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JAMDA

October 11, 2016

Ability of Self-Reported Frailty Components to Predict Incident Disability, Falls, and All-Cause Mortality: Results From a Population-Based Study of Older British Men

Frailty is a state of increased vulnerability to disability, falls, and mortality. The Fried frailty phenotype includes assessments of grip strength and gait speed, which are complex or require objective measurements and are challenging in routine primary care practice. In this study, we aimed to develop a...
JAMDA

September 28, 2016

Decisions by Default: Incomplete and Contradictory MOLST in Emergency Care

What patients intend when they make health care choices and whether they understand the meaning of orders for life-sustaining treatment forms is not well understood. The purpose of this study was to analyze the directives from a sample of emergency department (ED) patients' MOLST forms.
JAMDA

September 23, 2016

Refining Mild-to-Moderate Alzheimer Disease Screening: A Tool for Clinicians

Recent evidence suggests that a substantial minority of people clinically diagnosed with probable Alzheimer disease (AD) in fact do not fulfill the neuropathological criteria for the disease. A clinical hallmark of these phenocopies of AD is that these individuals tend to remain cognitively stable for exte...