The phrase "advancing elderly" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in contexts discussing the aging population or the progression of age-related issues, but it is not commonly recognized.
Example: "The healthcare system must adapt to the needs of the advancing elderly population."
Alternatives: "aging population" or "growing elderly demographic".
Especially for advanced elderly persons, fracture related functional impairment often necessitates external help from professional home care services, relatives or friends [ 11].
Although executive function typically declines with advancing years, "elderly people who have been athletic all their lives have much better executive function than sedentary people of the same age," Dr. Aamodt and Dr. Wang reported.
With this background, we performed a randomized, multicenter phase III trial (MILES [Multicenter Italian Lung Cancer in the Elderly Study]) in 707 advanced NSCLC elderly patients.
Diseases of the liver and kidney are more common and typically more advanced in elderly individuals than in younger age groups, leading to a greater likelihood for disease-related decreases in the pharmacokinetic processing of drugs or environmental chemicals (Lam et al. 1997; Regev and Schiff 2001).
We addressed the question of possible changes in hand dominance with advancing age in elderly subjects 65 to 90 years of age.
Due to the increase in average life expectancy and the higher incidence of cardiovascular disease with advancing age, more elderly patients present for cardiac surgery nowadays.
Indeed, others have reported a decrease in average serum vitamin B12 concentrations with advancing age in elderly populations (> 65 y) (Den Elzen et al., 2008, Green et al., 2005, Loikas et al., 2007, Nilsson-Ehle et al., 1991, Wahlin et al., 2002).
Our results suggest that increased age (i.e., greater than 80 years) is the strongest correlate of not advancing through treatment among elderly mCC patients.
Medicine is, so far, much more advanced in keeping elderly people alive than in keeping them well.
We report on a tailored combined approach to improve advanced lipedema in elderly females with multiple comorbidities.
