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Spotlight
December 6, 2024
The Foundation for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine’s research grants present an important opportunity to turn promising projects and innovations into practical solutions, tools, and resources. Two such grants have been awarded in 2024. Sarah Holmes, PhD, MSW, has received a $24,626 research grant fo...
Caring for the Ages
December 28, 2020
JAMDA
February 26, 2019
Four key articles published in 2018 have been selected to represent clinical situations where recent evidence may prompt changes in practice relevant to the nursing home population. There is no evidence of benefit for levothyroxine replacement in mild subclinical hypothyroidism. Duloxetine may be considere...
JAMDA
October 23, 2014
The benefit of protein supplementation on the adaptive response of muscle to exercise training in older people is controversial.
JAMDA
February 26, 2019
The use of psychotropic drugs in long-term care (LTC) is very common, despite their known adverse effects. The prevalence of opioid use is growing among older adults. This study aimed to investigate trends in the prevalence of psychotropics, opioids, and sedative load in a LTC setting over a 14-year period...
Caring for the Ages
April 26, 2023
JAMDA
May 25, 2018
Caring for the Ages
November 23, 2015
JAMDA
January 3, 2025
Frailty has been shown to be linked with orthostatic hypotension (OH) in older adults, but the role of anticholinergic drugs in this relationship never has been explored. The purpose of this was to examine the relationship between anticholinergic burden (ACB) and OH in frail older adults living in the comm...
JAMDA
August 31, 2017
There are limited screening tools to predict adverse postoperative outcomes for the geriatric surgical fracture population. Frailty is increasingly recognized as a risk assessment to capture complexity. The goal of this study was to use a short screening tool, the FRAIL scale, to categorize the level of fr...