JAMDA
September 26, 2025
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JAMDA
September 25, 2025
Frequent Emergency Medical Services Utilization Among Older Patients: Exploration and Automatic Identification Using Natural Language Processing
An ageing population is associated with increased health care utilization and higher likelihood of older adults becoming frequent users of emergency medical services (EMS). This study aims to explore a natural language processing (NLP) approach using textual notes from EMS to facilitate the identification ...
JAMDA
September 25, 2025
Utilization of Occupational and Physical Therapy Home Health Visits Among People Living With Dementia With Varying Social Determinants of Health
We sought to identify patterns in occupational therapy (OT) and physical therapy (PT) home health care visits among people living with dementia (PLWD) by (1) level of function care partner report compared with administrative data, (2) race and ethnicity, and (3) level of socioeconomic resources.
JAMDA
September 25, 2025
Impact of Physical Resilience, Prefracture Characteristics, and Functional Status on Mortality After Hip Fracture
Physical resilience after a hip fracture is key to independent, high-quality living after the fracture. We have previously shown that physical resilience can be achieved with different combinations of resilience characteristics, but it is unknown how physical resilience is associated with longer-term morta...
JAMDA
September 25, 2025
Recommendations for NP/Physician Collaborative Relationships in Long-Term Care Homes
Residents of long-term care (LTC) homes have complex medical and psychosocial care needs. Nurse practitioners (NPs) and physicians possess the complementary skills required for responding to residents’ needs. Therefore, collaboration between NPs and physicians is crucial for achieving optimal resident outc...
JAMDA
September 24, 2025
Adverse Social Determinants of Health and Urinary Incontinence Among Older Adult Women in Home Health Care
To leverage secondary data extracted using a natural language processing algorithm to examine relationships between adverse social determinants of health and urinary incontinence (UI) among older adult women in home health care.
JAMDA
September 23, 2025
Beyond Somatic Multimorbidity: Longitudinal Effects of Edentulism and Mental Health on Cognition in Older Adults
Multiple chronic conditions (multimorbidity)—somatic, mental, and oral—are prevalent among old adults. However, it remains unclear how mental and oral health conditions, alongside somatic conditions, jointly contribute to cognitive trajectories. This study investigates how clinically informed multimorbidit...
JAMDA
September 22, 2025
Older Subjects Admitted to Hospital With Stroke From Long-Term Care: A National Cohort and Case Control Study
Internationally about 3% of people ≥65 years live in long-term care (LTC) settings. Older people living in nursing homes are more likely to be admitted to hospital. We examined the characteristics and outcomes of patients with strokes admitted from LTC nationally and how this changed over the COVID-19 pand...
JAMDA
September 19, 2025
Latent Cognitive Profiles Predict 1-Year Mental Health, Insomnia, Falls, Daily Functioning, and Pain in US Older Adults: A National Longitudinal Study
Cognitive profiles extend traditional binary classifications by revealing subtle, domain-specific deficits in cognitively intact older adults. This study investigates their predictive value for 1-year outcomes in mental health, insomnia, pain, falls, and daily functioning among older adults without cogniti...
JAMDA
September 17, 2025
Asymptomatic Acute Hypertension in Nursing Home Residents: Rarely an Emergency
Hypertension is extremely common in the geriatric population, with estimates as high as 75%. Among nursing home residents, the prevalence is even higher. Asymptomatic hypertension, an acute increase in blood pressure without end-organ involvement, is common in this patient population and results in many ca...
