OBJECTIVE To assess the prevalence of diabetes, distinguishing between elderly individuals with diabetes diagnosed in middle age ("middle age-onset diabetes") from elderly individuals with recently diagnosed diabetes ("elderly onset diabetes") and to assess the burden of complications and control of cardiovascular risk factors in these groups. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We analyzed data from...

background: perceived self‑efficacy is a strong predictor for behavior. considering the importance of health‑promoting self‑care behaviors in increasing quality of life in the elderly, this study was aimed at defining the effect of nurse home visits on self‑care self‑efficacy of the elderly in rural areas. materials and methods: this is a pre and post quasi‑experimental study conducted on 33 ol...

This study describes numerous characteristics of comorbidities and geriatric syndromes in elderly osteoarthritis patients at the National Geriatrics Hospital. A cross-sectional on 184 knee (OA) aged ≥ 60 years old treated The mean age was 73.12 ± 8.62 years, male accounted for 83.7%. Most participants (85.9%) had experienced 2 sides OA, more than half these (63.6%) were experiencing moderate pa...