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OBM Geriatrics , Volume 9 , Issue 3 (2025)

Pages: 194

Published: October 2025

(This book is a printed edition that was published in OBM Geriatrics)

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Cover story: Our study explored the health outcomes of senior center-based exercise classes. Finding that regardless of age, sex, baseline activity level, or class type, older adults experienced improvements in mental health and quality of life. These senior center-based exercise programs may be a cost-effective strategy to support healthy aging. View this paper.

Volume 9,Issue 3

Open Access Original Research

Annual Costs and Nursing Care Interventions to Prevent Falls Over 1 Year in a Long Term Care Facility

Received: 11 March 2025;  Published: 16 September 2025;  doi: 10.21926/obm.geriatr.2503327

Abstract

Evidence shows the use of interventions to prevent falls are costly to healthcare facilities. Using a sample of older adult patients who fell at least once during the intervention year of a three-year cohort study in one long term care nursing facility, at a continuing care community providing skilled nursing and assisted living, we provide detailed evidence of the number and costs of durable medical equipment and number and type of non- durable medical nursing care interventions utilized to pre [...]

Open Access Original Research

Health Outcomes Associated with Community Senior Center Fitness Classes: Influence of Activity Type and Baseline Physical Activity Level

Received: 09 June 2025;  Published: 12 September 2025;  doi: 10.21926/obm.geriatr.2503326

Abstract

Senior centers serve as community anchors for the approximately 57.8 million older adults in the U.S., offering a range of health promotion programs, including exercise classes. This study examined how the type of exercise programs at senior centers influences older adults’ health (mental, physical, and quality of life) and how baseline physical activity levels may influence these changes as part of a statewide health promotion program evaluation in senior centers in Delaware. The exercise progr [...]

Open Access Review

The Cellular Mechanism of Aging as Programmed Epigenetic Phenomenon: From Hypothesis to Scientific Evidence

Received: 04 December 2024;  Published: 10 September 2025;  doi: 10.21926/obm.geriatr.2503325

Abstract

There is a main difference between theories explaining aging as an adaptive phenomenon that is determined and modulated by genes (i.e., the result of a specific “program”) and theories explaining aging as a non-adaptive phenomenon caused by the accumulation of random degenerative events. In fact, for adaptive theories, a genetically determined and modulated program determining aging is indispensable, while for non-adaptive theories, such a program cannot exist. However, there appears to be stron [...]

Open Access Review

The Role of Telomeres in Senescence, Aging and Disease: Fiction and Reality

Received: 21 May 2025;  Published: 09 September 2025;  doi: 10.21926/obm.geriatr.2503324

Abstract

Telomeres are repetitive structures at the ends of linear chromosomes. Due to incomplete DNA replication at the end of linear DNA molecules, the so called “end replication problem”, telomeres shorten consecutively during cell division. In addition, telomere sequences are highly susceptible to oxidative stress damaging telomeres and resulting in their dysfunction even in non-dividing cells. Telomere shortening has been identified as one of the underlying causes for replicative senescence that can [...]

Open Access Review

Medical Digital Technologies in Older Patients with Cardiac Disease Achievements and Drawbacks

Received: 17 February 2025;  Published: 09 September 2025;  doi: 10.21926/obm.geriatr.2503323

Abstract

Older adults are a growing population characterized by a high prevalence of multimorbidity and age-related conditions, such as organ and pharmacokinetic dysfunction. Medical digital technologies have emerged through the combined use of wearable, implantable, and insertable medical devices with digital systems. Gerontology aims to help older patients with disabilities utilize these technologies. These technologies are used in high-tech medical centers, particularly among older cardiac patients. M [...]

Open Access Case Report

Feasibility and Physiological Effects of a Home-Based Swallow Exercise Program Using sEMG Biofeedback in Prefrail Older Adults: A Case Series

Received: 28 April 2025;  Published: 13 August 2025;  doi: 10.21926/obm.geriatr.2503322

Abstract

Age-related decline in swallowing function increases the risk of dysphagia in older adults. Strengthening the muscles involved in swallowing through proactive training may help prevent such decline, particularly in prefrail individuals. This case series evaluated the feasibility and physiological effects of a home-based effortful swallow training program in three prefrail older adults without swallowing impairments. The intervention used a wearable surface electromyography biofeedback device (Mo [...]

Open Access Original Research

Transforming Community Strategy from Population Health to Quality Aging — The Role of Digital Technologies

Received: 03 March 2025;  Published: 11 August 2025;  doi: 10.21926/obm.geriatr.2503321

Abstract

Aging is a multifaceted journey shaped by diverse life-course experiences, which contribute both to the challenges populations face in achieving their health goals and to the competencies they can bring to sustain health and aging. Community strategies designed to support population health—by leveraging technology and external partners—require transformation to effectively extend their focus to aging-related goals. In this paper, we adopt a service lens to examine how these community strategies, [...]

Open Access Short Review

Maximal 4-Second Cycle Accelerations Attenuate Sarcopenia and Improve Cardiovascular Function in Older Adults

Received: 20 February 2025;  Published: 08 August 2025;  doi: 10.21926/obm.geriatr.2503320

Abstract

The shrinkage of muscles with age, beginning at 30 y and accelerating in old age, is due largely to atrophy of fast-twitch muscle fibers (FT) partly from disuse. It was our purpose to develop an exercise program that is effective and time efficient at stimulating FT, as well as slow-twitch fibers (ST), to offset their atrophy. FT are recruited during movements requiring very high force and/or high velocity. We developed a safe exercise cycle that allows a person to ‘accelerate’ with the maximal [...]

Open Access Original Research

“At My Age, Its Perhaps the End of My Walking or the End of a Lot of My Life”: A Phenomenological Study of the Lived Experiences of a Serious Fall to Independent Older Adults

Received: 04 February 2025;  Published: 01 August 2025;  doi: 10.21926/obm.geriatr.2503319

Abstract

The purpose of this original research was to describe the lived experience and meaning of a serious fall to independently residing older adults. A qualitative phenomenological approach was utilized with a purposive sample of 19, independent, high-level functioning older adult residents of a Continuing Care Retirement Community to describe their most serious fall and its personal meaning. Traced through multiple data sources, interpretive analysis of the language expressed by older adults were in [...]

Open Access Interview

An Interview with Dr. Pietro Gareri

Received: 02 July 2025;  Published: 02 July 2025;  doi: 10.21926/obm.geriatr.2503318
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