The aim was to synthesize evidence on the use of person-centered outcome measures to facilitate integrated palliative care for older people and build a logic model depicting the mechanisms through which person-centered outcome measures support integrated care.
Direct care workers (DCWs) play a central role in supporting individuals' health and well-being across care settings, yet may face barriers to accessing health care themselves, particularly because of high rates of uninsurance.
To explore a comprehensive overview of digital technologies used for fall detection in older adults, categorizing the types, functions, and usability of these systems.
To examine the optimal range of steps for an individual based on the dose-response relationship of the number of steps taken with disability incidence and all-cause mortality stratified by age and physical frailty.
The Trump Administration has announced a major initiative to modernize U.S. health care by partnering with tech giants like Amazon, Apple, Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic. At the White House’s “Make Health Tech Great Again” summit, these companies committed to supporting a new, patient-centric digital health...
This study aims to explore the relationship among household air pollution, physical activity (PA), and the risk of frailty among middle-aged and older adults.
Body weight changes have been reported to increase mortality risk in older adults. However, the prognostic significance of short-term weight changes (during 1 year), particularly for functional disability, is unclear. We aimed to clarify the association between 1-year changes in body weight and the inciden...
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a common condition among older people and requires tailored, time-sensitive pharmacologic therapy for optimal symptom management. No prior studies have examined the extent to which doses of time-critical PD medicines are delayed or missed in residential aged care (RAC) sett...
Paying family caregivers (eg, children, friends) is an innovative approach to support older adults in the community and ease direct care workforce shortages. Yet, data about the receipt of paid family care are lacking. In this study, we used a nationally representative sample of Medicare beneficiaries to (...