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March 11, 2025
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April 29, 2025
Household Air Pollution, Physical Activity, and the Risk of Frailty Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults: A Cohort Study
This study aims to explore the relationship among household air pollution, physical activity (PA), and the risk of frailty among middle-aged and older adults.
JAMDA
February 28, 2023
Cardiac Resuscitation Procedures in US Nursing Facilities: Time to Reevaluate the Standard of Care?
Although the use of automated external defibrillators (AEDs) in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) response has become the standard of care in many community settings over the past 20+ years, the adoption of AEDs in US nursing facilities is variable and the current number of facilities with AEDs is unkn...
JAMDA
July 30, 2014
The Optimal Study: Describing the Key Components of Optimal Health Care Delivery to UK Care Home Residents: A Research Protocol
Long-term institutional care in the United Kingdom is provided by care homes. Residents have prevalent cognitive impairment and disability, have multiple diagnoses, and are subject to polypharmacy. Prevailing models of health care provision (ad hoc, reactive, and coordinated by general practitioners) resul...
JAMDA
October 21, 2016
Reliability and Validity of the Resistiveness to Care Scale Among Cognitively Impaired Older Adults
Resistiveness to care is behavior that prevents or interferes with caregivers’ performing or assisting with activities of daily living and puts residents at risk for inappropriate use of antipsychotic drugs, other restraining interventions, social isolation, and physical abuse. The purpose of this study wa...
JAMDA
November 27, 2021
Health Services Use and Functional Recovery Following Blunt Trauma in Older Persons – A National Multicentre Prospective Cohort Study
Frailty is associated with morbidity and mortality in older injured patients. However, for older blunt-trauma patients, increased frailty may not manifest in longer length of stay at index admission. We hypothesized that owing to time spent in hospital from readmissions, frailty would be associated with le...
JAMDA
March 27, 2018
Who Is Responsible? A Man With Dementia Wanders From Home, Is Hit by a Train, and Dies
The impact of dementia and Alzheimer's disease extends far beyond the healthcare needs of the person with dementia. As the disease progresses, individuals with dementia often require ongoing formal or informal care for their basic daily routine because of behavior changes and continuing loss of cognit...
JAMDA
March 23, 2017
What Are Nursing Facilities Doing to Reduce Potentially Avoidable Hospitalizations?
Hospitalizations among nursing facility residents are frequent and often potentially avoidable. A number of initiatives and interventions have been developed to reduce excessive hospitalizations; however, little is known about the specific approaches nursing facilities use to address this issue. The object...
JAMDA
March 26, 2022
The National Home-Based Primary Care Learning Network: A Practice-Based Quality Improvement and Research Network
Home-based primary care (HBPC) provides interdisciplinary, comprehensive care at home for homebound older adults and has been largely excluded from the national conversation on care quality and quality improvement. In this Pragmatic Innovations article, we describe the work of the National HBPC Learning Ne...
JAMDA
January 16, 2014