JAMDA
May 23, 2017
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JAMDA
May 23, 2017
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in Post-acute/Long-term Care Settings: Seizing Opportunities to Individualize Treatment and Device Selection
The burden of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in post-acute/long-term care (PA/LTC) settings is high, and many patients do not receive guideline-recommended care.
JAMDA
May 23, 2017
Sarcopenia Is Associated With Physical and Mental Components of Health-Related Quality of Life in Older Adults
To estimate the association between sarcopenia and the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) among community-dwelling older adults.
JAMDA
May 23, 2017
An Interesting Case of “Refractory” Hypomagnesemia
JAMDA
May 15, 2017
Dysphagia: A New Geriatric Syndrome
JAMDA
May 15, 2017
A Simple Algorithm to Predict Falls in Primary Care Patients Aged 65 to 74 Years: The International Mobility in Aging Study
Primary care practitioners need simple algorithms to identify older adults at higher risks of falling. Classification and regression tree (CaRT) analyses are useful tools for identification of clinical predictors of falls.
JAMDA
May 15, 2017
Impaired Response Selection During Stepping Predicts Falls in Older People—A Cohort Study
Response inhibition, an important executive function, has been identified as a risk factor for falls in older people. This study investigated whether step tests that include different levels of response inhibition differ in their ability to predict falls and whether such associations are mediated by measur...
JAMDA
May 10, 2017
Digoxin and 30-Day All-Cause Readmission in Long-Term Care Residents Hospitalized for Heart Failure
Digoxin use has been shown to be associated with a lower risk of 30-day all-cause hospital readmissions in older patients with heart failure (HF). In the current study, we examined this association among long-term care (LTC) residents hospitalized for HF.
JAMDA
May 10, 2017
Prevalence of Frailty Assessed by Fried and Kihon Checklist Indexes in a Prospective Cohort Study: Design and Demographics of the Kyoto-Kameoka Longitudinal Study
The Kyoto-Kameoka Study was launched in 2011–2012 to identify the associations among food intake, nutritional status, physical activity, oral function, quality of life or social capital, the use of long-term care insurance (LTCI) system, and healthy lifespan in community-dwelling older people as a part of ...
JAMDA
May 4, 2017
“Healthy Aging” Concepts and Measures
