JAMDA
October 21, 2017
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JAMDA
October 15, 2017
Association Between Sodium Excretion and Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality in the Elderly: A Cohort Study
High dietary sodium intake is a risk factor for cardiovascular events and death. Recently, a J-shaped correlation between sodium intake and adverse outcomes has been shown. The evidence on the association between sodium intake and cardiovascular outcomes in the elderly is scant. The objective of this study...
JAMDA
October 15, 2017
Preliminary Evidence of a Positive Effect of Occupational Therapy in Patients With Delirium Superimposed on Dementia
JAMDA
October 15, 2017
Facility-Level Factors and Outcomes After Skilled Nursing Facility Admission for Trauma and Surgical Patients
Patients discharged to skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) have worse outcomes than those discharged to home, but whether this is due to differences in facility-level factors in addition to patient characteristics is not known. We aimed to determine whether SNF-level factors including nurse staffing and pati...
JAMDA
October 15, 2017
Development and Validation of the Symptom Assessment to Improve Symptom Control for Institutionalized Elderly Scale
To validate a newly developed multiple symptom self-assessment tool in nursing homes.
JAMDA
October 12, 2017
Erratum
JAMDA
October 12, 2017
Association of Antidementia Drugs and Mortality in Community-Dwelling Frail Older Patients With Dementia: The Role of Mortality Risk Assessment
To evaluate whether treatment with antidementia drugs is associated with reduced mortality in older patients with different mortality risk at baseline.
JAMDA
October 10, 2017
Dysphagia in Nursing Homes—Results From the NutritionDay Project
Dysphagia is a major healthcare problem as it increases the risk of malnutrition, dehydration, aspiration pneumonia, and death. The aims of this analysis of data from nursing homes (NHs) worldwide were to examine prevalence rates of dysphagia, to identify characteristics of residents with dysphagia, and to...
JAMDA
October 10, 2017
Hearing the Voice of the Resident in Long-Term Care Facilities—An Internationally Based Approach to Assessing Quality of Life
interRAI launched this study to introduce a set of standardized self-report measures through which residents of long-term care facilities (LTCFs) could describe their quality of life and services. This article reports on the international development effort, describing measures relative to privacy, food, s...
JAMDA
October 6, 2017
Total Physical Activity, Exercise Intensity, and Walking Speed as Predictors of All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality Over 7 Years in Older Men: The Concord Health and Aging in Men Project
The study aimed to examine the contemporaneous temporal association between changes in total physical activity, sports intensity, muscle strengthening exercise, and walking speed as predictors of all-cause, cardiovascular, cancer and other cause-specific mortality in older men.
Tools, knowledge, and recognition to improve vaccination rates and protect residents and staff.