To assess the federal COVID-19 vaccine mandate's effects on nursing homes' nurse aide and licensed nurse staffing levels in states both with and without state-level vaccine mandates.
Bringing together their extensive experience, knowledge, and connections, new JAMDA Editors-in-Chief Barbara Resnick, PhD, CRNP, and Paul Katz, MD, CMD, are ready to hit the ground running on a new era of post-acute and long-term care journal publishing.
LESS-CHRON (List of Evidence-Based Deprescribing for Chronic Patients) and STOPPFrail (Screening Tool of Older Persons' Prescriptions in Frail adults with limited life expectancy) are criterion-based deprescribing tools. This study aimed to identify the prevalence of potentially inappropriate medicati...
Although largely preventable, pressure injury is a major concern in individuals in permanent residential aged care (PRAC). Our study aimed to identify predictors and develop a prognostic model for risk of hospitalization with pressure injury (PI) using integrated Australian aged and health care data.
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Individuals with late-life depression (LLD) may have shorter survival, but there is a lack of findings in population-based settings about health-related outcomes of LLD and its subtypes: early-onset depression (EOD) and late-onset depression (LOD). We aimed to evaluate the risk of all-cause mortality of in...
The researchers aimed to (1) explore the occurrence of psychological resilience in the face of a major life stressor and conflict in older residents of long-term care facilities (LTCFs), and (2) identify factors associated with resilience in this population.