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Adverse drug reactions are ‘unintended, harmful events attributed to the use of medicines’ (Coleman and Pontefract, 2016). Ageing affects the body's ability to absorb and excrete medicines and...
This section explores the definition and significance of falls prevention in this population. Falls in older adults can lead to devastating physical and psychological consequences, such as fractures,...
There are currently no specific diagnostic investigations or tools for identifying lipoedema, and clinical diagnosis relies on taking a previous medical history along with a family history, physical...
Three qualitative studies were critiqued. Only one, Laue et al (2017), used a phenomenological design to address the views of patients. A second qualitative study by Williams et al (2014) explored...
Some 1062 individuals (53% response rate) responded to the survey (683 female, 366 male, 13 undeclared), with most residing in England (861; 93%). Of these responses, 567 were in pen-and-paper format...
Fancourt and Finn (2019) conducted a scoping review for the WHO of the global evidence of the effects of the arts on health and wellbeing. Their definition of the arts included performing arts such...
The aim of this integrative review of the literature is to summarise empirical evidence supporting the health benefits of reminiscence intervention for older adults without dementia who reside in...
Urine can only be effectively stored in the bladder if the urethral pressure remains higher than the internal bladder pressure. A sustained substantive contraction of the pelvic floor, urethral wall...
The existence of ‘meridians’, or energy channels, is fundamental within traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), but has been largely dismissed by Western medicine until recently. It is believed that...
The analysis revealed four main themes with associated sub-themes, plus one over-arching theme outlined in Table 1..
The findings of the present study confirmed that the developed programme was effective in improving QOL, which has been shown to be strongly related to healthy life expectancy (Kaplan and Camacho,...
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