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Moderna’s vaccine might be the best bet for people over 65, although all mRNA vaccines are safe and effective.

Background: Frailty assessment is recommended for patients with heart failure. Despite the availability of instruments to assess frailty, there are no clear recommendations regarding the optimal instrument to use in a heart failure context. This ambiguity combined with a lack of education and resources, often leads clinicians to rely on subjective estimates of frailty, such as ‘the end-of-the-bed’ or ‘eyeball’ test. Aim: To examine the association between clinician-estimated frailty and ...

Background: Overtreatment in advanced age i.e. aggressive interventions that do not improve survival and are potentially harmful, can impair quality of care near the end of life (EOL). As healthcare provider perspectives on care quality may differ from that of service users, the aim of this study was to explore the views of older patients near EOL or their caregivers about the quality of health care at the EOL based on their lived experience, and to identify healthcare service improvements. Meth...

Regularly eating nutrients such as dietary fiber and dietary antioxidants may prevent older adults from becoming frail.

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