JAMDA
October 17, 2025
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JAMDA
October 9, 2025
Parkinson's Disease Medication Administration Timing Deviations and Contraindicated Medicine Use in Residential Aged Care: A Retrospective Cohort Study
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a common condition among older people and requires tailored, time-sensitive pharmacologic therapy for optimal symptom management. No prior studies have examined the extent to which doses of time-critical PD medicines are delayed or missed in residential aged care (RAC) sett...
Policy Snapshot
January 16, 2026
CMS Emphasizes Correct Use and Billing of Remote Patient Monitoring
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is signaling a renewed focus on ensuring that remote patient monitoring (RPM) services are used and billed correctly. Following a recent review highlighted by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG), CMS has released information underscoring the impo...
JAMDA
March 11, 2025
Association of Reversible Frailty with All-Cause Mortality Risk in Community-Dwelling Older Adults and Analysis of Factors Affecting Frailty Reversal in Older Adults
Although frailty can increase the risk of premature death, whether reversal of frailty reduces the risk of premature death and what factors contribute to the reversal of frailty have not been thoroughly investigated. This study aimed to investigate the link between frailty reversal and all-cause mortality ...
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
May 14, 2025
Days at Home for Older Adults Receiving a Remote Monitoring Intervention Compared with Usual Home Care Recipients
Many older adults will experience physical and or cognitive decline, limiting their ability to live independently. To better support these individuals, remote monitoring programs use technology to track patient falls, location, and medication adherence. Our main objective was to compare outcomes of patient...
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
November 19, 2025
Implementing the Action Falls Program Into Care Homes in England (the FinCH Imp Study)
Falls for care homes residents are a major cause of morbidity, mortality, and increased health and social care costs. The Action Falls program incorporates a multifactorial falls risk assessment checklist, training, and support for care home staff, which has been shown to reduce falls in care homes by 43%....
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
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...
