JAMDA
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JAMDA
July 21, 2015
Institutional Bereavement Care for Fictive Kin: Staff Grief in CCRCs
The purpose of this study was to explore approaches used by administrators to respond to grief and bereavement among staff after the death of a resident.
JAMDA
February 24, 2017
Screening for Frailty and Sarcopenia Among Older Persons in Medical Outpatient Clinics and its Associations With Healthcare Burden
With an aging population and increase in multimorbidity, the importance of screening for frailty and sarcopenia has become a public health priority. Several tools to do so exist. This study aimed to examine whether the SARC-F and Edmonton frail screening tools are useful in clinical practice to identify at...
JAMDA
April 22, 2017
Debating the Role of Arousal in Delirium Diagnosis: Should Delirium Diagnosis Be Inclusive or Restrictive?
Delirium is common in acute, postacute, and long-term care settings, and it can be difficult to recognize, especially without deliberate mental status evaluation. Because delirium typically presents with altered arousal and arousal can be assessed within a matter of seconds, routine assessment of arousal o...
JAMDA
May 27, 2017
Advanced Glycation End-Products Are Associated With the Presence and Severity of Paratonia in Early Stage Alzheimer Disease
Paratonia, a distinctive form of hypertonia in patients with dementia, causes loss of functional mobility in early stage dementia to severe contractures and pain in the late stages. The pathogenesis of paratonia is not well understood. Patients in early stage dementia with diabetes mellitus showed a signif...
JAMDA
March 16, 2023
Online Customer Reviews of Assisted Living Communities: Association with Community, County, and State Factors
Online reviews provided by users of assisted living communities may offer a unique source of heretofore unexamined data. We explored online reviews as a possible source of information about these communities and examined the association between the reviews and aspects of state regulations, while controllin...
JAMDA
June 16, 2015
Validity and Responsiveness of the FRAIL Scale in a Longitudinal Cohort Study of Older Australian Women
To assess the validity and responsiveness of the FRAIL scale and investigate whether validity is related to the number of points used on the scale.
JAMDA
April 9, 2015
Malnutrition According to Mini Nutritional Assessment Is Associated With Severe Functional Impairment in Geriatric Patients Before and up to 6 Months After Hip Fracture
Hip fractures (HFs) in old age frequently cause severe functional impairment and deteriorating autonomy in everyday life. Many older patients with HFs are malnourished or at risk of malnutrition. In this study, we examined the relationship between nutritional status of geriatric patients before HF and thei...
JAMDA
April 24, 2015
Preventable Iatrogenic Disability in Elderly Patients During Hospitalization
In older patients, hospitalization is often associated with new or worsening disability. This hospitalization-associated disability may be explained in part by the cumulative effect of aging, frailty, comorbidities, and illnesses that led to hospitalization but may also result from health care management i...
JAMDA
June 26, 2015
Does Low Dose Angiotensin Converting Enzyme Inhibitor Prevent Pneumonia in Older People With Neurologic Dysphagia–A Randomized Placebo-Controlled Trial
To examine if angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor reduces the risk of pneumonia in older patients on tube-feeding because of dysphagia from cerebrovascular diseases.
