sharing systems with clearly defined responsibility boundaries to promote continuity of care.
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- A creative dance-supported CO-OP intervention for older adults with mild cognitive impairment: an assessor-blinded, external pilot randomised controlled trial. [Randomized Controlled Trial]
- CONCLUSIONS: This external pilot showed no superiority of CO-OP plus creative dance over CO-OP alone for the prespecified primary outcome (executive function). Preliminary signals for global cognition and dual-task accuracy warrant confirmation in an adequately powered definitive trial with a prespecified, clinically meaningful primary endpoint.
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- Latent profiles of health empowerment and associated factors among older adults hospitalised with stroke: a single-centre cross-sectional study. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: There is a heterogeneity in the level of health empowerment of elderly ischemic stroke patients, and healthcare professionals should take targeted measures to improve their health empowerment level and promote their physical and mental health.
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- Perceptions of older adults on chronic pain management in primary care settings. [Multicenter Study]
- CONCLUSIONS: Older adult patients with chronic pain share pain management goals and treatment preferences similar to those reported in studies of primary care clinicians. Greater satisfaction with pain management was associated with shared decision-making principles. Patients held favorable opinions towards I-COPE in addressing barriers to pain management.
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