• Lisa Gould, Peter Abadir, Harold Brem, Marissa Carter, Teresa Conner-Kerr, Jeff Davidson, Luisa DiPietro, Vincent Falanga, Caroline Fife, Sue Gardner, Elizabeth Grice, John Harmon, William R Hazzard, Kevin P High, Pamela Houghton, Nasreen Jacobson, Robert S Kirsner, Elizabeth J Kovacs, David Margolis, Frances McFarland Horne, May J Reed, Dennis H Sullivan, Stephen Thom, Marjana Tomic-Canic, Jeremy Walston, Jo Anne Whitney, John Williams, Susan Zieman, and Kenneth Schmader.
• Wound Recovery and Hyperbaric Medicine Center, Kent Hospital, Warwick, Rhode Island.
• J Am Geriatr Soc. 2015 Mar 1; 63 (3): 427-38.

AbstractOlder adults are more likely to have chronic wounds than younger people, and the effect of chronic wounds on quality of life is particularly profound in this population. Wound healing slows with age, but the basic biology underlying chronic wounds and the influence of age-associated changes on wound healing are poorly understood. Most studies have used in vitro approaches and various animal models, but observed changes translate poorly to human healing conditions. The effect of age and accompanying multimorbidity on the effectiveness of existing and emerging treatment approaches for chronic wounds is also unknown, and older adults tend to be excluded from randomized clinical trials. Poorly defined outcomes and variables; lack of standardization in data collection; and variations in the definition, measurement, and treatment of wounds also hamper clinical studies. The Association of Specialty Professors, in conjunction with the National Institute on Aging and the Wound Healing Society, held a workshop, summarized in this article, to explore the current state of knowledge and research challenges, engage investigators across disciplines, and identify research questions to guide future study of age-associated changes in chronic wound healing.© 2015 by the American Geriatrics Society and the Wound Healing Society.

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