Posters have always been an important way for practitioners to share their research, case studies, and best practices with their colleagues. The PALTmed poster program has a strong history of bringing practical, scientifically sound, high-quality information to annual conference participants. For PALTC25, ...
Older people are often socially deprived, which may predispose them to frailty. The aim of the study was to identify the independent effects of social deficits and their combined effects with frailty (“social frailty”) in predicting functional decline, institutionalization, and mortality in older adults li...
Self-compassion is a healthy way of responding to challenges that may help long-term care professional caregivers (ie, nursing assistants and personal care aides) cope with stress, but its use may vary in important ways. This study explored the relationships between self-compassion and caregiver demographi...
There have been few cross-national studies of the prevalence of the frailty phenotype conducted among low or middle income countries. We aimed to study the variation in prevalence and correlates of frailty in rural and urban sites in Latin America, India, and China.