Diane Sanders-Cepeda, DO, CMD, PALTmed’s new vice president, wants every member to know their voice matters. “The knowledge and insights our members have around delivering quality, improving care, and building community define our organization,” she says. “And this is what motivates me, this responsibility...
To clarify the association between the neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), a marker of systemic inflammation, and sarcopenia by systematically reviewing and meta-analyzing existing evidence.
To systematically evaluate the intervention effect of serious games on upper limb motor function and activities of daily living in patients with stroke.
Aging is often associated with various underlying comorbidities that warrant the use of multiple medications. Various interventions, including medication reviews, to optimize pharmacotherapy in older people residing in aged care facilities have been described and evaluated. Previous systematic reviews supp...
We investigated the differences in the physical function test results across stages from normal cognition (NC) to moderate Alzheimer disease (AD) and how risk factors of physical function decline are correlated with the physical function test results.
To determine whether the implementation of a national program to improve quality of care in geriatric rehabilitation (GR) in the Netherlands improves successful GR in terms of independence in activities of daily living (ADL), discharge destination, and length of stay.
The Kyoto-Kameoka Study was launched in 2011–2012 to identify the associations among food intake, nutritional status, physical activity, oral function, quality of life or social capital, the use of long-term care insurance (LTCI) system, and healthy lifespan in community-dwelling older people as a part of ...
Femoral fractures are frequently consequences of falls in nursing homes and are associated with considerable costs and unfavorable outcomes such as immobility and mortality. The purpose of this study was to examine the long-term effectiveness of a multifactorial fall and fracture prevention program in nurs...