Ruth Teh

Using illness trajectories to inform person centred, advance care planning bmj.com/content/384/bm… Knowing likely multidimensional trajectories in multimorbidity can help future care planning

Researchers have found patients with #socialfrailty - feeling disconnected from family, friends, and others - were twice as likely than those without to have experienced a cardiovascular event or died within two years of developing #heartfailure @mnt medicalnewstoday.com/articles/heart…

Lonely heart-failure patients face worse outcomes than sociable peers. #heartfailure #socialfrailty frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

New horizons in frailty identification via electronic frailty indices: early implementation lessons from experiences in England and the United States academic.oup.com/ageing/article…

Understanding the next generation's needs for aged care housing. “They don’t want to settle for what was traditional retirement age here, they want more lifestyle choice, they want activity, they want to be who they are in the village.” #AgeingWellNZ newsroom.co.nz/2024/02/28/ung…

How is your gait speed? cnn.com/2024/02/18/hea…

Recently @NHSEngland published their FRAIL Strategy about people with #frailty using same day emergency care services. As services develop, it is important to reflect that 'frailty is everyone’s business.' Find out more here england.nhs.uk/long-read/frai…

A physical performance measure: "One-leg standing time is a simple measure for loss of skeletal muscle mass and fat deposition in muscle: the J-SHIPP study." Aging Clin Exp Res 36, 7 (2024). doi.org/10.1007/s40520… @brunovellas @SoutoPhilipe @RollandYves2

We observed lower socioeconomic status, higher BMI and living with others predict poorer diet quality in older adults. Sociodemographic and Health Indicators of Diet Quality in Pre-Frail Older Adults in New Zealand mdpi.com/2524038

A call from Family Doctors to safeguard health from the climate emergency - Sign the Petition! chng.it/s9RTjZ4s via @ChangeAUS

Multimorbidity increases the risk of dementia: a 15 year follow-up of the SHARE study doi.org/10.1093/ageing…

More info is reported here rdcu.be/dlCvY

@AwessomNz Older Māori and Pacific people are more likely to die at any given age than non-Māori/non-Pacific. #NZAG2023 @AwessomNz @rt_teh

Healthy longevity is a critical factor in reducing the healthcare burden and improving the quality of life in older adults. #NZAG2023 @rt_teh

@rt_teh Some of the possible solutions to frailty were explored in Dr Teh's earlier study with Ageing Well, the SUPER study: Staying Upright and Eating Well. #NZAG2023 @rt_teh ageingwellchallenge.co.nz/research/stayi…

The team is excited and ready to commence the 2nd phase of the study, more to come!

@Krockdoc @cm_jasmine Exciting to see this work, we are exploring social frailty in Aotearoa New Zealand with community dwelling older adults

Social Vulnerability and Frailty in Hospitalized Older Adults. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37662062/ Being socially vulnerable was associated with increased length of stay, having excess hospital days, and being discharged to long term care from hospital. Nice paper, led by @cm_jasmine

Educate your patients about the importance of muscle strength 🦵 Prevent #sarcopenia by building muscle in youth and maintaining it in middle age to reduce muscle loss as we age. BUT it is never too late to benefit from improving muscle strength. Here's why👇 🧵Thread

Interesting research that shows mild exercise significantly boosts cognitive function in older people. #AgeingWellNZ #HealthyAgeing #Heath