In older patients, acute medical illness that requires hospitalization is a sentinel event that
often precipitates disability. This results in the subsequent inability to live independently and …

OBJECTIVE To determine whether a multidisciplinary mobility promotion quality‐
improvement (QI) project would increase patient mobility and reduce hospital length of stay …

Importance Low mobility is common during hospitalization and associated with loss or
declines in ability to perform activities of daily living (ADL) and limitations in community …

Background: Readmissions after hospital discharge are common and costly, but prediction
models are poor at identifying patients at high risk of readmission. We evaluated the impact …

The perioperative exercise training protocol known under the name 'Better in, Better
out'could be implemented in clinical care for the vulnerable group of patients scheduled for …

Life-space mobility (LSM) is a concept for assessing patterns of functional mobility over time.
LSM is gaining traction in the research of geriatric population health. Several instruments …

Background Older adults who cease driving have poorer health than those who continue to
drive. However, it is unclear whether the transition to driving cessation itself results in health …

OBJECTIVES: To describe the amount and patterns of ambulatory activity in hospitalized
older adults over consecutive hospital days. DESIGN: Observational cohort study. SETTING …

Objective: To review how disability can develop in older adults with critical illness and to
explore ways to reduce long-term disability following critical illness. Data Sources: We …

Background: Relatively little is known about why older persons develop long-term disability
in community mobility. Objective: To identify the risk factors and precipitants for long-term …