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JAMDA
October 30, 2024
ORIENT Diet: A Potential Neuroprotective Dietary Pattern for Chinese Stroke High-Risk Population
Given the particularity of Asian cultures and dietary habits, there is a need to establish a neuroprotective dietary pattern specially for the Asian stroke high-risk population, to prevent cognitive impairment.
JAMDA
August 30, 2021
Centrally Acting Anticholinergic Drugs Used for Urinary Conditions Associated with Worse Outcomes in Dementia
To investigate the associations between central anticholinergic burden and mortality, hospitalization, and cognitive impairment in people with dementia prescribed anticholinergic drugs for urinary symptoms.
JAMDA
November 20, 2020
Families' and Residents' Perspectives of the Quality of Nursing Home Care: Implications for Composite Quality Measures
To assess (1) the relationship of consumers' assessment of overall nursing home quality to their assessment of specific dimensions of quality; and (2) the implications of this relationship for composite quality measures in Nursing Home Compare.
JAMDA
August 25, 2021
COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake Among Residents and Staff Members of Assisted Living and Residential Care Communities—Pharmacy Partnership for Long-Term Care Program, December 2020–April 2021
In December 2020, CDC launched the Pharmacy Partnership for Long-Term Care Program to facilitate COVID-19 vaccination of residents and staff in long-term care facilities (LTCFs), including assisted living (AL) and other residential care (RC) communities. We aimed to assess vaccine uptake in these communiti...
JAMDA
December 15, 2014
Self-Reported Walking Speed: A Useful Marker of Physical Performance Among Community-Dwelling Older People?
Walking speed is central to emerging consensus definitions of sarcopenia and frailty as well as being a major predictor of future health outcomes in its own right. However, measurement is not always feasible in clinical settings. We hypothesized that self-reported walking speed might be a good marker of ob...
JAMDA
December 12, 2014
Evaluations of Home Care Interventions for Frail Older Persons Using the interRAI Home Care Instrument: A Systematic Review of the Literature
This systematic review describes the use of the interRAI Home Care (interRAI HC) instrument, an internationally validated comprehensive geriatric assessment, as a base for the evaluation of home care projects. Because of the evidence base of the instrument and its widespread use, researchers can make a tho...
JAMDA
December 19, 2014
Twenty-Four–Year Demographic Trends of a Brazilian Long-Term Care Institution for the Aged
The objectives of this study were to assess demographic trends of a long-term care institution (LTCI) for the aged throughout 24 years and to discuss the results considering regulations and demographic, socioeconomic, and epidemiological changes in Brazil during this period.
JAMDA
February 5, 2014
A New Model for End-of-Life Care in Nursing Homes
This study aimed to promote quality end-of-life (EOL) care for nursing home residents, through the establishment of advance care plan (ACP) and introduction of a new care pathway. This pathway bypassed the emergency room (ER) and acute medical wards by facilitating direct clinical admission to an extended-...
JAMDA
April 21, 2016