JAMDA
May 13, 2015
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JAMDA
December 31, 2022
Late-Onset Depression but not Early-Onset Depression may Increase the Risk of All-Cause Mortality in Older Age: 8-Year Follow-Up of the Salus in Apulia Study
Individuals with late-life depression (LLD) may have shorter survival, but there is a lack of findings in population-based settings about health-related outcomes of LLD and its subtypes: early-onset depression (EOD) and late-onset depression (LOD). We aimed to evaluate the risk of all-cause mortality of in...
JAMDA
April 8, 2023
Systematic Review of Psychotropic Adverse Drug Event Monitoring Tools for Use in Long-Term Care Facilities
To evaluate properties of psychotropic adverse drug event (ADE) monitoring tools intended for use in long-term care facilities.
JAMDA
December 15, 2014
Self-Reported Walking Speed: A Useful Marker of Physical Performance Among Community-Dwelling Older People?
Walking speed is central to emerging consensus definitions of sarcopenia and frailty as well as being a major predictor of future health outcomes in its own right. However, measurement is not always feasible in clinical settings. We hypothesized that self-reported walking speed might be a good marker of ob...
JAMDA
October 25, 2021
A Systematic Review of Interventions to Improve Analgesic Use and Appropriateness in Long-Term Care Facilities
To systematically review the effectiveness of interventions to improve analgesic use and appropriateness in long-term care facilities (LTCFs).
JAMDA
October 23, 2019
Residential Respite Care Use Is Associated With Fewer Overall Days in Residential Aged Care
To examine the use of residential respite care and determine associations between respite care and total days spent in residential care (respite days plus long-term care days).
JAMDA
December 21, 2018
Condition-Specific Pamphlets to Improve End-of-life Communication in Long-term Care: Staff Perceptions on Usability and Use
This article reports findings on the usability and staff use of 5 condition- specific pamphlets of high prevalence in long-term care (LTC): dementia, heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, renal failure, and frailty. The pamphlets were created in response to residents', families', ...
JAMDA
November 12, 2016
Risk of Hip Fracture in Benzodiazepine Users With and Without Alzheimer Disease
To investigate the association between benzodiazepine and related drug (BZDR) use and hip fracture as well as postfracture mortality and duration of hospital stay in community-dwellers with and without Alzheimer disease (AD).
JAMDA
December 21, 2016
Reversible Cognitive Frailty, Dementia, and All-Cause Mortality. The Italian Longitudinal Study on Aging
Cognitive frailty, a condition describing the simultaneous presence of physical frailty and mild cognitive impairment, has been recently defined by an international consensus group. We estimated the predictive role of a “reversible” cognitive frailty model on incident dementia, its subtypes, and all-cause ...
JAMDA
January 31, 2017