JAMDA
December 21, 2017
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Spotlight
December 11, 2024
Emergency and Disaster Preparedness: An Ongoing Challenge
Living in Florida, PALTtalk podcast host Diane Sanders-Cepeda, DO, CMD, thinks about disaster and emergency preparedness pretty much “all the time.” In a world in which hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires, and other weather-related disasters, not to mention workplace violence and armed intruders, are more com...
Policy Snapshot
April 4, 2025
LCAO Urges Protection of Services for Older Adults Amid HHS Restructurings
The Leadership Council of Aging Organizations (LCAO), representing 68 nonprofit groups, including PALTmed, has raised concerns about potential impacts on services for older adults as the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) restructures. In a letter to HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the LCAO...
JAMDA
March 13, 2025
Effectiveness of My Tools for Care-in Care: A Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial
Few supports exist for family/friend care partners when the care recipient is a person living with dementia in a care home. This study assessed the effectiveness of My Tools for Care-In Care (MT4C-In Care), a self-administered, web-based psychoeducational intervention.
JAMDA
April 9, 2025
Patterns of Transient and Terminal Transitions in Activities of Daily Living Performance Levels among Long-Term Care Residents: A Multistate Markov’s Model Analysis of Population-Based Longitudinal Data in Canada
We examined how long-term care (LTC) home residents transition between different activities of daily living (ADL) performance levels, and to eventual terminal clinical outcomes.
JAMDA
October 31, 2025
Resilience in Residents: Understanding Mood Transitions Among Older Canadian Long-Term Care Residents During COVID-19
This study examined the transitions between different mood (depressive symptoms) states among residents of long-term care (LTC) homes during the first 2 waves of COVID-19. It also examined the transitions from these mood states to terminal clinical outcomes.
JAMDA
November 26, 2025
Medicaid Mechanisms and State Licensure: Pathways to Payment in Assisted Living
To document and highlight the variation in the types of assisted living (AL) licensed settings eligible for Medicaid home and community-based services (HCBS) payment.
JAMDA
February 14, 2017
Feasibility and Factor Structure of the FRAIL Scale in Older Adults
The aim of the present study was to (1) evaluate a geriatric outpatient sample with the FRAIL scale; (2) investigate the psychometric properties of the scale; and (3) characterize different associations of the subdimensions of the scale with demographic and clinical data.
JAMDA
October 14, 2016
Protein-Enriched Bread and Readymade Meals Increase Community-Dwelling Older Adults' Protein Intake in a Double-Blind Randomized Controlled Trial
Sufficient protein intake can decrease undernutrition risk among community-dwelling older adults. This study aimed to increase community-dwelling older adults' daily protein intake with acceptable and applicable protein-enriched bread and readymade meals at home.
JAMDA
June 28, 2017
Prevalence and Determinants of Poor Food Intake of Residents Living in Long-Term Care
Poor food intake is known to lead to malnutrition in long-term care homes (LTCH), yet multilevel determinants of food intake are not fully understood, hampering development of interventions that can maintain the nutritional status of residents. This study measures energy and protein intake of LTCH resident...
