Caring for the Ages
October 31, 2023
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JAMDA
September 30, 2015
Intensity and Types of Physical Exercise in Relation to Dementia Risk Reduction in Community-Living Older Adults
To systematically examine the amount and type of physical exercise that might reduce the future risk of dementia in community-living older people.
Caring for the Ages
November 29, 2017
INTERACT Study Shows No Reduction in Hospitalizations, ED Visits
JAMDA
April 20, 2026
Strengthening Fall Injury Reduction in Long-Term Care: 3 Implementation Enhancements to the 2025 PALTmed Falls Clinical Practice Guideline
Podcast
November 19, 2018
AMDA On-The-Go | Fall Risk Reduction
JAMDA
April 17, 2015
The Influence of Organizational Context on Best Practice Use by Care Aides in Residential Long-Term Care Settings
This study assessed individual and organizational context (work environment) factors that influence use of best practices by care aides (nursing assistants) in nursing homes. Little scientific attention has been focused on understanding best practice use in nursing homes and almost none on care aides. ...
Spotlight
August 23, 2023
Buprenorphine and Substance Use Disorder in PALTC
The statistics regarding substance use disorders are frightening. On a special AMDA On-The-Go podcast, Sabine von Preyss-Friedman, MD, FACP, CMD, said, “In 2022 alone, the U.S. saw 109,000 deaths from drug overdoses, and Washington state has seen a 20% increase.” The good news, she said, is that effective ...
JAMDA
August 28, 2020
The Association Between Pain Perception and Care Dependency in Older Nursing Home Residents: A Prospective Cohort Study
Maintenance of independence is a challenge for nursing home residents whose pain is often substantial. The objective of this study was to explore the relationship between pain perception and care dependency in a population of Dutch nursing home residents.
JAMDA
September 24, 2021
Associations Between Intrinsic Capacity and Adverse Events Among Nursing Home Residents: The INCUR Study
The predictive ability of the novel intrinsic capacity (IC) construct has been scarcely investigated in the nursing home setting. The objective of this study was to investigate the associations of IC and its individual domains with mortality, hospitalization, pneumonia onset, and functional status decline ...
JAMDA
March 6, 2019
Nursing Home Characteristics Associated With Implementation of an Advance Care Planning Video Intervention
Advance care planning (ACP) is important to ensure that nursing home (NH) residents receive care concordant with their goals. Video interventions have been developed to improve the process of ACP. Yet, little is known about which NH characteristics are associated with implementation of ACP video interventi...
