Purpose To assess the prevalence of polypharmacy and frailty, to examine their association,
and to establish their independent and combined effects on mortality in a sample of French …

We reviewed the use of telephone tests to identify cognitive impairment. We searched
PubMed for epidemiological studies and clinical trials reporting the use of telephone tests to …

Background: Unmet health care needs are associated with negative health outcomes, yet
there is a paucity of data on this problem among older people. Objective: To identify unmet …

Health is a multi-dimensional concept, capturing how people feel and function. The broad
concept of Active and Healthy Ageing was proposed by the World Health Organisation …

OBJECTIVES: To identify early markers of prolonged hospital stays in older people in acute
hospitals. DESIGN: A prospective, multicenter study. SETTING: Nine hospitals in France …

Introduction: Although previous studies suggest that music may facilitate verbal learning in a
healthy population, such a mnemonic effect has seldom been investigated in Alzheimer's …

Objectives. We investigated whether, and under what conditions, informal caregiving is
associated with improved self-reported physical and mental health, most notably in terms of …

Purpose The quality of drug therapy is an important issue for nursing homes. This study
aimed to assess the prevalence of polypharmacy and potentially inappropriate medications …

Objectives: The aim of this study was to assess the psychometric properties and the
transcultural adaptation into French of the quality-of-life in Alzheimer's disease (QoL-AD) …

Frailty in the older population is a clinical syndrome which evaluate a risk level. The Frailty
syndrome defines a reduction of the adaptation capacity to a stress. It can be modulated by …