To capture nursing home staff perspectives on the benefits and challenges related to caring for residents living with Alzheimer disease and other related dementias. These perspectives will inform the initial development of strategies to help with staff retention.
Identify and describe instruments used by countries to perform functional ability assessment as eligibility for their long-term care systems and compare them to existing healthy aging frameworks proposed by the World Health Organization (intrinsic capacity and functionality).
Urinary catheterization is a common procedure in the perioperative management of patients with hip fracture. However, decisions on its insertion or removal are often variable. This systematic review aimed to synthesize current evidence on urinary catheterization management in older patients with hip fractu...
Living in Florida, PALTtalk podcast host Diane Sanders-Cepeda, DO, CMD, thinks about disaster and emergency preparedness pretty much “all the time.” In a world in which hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires, and other weather-related disasters, not to mention workplace violence and armed intruders, are more com...
To investigate pre- and post-pandemic demographic profiles of attendees at adult day care (ADC) facilities in the US South, and survey providers for their experience during the pandemic.
This study aimed to comprehensively assess the association between potentially inappropriate medication (PIM) and mortality risk in older adults through systematic review and meta-analysis.