Rasheedy, Doha http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3767-1516
Adly, Nermien Naim http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6786-3597
Ahmed, Ramy Mahdy
Amer, Moatassem Salah
Article History
Received: 25 January 2019
Accepted: 3 April 2019
First Online: 10 April 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare no conflicts of interest with respect to the authorship and publication of this article.
: The study methodology was reviewed and approved by the Research Review Board of the Geriatrics and Gerontology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University. This study has been performed in accordance with the ethical standards as laid down in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki.
: Informed verbal consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study. Verbal consent was relied upon as some participants were illiterate and could not provide a signed consent. The verbal consent was documented in the presence of a next of kin and a nurse. The ethics committee approved the use of verbal consent.