List of works - Helen C. Roberts

A design to investigate the feasibility and effects of partnered ballroom dancing on people with Parkinson disease: randomized controlled trial protocol

scientific article

A feasibility study of implementing grip strength measurement into routine hospital practice (GRImP): study protocol

scientific article

A multi-centre, randomised controlled trial of the effectiveness of PDSAFE to prevent falls among people with Parkinson's: study protocol

scientific article published on 15 May 2015

A personalized sensor-controlled microstimulator system for arm rehabilitation poststroke. Part 2: Objective outcomes and patients' perspectives.

scientific article published on 4 November 2010

A review of the measurement of grip strength in clinical and epidemiological studies: towards a standardised approach

scientific article

A systematic review of the use of volunteers to improve mealtime care of adult patients or residents in institutional settings

scientific article published on 25 April 2011

Adherence to a standardized protocol for measuring grip strength and appropriate cut-off values in adults over 65 years with sarcopenia: a systematic review protocol

scientific article published on 13 November 2015

An overview of appetite decline in older people

scientific article

Assessment and management of older people with sarcopenia.

scientific article published on June 2014

Can probiotics, prebiotics and synbiotics improve functional outcomes for older people: a systematic review

scientific article published on 24 September 2020

Can routine clinical data identify older patients at risk of poor healthcare outcomes on admission to hospital?

scientific article published on 10 August 2017

Can trained volunteers improve the mealtime care of older hospital patients? An implementation study in one English hospital

scientific article published on 05 August 2018

Can trained volunteers make a difference at mealtimes for older people in hospital? A qualitative study of the views and experience of nurses, patients, relatives and volunteers in the Southampton Mealtime Assistance Study

scientific article published on 12 August 2014

Change in treatment burden among people with multimorbidity: a follow-up survey

scientific article published in November 2022

Changing the food environment: the effect of trained volunteers on mealtime care for older people in hospital.

scientific article

Community hospitals: an under-recognized resource for palliative care

article

Comprehensive geriatric assessment in primary care: a systematic review

scientific article published on 09 April 2019

Current Clinical Care of Older Adults With Sarcopenia

scientific article published on 16 June 2015

Distinct clinical and neuropathological features of G51D SNCA mutation cases compared with SNCA duplication and H50Q mutation

scientific article

Emergency hospital admissions for ill-defined conditions amongst older people: a review of the literature.

scientific article published on December 2007

End-of-life care in community hospitals: the perceptions of bereaved family members

scientific article published in July 2006

Evaluating the feasibility and acceptability of virtual group exercise for older adults delivered by trained volunteers: the ImPACt study protocol

scientific article published in 2022

Exercise- and strategy-based physiotherapy-delivered intervention for preventing repeat falls in people with Parkinson's: the PDSAFE RCT

scientific article published in July 2019

Experiences of end-of-life care in community hospitals

Exploring health and social services in Denmark, Norway, Spain and the United Kingdom for the development of Parkinson's care pathways. A document analysis

scientific article published in November 2022

Fall frequency, predicting falls and participating in falls research: similarities among people with Parkinson's disease with and without cognitive impairment.

scientific article published on 12 November 2014

Features and outcomes of unplanned hospital admissions of older people due to ill-defined (R-coded) conditions: retrospective analysis of hospital admissions data in England.

scientific article

Finding the right outcome measures for care home research

scientific article published on 25 May 2010

Grip strength and its determinants among older people in different healthcare settings

scientific article published on 07 August 2013

Grip strength in a cohort of older medical inpatients in Malaysia: a pilot study to describe the range, determinants and association with length of hospital stay.

scientific article published on 29 October 2012

Healthcare workers' skills: perceived competence and experiences of end-of-life care in community hospitals

article

Human Vastus Lateralis Skeletal Muscle Biopsy Using the Weil-Blakesley Conchotome

scientific article published on 4 March 2016

Improving recruitment of older people to research through good practice

scientific article published on 11 September 2011

Inflammation in aging part 1: physiology and immunological mechanisms

scientific article published on 23 November 2009

Inflammation in aging part 2: implications for the health of older people and recommendations for nursing practice.

scientific article

Is grip strength associated with length of stay in hospitalised older patients admitted for rehabilitation? Findings from the Southampton grip strength study ⬇️

scientific article published on July 9, 2012

It takes two: the influence of dance partners on the perceived enjoyment and benefits during participation in partnered ballroom dance classes for people with Parkinson's.

scientific article published on 9 May 2017

Lee Silverman Voice Treatment versus standard speech and language therapy versus control in Parkinson's disease: a pilot randomised controlled trial (PD COMM pilot).

scientific article published on 10 January 2018

Lee Silverman voice treatment versus standard NHS speech and language therapy versus control in Parkinson's disease (PD COMM pilot): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

scientific article

Managing Parkinson's during the COVID-19 pandemic: Perspectives from people living with Parkinson's and health professionals

scientific article published in April 2023

Mealtime assistance may increase the energy and protein intake of hospitalised older patients

scientific article published on 26 February 2016

Measuring Appetite with the Simplified Nutritional Appetite Questionnaire Identifies Hospitalised Older People at Risk of Worse Health Outcomes

scientific article published on January 2016

Older individual's perceptions of appetite, its loss, influencing factors and adaptions to poor appetite. A qualitative study

scientific article published in December 2021

Outcomes After Unplanned Admission to Hospital in Older People: Ill-Defined Conditions as Potential Indicators of the Frailty Trajectory

scientific article published on 05 October 2012

Papel de los profesionales de la atención primaria en el manejo de la sarcopenia

scientific article published on 10 September 2014

Prevalence and correlates of frailty among community-dwelling older men and women: findings from the Hertfordshire Cohort Study

scientific article published on 8 December 2009

Prevalence of sarcopenia in community-dwelling older people in the UK using the European Working Group on Sarcopenia in Older People (EWGSOP) definition: findings from the Hertfordshire Cohort Study (HCS)

scientific article

Reducing avoidable hospital admission in older people: health status, frailty and predicting risk of ill-defined conditions diagnoses in older people admitted with collapse

scientific article

Relationship between lung function and grip strength in older hospitalized patients: a pilot study

scientific article

Slow Down and Concentrate: Time for a Paradigm Shift in Fall Prevention among People with Parkinson's Disease?

scientific article

Southampton Arm Fracture Frailty and Sarcopenia Study (SAFFSS): a study protocol for the feasibility of assessing frailty and sarcopenia among older patients with an upper limb fracture

scientific article published on 15 August 2019

Southampton Mealtime Assistance Study: design and methods

scientific article

The Association of Grip Strength With Severity and Duration of Parkinson's: A Cross-Sectional Study

scientific article published on 4 February 2015

The Challenge of Managing Undernutrition in Older People with Frailty.

scientific article published on 10 April 2019

The Epidemiology of Sarcopenia

scientific article

The Impact of Trained Volunteer Mealtime Assistants on the Dietary Intake of Older Female In-Patients: The Southampton Mealtime Assistance Study.

scientific article

The PIT: SToPP Trial-A Feasibility Randomised Controlled Trial of Home-Based Physiotherapy for People with Parkinson's Disease Using Video-Based Measures to Preserve Assessor Blinding

scientific article

The feasibility and acceptability of training volunteer mealtime assistants to help older acute hospital inpatients: the Southampton Mealtime Assistance Study

scientific article

The feasibility of assessing frailty and sarcopenia in hospitalised older people: a comparison of commonly used tools

scientific article published on 15 February 2019

The use of finger foods in care settings: an integrative review

scientific article published on 09 December 2019

The use of volunteers to help older medical patients mobilise in hospital: a systematic review

scientific article

Therapeutic effectiveness of electric stimulation of the upper-limb poststroke using implanted microstimulators.

scientific article published on 30 August 2008

Trends in hospital inpatient episodes for signs, symptoms and ill-defined conditions: observational study of older people's hospital episodes in England, 1995-2003.

scientific article

Understanding how we age: insights into inflammaging

scientific article published on 02 May 2013

Understanding support systems for Parkinson's disease management in community settings: A cross-national qualitative study

scientific article published in April 2023

Use of the electronic Frailty Index to identify vulnerable patients: a pilot study in primary care.

scientific article published on 25 September 2017

List of works by Helen C. Roberts

A design to investigate the feasibility and effects of partnered ballroom dancing on people with Parkinson disease: randomized controlled trial protocol

A feasibility study of implementing grip strength measurement into routine hospital practice (GRImP): study protocol

A multi-centre, randomised controlled trial of the effectiveness of PDSAFE to prevent falls among people with Parkinson's: study protocol

A personalized sensor-controlled microstimulator system for arm rehabilitation poststroke. Part 2: Objective outcomes and patients' perspectives.

A review of the measurement of grip strength in clinical and epidemiological studies: towards a standardised approach

A systematic review of the use of volunteers to improve mealtime care of adult patients or residents in institutional settings

Adherence to a standardized protocol for measuring grip strength and appropriate cut-off values in adults over 65 years with sarcopenia: a systematic review protocol

An overview of appetite decline in older people

Assessment and management of older people with sarcopenia.

Can probiotics, prebiotics and synbiotics improve functional outcomes for older people: a systematic review

Can routine clinical data identify older patients at risk of poor healthcare outcomes on admission to hospital?

Can trained volunteers improve the mealtime care of older hospital patients? An implementation study in one English hospital

Can trained volunteers make a difference at mealtimes for older people in hospital? A qualitative study of the views and experience of nurses, patients, relatives and volunteers in the Southampton Mealtime Assistance Study

Change in treatment burden among people with multimorbidity: a follow-up survey

Changing the food environment: the effect of trained volunteers on mealtime care for older people in hospital.

Community hospitals: an under-recognized resource for palliative care

Comprehensive geriatric assessment in primary care: a systematic review

Current Clinical Care of Older Adults With Sarcopenia

Distinct clinical and neuropathological features of G51D SNCA mutation cases compared with SNCA duplication and H50Q mutation

Emergency hospital admissions for ill-defined conditions amongst older people: a review of the literature.

End-of-life care in community hospitals: the perceptions of bereaved family members

Evaluating the feasibility and acceptability of virtual group exercise for older adults delivered by trained volunteers: the ImPACt study protocol

Exercise- and strategy-based physiotherapy-delivered intervention for preventing repeat falls in people with Parkinson's: the PDSAFE RCT

Experiences of end-of-life care in community hospitals

Exploring health and social services in Denmark, Norway, Spain and the United Kingdom for the development of Parkinson's care pathways. A document analysis

Fall frequency, predicting falls and participating in falls research: similarities among people with Parkinson's disease with and without cognitive impairment.

Features and outcomes of unplanned hospital admissions of older people due to ill-defined (R-coded) conditions: retrospective analysis of hospital admissions data in England.

Finding the right outcome measures for care home research

Grip strength and its determinants among older people in different healthcare settings

Grip strength in a cohort of older medical inpatients in Malaysia: a pilot study to describe the range, determinants and association with length of hospital stay.

Healthcare workers' skills: perceived competence and experiences of end-of-life care in community hospitals

Human Vastus Lateralis Skeletal Muscle Biopsy Using the Weil-Blakesley Conchotome

Improving recruitment of older people to research through good practice

Inflammation in aging part 1: physiology and immunological mechanisms

Inflammation in aging part 2: implications for the health of older people and recommendations for nursing practice.

Is grip strength associated with length of stay in hospitalised older patients admitted for rehabilitation? Findings from the Southampton grip strength study ⬇️

It takes two: the influence of dance partners on the perceived enjoyment and benefits during participation in partnered ballroom dance classes for people with Parkinson's.

Lee Silverman Voice Treatment versus standard speech and language therapy versus control in Parkinson's disease: a pilot randomised controlled trial (PD COMM pilot).

Lee Silverman voice treatment versus standard NHS speech and language therapy versus control in Parkinson's disease (PD COMM pilot): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Managing Parkinson's during the COVID-19 pandemic: Perspectives from people living with Parkinson's and health professionals

Mealtime assistance may increase the energy and protein intake of hospitalised older patients

Measuring Appetite with the Simplified Nutritional Appetite Questionnaire Identifies Hospitalised Older People at Risk of Worse Health Outcomes

Older individual's perceptions of appetite, its loss, influencing factors and adaptions to poor appetite. A qualitative study

Outcomes After Unplanned Admission to Hospital in Older People: Ill-Defined Conditions as Potential Indicators of the Frailty Trajectory

Papel de los profesionales de la atención primaria en el manejo de la sarcopenia

Prevalence and correlates of frailty among community-dwelling older men and women: findings from the Hertfordshire Cohort Study

Prevalence of sarcopenia in community-dwelling older people in the UK using the European Working Group on Sarcopenia in Older People (EWGSOP) definition: findings from the Hertfordshire Cohort Study (HCS)

Reducing avoidable hospital admission in older people: health status, frailty and predicting risk of ill-defined conditions diagnoses in older people admitted with collapse

Relationship between lung function and grip strength in older hospitalized patients: a pilot study

Slow Down and Concentrate: Time for a Paradigm Shift in Fall Prevention among People with Parkinson's Disease?

Southampton Arm Fracture Frailty and Sarcopenia Study (SAFFSS): a study protocol for the feasibility of assessing frailty and sarcopenia among older patients with an upper limb fracture

Southampton Mealtime Assistance Study: design and methods

The Association of Grip Strength With Severity and Duration of Parkinson's: A Cross-Sectional Study

The Challenge of Managing Undernutrition in Older People with Frailty.

The Epidemiology of Sarcopenia

The Impact of Trained Volunteer Mealtime Assistants on the Dietary Intake of Older Female In-Patients: The Southampton Mealtime Assistance Study.

The PIT: SToPP Trial-A Feasibility Randomised Controlled Trial of Home-Based Physiotherapy for People with Parkinson's Disease Using Video-Based Measures to Preserve Assessor Blinding

The feasibility and acceptability of training volunteer mealtime assistants to help older acute hospital inpatients: the Southampton Mealtime Assistance Study

The feasibility of assessing frailty and sarcopenia in hospitalised older people: a comparison of commonly used tools

The use of finger foods in care settings: an integrative review

The use of volunteers to help older medical patients mobilise in hospital: a systematic review

Therapeutic effectiveness of electric stimulation of the upper-limb poststroke using implanted microstimulators.

Trends in hospital inpatient episodes for signs, symptoms and ill-defined conditions: observational study of older people's hospital episodes in England, 1995-2003.

Understanding how we age: insights into inflammaging

Understanding support systems for Parkinson's disease management in community settings: A cross-national qualitative study

Use of the electronic Frailty Index to identify vulnerable patients: a pilot study in primary care.