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JAMDA
April 2, 2015
To describe and compare the decisions critical for survival or quality of life [critical decisions (CDs)] made for patients with advanced dementia in nursing homes (NHs) and home care (HC) services.
JAMDA
December 23, 2019
To evaluate the association between home health (HH) services, including skilled nursing (SN), physical therapy (PT), occupational therapy, social work (SW), and homemaking aide assistance with the hazard of unplanned facility admissions among Medicare patients with and without Alzheimer's disease and...
JAMDA
December 19, 2018
(1) To examine the impact of specific services [skilled nursing (SN), physical therapy (PT), occupational therapy (OT), and home health aide (HA)] in Medicare-certified home health care (HHC) on subsequent rehospitalization among older patients during a 60-day HHC episode and (2) to test the moderating eff...
JAMDA
March 12, 2019
To assess the diagnostic accuracy of commonly used signs and symptoms of low-intake dehydration in older care home residents.
JAMDA
October 14, 2020
To systematically describe evidence on the use of instrumental swallowing assessment for residents of aged care homes.
JAMDA
September 5, 2021
To examine how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted use of home care services for individuals with dementia across service types and sociodemographic strata.
JAMDA
October 28, 2019
The prevalence of different geriatric syndromes in older home care (HC) recipients is yet to be determined. Dizziness is often regarded as a geriatric syndrome. The natural course of dizziness in older people is still unknown, because of a lack of longitudinal studies. The objective of this study was to in...
JAMDA
February 6, 2019
The objective of this study was to describe the use of interdisciplinary teams (IDTs) in home-based medical care practices.
JAMDA
October 19, 2021
Predicting unexpected deaths among long-term care (LTC) residents can provide valuable information to clinicians and policy makers. We study multiple methods to predict unexpected death, adjusting for individual and home-level factors, and to use as a step to compare mortality differences at the facility l...
JAMDA
October 29, 2023
Medications with a higher risk of harm or that are unlikely to be beneficial are used by nearly all older patients in home health care (HHC). The objective of this study was to understand stakeholders’ perspectives on challenges in deprescribing these medications for post-acute HHC patients.