JAMDA
June 27, 2022
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JAMDA
April 28, 2022
Medications Associated With Geriatric Syndromes (MAGS) and Hospitalization Risk in Home Health Care Patients
Polypharmacy is common in home health care (HHC). This study examined the prevalence of medications associated with geriatric syndromes (MAGS), its predictors, and association with subsequent hospitalization in HHC.
JAMDA
March 2, 2022
Evaluating Age as a Predictor of Postoperative Opioid Use and Prescribing Habits in Older Adults With Cancer
To assess the narcotic use of older patients after oncologic resection.
JAMDA
February 27, 2022
Greater Opioid Use Among Nursing Home Residents in Ontario, Canada During the First 2 Waves of the COVID-19 Pandemic
To examine the association between the COVID-19 pandemic and opioid use among nursing home residents followed up to March 2021, and possible variation by dementia and frailty status.
JAMDA
February 6, 2022
Potential Unintended Consequences of Antipsychotic Reduction in Ontario Nursing Homes
Antipsychotic reduction in nursing homes has been a focus of research and policy attention for several decades; however, there is evidence that these initiatives may have had unintended consequences, such as medication substitution and changes in diagnosis coding. Our objectives were to describe temporal c...
JAMDA
January 21, 2022
Optimizing Practices, Use, Care, and Services–Antipsychotics (OPUS-AP) in Long-Term Care Centers in Quebec, Canada: A Successful Scale-Up
To evaluate the scale-up of the OPUS-AP program to improve the care of residents at long-term care (LTC) centers through the systematic implementation of resident-centered approaches to care, the application of nonpharmacologic interventions for the management of behavioral and psychological symptoms of de...
JAMDA
January 14, 2022
Pragmatic Trial of Personalized Music for Agitation and Antipsychotic Use in Nursing Home Residents With Dementia
To test the effect of a personalized music intervention on agitated behaviors and medication use among long-stay nursing home residents with dementia.
Podcast
December 15, 2021
JAMDA On-The-Go | December 2021 | Full-Time Nursing Home Practice / Deprescribing / Pain Management / Ventilators
JAMDA
December 14, 2021
As-Needed Prescribing and Administration of Psychotropic Medications in Assisted Living: A 7-State Study
Psychotropic medications administered on an as-needed basis, often designated as pro re nata (or PRN, hereafter as-needed), can alleviate acute symptoms and facilitate deprescribing, although as-needed use is associated with negative outcomes such as polypharmacy and drug interactions. The aim of this stud...
JAMDA
November 30, 2021
