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July 20, 2021
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JAMDA
July 20, 2021
Racial Disparities in COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance: Building Trust to Protect Nursing Home Staff and Residents
Vaccines are critical to protect both nursing home residents and staff from COVID-19, but some staff have expressed reservations about being vaccinated. In this brief report, we describe interventions that Genesis HealthCare—one of the largest US long-term care providers—implemented after recognizing midwa...
JAMDA
July 20, 2021
Molecular Epidemiology and Risk Factors for Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamase–Producing in Long-Term Care ResidentsEnterobacteralesMolecular Epidemiology and Risk Factors for Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamase–Producing in Long-Term Care Residents
We aimed to assess the burden of extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL)-producing in Swiss long-term care facilities (LTCFs) to describe the molecular epidemiology, describe the intrainstitutional and regional clusters of resistant pathogens, and identify independent institution- and resident-level factors ...
JAMDA
July 20, 2021
Medical Decision-Making Practices for Unrepresented Residents in Nursing Homes
Unrepresented adults are individuals who lack decision-making capacity and have neither an available surrogate decision maker nor an applicable advance directive. Currently, the prevalence of unrepresented nursing home (NH) residents and how medical decisions are made is unknown. We examined (1) the preval...
JAMDA
July 19, 2021
Clinical Factors Related to COVID-19 Outcomes in Institutionalized Older Adults: Cross-sectional Analysis from a Cohort in Catalonia
JAMDA
July 19, 2021
Frailty Assessment in the Emergency Department for Risk Stratification of COVID-19 Patients Aged ≥80 Years
To evaluate, in a cohort of adults aged ≥80 years, the overlapping effect of clinical severity, comorbidities, cognitive impairment, and frailty, for the in-hospital death risk stratification of COVID-19 older patients since emergency department (ED) admission.
JAMDA
July 19, 2021
Different Associations of Skeletal Muscle Mass Index and Creatinine-To-Cystatin C Ratio With Muscle Mass and Myosteatosis: The J-SHIPP Study
JAMDA
July 19, 2021
The Association of Service Use and Other Client Factors with the Time to Transition from Home Care to Facility-Based Care
People are living longer with complex health needs and wish to remain in their homes as their care needs change. We examined which client factors (sociodemographic, health service use, health, and function) influenced older persons’ (≥65 years) time to transition from home living to assisted living (AL) or...
JAMDA
July 18, 2021
Prevalence and Predictors of Persistence of COVID-19 Symptoms in Older Adults: A Single-Center Study
Symptom persistence weeks after laboratory-confirmed severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) clearance is a relatively common long-term complication of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Little is known about this phenomenon in older adults. The present study aimed at determining the...
JAMDA
July 16, 2021
Influence of Education and Income on Receipt of Dementia Care in Sweden
To explore the dementia diagnostic process and drug prescription for persons with dementia (PWD) with different socioeconomic status (SES).
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