Isabelle Bourdel-Marchasson

..By introducing adequate medical and social interventions, comprehensive geriatric assessment, even in very old people, is useful in preventing acute situations leading to emergency referrals...

..Multidisciplinary interventions for fallers have provided conflicting results in part due to the diversity of fallers' profiles...

..It is now recommended to screen elderly diabetic patients for frailty criteria. The effect of combined individualized diabetes care and CGA on the aging profile should be investigated...

..Careful diagnosis and corrective interventions are needed for patients in this age group...

..021). A significant number of undiagnosed elderly had poor glucose control suggesting a potential benefit for diabetes screening in the elderly...

..to explore muscle mitochondria function with respect to age, functional status and nutrition in community-living and recovering hospitalized older subjects...

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..Self-assessment of professional practices for all staff categories that are involved in this area can be used to increase training of staff and quality of nutritional care...

..This study aimed to describe the nutritional status of geriatric home residents according to their place of dwelling and to identify institutional factors associated with higher rates of undernutrition...

..Lifestyle interventions in middle-aged or younger-elderly subjects should also be implemented in the general population...

..Which preventive actions should be implemented in aging patients with diabetes? Finally, what type of care should be provided for people with diabetes and mild cognitive impairment or overt dementia to slow down cognitive worsening?..

..Hyperosmolar syndromes are associated with high mortality rates, yet little is known about their incidence and their prognosis...

..To estimate the incidence and predictors of drug-treated diabetes in elderly subjects...

..Metabolic alterations in skeletal muscle associated with malnutrition and the potential reversibility of such alterations during refeeding are not fully understood...

..to investigate blood markers of oxidative stress, and enzymatic and non-enzymatic antioxidants in normally nourished elderly people with Alzheimer's disease...

..Elderly inpatients are particularly exposed to the risk of nosocomial infections, thus the study of their risk factors and consequences is of interest...

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..Long term nutritional supplementation trials in patients with CHF and cachexia are thus required to establish recommendations for the nutritional management of patients with CHF...

..To evaluate effects of early intensive physiotherapy during acute illness on post hospitalization activity daily living autonomy (ADL)...

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..The aim of this study was to evaluate risk factors of early rehospitalization in a shortstay geriatric unit...

..To assess the effects of delirium on the institutionalization rate, taking into account geriatric syndromes and nutritional status...

..The potential for nutritional intervention in geriatric oncology with regard to CGA is explored...

..Observation of insulin use in consecutive hospitalized diabetic older patients in acute care wards with reference to nutritional intakes, measures of functional status, and varying clinical situations...

..It could be related to the modifications of muscle-fiber composition described in elderly subjects and enhanced by hospitalization...

..0-1.8], p = 0.01), in addition to tobacco use, hypertension and functional dependency. These results confirm suggestions that diabetes increases mortality in the over-65 age group, perhaps with an adverse interaction with other pathology...

..To explore and determine the clinical figures of behavioral syndromes from the factor structure of the Neuropsychiatric Inventory-Nursing Home version (NPI-NH) in demented and psychotic patients...

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..In older people, the decrease in muscle mass and strength has a bad effect on functional status. Malnutrition and lack of physical activity exacerbate this phenomenon...

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..The present study intends to address this issue by providing a method to investigate mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation affinity for ADP in isolated mitochondria...

..Therefore, available data from elderly subgroups of individual studies were also reviewed when available, as well as pooled analyses by age subgroups across clinical programs conducted with incretin therapies...

..The general aim of the AMI cohort was to study health and aging in elderly farmers living in rural area through a multidisciplinary approach, with a main focus on dementia...

..38, P = 0.04). In conclusion, it was possible to increase the dietary intake of critically ill elderly subjects by systematic use of oral supplements. This intervention was associated with a decreased risk of pressure ulcer incidence...