Caring for the Ages
October 31, 2023
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Caring for the Ages
December 13, 2018
Giving to “Our Foundation”
Spotlight
June 27, 2023
Gladstone Award Goes to Innovative Drive to Deprescribe Team
When AMDA launched the Drive to Deprescribe (D2D) – Optimizing Medication Use in PALTC initiative two years ago, they hoped it would make a difference. But members of the D2D workgroup—Arif Nazir, MD, CMD; Sabine von Preyss-Friedman, MD, FACP, CMD; Michael Cinque, RPharmD; and Jennifer Pruskowski, PharmD, ...
Spotlight
June 6, 2024
Gladstone Award Recipient Finds Joy in Media Connections
Barbara Zarowitz, PharmD, MSW, BCPS, CGP, was surprised to receive the 2024 John Gladstone Award for Media Excellence. The award, named for AMDA’s long-time website administrator who passed away in 2022, is designed to honor and recognize contributions to the PALTC clinical community through a media projec...
JAMDA
March 14, 2015
Global Prevalence of Physical Frailty by Fried's Criteria in Community-Dwelling Elderly With National Population-Based Surveys
This study presents a brief review of 6 articles published between 2001 and 2014 that examined the prevalence of frailty as defined by the Fried scale in community-dwelling adults representative of the national population, age 65 years and older.
Caring for the Ages
March 1, 2017
Glucose-Lowering Drugs Linked to Increased Fracture Risk in Patients With Diabetes
JAMDA
December 2, 2020
Glycemic Control and Insulin Improve Muscle Mass and Gait Speed in Type 2 Diabetes: The MUSCLES-DM Study
Type 2 diabetes is a risk factor for sarcopenia. Evidence on the prevention of sarcopenia using blood glucose–lowering therapy is limited. We aimed to examine the relationship between changes in glycemic control and sarcopenia and the effect of antidiabetic agents against sarcopenia in patients with type 2...
JAMDA
February 23, 2017
Glycemic Control in Long-Term Care (PA/LTC) Older Residents with Diabetes Mellitus: An Opportunity for Less Intensive Therapy Consistent with Current Guidelines. A Quality Improvement (QI) Project
Caring for the Ages
August 29, 2015
Glycopyrronium Improves Health Status, Lung Function in COPD
JAMDA
February 23, 2021