JAMDA
March 11, 2025
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JAMDA
November 5, 2020
A Comparison of Frailty Assessment Instruments in Different Clinical and Social Care Settings: The Frailtools Project
To determine which of 8 commonly employed frailty assessment tools demonstrate the most appropriate characteristics to be employed in different clinical and social settings.
JAMDA
January 3, 2021
Implementation and Evaluation of an IPAC SWAT Team Mobilized to Long-Term Care and Retirement Homes During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Pragmatic Health System Innovation
Long-term care facilities (LTCFs), retirement homes (RHs), and other congregate care settings in Canada and worldwide have experienced significant COVID-19 outbreaks. As a health system response, our acute care hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, developed and mobilized an onsite Infection Prevention and...
JAMDA
October 26, 2020
Staff Training Interventions to Improve End-of-Life Care of Nursing Home Residents: A Systematic Review
The aim was to review evidence from all randomized controlled trials (RCTs) using palliative care education or staff training as an intervention to improve nursing home residents' quality of life (QOL) or quality of dying (QOD) or to reduce burdensome hospitalizations.
JAMDA
February 13, 2019
Predictive Capacity of Frailty Phenotype Toward Patterns of Disability Identified Using Latent Class Analysis
Frailty phenotype (FP) has low sensitivity toward the identification of older people who will lose 1 or more activities of daily living. Nevertheless, the definition of disability in terms of activities of daily living may not resemble the pattern of functional impairment occurring during aging. The aim of...
JAMDA
March 7, 2019
Identifying Factors That Predict the Prescription of Non–vitamin K Antagonist Oral Anticoagulants in Older Individuals With Atrial Fibrillation
Factors that influence decision of non–vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants (NOACs) use among older atrial fibrillation (AF) patients in long-term care (LTC) facilities have not been well studied. The aim of this study was to assess whether increased frailty influenced physicians to prescribe NOACs ove...
JAMDA
September 26, 2018
Twelve-Month Incidence of Depressive Symptoms in Suburb-Dwelling Chinese Older Adults: Role of Sarcopenia
The objective of this study was to examine the incidence of new onset depressive symptoms and associated factors over a 1-year period in an older Chinese suburban population.
JAMDA
October 15, 2024
Inequalities in Transitions to Home Care: A Longitudinal Analysis of the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging
To investigate inequalities in transitions to home care across a broad set of demographic and socioeconomic factors in Canadian middle-aged and older adults.
Policy Snapshot
March 18, 2025
Congressional Spending Bill Fails to Address Physician Fee Cuts but Extends Telehealth Benefit
Last week, Congress passed a government funding bill to avert a shutdown, but it notably lacked provisions addressing the 2.8% Medicare physician payment cut that took effect on January 1, 2025. PALTmed had hoped the bill would include provisions from the bipartisan Medicare Patient Access and Practice Sta...
JAMDA
March 3, 2025