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Caring for the Ages
March 2, 2015
Press Release
January 23, 2025
The Foundation for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine has announced the recipients of its national leadership and excellence awards for 2025. William Carl Mercer, MD, CMD, is the 2025 Medical Director of the Year; Howard J. Finger, DO, is the 2025 Clinician of the Year; Victoria Walker, MD, FAAFP, CMD,...
Caring for the Ages
March 2, 2015
Caring for the Ages
March 2, 2015
JAMDA
September 21, 2021
To develop a questionnaire-based Active Mobility Index (AMI) to assess going-out behavior with physical and social activity among older adults, and to assess the criterion-related and predictive validity of the AMI.
JAMDA
April 11, 2015
The objective of this study was to evaluate cross-sectional and longitudinal associations between ankle-brachial index (ABI) and indicators of cognitive function.
JAMDA
August 7, 2022
Although many prior studies have shown that high average levels of nurse staffing in nursing homes are associated with fewer hospitalizations, some studies have not, suggesting that the average nursing level may mask a more complex relationship. This study examines this issue by investigating the associati...
JAMDA
December 20, 2023
The first goal of this study was to explore associations between functional dependence levels during activities of daily living (eg, functional mobility, eating, and toileting) before COVID-19 and presence of COVID-19 symptoms (eg, fever, dehydration, lethargy, and shortness of breath) during illness. The ...
JAMDA
November 9, 2016
Although geriatric syndromes have been studied extensively, their interactions with one another and their accumulated effects on life expectancy are less frequently discussed. This study examined whether geriatric syndromes and their cumulative effects are associated with risks of mortality in community-dw...
JAMDA
September 24, 2021
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 ...