Research area: Aging

Description

Aging is a broad research area that encompasses all social and health aspects affecting the elderly, i.e., their overall health, diseases of the different physiological systems, use of health services, quality of life, etc. Aging research overlaps with other research areas, namely, cardiovascular, diabetes, mental health, cancer, lifestyles and health services. However, some aspects such as the study of frailty in the elderly, cognitive deterioration, multimorbidity, polypharmacy, home care and end-of-life care are very specific of this age group. Research in aging takes place within the framework of our aging society and its repercussions on the health and social systems, with emerging or increased incidence of new syndromes, the shift in family and care models and the new services on offer. The group includes GPs, primary care nurses, epidemiologists and health technicians. Two members of the team are PhDs and a third one is currently carrying out a PhD thesis with funding from the IDIAP and supervised by the group coordinator. The aim of the group is to carry out more PhD thesis. FRAGICAP has the support of the Aging Area of the IDIAP, and it currently collaborates with other research groups such as those of care in health, lifestyles, the Rediapp and also University College Cork and the Universidade do Porto.

Research Lines

Frailty detection and management. Prognostic factors and validation of screening tools;Multifactorial interventions for the prevention of frailty and disability; Home care. Support to caregivers and detection and management of abuse to the elderly; Palliative and end-of-life care; Preventive and health promotion activities in the elderly.

Members

Projects

The group participates in the following projects:

PI: Bolíbar Ribas, Bonaventura. Ensayo híbrido de evaluación de una intervención compleja multiriesgo para promover conductas saludables en personas de 45-75 años atendidas en Atención Primaria: estudio EIRA3. Funding: Instituto de Salud Carlos III. Duration: 2016 - 2018

PI: Lapena Estella, Carolina. Avaluació d'un taller de salut per a gent gran en entorn comunitari. Funding: ICS - Institut Català de la Salut. Duration: 2016 - 2018

PI: Amil Bujan, Paloma. Perspectives i experiències de la ciutadania sobre la planificació de decisions anticipades. Aportacions per validar el marc conceptual i recomanacions per a la implantació del model. Funding: Col•legi Oficial d'Infermeria de Barcelona. Duration: 2016 - 2017

PI: Azagra Ledesma, Rafael. Efectividad de una intervención con el programa de ejercicios OTAGO para la prevención de caídas y fracturas osteoporóticas en personas de 75 a 90 años residentes en la comunidad: Proyecto PRECIOSA.. Funding: Instituto de Salud Carlos III. Duration: 2015 - 2017

PI: Berenguera Ossó, Anna. El reto de cambiar y mantener conductas saludables. El Coaching Psicología para capacitar a personas con artrosis de rodilla y mejorar su calidad de vida. Funding: Instituto de Salud Carlos III. Duration: 2015 - 2017

PI: Delgado Martínez, Maria Pilar. Influencia del tipo de tratamiento antihipertensivo prescrito en la práctica clínica habitual sobre la variabilidad de la presión arterial y el riesgo cardiovascular del hipertenso. Funding: Instituto de Salud Carlos III. Duration: 2015 - 2017

PI: Segura Noguera, Josep Mª. Efectividad de una intervención multifactorial para modificar la fragilidad en ancianos comunitarios. Funding: Instituto de Salud Carlos III. Duration: 2013 - 2017

PI: Casacuberta Monge, Jose-Maria. Avaluar la fiabilitat i validesa del test de velocitat de la marxa a 4 metres davant del test de la marxa de 6 minuts en pacients majors de 65 anys amb insuficiència cardíaca crònica estable a l'atenció primària de salut. Funding: ICS - Institut Català de la Salut. Duration: 2016

PI: Segura Noguera, Josep Mª. Efectivitat d'una intervenció multifactorial per a la modificació de paràmetres de fragilitat en la població gran. Funding: ICS - Institut Català de la Salut. Duration: 2016

PI: Guisado Clavero, Marina. Avaluació d'una intervenció per millorar la seguretat de la prescripció en persones grans amb multimorbiditat i polimedicació ateses a l'atenció primària. Funding: Fundació d´Atenció Primària (CAMFiC) . Duration: 2015 - 2016

PI: Foguet Boreu, Quintí. Identificación de los patrones de multimorbilidad y la polimedicación asociada, a una muestra poblacional de atención primaria. Funding: Instituto de Salud Carlos III. Duration: 2013 - 2016

Publications

Group Publications:

Liotta G, Orfila F, Vollenbroek-Hutten M, Roller-Winsberger R, Illario M, Musian D, Alvino S, O'Caoimh R, Cano A, Molloy W, Iaccarino G, Marazzi MC, Inzerilli MC, Madaro O, Paul C, Csonka P, Vince AC, Menditto E, Maggio M, Scarcella P, Gilardi F, Lucaroni F, Abete P, Girardi V, Barra R, Palombi L. The European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing Synergies: Protocol for a Prospective Observational Study to Measure the Impact of a Community-Based Program on Prevention and Mitigation of Frailty (ICP - PMF) in Community-Dwelling Older. Transl Med UniSa. 2016;15:53-66. PMID:27896228.

Muñoz MA, Real J, Del Val JL, Vinyoles E, Mundet X, Frigola-Capell E, Llauger MA, Orfila F, Domingo M, Verdú-Rotellar JM. Determinants of survival and hospitalization in older, heart failure patients receiving home healthcare. International journal of cardiology. 2016 Jan; 207:145-149. doi:10.1016/j.ijcard.2016.01.170. pii:S0167-5273(16)30166-8. PMID:26802820. FI: 4,638.

O'Caoimh R, Cornally N, Svendrovski A, Weathers E, FitzGerald C, Healy E, O'Connell E, O'Keeffe G, O'Herlihy E, Gao Y, O'Donnell R, O'Sullivan R, Leahy-Warren P, Orfila F, Paúl C, Clarnette R, Molloy DW. Measuring the Effect of Carers on Patients' Risk of Adverse Healthcare Outcomes Using the Caregiver Network Score. J Frailty Aging. 2016;5:104-110. PMID:27224501.

Riba-Llena I, Nafría C, Giralt D, Fernández-Cortiñas I, Jarca CI, Mundet X, Tovar JL, Orfila F, Castañé X, Álvarez-Sabín J, Maisterra O, Montaner J, Delgado P. Dementia Rating Scale-2 normative data for middle-and older-aged Castilian speaking Spaniards. The Clinical neuropsychologist. 2016 May; doi:10.1080/13854046.2016.1174307. Epub 2016 May 11. PMID:27168059. FI: 1,556.

Riba-Llena I, Nafría C, Mundet X, López-Rueda A, Fernández-Cortiñas I, Jarca CI, Jiménez-Balado J, Domingo M, Tovar JL, Orfila F, Pujadas F, Álvarez-Sabín J, Maisterra O, Montaner J, Delgado P. Assessment of enlarged perivascular spaces and their relation to target organ damage and mild cognitive impairment in patients with hypertension. European journal of neurology. 2016 Jun; 23(6):1044-50. doi:10.1111/ene.12979. Epub 2016 Mar 10. PMID:26968973. FI: 3,956.

Santulli G, Borras C, Bousquet J, Calzà L, Cano A, Illario M, Franceschi C, Liotta G, Maggio M, Molloy WD, Montuori N, O'Caoimh R, Orfila F, Rauter AP, Santoro A, Iaccarino G. Models for preclinical studies in aging-related disorders: One is not for all. Transl Med UniSa. 2016;13:4-12. PMID:27042427.

Weathers E, O'Caoimh R, O'Sullivan R, Paúl C, Orfilia F, Clarnette R, Fitzgerald C, Svendrovski A, Cornally N, Leahy-Warren P, Molloy DW. The inter-rater reliability of the Risk Instrument for Screening in the Community. British journal of community nursing. 2016 Sep; 21(9):469-75. doi:10.12968/bjcn.2016.21.9.469. PMID:27594063.

The group participates in the following publications:

Divisón-Garrote JA, Banegas JR, De la Cruz JJ, Escobar-Cervantes C, De la Sierra A, Gorostidi M, Vinyoles E, Abellán-Aleman J, Segura J, Ruilope LM. Hypotension based on office and ambulatory monitoring blood pressure. Prevalence and clinical profile among a cohort of 70,997 treated hypertensives. Journal of the American Society of Hypertension : JASH. 2016 Sep; 10(9):714-23. doi:10.1016/j.jash.2016.06.035. Epub 2016 Zer 27. PMID:27451950. FI: 2,656.

Frigola-Capell E, van Lieshout J, Muñoz MA, Verdú-Rotellar J, Orfila F, Suñol R, Wensing M. Community programmes for coronary heart disease in Spanish primary care. The International journal of health planning and management. 2016 Jan; 31(1):87-96. doi:10.1002/hpm.2262. Epub 2014 Jun 10. PMID:24916106.

Pérez-Orcero A, Vinyoles-Bargalló E, Pujol-Ribera E, de la Figuera-von Wichmann M, Baena-Diez JM, Manjón-Villanueva R, Valiente-Hernandez S, González-Sánchez S, de Diego-Bustillos E, Castelló-Alonso M. Prevalence of orthostatic hypotension in non-institutionalised elderly aged 80 and over. A diagnostic study using an oscillometric device. Hipertension y riesgo vascular. 2016 Jul-Sep; 33(3):93-102. doi:10.1016/j.hipert.2016.02.001. Epub 2016 Mar 26. PMID:27026292.

Ricci-Cabello I, Pons-Vigués M, Berenguera A, Pujol-Ribera E, Slight SP, Valderas JM. Patients' perceptions and experiences of patient safety in primary care in England. Fam Pract. 2016 Oct;33(5):535-42. doi: 10.1093/fampra/cmw046. PubMed PMID: 27312563. FI: 2,022.

Violán C, Bejarano-Rivera N, Foguet-Boreu Q, Roso Llorach A, Pons-Vigués M, Martin Mateo M, Pujol-Ribera E. The burden of cardiovascular morbidity in a European Mediterranean population with multimorbidity: a cross-sectional study. BMC family practice. 2016 Nov; 17(1):150. doi:10.1186/s12875-016-0546-4. Epub 2016 Zer 3. pmc:PMC5093992. PMID:27809772. FI: 1,641.

Violán C, Foguet-Boreu Q, Roso-Llorach A, Rodriguez-Blanco T, Pons-Vigués M, Pujol-Ribera E, Valderas JM. Multimorbidity patterns in young adults in Catalonia: an analysis of clusters. Aten Primaria. 2016 Aug-Sep;48(7):479-92. doi: 10.1016/j.aprim.2015.10.006. Epub 2015 Dec 23. Spanish. PubMed PMID: 26706180. FI: 1,098.

Zabaleta-Del-Olmo E, Subirana-Casacuberta M, Ara-Pérez A, Escuredo-Rodríguez B, Ríos-Rodríguez MÁ, Carrés-Esteve L, Jodar-Solà G, Lejardi-Estevez Y, Nuix-Baqué N, Aguas-Lluch A, Ondiviela-Cariteu À, Blanco-Sánchez R, Rosa García-Cerdán M, Contel-Segura JC, Jurado-Campos J, Juvinyà-Canal D. Developing Evidence-Based Practice questionnaire for community health nurses: reliability and validity of a Spanish adaptation. Journal of clinical nursing. 2016 Feb; 25(3-4):505-17. doi:10.1111/jocn.13078. PMID:26818375. FI: 1,384.

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