JAMDA
October 24, 2025
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JAMDA
October 9, 2025
Past Meal-Skipping Habits Associate With Physical Frailty in Later Life: A Retrospective Cohort Study
Dietary intake is a crucial factor for healthy longevity. This study examined the association between meal-skipping habits in early and midlife and physical frailty in later life among community-dwelling older adults.
JAMDA
October 6, 2025
Frailty Status and Dysphagia Trajectory Among Hospitalized Nursing Home Residents With Advanced Dementia
The objective of this analysis was to describe the association of dysphagia and frailty in persons living with dementia (PLWD) residing in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) who experienced hospitalization.
JAMDA
September 8, 2025
Comprehensiveness vs Efficiency: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of the Association Between Allostatic Load and the Frailty Index Using the CLSA
The goal of this study was to investigate the associations between the frailty index (FI) and allostatic load (AL) to determine if allostatic load contains “key” biomarkers of frailty. If so, AL may offer a more concise health measure using only routine, administrative data.
JAMDA
September 2, 2025
Acute Care for Elders Risk Score: A Practical Machine Learning–Based Tool for Screening High-Risk Older Inpatients
To develop and validate a machine learning–based risk score—the Acute Care for Elders (ACE) Risk Score—that integrates the Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) with readily available clinical and laboratory data to predict adverse outcomes in older hospitalized patients.
JAMDA
July 24, 2025
Microstructural Brain Changes Associated With Frailty in Older Adults: Insights From Diffusion Tensor Imaging
This study investigates the relationship between frailty status and white matter integrity (WMI) in older adults, focusing on associations with frailty status.
JAMDA
July 11, 2025
Trajectories After In-Hospital Delirium: Long-Term Changes in Frailty and Cognition After COVID-19
Delirium is a common complication in older patients hospitalized with COVID-19 and is associated with short-term functional and cognitive decline. This study evaluated whether in-hospital delirium is associated with long-term mortality and changes in frailty and cognition.
JAMDA
June 25, 2025
Associations Between Frailty, Illness Severity, and Long-Term Mortality Among Older Adults Admitted to Municipal Acute Care
Important risk factors for mortality include frailty and illness severity. The National Early Warning Score 2 (NEWS2) is widely used to assess acute illness severity and mortality risk, but age and frailty's impact on the association between NEWS2 and mortality is less understood, particularly in nonh...
JAMDA
June 24, 2025
Frailty, Latent Health Profiles, and Antiretroviral Therapy: Predicting Success of Skilled Nursing Facility Care in an HIV Population
People with HIV (PWH) likely need short-term skilled nursing facility (SNF) care more than people with greater financial and social support to remain home. Therefore, we sought to understand how frailty among health profiles with distinct driving conditions, antiretroviral therapy (ART), and sociodemograph...
JAMDA
June 14, 2025
The Relationship Between Frailty and Psychological Functioning in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: A Systematic Review
Frailty and poor psychological functioning remain major aging-related public and clinical health challenges. The multidimensional nature of these constructs, along with diverse assessment methods, complicate the study of their relationship. This study aims to examine the cross-sectional and longitudinal re...
