Matteo Cesari

Georgia Public Libraries generate $3.75 return for every dollar invested, new study finds Georgia's public libraries generated $1.06 billion in services in fiscal year 2024, supporting 5,488 jobs and producing $3.75 of value per public dollar.

We need libraries for so many reasons.

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What AI doesn’t know: we could be creating a global ‘knowledge collapse’ | Deepak Varuvel Dennison The long read: As GenAI becomes the primary way to find information, local and traditional wisdom is being lost. And we are only beginning to realise what we’re missing

What #AI doesn’t know: we could be creating a global #knowledge collapse

As GenAI becomes the primary way to find #information , local and traditional #wisdom is being lost. And we are only beginning to realise what we’re missing

#Tech #ArtificialIntelligence

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The conceptualisation and measurement of social frailty in older people: an umbrella review The social domain of frailty is often poorly defined or missing from measures of frailty. The literature is still inconclusive on the nature and scope…

The conceptualisation and measurement of social #frailty in older people: an umbrella review

#Geriatrics #Social #SocialSciences #Aging #Ageing #Care #IntegratedCare

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Perceived needs and priorities of older persons in humanitarian crises: A scoping review of literature - Aging Clinical and Experimental Research Humanitarian emergencies, including wars, forced displacements, sudden onset disasters, and pandemics, disproportionately affect older persons. This scoping review aims to map and synthesise existing ...

Perceived needs and priorities of older persons in #humanitarian crises: A scoping review

Older persons often remain invisible during humanitarian crises. Where are they? What do they need? Are their priorities adequately considered?

#Care #Emergency #MedSky

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Nearly 150,000 aged 90 and above wait 12 hours in England’s A&Es each year Older people left in their own excrement and wet beds for hours and forced to watch others die, Age UK report finds

I recommend (re-)reading the article MTinetti & Terri Fried wrote more than 20 years ago (2004): The End of the Disease Era ( www.amjmed.com/article/S000... )

Re-orient #care to allow better tailored interventions for the (globally) #aging population
#Geriatrics

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The system isn’t broken. It’s obsolete.

We’re not overwhelmed by ageing.
We’re paying the price for decades of lazy design.

The healthcare system was never built for older people.
It was built for short-term fixes, single diseases, and people who recover fast […]

Pongo, a black French bulldog, sits on the shredded cardboard lid of a box

Where the heck did the box lid go?

#Dogs #Pongo #Bulldog #Saturday

How do you care for an ageing parent – when they want none of it? | Barry J Jacobs Supporting my mother as she grew older meant facing pride, minimization and resistance. The key to a healthier relationship was empathy

How do you care for an aging parent – when they want none of it? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... by @drbarryjjacobs.bsky.social @theguardian.com

#Alzheimers #dementia #caregiving

Home-Based Palliative Care for Patients With Non-Cancer Diagnoses: Clinical Characteristics, Symptom Burden, and Service Delivery - PubMed IntroductionPopulation aging has contributed to the increased prevalence of chronic non-communicable and disabling diseases, increasing the demand for home-based palliative care.ObjectiveTo describe the sociodemographic, clinical, and care profile of patients with non-cancer treated by a Home Care S …

Non-cancer patients in Brazil’s home palliative care program were very old, highly frail, and often neurologically or circulatory impaired. Median stay was 50 days. With 1.74 clinical visits per day all died at home. Lower PPS scores required higher care intensity.

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Improving the care pathway for people living with HIV aged 70 years and older: the impact of geriatric screening in an infectious diseases unit (AUTO-HIV 70) - BMC Geriatrics Background With increased life expectancy of people living with HIV comes increased rates of multimorbidity and frailty, which services are not currently managing well. A geriatric day hospital (GDH) ...

Improving the #care pathway for people living with #HIV aged 70 years and older: the impact of geriatric screening in an infectious diseases unit (AUTO-HIV 70)

#Frailty #Health #InfectiousDisease #IntegratedCare #Prevention

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Introduction to Palliative Care—an open-to-all clinical training course for clinicians from all specialties and professions.

📖 Learn what palliative care is, how it’s delivered, and its impact on quality of life.
https://ow.ly/8svy50VEb8t #hpm #hapc

Towards a global scale for functional ability: what gets measured and gets done—but are we measuring the right thing?

"...A standardised scale based on the #WHO ’s five domains should be developed and integrated into global #ageing surveys..."

#Aging #Care #Health

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Contextualizing Age‐Friendly Care Within Social Drivers of Health Social drivers of health (SDOH) impact health outcomes across the lifespan, with distinct effects on the health and well-being of older adults. SDOH contribute to outcomes of particular importance to....

Contextualizing Age-Friendly #Care Within Social Drivers of Health

#Geriatrics #Environment #SocialCare #SocialSciences #MedSky #Medicine #Aging #Ageing
@agsjournal.bsky.social

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A special preview issue of The Lancet Regional Health – Africa. On the cover is a photograph of a doctor examining a Maasai baby. Copyright: Hugh Sitton/Getty Images.

🔔 Introducing The Lancet Regional Health – Africa, a new #goldopenaccess journal promoting the advancement of clinical practice and health policy in Africa.

Explore the new journal: ➡️ spkl.io/63325AbmLD #MedSky

Opportunities to Improve End-of-Life Care in Assisted Living: Results From a National Survey of Administrators

#PalliativeCare #Care #Geriatrics #EndOfLife #Medicine #LongTermCare #LTC

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An overview of care coordination elements for older adults with long-term care needs: A narrative review Care coordination is crucial in long-term care (LTC) as it contributes to patient-centered, high-value, and high-quality care. This review presents an…

An overview of care #coordination elements for older adults with long-term care needs: A narrative review

"...Work overload, lack of time, and miscommunication are common barriers..."

#Geriatrics #LongTermCare #LTC

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America's oldest workers gravitate towards one particular career field Many of the 550,000 Americans 80 and older who still work do jobs that improve the lives of other 80-year-olds. They're home health aides and nurses.

She's 90 and helping her peers as a #caregiver. Workers over 80 say helping each other is the best job they can get

#Economy #Health #Care #Aging #Ageing #Work

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Biomarkers of #ageing of humans and non-human primates

#Aging #Biology #Science #Research

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Adapting health, economic and social policies to address population aging in China - Nature Aging China’s dramatic demographic shift toward population aging raises challenges at the individual, familial and societal levels. Fang et al. review these challenges and emerging policies designed to prom...

Adapting #health, economic and social policies to address population #aging in China

"... #China has developed a broad and evolving #policy framework to address the needs of its aging population..."

#Ageing #Geriatrics #Demographics #Care

www.nature.com/articles/s43...

‘We don’t feel safe’: after week of bombings, people in Gaza are losing faith in ceasefire After initial enthusiasm, people fear ceasefire does not mean end to war but just less frequent, more unpredictable violence

We don’t feel safe’: after week of bombings, people in #Gaza are losing faith in #ceasefire

#Israel #Genocide #Palestine

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Path through an autumn forest

#Saturday afternoon walk

The Chimeric Nihilism of Geriatrics - PubMed The Chimeric Nihilism of Geriatrics

Just seen another paper on oral #frailty. What about feet frailty, digestive frailty, or friendship frailty? 😅

Geriatric medicine promotes a person-centred approach, not partial/fragmented evaluations of the individual.

#CGA #Geriatrics

Suggested reading👇
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Dense autumn forest with sunlight filtering through the trees

#Sunday morning walk in the woods of #Mies (#Switzerland)

#Photo #Nature #sundaymorning

My mom has dementia, but I can’t afford care for her unless I get paid to do it It’s a hard decision to quit a job to take care of a loved one, but paying for care can get expensive.

"My mom has dementia, but I can’t afford to care for her unless I get paid to do it" marketwatch.com/story/my-mom... via @marketwatch.com

#Alzheimers #dementia #caregiving #money

Sarà una casualità ma gli attacchi più feroci contro Ranucci sono arrivati dopo le puntate sulla trattativa stato mafia,su sequestro Moro,su assassinio Pier Santi Mattarella e sugli intrecci tra mafia,neofascisti,servizi e logge deviate @articolo21.bsky.social @maurobiani.bsky.social

Locandina del film Se7en (Seven) con i primi piani di Brad Pitt e Morgan Freeman

Nei giorni scorsi, tento di far conoscere il grande #cinema a mia figlia sedicenne. Le faccio vedere (e rivedo con piacere):
- Fuori orario
- I soliti sospetti
- Se7en

Ieri sera
"OK, papà! Stasera il film lo scelgo io: White Chicks!!"

C'è molto da lavorare...

#Figli #Genitori #Capolavori #Movies

Intrinsic capacity deficits across the lifespan in a nationally representative community cohort: findings from the Queenstown study Intrinsic capacity (IC) is central to the World Health Organization’s life course approach to healthy ageing. Population-level data across the lifespa…

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Israel limits aid and keeps Rafah crossing closed in dispute over hostage remains Tensions high as Israel accuses Hamas of breaching agreement by withholding bodies of 24 hostages

#Israel limits aid and keeps #Rafah crossing closed in dispute over hostage remains

Is it already over?

#Genocide #EthnicCleansing #Gaza #Palestine

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A #genome -wide association study identified 10 novel genomic loci associated with #IntrinsicCapacity.

👉Genetic architecture of #IC, laying the foundation for future #research on healthy #aging

#Geriatrics #Genes #Ageing #Health #Genetics

Full-text available here👇
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‘My heart is broken’: Palestinians begin searching the Gaza rubble for their dead Using manual tools and their bare hands, people start the immense task of trying to find their loved ones’ remains

‘My heart is broken’: Palestinians begin searching the #Gaza rubble for their dead

#Palestine #Israel #Genocide #EthnicCleansing

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