VERONESE , Nicola

Ageism is stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination against people, based on age. Ageism may impact the quality of life and the care of older people, a problem that can be greater when the older person is "frail." However, few studies explored the role of frailty as a factor related to ageism. The aim of this study was to assess the...

Background Frailty has been recognized as potential surrogate of biological age and relevant risk factor for COVID-19 severity. Thus, it is important to explore the frailty trajectories during COVID-19 pandemic and understand how COVID-19 directly and indirectly impacts on frailty condition. Methods We enrolled 217 community-dwelling older...

Recent studies showed that about the 8% of beds are occupied by patients who experience a delayed hospital discharge (DHD). This is attributed to a delay in the arrangement of home-care assistance or in admission to long-term care facilities. Recently a lot of technologies have been developed to improve caring and monitoring of older people....

Following the publication of our study [1] no biochemical data derived from adolescent marathon runners have been made available. However, there are two potentially relevant investigations including adult runners. Shin and colleagues demonstrated different effects depending on the running distance, i.e. marathon, 100 km and 308 km [2]. Hepatic...