JAMDA
September 17, 2020
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JAMDA
September 10, 2020
The Seniors Quality Leap Initiative (SQLI): An International Collaborative to Improve Quality in Long-Term Care
To describe an innovative Canadian and US community of practice that employs empirical evidence based on risk-adjusted indicators to guide collaborative initiatives to improve the quality of care in nursing homes.
JAMDA
June 21, 2016
Delivery of Care to Nursing Home Residents With Diabetes: Results From the SHELTER Study
To describe health care and preventive service provision to nursing home (NH) residents with diabetes mellitus (DM) and to analyze factors determining use of selected services.
JAMDA
September 23, 2017
Modeling the Association Between Home Care Service Use and Entry Into Residential Aged Care: A Cohort Study Using Routinely Collected Data
To examine home care service-related and person-based factors associated with time to entry into permanent residential aged care.
JAMDA
March 11, 2025
Association of Reversible Frailty with All-Cause Mortality Risk in Community-Dwelling Older Adults and Analysis of Factors Affecting Frailty Reversal in Older Adults
Although frailty can increase the risk of premature death, whether reversal of frailty reduces the risk of premature death and what factors contribute to the reversal of frailty have not been thoroughly investigated. This study aimed to investigate the link between frailty reversal and all-cause mortality ...
JAMDA
November 5, 2020
A Comparison of Frailty Assessment Instruments in Different Clinical and Social Care Settings: The Frailtools Project
To determine which of 8 commonly employed frailty assessment tools demonstrate the most appropriate characteristics to be employed in different clinical and social settings.
JAMDA
January 3, 2021
Implementation and Evaluation of an IPAC SWAT Team Mobilized to Long-Term Care and Retirement Homes During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Pragmatic Health System Innovation
Long-term care facilities (LTCFs), retirement homes (RHs), and other congregate care settings in Canada and worldwide have experienced significant COVID-19 outbreaks. As a health system response, our acute care hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, developed and mobilized an onsite Infection Prevention and...
JAMDA
October 26, 2020
Staff Training Interventions to Improve End-of-Life Care of Nursing Home Residents: A Systematic Review
The aim was to review evidence from all randomized controlled trials (RCTs) using palliative care education or staff training as an intervention to improve nursing home residents' quality of life (QOL) or quality of dying (QOD) or to reduce burdensome hospitalizations.
JAMDA
February 13, 2019
Predictive Capacity of Frailty Phenotype Toward Patterns of Disability Identified Using Latent Class Analysis
Frailty phenotype (FP) has low sensitivity toward the identification of older people who will lose 1 or more activities of daily living. Nevertheless, the definition of disability in terms of activities of daily living may not resemble the pattern of functional impairment occurring during aging. The aim of...
JAMDA
March 7, 2019