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September 16, 2025
Infection-Control Protocol Acceptability in Skilled Nursing Facilities During the COVID-19 Pandemic
To assess the acceptability of an infection-control prevention strategy during the COVID-19 pandemic for skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) staff and residents, to describe implementation challenges and potential solutions, and to explore intervention impact perceptions.
JAMDA
August 24, 2017
Factors Associated With the Trend of Physical and Chemical Restraint Use Among Long-Term Care Facility Residents in Hong Kong: Data From an 11-Year Observational Study
Negative effects of restraint use have been well-documented. However, the prevalence of restraints use has been high in long-term care facilities in Hong Kong compared with other countries and this goes against the basic principles of ethical and compassionate care for older people. The present study aimed...
JAMDA
September 21, 2017
Objective Measures of Activity in the Elderly: Distribution and Associations With Demographic and Health Factors
Little is known about the distribution of activity over the full 24-hour spectrum in late old age and its association with demographic and health factors. Therefore, we aimed to evaluate the distribution of physical activity (PA), sedentary behavior, and sleep, and associated factors in the elderly populat...
JAMDA
October 8, 2021
Factors Associated With Family Caregiver Burden of Home-Dwelling Patients With Advanced Dementia
To realize patients’ preferences for home death, this study aimed to identify factors associated with family caregiver burden of home-dwelling patients with advanced dementia and examine its relationship with end-of-life care treatment decisions.
JAMDA
January 10, 2019
Frailty as a Predictor of All-Cause Mortality Among Older Nursing Home Residents: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
We performed a meta-analysis based on prospective cohort studies to synthesize the pooled risk effect and to determine whether frailty is a predictor of all-cause mortality.
JAMDA
May 2, 2019
Preparing Long-Term Care Staff to Meet the Needs of Aging Persons With Serious Mental Illness
Individuals with serious mental illness (SMI; schizophrenia spectrum disorders and affective psychoses) are increasingly aging into older adulthood and are overrepresented in residential long-term care settings. The present study aimed to examine the preparedness of staff in these settings to care for indi...
JAMDA
June 20, 2022
Factors Affecting SARS-CoV-2 Test Discordance in Skilled Nursing Facilities
Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and antigen tests for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) are sometimes discordant. We evaluated the discordance between antigen and PCR tests sampled in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) to assess the relationship of symptom pr...
JAMDA
June 20, 2023
Knee Extensor Weakness Potently Predicts Postoperative Outcomes in Older Gastrointestinal Cancer Patients
Muscle weakness, assessed by grip strength, has been shown to predict postoperative mortality in older patients with cancer. Because lower extremity muscle strength well reflects physical performance, we examined whether lower knee extension muscle strength predicts postoperative mortality better than grip...
JAMDA
July 25, 2023