Listen to Your Heart and Mind: A Pilot Mixed‐Methods Study on Combined Screening for Raised Blood Pressure, Atrial Fibrillation, Cognitive Impairment and Hearing Loss in Older Adults
Isabella Tan, Aletta E Schutte, Catherine Morgan, Henry Brodaty, Sonali R Gnanenthiran, Katya Numbers, Hueiming Liu, Menglu Ouyang, Paola Incerti, Padraig Kitterick, Mridula Sharma · 2026
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Isabella Tan and eleven co-authors pilot a combined health screening for older adults in this 2026 paper. The visit bundles four checks that are usually spread across services: blood pressure, heart rhythm, thinking, and hearing. Thirty-five adults aged sixty-five and over attended a single visit of about an hour to an hour and a half. The checks rode along with a full hearing assessment.
Positive screens turned up in twenty-five of the thirty-five people. Hearing loss led the list, then possible thinking problems, raised pressure, and possible atrial fibrillation. Eight people had more than one new finding. Interviewees called the bundle convenient, time saving, and efficient. The authors judge the combined visit workable and welcome in this small pilot. They call for larger rollout studies that weigh costs and health outcomes, to test whether bundling catches problems sooner in real services.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Isabella Tan, Aletta E Schutte, Catherine Morgan, Henry Brodaty, Sonali R Gnanenthiran, Katya Numbers, Hueiming Liu, Menglu Ouyang, Paola Incerti, Padraig Kitterick, Mridula Sharma |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 50 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |