On February 12, 2024, Mariona Espaulella Ferrer, a specialist in geriatrics and the current coordinator of medic services at Hospital de Campdevànol (Girona), successfully defended her doctoral thesis titled “Relationship between frailty and aging with health outcomes.” The research findings affirm that assessing the degree of frailty allows for the comprehensive characterization of older adults’ overall health status and enables personalized interventions. In this thesis project, this approach has been tested in the context of complex wound healing, medication review, and provision of service to the elderly. The thesis received the distinction of “Excellent cum laude” and was supervised by Dra. Marta Otero-Viñas, Professor in the Department of Biosciences at the University of Vic – Central University Catalonia (UVic-UCC), Director of the Tissue Repair and Regeneration Laboratory (TR2Lab), and Director of the Doctoral School.
Scientific Publications included in the doctoral thesis:
· Assessment of frailty in elderly patients attending a multidisciplinary wound care centre: a cohort study. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-021-02676-y
· Factors Associated with the Detection of Inappropriate Prescriptions in Older People: A
Prospective Cohort. https://doi.org/10.3390/ ijerph182111310
· “Medication assessment in an older population during acute care hospitalization and its effect on the anticholinergic burden. A prospective cohort study. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20075322.
· Health care model for people living in nursing homes based on integrated care.
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