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JAMDA
October 29, 2014
Artificial Neural Network and Falls in Community-Dwellers: A New Approach to Identify the Risk of Recurrent Falling?
Identification of the risk of recurrent falls is complex in older adults. The aim of this study was to examine the efficiency of 3 artificial neural networks (ANNs: multilayer perceptron [MLP], modified MLP, and neuroevolution of augmenting topologies [NEAT]) for the classification of recurrent fallers and...
JAMDA
January 5, 2016
Social-Professional Networks in Long-Term Care Settings With People With Dementia: An Approach to Better Care? A Systematic Review
Dementia is a syndrome associated with stigma and social isolation. Forty-two percent of people with dementia in the United States and almost 40% in the United Kingdom live in assisted living and residential care facilities. Up to 90% of residents with dementia experience behavioral and psychological sympt...
JAMDA
January 6, 2016
Gait Speed and the Natural Course of Depressive Symptoms in Late Life; An Independent Association With Chronicity?
Psychomotor slowing is a core feature of depression in late life, but its prognostic value with respect to course and chronicity is unclear. We investigated whether gait speed can predict chronicity of depressive symptoms. Furthermore, we tested whether (1) cognitive slowing and (risk factors for) vascular...
JAMDA
May 21, 2018
Frailty Defined by FRAIL Scale as a Predictor of Mortality: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
To conduct a systematic review of the literature on prospective cohort studies examining mortality risk according to frailty defined by FRAIL scale, and to perform a meta-analysis to synthesize the pooled risk estimates.
JAMDA
February 20, 2022
Sunbeam Program Reduces Rate of Falls in Long-Term Care Residents With Mild to Moderate Cognitive Impairment or Dementia: Subgroup Analysis of a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial
The Sunbeam trial significantly reduced falls in long-term aged care (LTC) residents. The current study's primary objective was to undertake subgroup analysis of the Sunbeam trial, to determine whether the intervention was effective for reducing falls in LTC residents with mild-moderate cognitive impa...
JAMDA
July 13, 2021
The Risk of Alzheimer's Disease After Acute Appendicitis With or Without Appendectomy
Previous epidemiologic studies have suggested an association between appendectomy and Parkinson's disease. The aim of the current study was to examine the risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other types of dementia following appendicitis or appendectomy for appendicitis.
JAMDA
March 15, 2022
Surgical Hospitalization Is Not Associated With Cognitive Trajectory Over 6 Years in Healthy Older Australians
The aim was to investigate the association of cognitive trajectories and overnight surgical hospitalization in older adults, while controlling for and comparing to the association with acute medical hospitalizations.
JAMDA
October 13, 2021
Lack of Association Between Perioperative Medication and Postoperative Delirium in Hip Fracture Patients in an Orthogeriatric Care Pathway
Units for perioperative geriatric care are playing a growing role in the care of older patients after hip fracture surgery. Postoperative delirium is one of the most common complications after hip fracture, but no study has assessed the impact of therapeutics received during a dedicated orthogeriatric care...
JAMDA
December 1, 2025