JAMDA
December 29, 2020
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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 ...
Policy Snapshot
January 19, 2024
CDC Has Improved the Nursing Homes Reporting Process for COVID-19 Data in NHSN, but Challenges Remain
CDC and nursing homes experienced difficulties during a mass enrollment of more than 12,000 facilities into the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) to begin reporting COVID-19 data in May 2020. CDC improved the process of nursing home reporting to NHSN throughout the pandemic, but challenges remain. ...
JAMDA
February 26, 2016
Advance (Meta-) Directives for Patients with Dementia who Appear Content: Learning from a Nationwide Survey
Whether health care professionals should respect a properly executed advance directive (AD) refusing life support in late-stage dementia even if the patient seems contented, is an ethically contested issue. We undertook a nationwide survey to assess this problem and to test a practical solution.
JAMDA
November 14, 2017
Delivering Person-Centered Care: Important Preferences for Recipients of Long-term Services and Supports
Although assessing individual consumer preferences are an important first step in providing person-centered care, the purpose of this study was to identify the top 10 shared preferences that are important to a majority of consumers receiving long-term services and supports.
JAMDA
April 6, 2023
Identifying Nursing Home Residents with Unmet Palliative Care Needs: A Systematic Review of Screening Tool Measurement Properties
Despite common use of palliative care screening tools in other settings, the performance of these tools in the nursing home has not been well established; therefore, the purpose of this review is to (1) identify palliative care screening tools validated for nursing home residents and (2) critically apprais...
JAMDA
February 28, 2023
Cardiac Resuscitation Procedures in US Nursing Facilities: Time to Reevaluate the Standard of Care?
Although the use of automated external defibrillators (AEDs) in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) response has become the standard of care in many community settings over the past 20+ years, the adoption of AEDs in US nursing facilities is variable and the current number of facilities with AEDs is unkn...
JAMDA
February 16, 2021
Renin-Angiotensin System Inhibitors Prognostic Benefit in Older Patients with Atrial Fibrillation
Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEi) and angiotensin-receptor blockers (ARB) have shown antiarrhythmic effects that are useful as part of the upstream therapy for atrial fibrillation (AF), both for primary and secondary prevention. Nevertheless, the potential prognosis value of these drugs in te...
JAMDA
March 2, 2016
Prevalence and Correlates of Neuropsychiatric Symptoms in Nursing Home Patients With Young-Onset Dementia: The BEYOnD Study
Young-onset dementia (YOD) is defined as dementia that develops before the age of 65. Neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS) have important clinical consequences for patients and their family members. To date, knowledge about the prevalence and correlates of NPS in YOD is limited, but essential to establish speci...
JAMDA
October 22, 2020