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June 12, 2024
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June 10, 2024
Evolution of Telehealth Program to Meet Current Needs of Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Communities
This article describes a telehealth program initially created to reduce transfers to acute care from the nursing home and its evolution into a robust program that includes Behavioral Health, a Medical Director program, and telenursing.
JAMDA
June 8, 2024
The Enduring Significance of Culture in Dementia Care for First- and Second-Generation Immigrants
JAMDA
June 8, 2024
Enablers and Barriers for End-of-Life Symptom Management Medications in Long-Term Care Homes: A Qualitative Study
Long-term care (LTC) homes provide personal and medical care 24/7 to individuals unable to live at home due to illness or disability and are often the final place of care and death for their residents. Therefore, LTC homes are tasked with providing quality end-of-life care, often requiring injectable sympt...
JAMDA
June 8, 2024
A Longitudinal Study of the Use and Effects of Fall-Risk-Increasing Drugs in Residential Aged Care
Fall-risk-increasing drugs (FRIDs)—psychotropics and cardiovascular disease (CVD) drugs—may elevate the risk of falling, with strong evidence observed in psychotropic FRIDs, whereas findings from cardiovascular disease (CVD) FRIDs remain inconclusive. Existing studies on FRIDs and falls are often hampered ...
JAMDA
June 8, 2024
Barriers and Enablers for Deprescribing Diabetes Medication
JAMDA
June 8, 2024
Prevalence and Correlates of Antipsychotic Medication Use in Oregon Assisted Living
Investigate how assisted living and residential care (AL/RC) and memory care (MC) contexts are associated with the 90-day prevalence of antipsychotic medication use (APU), considered a quality measure in long-term care.
JAMDA
June 8, 2024
How Do Discrepancies between Subjective and Objective Health Predict the Risk of Injurious Falls? A Study of Community-Dwelling Swedish Older Adults
Previous studies demonstrated that discrepancies between subjective and objective health measures are associated with physical and mental health–related outcomes in older adults. We investigate whether such discrepancies are also associated with risk of injurious falls in community-dwelling Swedish older a...
JAMDA
June 6, 2024
Rethinking Infection Control: Nursing Home Administrator Experiences during the COVID-19 Pandemic
To examine nursing home administrator perspectives of infection control practices in nursing homes at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and characterize lessons learned.
JAMDA
June 5, 2024
How Do We Achieve Person-Centered Care across Health Care Settings? Expanding Ideological Perspectives into Practice to Advance Person-Centered Care
Person or patient-centered care (PCC) is touted as the gold standard in geriatric medical care across care settings. However, despite more than 3 decades of research and practice initiatives, it remains a challenge to consistently implement PCC that fully places the individual at the center of care plannin...
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