Glycemic control in the context of #frailty: a #mortality risk assessment in older diabetic patients

"...These findings challenge the application of uniform #treatment targets and suggest the potential value of personalized, frailty-stratified approaches to #diabetes management in older adults..."

#Geriatrics #Care #Health #CGA #MedMastodon

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40520-026-03385-5?utm_source=springer_etoc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CONR_40520_AWA1_GL_DTEC_054CI_TOC-030626&utm_content=etoc_springer_20260603

Show us the #evidence for the value of medical #AI

Claims that medical AI is improving care must be backed by appropriate evidence

(e.g., Are older persons adequately represented?)

#Medicine #ArtificialIntelligence #Research #Ageing #Frailty

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-026-04389-4

Assessment of #sleep in older people within comprehensive geriatric assessments: a scoping review

"...Sleep can be assessed by any #healthcare practitioner in the multidisciplinary team..."

#Geriatrics #Frailty #CGA #Health #Care
#MedMastodon

https://academic.oup.com/ageing/article/55/5/afag094/8693233

#Frailty and #IntrinsicCapacity are not competing constructs

Their complementary use supports delivering integrated, person-centred #care for older people, grounded in a holistic, capacity-focused, #multidisciplinary approach

#Geriatrics #PrimaryCare #Health

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https://academic.oup.com/ageing/article-abstract/doi/10.1093/ageing/afag138/8689999?utm_source=authortollfreelink&utm_campaign=ageing&utm_medium=email

#Frailty and #IntrinsicCapacity: integrating complementary concepts to promote healthy #ageing and transformation of #care

"...what unites and differentiates them, and how each contributes to a common understanding of high-quality, integrated care for older people..."

#Geriatrics #Health #Aging #MedMastodon

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https://academic.oup.com/ageing/article/55/5/afag138/8689999

Clinical and #Care Coordination Predictors of Adverse Outcomes in a Geriatric #Emergency Department

"...The existence of an established #PrimaryCare relationship significantly predicted lower in-hospital mortality..."

#Frailty #Geriatrics

https://www.jamda.com/article/S1525-8610%2826%2900117-9/fulltext

New #blog #post: Mind the Shards

https://rldane.space/mind-the-shards.html

552 words

Mild #CW: I'm discussing mental health, and briefly, faith.

cc: my wonderful #chorus: @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk @krafter @roguefoam @clayton @giantspacesquid @Twizzay @stfn

(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)

#rlDaneWriting #blost #podcasts #MentalHealth #MandyPatinkin #frailty

A 14-year longitudinal study of over 17,000 people over 50 found that physical frailty was associated with low income, food insecurity, and poor housing quality.

Summary: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-05-economic-insecurity-linked-frailty-life.html

Original paper: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/ageing-and-society/article/later-life-precarity-and-longitudinal-frailty-trajectories-in-older-adults/5B3354CD48E207E441A8FB739208E2B8

#Science #Aging #Frailty

#Frailty (2001)

A mysterious man arrives at the offices of an FBI agent and recounts his childhood: how his religious fanatic father received visions telling him to destroy people who were in fact "demons."
#TwistInMovies #FilmMastodon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW6TlPMHXgk