Caring for the Ages
December 27, 2021
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JAMDA
December 24, 2021
Integrating Principles of Safety Culture and Just Culture Into Nursing Homes: Lessons From the Pandemic
Decades of concerns about the quality of care provided by nursing homes have led state and federal agencies to create layers of regulations and penalties. As such, regulatory efforts to improve nursing home care have largely focused on the identification of deficiencies and assignment of sanctions. The cur...
JAMDA
December 24, 2021
Proactive Geriatric Comanagement of Nursing Home Patients by a New Hospital-Based Liaison Geriatric Unit: A New Model for the Future
During the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, hospital-based liaison geriatric units (LGUs) were created in Spanish hospitals with the aim to improve health care coordination between nursing homes (NHs) and hospitals. Our university hospital created a comprehensive, proactive LGU serving 31 public and private NHs of dif...
JAMDA
December 24, 2021
Evidence for Action: Addressing Systemic Racism Across Long-Term Services and Supports
Long-term services and supports (LTSS), including care received at home and in residential settings such as nursing homes, are highly racially segregated; Black, Indigenous, and persons of color (BIPOC) users have less access to quality care and report poorer quality of life compared to their White counter...
JAMDA
December 24, 2021
Sleep Duration and Disability-Free Life Expectancy Among Japanese Older Adults: The Ohsaki Cohort 2006 Study
JAMDA
December 24, 2021
Nursing Home Design and COVID-19: Implications for Guidelines and Regulation
Nursing homes (NHs) are important health care and residential environments for the growing number of frail older adults. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the vulnerability of NHs as they became COVID-19 hotspots. This study examines the associations of NH design with COVID-19 cases, deaths, and transmissi...
JAMDA
December 24, 2021
Telehealth Management and Risk Stratification of Older Patients With Chronic Heart Failure During COVID-19 Pandemic: Prognostic Evaluation of the TeleHFCovid19-Score
To evaluate 6-month risk stratification capacity of the newly developed TeleHFCovid19-Score for remote management of older patients with heart failure (HF) during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.
JAMDA
December 23, 2021
High-Quality Nursing Home and Palliative Care—One and the Same
Many individuals receiving post-acute and long-term care services in nursing homes have unmet palliative and end-of-life care needs. Hospice has been the predominant approach to meeting these needs, although hospice services generally are available only to long-term care residents with a limited prognosis ...
JAMDA
December 23, 2021
Malnutrition in Relation to Muscle Mass, Muscle Quality, and Muscle Strength in Hospitalized Older Adults
Muscle quality is an essential muscle metric, which can be assessed by measuring intermuscular adipose tissue (IMAT) and skeletal muscle radiodensity (SMD) via computed tomography (CT) images. We aimed to explore the associations of Global Leadership Initiative on Malnutrition (GLIM)–defined malnutrition w...
JAMDA
December 23, 2021
Should Slowing Be Considered a Distinct Geriatric Syndrome?
