Editorial

Using Ultrasound in the Assessment of Muscle

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

Original Research

Malnutrition in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease: Associated Clinical Factors

• Murat Gültekin
• Firuzan Fırat Özer
• Sibel Akın
• Ahmet Öztürk
• Yıldız Değirmenci

Can Postoperative 90-Day Complications and Mortality Predict in Elderly Patients with Hip Fracture Using the Geriatric Nutrition Risk Index?

• Mustafa Yerli
• Nazım Erkurt
• Tahsin Olgun Bayraktar
• Mehmet Selçuk Saygılı
• Ali Yüce
• Hakan Gürbüz

The Prognostic Value of Inflammation Indices in Predicting Postoperative ICU Admission and Mortality in Elderly Patients Undergoing Hip Fracture Surgery

• Ökkeş Hakan Miniksar
• Mehmet Kara
• Muhammed Nuri Polat
• Yeşim Andıran Şenaylı
• Serhat Durusoy
• Hacı Ali Olçar
• Murat Korkmaz

Polypharmacy-Related Orthostatic Intolerance Syndrome in Community-Dwelling Older Adults

• Arzu Okyar Baş
• Yelda Öztürk
• Merve Güner Oytun
• Serdar Ceylan
• Zeynep Kahyaoğlu
• Süheyla Çöteli
• Meltem Koca
• Mert Eşme
• Cafer Balcı
• Burcu Balam Doğu
• Mustafa Cankurtaran
• Meltem Gülhan Halil

Gastric Mucosal Changes and Frequency of Helicobacter pylori in Patients with Gastroenterostomy

• Semih Sezer
• Bülent Ödemiş

Comparison of Geriatric Nutrition Risk Index and Mini Nutrition Assessment-Short Form in Nutritional Assessment of Older Outpatients

• İbrahim İleri
• Çağatay Çavuşoğlu
• Burcu Candemir
• Berna Göker

Self-efficacy and Optimism in Frail Older Men Without Functional Disability Attending Geriatric Outpatient Clinic: a Case-control Study

• Doaa Ageez
• Heba Shereif El-Sobky
• Nessma Hussein Mohammed
• Doha Rasheedy Aly
• Heba Mohamed Hamed Shaltoot

The Role of Hedonic Hunger as a Moderator and Mediator in Older Adults Obesity

• Burak Mete
• Lezan Keskin
• Hakan Demirhindi
• Ceren Kanat Şahin
• Esra Doğan Mete
• Ertuğrul Bayram

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

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

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

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

Malnutrition and Related Factors in Older Adults

• Nezahat Muge Catikkas

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

Polypharmacy and Related Factors in Geriatric Outpatients

• Pınar Küçükdağlı

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

• Güzin Çakmak

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

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

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

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

The Coexistence Between Probable Sarcopenia, Undernutrition and Frailty in Geriatric Outpatients

• Meriş Esra Bozkurt

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

• Özlem Karaarslan Cengiz
• Funda Datlı Yakaryılmaz

Comfort and Quality of Life of Older Cardiac Patients: A Cross-sectional Study

• Şeyma Demir Erbaş
• Arzu Akman Yılmaz
• Elif Gençer Şendur

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

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

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

Evaluation of Elderly Patients’ Knowledge and Awareness of Dental Implant Treatments Applying to Periodontology and Prosthodontics Departments

• Özlem Saraç Atagün
• Ülkü Tuğba Kalyoncuoğlu

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

Dalbavancin as Consolidation Therapy in Elderly Patients

• Lucia Corral Sastre
• Anna Gallotti
• Belén Loeches-Yagüe
• Francisco Moreno-Ramos
• Alicia Rico-Nieto

Comparison Between Geriatric and Non-geriatric Patients in the Development of Complications After Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy

• Cem Azılı
• Harun Karabacak
• Şener Balas
• Muhammed Apaydın
• Selim Tamam
• Serdar Çulcu
• Ahmet Oğuz Hasdemir

Relationship Between Polypharmacy and Geriatric Syndromes in Older Nursing Home Residents

• Fatma Özge Kayhan Koçak
• Emin Taşkıran
• Sevnaz Şahin

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

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 Sarcopenia by Ultrasound. A Feasibility Study in Acutely Admitted Danish Geriatric Inpatients

• Julie Svane Hansen
• Kristoffer K Brockhattingen
• Karen Andersen-Ranberg

Are Fear of COVID-19, Anxiety of Death, and Fear of Death Different Among Medical Ilnesses in the Elderly?

• Bahadır Demir
• Handan Demirbaş Kurtoğlu
• Zeynel Abidin Öztürk

Investigation of Knowledge and Attitudes of African and Turkish Nursing Students Regarding the Older Adults; A Comparative Descriptive Study

• Firdevs Erdemir
• Nazlı Turgut Atak
• Ebru Akgün Çıtak

The Relationship Between Polypharmacy and Geropsychiatric Assessment Scales in Geriatric Outpatients

• Yelda Öztürk
• Ezgi Odacı Cömertoğlu
• Merve Hafızoğlu
• Zeynep Kahyaoğlu
• Çağatay Çavuşoğlu
• Cafer Balcı
• Burcu Balam Doğu
• Meltem Halil
• Özlem Erden Aki
• Mustafa Cankurtaran

The Effect of the Use of Frailty Scores and Hospital Score on 30-Day Hospital Readmissions in Geriatric Patients Admitted to the Emergency Department

• Görkem Alper Solakoğlu
• Bahar Bektan Kanat

Cognitive Functions in Obstructive Sleep Apnea: Observing the Effects of Continuous Positive Airway Pressure Treatment in Aging Patients

• Deniz Büyükgök
• Züleyha Bingöl
• Aslı Tufan Çinçin
• Esen Kıyan
• Mehmet Akif Karan
• Gülistan Bahat

Validity and Reliability of Study of Osteoporotic Fractures Index in the Diagnosis of Sarcopenia in Turkish Geriatric Patients

• Tanju Kapagan
• Hakan Yavuzer
• Ferhat Ferhatoglu
• Deniz Suna Erdincler
• Abdülhamit Enes Camcıoglu

Case Report

Sorafenib as Salvage Therapy after Radioembolization in a Patient with Huge Hepatocellular Carcinoma in a Geriatric Patient with Normal Alfa-Feta Protein Levels: A Case Report

• Gülru Ulugerger Avcı
• Bahar Bektan Kanat
• Rana Berru Durmuş
• Alper Döventaş

Diagnostic Challenge of an Advanced-Stage Dementia Case

• Emin Taşkıran

A Case of Denosumab-associated Hyperparathyroidism: Differential Diagnosis Challenge

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

Lercanidipine-induced Chyloperitoneum in a Geriatric Patient with Peritoneal Dialysis

• İrem Pembegül
• Funda Datlı Yakaryılmaz
• Özgül Balseven

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

Added Value of Geriatric Consultation on the Emergency Department to Detect Primary Hyperparathyroidism in the Elderly Presenting as Frail Phenotype: Review of the Literature and A Case Report

• Veerle Mertens
• Liselotte Van Ballart
• Christophe De Block
• Kathleen De Greef
• Maurits Vandewoude
• Guy Hans
• Stany Perkisas
• Greta Moorkens

Idiopathic Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis - A Rare Condition Mimicking Gastric Cancer in An Older Adult

• Esra Çataltepe
• Eda Çeker
• Fatih Güngör
• Hacer Doğan Varan

Review

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

• Zümrüt Bahat
• Nezahat Müge Çatıkkaş

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

Letter to the Editor

Elderly Fall and Glaucoma: Vision Assessment in Geriatrics

• Sunny Chi Lik Au
• Simon Tak Chuen Ko