Falls are a common and often devastating problem among older people, causing a
tremendous amount of morbidity, mortality and use of health care services including premature …

Objective To assess the relative effectiveness of interventions to prevent falls in older adults
to either a usual care group or control group. Table 2 Components of multifactorial falls risk …

Falls and syncope are two common and interrelated geriatric syndromes that cause
considerable mortality and morbidity among older adults. Multiple causes and predisposing risk …

There is disagreement on the usefulness of comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) due
to conflicting results from individual trials. We did a meta-analysis on 28 controlled trials …

Background . The Mini-Nutritional Assessment (MNA) is a validated assessment instrument
for nutritional problems, but its length limits its usefulness for screening. We sought to …

The Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA®) is a simple tool, useful in clinical practice to measure
nutritional status in elderly persons. From its validation in 1994, the MNA® has been used …

We randomly assigned frail elderly inpatients with a high probability of nursing-home
placement to an innovative geriatric evaluation unit intended to provide improved diagnostic …

ContextCare of patients with depression in managed primary care settings often fails to
meet guideline standards, but the long-term impact of quality improvement (QI) programs for …

OBJECTIVES: To develop a simple method for identifying community‐dwelling vulnerable
older people, defined as persons age 65 and older at increased risk of death or functional …

OBJECTIVE: To develop and test the effectiveness of a 5‐item version of the Geriatric Depression
Scale (GDS) in screening for depression in a frail community‐dwelling older population…