Editorial

Editorial

• Mehmet Akif KARAN

Grading the Reduced Muscle Mass in the Context of GLIM Criteria

• Gülistan Bahat
• Tommy Cederholm

Using Ultrasound in the Assessment of Muscle

• Stany Perkisas
• Kristoffer Brockhattingen
• Carly Welch
• Gülistan Bahat

Can We STOPP Falls?

• Nathalie van der Velde
• Lotta Seppala

Putting Sarcopenia at the Forefront of Clinical Practice

• Gülistan Bahat
• Alfonso Cruz-Jentoft

Let’s Write About the Interference in Scientific Research on COVID-19 in Turkey: Is This Real or a Biased Dream

• Gülistan Bahat Öztürk
• Alpay Medetalibeyoğlu
• Tufan Tükek
• Mehmet Akif Karan

A 15-day Working Shift Prevent the Cross-contamination of Coronavirus Disease-2019 in a Nursing Home in Turkey

• Oktay Özten
• Tülay Aytekin Aktaş
• Hüseyin Süer
• Hafize Doğan
• Ayşe Üner
• Salim Özpınar
• Yunus Ayyıldız
• Hilal Bektaş
• Bülent Saka

Original Research

Inflammatory Markers and Severity of Osteoporosis in Older Adults

• Sencer Ganidağlı
• Güzin Çakmak
• Eyyüp Murat Efendioğlu
• Ercüment Öztürk

Comparison of Tests Used in Malnutrition in Hospitalized Geriatric Patients, Relationship with Anthropometric Measurements and Hand Grip Strength

• Hakan Yavuzer
• Tuğçe Emiroğlu
• Erol Demir
• Abdulkadir Erçalışkan
• Alper Döventaş
• Deniz Suna Erdinçler

Nutritional Profile and Serum Uric Acid are Associated with Metabolic Syndrome in Community-dwelling Older Adults: A Cross-sectional Study

• Ivna Vidal Freire
• Denise Pereira dos Santos
• Ícaro JS Ribeiro
• Caroline Silva dos Santos
• Raildo da Silva Coqueiro
• Cezar Augusto Casotti
• Rafael Pereira

Polypharmacy Frequency: The Relationship Between Polypharmacy and Mortality in COVID-19 (+) Older Adults

• Nurdan Şentürk Durmuş
• Sibel Akın
• Tuba Soysal
• Gözde Ertürk Zararsız
• Zeynep Türe

Determination of Vitamin D, Vitamin B12 and Folic Acid Deficiency Prevalence Among Geriatric Palliative Care Patients

• Eyüp Murat Efendioğlu
• Mehmet Göl
• Melek Sena Tarakçıoğlu
• İbrahim Halil Türkbeyler
• Zeynel Abidin Öztürk

Evaluation of Self-reported Insomnia and Its Association with Some Geriatric Syndromes in Older Adults

• Banu Özulu Türkmen

Experiences in a Palliative Care Unit for Patients with Dementia

• Özlem Karaarslan Cengiz
• Erencan Tavlı
• Hamdi Erhan
• Barış Gülgeç
• Emel Çolak
• Didem Derici Yıldırım
• Aynur Özge

Frequency of Poor Sleep Quality and Related Factors in Geriatric Patients

• İbrahim Halil Türkbeyler
• Ahmet Çiğiloğlu
• Eyyüp Murat Efendioğlu
• Zeynel Abidin Öztürk

The Effects and Characteristics of Musculoskeletal Pain on Quality of Life in Geriatric Patients

• Nilay Şahin
• Gül Devrimsel
• Ali Yavuz Karahan
• Serdar Sargın

Does Osteoporosis Treatment Choice Change the Prevalence or Course of COVID-19 in Older Adults?

• Merve Hafızoğlu
• Arzu Okyar Baş
• Zeynep Şahiner
• Çağatay Çavuşoğlu
• Burcu Balam Doğu
• Mustafa Cankurtaran
• Meltem Gülhan Halil

Relationship Between Frailty and Inflammation

• Rana Tuna Doğrul
• Hacer Doğan Varan
• Muhammet Cemal Kızılarslanoğlu
• Mustafa Kemal Kılıç
• Güneş Arık
• Özgür Kara
• Meltem Halil
• Mustafa Cankurtaran
• Burcu Balam Yavuz

Chronic Diseases, Depressive Symptoms and Socio-economic Characteristics Among Older Adults in Morocco: A pilot Study on Gender Differences

• Abdelhafid Benksim
• Rachid Ait-Addi
• Elhassania Khalloufi
• Aziz Habibi
• Mohamed Amine
• Mohamed Cherkaoui

Characteristics and Outcomes of Frail Patients Hospitalised with Cardiovascular Diseases

• Tanissia Boukertouta
• Sonia MSadek
• François-Xavier Goudot
• Nabila Guendouze
• Georges Sebbane
• Charlotte Cohen
• Edith Martins-Meune
• Samir Tine
• Christophe Meune

Attention to Osteosarcopenia in Older People! It May Cause Cognitive Impairment, Frailty, and Mortality: A Cross-sectional Study

• Hande Selvi Öztorun
• Remzi Bahşi
• Tuğba Turgut
• Deniz Mut Sürmeli
• Çağlar Coşarderelioğlu
• Volkan Atmış
• Ahmet Yalçın
• Sevgi Aras
• Murat Varlı

The Relationship of Sarcopenia with Geriatric Syndromes and Folate

• Bahar Bektan Kanat
• Hakan Yavuzer

Public Awareness of Geriatrics in the 50th Year of Geriatrics in Turkey

• Volkan Atmış
• Remzi Bahşi
• Hande Selvi Öztorun
• Çağlar Coşarderelioğlu
• Ahmet Yalçın
• Sevgi Aras
• Murat Varlı
• Deniz Mut Sürmeli
• Tuğba Turgut

Retrospective Evaluation of Geriatric Inpatients with Nephrotic Syndrome: A Single Centre Experience

• Aslı Kılavuz
• Sumru Savaş
• Fulden Saraç
• Fehmi Akçiçek

Sicca Symptoms and Its Relationship with Primary Sjögren’s Syndrome in Geriatric Patients

• Özlem Karaarslan Cengiz
• Orhan Küçükşahin
• Ali Şahin
• Nuran Türkçapar
• Teslime Atlı

Impact of Oral Health on Nutritional Status in Community-dwelling Older Adults in Turkey

• Sibel Akın
• Servet Kesim
• Taha Yaşar Manav
• Elif Şafak Deniz
• Ahmet Öztürk
• Mümtaz Mazıcıoğlu
• Fırat Özer Firuzan

The Fear of Falls in the Older People Living in Nursing Home and the Factors Associated with Falls

• Betül Özen
• Özlem Ceyhan
• Nuray Şimşek
• Nurcan Uzdil
• Sibel Akın

Perceived Stigma Against Alzheimer’s Disease in the Turkish Population

• Büşra Sümeyye Arıca Polat
• Musa Temel
• Nuriye Kayalı
• Nedime Tuğçe Bilbay

Malnutrition and Related Factors in Older Adults

• Nezahat Muge Catikkas

Is Infectious Meningitis/Encephalitis a Notable Problem in Older Adults Admitted to Emergency Department with Altered Mental Status?

• Çağlayan Merve Ayaz
• Fahriye Melis Gürsoy
• Ömer Aydos
• Serdar Ceylan
• Rahmet Güner

Evaluation of Polypharmacy and Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in Older Adults with Dementia Using the TIME Criteria

• Cemile Özsürekci
• Serdar Ceylan
• Meltem Gülhan Halil

The Frequency of Sarcopenia and Associated Factors in Older Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis

• İrfan Karahan
• Sevgi Aras
• Murat Varlı
• Esat Çınar
• Özlem Karaarslan Cengiz
• Teslime Atlı

Perceptions of Healthcare Services Students on Older Peoples and Ageing

• Sinan Yenal
• Kerziban Yenal

Best Items to Identify Fall Status in Male Older Adults

• Pedram Pourmahmoudian
• Ali Asghar Norasteh
• Hasan Daneshmandi
• Zahra AtrKarRoshan

Association of Primary Sarcopenia with Serum MMP2, TIMP2 Levels, and MMP2/TIMP2 Ratio

• Veysel Suzan
• Bahar Bektan Kanat
• Hakan Yavuzer
• İbrahim Murat Bolayırlı
• Alper Döventaş
• Deniz Suna Erdinçler

Impact of Malnutrition Status at Admission on Post-discharge Short Term Mortality in Palliative Care Unit

• Olgun Deniz
• Nur Senem Kaya

What is Geriatrics? Geriatrics or Older Adults Health and Diseases?

• İbrahim Halil Türkbeyler
• Zeynel Abidin Öztürk
• Mehmet Göl
• Azer Abiyev
• Bünyamin Kaya
• Selman Atakur
• Mehmet Öz

The Effect of the Fracture Types on the Activity Daily Living and Mortality in Geriatric Patients

• Yüksel Uğur Yaradılmış
• Alparslan Kılıç
• Ali Teoman Evren
• Tolgahan Kuru
• Mahmut Özdemir
• Murat Altay

The Validation of the Turkish Version of the PRISMA-7 Questionnaire; A Case-finding Instrument for Detecting Older Adults Living with Frailty

• Arzu Okyar Baş
• Serdar Ceylan
• Merve Güner
• Meltem Koca
• Burcu Balam Doğu
• Meltem Gülhan Halil
• Mustafa Cankurtaran
• Cafer Balcı

Is Malnutrition Most Associated with Dynamic or Static Physical Performance?

• Şenay Günaydın

Polypharmacy and Related Factors in Geriatric Outpatients

• Pınar Küçükdağlı

A Comprehensive Evaluation of the Relationship Between Fall Risk and Other Geriatric Syndromes

• Güzin Çakmak

Demographic and Neuropsychologic Profiles of Patients with Neurodegenerative Dementia: Results from A Tertiary Referral University Hospital

• Pınar Gelener
• Senem Ertuğrul Mut
• Sevda Diker
• Feriha Çelik

Muscle Strength, Sarcopenia and Frailty Associations with Balance and Gait Parameters: A Cross-sectional Study

• Mateu Serra-Prat
• Elisabet Palomera

Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment in a Mexican Long-term Care Facility During a COVID-19 Outbreak

• Fernando Coindreau-Frías
• Juan de Dios Garza-Rivera
• Luis E. Fernández-Garza
• Javier Valero-Gomez

Epidemiology of Adrenal Insufficiency Among Elderly Patients in a Convalescent Care Unit and One Year Outcome

• Doris Ka Ying Miu
• Shiu Pui Man
• Stanley Kui Fu Tam

Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in Older Adults Intensive Care Patients According to TIME-to-STOP Criteria

• Seyma Oncu
• Nuri Mehmet Yakar
• Ferhan Demirer Aydemir
• Necati Gokmen
• Ayse Gelal

Association Between Dementia and Common Geriatric Syndromes

• Duygu Erbas Sacar

Short-term and Long-term Outcome Predictions of Older Adults Based on Geriatric Scores: A Prospective Study

• Preeti Chhabria
• Ketan Vijay Kargirwar
• Nirankar Bhutaka
• Divya Gopal
• Mayur H Patel

Medication Adherence and Related Factors in Elderly Patients

• Özlem Polat
• Musa Çırak
• Hakan Polat
• Mehmet Yürüyen

Functional Evaluation Tests as Prognostic Factors of Falls in Elderly Patients

• Javier Benítez
• Juan Manuel Ignacio
• Sofía Perea
• José Antonio Girón

Use of Absorbent Products in Older Men and Women Are Associated with Depressive Symptoms: A Retrospective Study from a University Hospital

• Merve Güner
• Münevver Özcan
• Serdar Ceylan
• Arzu Okyar Baş
• Cafer Balcı
• Meltem Gülhan Halil
• Mustafa Cankurtaran
• Burcu Balam Doğu

Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Frailty in Older Adults

• Burak Mete
• Ferdi Tanır
• Hakan Demirhindi
• Ayşe İnaltekin
• Ceren Kanat

What is the Role of the Geriatrician in Home Health Care?: An Overview Through an International Survey

• Birkan İlhan
• Aslı Tufan
• Büşra Can
• Gülistan Bahat
• Mehmet Akif Karan

Examining the Awareness of Turkish Pilgrims on Protection from Respiratory Tract Infections Before the Hajj Visit: A Descriptive Study

• Betül Çakmak
• Bahar İnkaya

Delirium and Associated Factors Among Older Patients in Coronary and Internal Medicine Intensive Care Units of a University Hospital

• Zeynep Dilek Aydın
• Hatice Yıldırım

Overview of COVID-19 Vaccine and Investigation of Side Effects in Patients Over 65 Years of Age with Chronic Kidney Disease

• Kübra Aydın Bahat

The Physicians’ Attitudes and Barriers to Proactive Sexual History Taking During Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment

• Doha Rasheedy
• Mohamed Mortada

Sleep Quality, Depression, Hopelessness, and Quality of Life in Elderly Hemodialysis Patients

• Funda Datlı Yakaryılmaz
• İrem Pembegül

Chronic Pain and Related Factors in Patients Aged ≥80 Years

• Serdar Özkök

Post-COVID-19 Management: Comprehensive Assessment at Post-COVID-19 Monitoring Centre

• Gülistan Bahat
• Senay Günaydın
• Alpay Medetalibeyoğlu
• Yunus Çatma
• Naci Şenkal
• Meryem Merve Ören
• Seniha Başaran
• Murat Köse
• Mehmet Akif Karan
• Tufan Tükek

Turkish Calf Circumference Cut-offs Derived from Normative Values of Young Reference Population

• Tuğba Erdoğan
• Nezahat Müge Çatıkkaş
• Cihan Kılıç
• Mehmet Akif Karan
• Gülistan Bahat

Handgrip Strength and Ultrasonographically-measured Lower Arm Muscle Thickness in Hospitalised Older Adults: The SARCopenia and Ultrasound 3^rd Pilot Study

• Thomas Acke
• Anne-Marie De Cock
• Vandewoude Maurits
• Stany Perkisas

Are the Psychological Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic Similar in Old-aged and Young Patients?

• Özlem Karaarslan Cengiz
• Funda Datlı Yakaryılmaz

How to Treat Osteoporosis in Octogenarians?

• Ahmet Çiğiloğlu
• Ercüment Öztürk
• Eyyüp Murat Efendioğlu
• Zeynel Abidin Öztürk

Breast Cancer in Women Aged 75 Years and Older

• Gülcan Bulut
• Merve Güner Oytun
• Elvina Almuradova
• Burcu Balam Doğu
• Burçak Karaca

Teaching in Geriatrics: The Potential of a Structured Written Feedback for the Improvement of Lectures

• Theresa Pohlmann
• Volker Paulmann
• Sandra Steffens
• Klaus Hager

Socio-demographic and Subjective Factors Related to a Psychosocial and Biomedical Model of Successful Ageing

• Cem Soylu
• Türkan Yılmaz Irmak

Evaluation of the Antimicrobial Resistance Rates in Urine Samples of the Elderly

• Tuğba Yanık Yalçın
• Funda Salgür
• Nuran Sarı
• Özlem Kurt Azap
• Hüseyin Doruk

What Might be More Associated with Higher or Lower Blood Pressure in Older Adults? Sarcopenia, Obesity, or Sarcopenic Obesity? A Cross-sectional Retrospective Study

• Hande Selvi Öztorun
• Remzi Bahşi
• Tuğba Önaçan Turgut
• Deniz Mut Sürmeli
• Çağlar Coşarderelioğlu
• Volkan Atmış
• Ahmet Yalçın
• Sevgi Aras
• Murat Varlı

Relationship Between Neutrophil-lymphocyte Ratio and Malnutrition in Older Adults

• Bilge Müge Gökçekuyu
• Sibel Akın
• Firuzan Fırat Özer
• Tuba Soysal
• Nurdan Şentürk Durmuş
• Gözde Ertürk Zararsız

Relationship Between Polypharmacy and Geriatric Syndromes in Older Nursing Home Residents

• Fatma Özge Kayhan Koçak
• Emin Taşkıran
• Sevnaz Şahin

Prevalence of Care Problems in Older Adults in Turkish Hospitals

• Tuba Soysal
• Sibel Akın
• İlker Taşçı
• Pınar Tosun Taşar
• Sumru Savaş
• Aslı Tufan Çinçin
• Hakan Yavuzer
• Deniz Suna Erdinçler
• Cafer Balcı
• Mert Eşme
• Zeynel Abidin Öztürk
• Gülbüz Sezgin
• Selim Nalbant
• Murat Varlı
• Mehmet Akif Karan
• Bülent Saka

Older Age is a Risk Factor for Diastolic Orthostatic Hypotension

• Nurdan Şentürk Durmuş
• Sibel Akın
• Gözde Ertürk Zararsız

Psychometric Properties of a Modified Balance Evaluation Systems Test

• Pedram Pourmahmoudian
• Ali Asghar Noraste
• Hasan Daneshmandi
• Zahra AtrKarRoshan

The Prevalence and the Effect of COVID-19 Infection in Older Patients with Dementia: A Single-center Experience in the Light of Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment

• Merve Güner Oytun
• Yelda Öztürk
• Arzu Okyar Baş
• Serdar Ceylan
• Burcu Balam Doğu
• Mustafa Cankurtaran
• Meltem Gülhan Halil

Can PNI and CONUT Scores Predict One-year Survival Both in Older and Younger Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19?

• Yelda Öztürk
• Murat Özdede
• Oğuz Abdullah Uyaroğlu
• Merve Güner Oytun
• Serdar Ceylan
• Meltem Halil

Factors Associated with Mortality in Geriatric Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department After Falls

• Pınar Tosun Taşar
• Ömer Karaşahin
• Eda Ural Karaman
• Bilge Nur Serin
• Taha Burak Urvasızoğlu
• Sultan Tuna Akgöl Gür
• Can Sevinç

Evaluation of the Effects of Being Over 65 Years of Age on Different Clinical Outcomes in Diabetic Patients with COVID-19

• Gulru Ulugerger Avci
• Derya Argun

The Correlation Between Total Protein Level in 24-hour Urine Sample and Spot Urine Protein-to-creatinine Ratio in the Old Aged

• Özlem Karaarslan Cengiz
• Volkan Atmış

A Prevalent Sleep Disorder in Older Adults: Restless Legs Syndrome (Is There Any Association with Other Geriatric Syndromes?)

• Serdar Özkök
• Çağlar Özer Aydın
• Duygu Erbaş Saçar
• Nezahat Müge Çatıkkaş
• Tuğba Erdoğan
• Cihan Kılıç
• Mehmet Akif Karan
• Gülistan Bahat

Assessment of the Relationship Between Anorexia of Aging and Dietary Intake

• Elif Esra Öztürk

Sleep Quality and Factors Affect It in Caregivers of People with Dementia: A Cross-sectional Study

• Burcu Akpınar Söylemez
• Burcu Elmas

Challenges of Providing Nursing Care to Patients with Dementia: A Qualitative Study

• Banu Çevik
• Sultan Kav
• Ebru Akgün Çıtak
• Elif Akyüz
• Aysel Abbasoğlu

Review

Poly-De-prescribing vs Polypharmacy - The Weapon to Fight an Iatrogenic Epidemic: An Overview

• Doron Garfinkel

Three Problematic Issues from a Geriatric Point of View: Cancer, Radiotherapy, and Malnutrition

• Zümrüt Bahat
• Nezahat Müge Çatıkkaş

Importance of Dried Fruits and Vegetables in the Older Adults

• Tahir Belice
• Arif Yüksel
• Selahattin Fehmi Akçiçek

Overview of Geriatrics Studies via the 14th EUGMS (European Geriatric Medicine Society) Congress 2018: From Turkey’s Point of View

• Fatma Özge Kayhan Koçak
• Sevnaz Şahin
• Selahattin Fehmi Akçiçek

Case Report

Delusion of Pregnancy in a Case of Dementia

• N.A. Uvais

Celiac and Crohn’s Disease in an Elderly Patient

• Sercan Şahutoğlu
• Fatma Özge Kayhan Koçak
• Bahattin Gökdemir
• Oğuzcan Özkan
• Rukiye Vardar
• Başak Doğanavşargil
• Sevnaz Şahin
• Zeliha Fulden Saraç
• Selahattin Fehmi Akçiçek

An Atypical Case of Psoas Abscess in an Elderly Patient

• Çağlar Coşarderelioğlu
• Remzi Bahşi
• Hande Selvi Öztorun
• Volkan Atmış
• Ahmet Yalçın
• Sevgi Aras
• Murat Varlı

A Case of Denosumab-associated Hyperparathyroidism: Differential Diagnosis Challenge

• Emin Taşkıran
• Sevnaz Şahin
• Emine Sumru Savaş
• Zeliha Fulden Saraç
• Selahattin Fehmi Akçiçek

A Challenging Hypoactive Delirium Case with Multiple Etiological Considerations

• Tuğba Erdoğan
• Gülistan Bahat
• Birkan İlhan
• Mehmet Akif Karan

Lercanidipine-induced Chyloperitoneum in a Geriatric Patient with Peritoneal Dialysis

• İrem Pembegül
• Funda Datlı Yakaryılmaz
• Özgül Balseven

Oculomotor Dysfunction in Parkinson’s Disease

• Pritam Dutta

Approach to DRESS Syndrome Associated with Allopurinol Use in a Geriatric Patient

• Can Sevinç
• Pınar Tosun Taşar
• Elif Büyükkurt

A Rare Synchronous Tumor Association in a Geriatric Patient: Lung Adenocarcinoma and Colon Carcinoma

• Aykut Turhan
• Pınar Tosun
• Sevilay Özmen
• Adem Maman

Letter to the Editor

Selenium’s Role on Thyroid Autoimmunity and Cognitive Dysfunction in Elderly

• Gülsüm Sayıner
• Yasemin Beyhan

Aging and Fall: Vision Related Signs on Head Computed Tomography

• Sunny Chi Lik Au
• Simon Tak Chuen Ko