JAMDA
June 30, 2021
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JAMDA
May 31, 2024
Building a National Standard for Outreach and Assistance to At-Risk Patients During Large-Scale Disasters
Health care institutions play an essential role in community resilience. As one of the largest health care systems in the United States, the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) plays a critical role in supporting medically vulnerable Veterans during disasters. Disasters require large-scale outreach to ind...
JAMDA
October 1, 2013
Feasibility and Acceptability of a Delirium Prevention Program for Cognitively Impaired Long Term Care Residents: A Participatory Approach
In this participatory action research study, researchers conducted a total of 3 implementation cycles to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of a new delirium prevention program (DPP) for cognitively impaired residents in long term care (LTC) settings. Researchers interviewed 95 health care staff to...
JAMDA
November 27, 2013
A Systematic Review of Malnutrition Screening Tools for the Nursing Home Setting
Malnutrition screening among nursing home residents is often performed with tools developed for use among older subjects, and sometimes with tools designed for an adult population. Only a few tools have been designed specifically for the nursing home setting. This systematic review assesses the criterion a...
JAMDA
January 31, 2026
A Psychosocial Intervention for Managing Disinhibition in People With the Behavioral Variant of Frontotemporal Dementia: A Matter of Focusing
Management of disinhibited behavior in people with the behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia is challenging. To support health care professionals in long-term care, we developed “Focusing,” a psychosocial intervention based on theory of automatic behavior, stimulus processing, and resident-staff in...
JAMDA
June 11, 2025
Did Site-Neutral Payment for Long-Term Care Hospitals Reduce Financial Incentives to Time Discharge?
Historically, fee-for-service Medicare reimbursed long-term care hospital (LTCH) stays as a lump-sum payment, which was substantially reduced for discharges before the diagnosis-specific short-stay outlier (SSO) threshold day, leading to large spikes in discharges on the threshold day. The objective of thi...
JAMDA
July 11, 2023
Lost in Transition: Missed Opportunities for the 4 Ms to Support Post-Acute Care Transitions
Thousands of health systems have adopted the 4 Ms framework, a set of evidence-based practices specific to older adults, as part of the Age-Friendly Health Systems (AFHS) initiative. However, implementation efforts have largely been setting-specific and approaches to achieve continuity of the 4 Ms during c...
JAMDA
May 7, 2015
Aging and Multimorbidity: New Tasks, Priorities, and Frontiers for Integrated Gerontological and Clinical Research
Aging is characterized by rising susceptibility to development of multiple chronic diseases and, therefore, represents the major risk factor for multimorbidity. From a gerontological perspective, the progressive accumulation of multiple diseases, which significantly accelerates at older ages, is a mileston...
JAMDA
September 4, 2023
Technology-Based Interventions to Address Social Isolation and Loneliness Among Informal Dementia Caregivers: A Scoping Review
Social isolation and loneliness are major public health concerns. Informal dementia caregivers are particularly vulnerable, as many are older adults themselves and at elevated risk of adverse mental and physical health outcomes. Technology-based interventions could offer accessible, affordable, and conveni...
Policy Snapshot
August 30, 2024