… Parker's challenge to critical educational theory can, in the long run, only help the left … By
applying the techniques of deconstruction, Stuart Parker overturns the assumptions common to …

Background Older people are increasing users of health care globally. We aimed to establish
whether older people with characteristics of frailty and who are at risk of adverse health-…

A cause-and-effect relation between proteinenergy malnutrition and poor outcome in acute
stroke patients has not been definitively established. To measure the effect of the nutritional …

Background Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) is now the accepted gold standard
for caring for frail older people in hospital. However, there is uncertainty about identifying …

The concept of multimorbidity has attracted growing interest over recent years, and more
latterly with the publication of specific guidelines on multimorbidity by the National Institute for …

Objectives To determine the impact on outcomes in patients of the Evercare approach to case
management of elderly people. Design Practice level before and after analysis of hospital …

There is widespread evidence both of the exclusion of older people from clinical research,
and of under-recruitment to clinical trials. This review and opinion piece provides practical …

Background: many frail older people who attend acute hospital settings and who are discharged
home within short periods (up to 72 h) have poor outcomes. This review assessed the …

The literature search included keyword searches of 24 electronic databases (these were
listed in the report along with details of the search strategy) from inception and the World Wide …

The nutritional status of 201 hospitalized stroke patients was assessed from anthropometric,
haematological and biochemical data in an observational prospective study. On admission, …