Caring for the Ages
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JAMDA
August 24, 2021
Two Canadian Provincial Initiatives During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Their Impact on Nursing Home Staffing
JAMDA
January 21, 2025
Two Decades of the Walking While Talking Test: A Narrative Review
Early research reported that older adults who stopped walking when they began a conversation were more likely to fall in the future. As a systematic measure of dual-task performance, Verghese and colleagues developed the Walking While Talking (WWT) test, in which a person walks at a normal pace while recit...
JAMDA
November 11, 2025
Two Easy-to-Use Scores to Identify Acute Geriatric Patients With High Rehabilitation Success
Many geriatric patients who would benefit from a stay in an acute geriatric ward (AGW) are not identified because of the lack of objective and standardized predictive measures for rehabilitation success. We thus aimed to develop 2 easy-to-use, standardized predictive scores, Discharged Home Score (DHS) and...
JAMDA
January 29, 2021
Two European Examples of Acute Geriatric Units Located Outside of a General Hospital for Older Adults With Exacerbated Chronic Conditions
Throughout Europe, the number of older adults requiring acute hospitalization is increasing. Admission to an acute geriatric unit outside of a general hospital could be an alternative. In this model of acute medical care, comprehensive geriatric assessment and rehabilitation are provided to selected older ...
JAMDA
February 7, 2014
Two Nursing Home Based Initiatives to Delay Admissions to Nursing Homes
JAMDA
July 12, 2021
Two-Year Follow-up of a Multimodal Intervention on Functional Capacity and Muscle Power in Frail Patients With Type 2 Diabetes
To analyze the effects of a program composed of resistance training and nutritional interventions on functional capacity, maximal strength, and power output after 2 years of follow-up, including 2 periods of 16 weeks of intervention followed by several weeks of intervention cessation in frail patients with...
JAMDA
June 18, 2019
Two-Year Weight Loss but Not Body Mass Index Predicts Mortality and Disability in an Older Japanese Community-Dwelling Population
Previous studies in older populations have shown a cardioprotective effect for obesity, an observation known as the obesity paradox. However, whether a decrease or increase in body weight over a certain period affects disability and mortality in older adults remains unknown. Hence, we examined whether the ...
Caring for the Ages
June 1, 2020
Type 2 Diabetes Update: Semaglutide and Linagliptin as Basal Insulin Alternatives
JAMDA
February 23, 2021
Type of HCBS Support Provided Predictive of Frailty Status Change Among Older Participants
