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JAMDA
September 17, 2025
Subcontracting, Employment Characteristics, and COVID-19 Infections Among Staff and Residents of Nursing Homes in Canada
Staffing challenges in nursing homes (NHs) have led to an increased reliance on subcontracted direct care workers from third-party agencies to provide essential care for older adults. This study assesses the associations between subcontracting, employment characteristics, and COVID-19 infections among dire...
JAMDA
September 9, 2025
Enhanced Sarcopenia Detection in Nursing Home Residents Using Ultrasound Radiomics and Machine Learning
Ultrasound only has low-to-moderate accuracy for sarcopenia. We aimed to investigate whether ultrasound radiomics combined with machine learning enhances sarcopenia diagnostic accuracy compared with conventional ultrasound parameters among older adults in long-term care.
JAMDA
September 23, 2025
Beyond Somatic Multimorbidity: Longitudinal Effects of Edentulism and Mental Health on Cognition in Older Adults
Multiple chronic conditions (multimorbidity)—somatic, mental, and oral—are prevalent among old adults. However, it remains unclear how mental and oral health conditions, alongside somatic conditions, jointly contribute to cognitive trajectories. This study investigates how clinically informed multimorbidit...
JAMDA
March 21, 2023
Physician Practice Characteristics Influencing Nurse Practitioner and Physician Assistant Care in Nursing Homes: A Scoping Review
Physicians, nurse practitioners (NPs), and physician assistants (PAs) are key to the effective delivery of medical care in nursing homes (NHs). Although several studies have reported on the relationship between the care delivered by a given discipline and specific clinical outcomes, the mediating effect of...
JAMDA
April 20, 2023
Does CGA Improve Health Outcomes in the Community? An Umbrella Review
To perform an umbrella review of systematic reviews with meta-analyses (MAs) examining the effectiveness of comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) delivered within community settings to general populations of community-dwelling older people against various health outcomes.
JAMDA
August 5, 2019
Home-Based Gait Speed Assessment: Normative Data and Racial/Ethnic Correlates Among Older Adults
To determine home-based gait speed performance and its associations with sociodemographic and health-related factors among older adults.
JAMDA
August 31, 2017
Use of the Spanish Version of the Rapid Geriatric Assessment in Mexican Patients in Long-Term Care
We report our experience with the use of a Spanish version of the rapid geriatric assessment of 30 patients in 2 long-term care institutions in Mexico City by a group of healthcare students without prior experience in geriatric medicine. The Spanish version of the rapid geriatric assessment is a very easy ...
JAMDA
April 18, 2022
Social Engagement and Distress Among Home Care Recipients During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Ontario, Canada: A Retrospective Cohort Study
To examine factors associated with distressing social decline and withdrawal during the COVID-19 pandemic for home care recipients.
JAMDA
February 16, 2022