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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Oldest old"”.
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Loneliness in the oldest old
… health are exclusively based on relatively young-old people (65 years and over) with the oldest old (80 years and over) under-represented. Compared to the young-old people, the oldest old are more likely to experience health problems and have fewer ties or contacts with others; therefore, they …
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The Lived Experience of Aging: Listening to the Oldest-Old
… embraced as desirable by most, living into very old age is largely unexplored as a distinct season of life, with increased, varied, and cumulative changes during a unique time of vulnerability and frailty. The purpose of this study was to listen to the oldest-old, and to explore their lived …
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Oldest-old partner’s experiences of providing end-of-life care: a narrative study
… in the community. Partly as a consequence, older partners are frequently providing for their partner’s end-of-life care at home, despite potentially facing their own health issues. Little is known about people aged 75 and over who are providing end-of-life care. In order to prepare our …
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Living arrangements and care provision among the oldest old people in China, 1998--2002
… of living arrangements and care provision of the oldest old Chinese: distribution and determinants, transitions, and psychological well-being outcomes. The results indicate that living with one son and reliance on family care are still common experiences among the oldest old people in China. …
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Life Satisfaction and the Oldest-Old. Results from the longitudinal population study "Good Aging in Skåne".
… aim was to examine what factors affect LS in the oldest-old in a multi disciplinal perspective. Health-related as well as psychological and socio-economical factors were included. In a logistic multiple regression model the number of symptoms, marital status, health locus of control (HLoC) …
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An Exploration of How Age and Aging Shape Caregiving Experiences in Oldest-old Spousal Caregivers of People with Dementia
Oldest-old spousal caregivers (CGs) of people with dementia are a fast growing, highly vulnerable, yet poorly understood population. As oldest-old individuals, these CGs have a high likelihood of experiencing aging-related changes (e.g., frailty, multimorbidities) that result in unique caregiving …
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Remote Social Contact and Loneliness Among the Young-Old, Middle-Old, and Oldest-Old Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic
… communication technology usage on loneliness of older adults classified as aged 65 and above as a whole. Because aging is a gradual process, several studies propose the existence of distinct age categories within the older adult population. However, little is understood about the association …
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Early parental loss, socioeconomic stressors, and health in later life: Evidence for gender disparity
… affected cognitive and subjective health in older adults. Using three main articles, this dissertation investigated (1) the effect of early parental loss on cognitive well-being in Chinese oldest old; (2) the effect of intergenerational socioeconomic mobility on cognitive and subjective …
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Ascertainment, prediction and implications of dementia diagnosis in a study of 'healthy' cognitive ageing: the Lothian Birth Cohort 1921
… population are expected to survive into advanced old age. As such, understanding the risks for dementia in the oldest-old and how these may differ from earlier old age is of increasing importance. The existing literature specific to the oldest-old is lower in volume and many of the findings are …
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Old age mortality in South Africa
… estimates the mortality of the South African oldest old age population (in five year age groups from age 75 up to the open age interval 100 and above) and in the process re-estimates the numbers of people in the population at these ages at the time of the 1996 and 2001 censuses, and the 2007 …
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Old-age hippocampal sclerosis in the aged population
Old-age hippocampal sclerosis (HS), characterised by severe neuron loss in hippocampal CA1, is a poorly understood cause of dementia. At present no objective pathological HS criteria exist. In life HS is commonly diagnosed as Alzheimer's disease. HS aetiology is unclear, although it has been …
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Older people's views of prioritisation and resource allocation in health care
The aim of this thesis was to investigate older people's views and experience of prioritisation and resource allocation in health care, which is important because older people are the group that use public health care and service most. The aim was also to investigate differences in the view of …
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On Falls in the Elderly –Epidemiological Studies from the Longitudinal General Population Study ‘Good Aging in Skåne’ (GÅS), Sweden
… in a general elderly population, including the oldest-old (individuals aged over 85 years). Data were extracted from the longitudinal population study ‘Good Aging in Skåne’ (GÅS), in southern Sweden. In Paper I, a cross-sectional study, it was concluded that falls were common in the population …
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Natural variation in the human plasma lipidome signature using mass spectrometry: relevance to healthy ageing
… on variation in plasma lipids from the Older Australian Twin Study (OATS), using n=75 pairs of monozygotic twins and n=55 pairs of dizygotic twins. Lipidomics was conducted using liquid chromatography - mass spectrometry (LC-MS). Major findings include a global reduction in lipid …
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Care Needs, Social Wellbeing, and Health and Social Services Use in Older Age
… the change in health and social care needs in older age to inform policy and practice. The Cambridge City over-75s Cohort (CC75C) study (1985-2015), one of the largest and longest-running population-based studies of the oldest old (75+ years at recruitment), provides a rare opportunity to …
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Patterns and predictors of falls and their consequences in extreme old age
$\textbf{BACKGROUND AND AIMS}$ Falls in old age can have serious consequences. The impact on health and social care is growing as the older population increases, but there are few data on falling amongst the “oldest old”. This study aimed to provide much needed information on this fastest growing …