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April 24, 2024
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Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG)
Gastrointestinal Disorders CPG
Although aging has relatively minimal effects on gastrointestinal (GI) function, age-related changes can cause or contribute to several GI disorders. Aging can result in impaired function of the gastric mucosal barrier and increased risk of peptic ulcer disease. Patients residing in PALTC facilities typica...
JAMDA
January 5, 2016
Antimicrobial Stewardship in Long-Term Care Facilities: A Call to Action
Antimicrobial resistance is a global public health crisis and a national security threat to the United States, as stated in an executive order signed by the president in September 2014. This crisis is a result of indiscriminant antimicrobial use, which promotes selection for resistant organisms, increases ...
JAMDA
January 17, 2018
Research Priorities for Optimizing Geriatric Pharmacotherapy: An International Consensus
Medication management is becoming increasingly challenging for older people, and there is limited evidence to guide medication prescribing and administration for people with multimorbidity, frailty, or at the end of life. Currently, there is a lack of clear research priorities in the field of geriatric pha...
JAMDA
September 14, 2020
A Case-Control Study of the Sub-Acute Care for Frail Elderly (SAFE) Unit on Hospital Readmission, Emergency Department Visits and Continuity of Post-Discharge Care
In Canada, alternate-level-of-care (ALC) beds in hospitals may be used when patients who do not require the intensity of services provided in an acute care setting are waiting to be discharged to a more appropriate care setting. However, when there is a lack of care options for patients waiting to be disch...
JAMDA
October 1, 2013
Feasibility and Acceptability of a Delirium Prevention Program for Cognitively Impaired Long Term Care Residents: A Participatory Approach
In this participatory action research study, researchers conducted a total of 3 implementation cycles to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of a new delirium prevention program (DPP) for cognitively impaired residents in long term care (LTC) settings. Researchers interviewed 95 health care staff to...
JAMDA
May 4, 2015
A Frailty Index Based on Common Laboratory Tests in Comparison With a Clinical Frailty Index for Older Adults in Long-Term Care Facilities
Easily employed measures of frailty are needed in the evaluation of elderly people. Recently, a frailty index (FI) based on deficits in commonly used laboratory tests (the FI-LAB) has been proposed. To address the usefulness of the FI-LAB in long-term care (LTC) settings, we studied institutionalized parti...
JAMDA
November 12, 2013
The Economic Value of Enteral Medical Nutrition in the Management of Disease-Related Malnutrition: A Systematic Review
Economic evaluations for medical nutrition, such as oral nutritional supplements (ONS), are relatively uncommon compared with other health technologies, and represent an area that has not been reviewed so far. In this systematic review, economic evaluations of enteral medical nutrition in the management of...
JAMDA
March 6, 2017
Frailty and Multimorbidity: Different Ways of Thinking About Geriatrics
The terms and are increasingly used in the medical literature to measure the risk profile of an older individual in order to support clinical decisions and design ad hoc interventions. The construct of multimorbidity was initially developed and used in nongeriatric settings. It generates a monodimensiona...
JAMDA
August 7, 2019
A 4-Item Case-Finding Tool to Detect Dementia in Older Persons
Brief cognitive tests are recommended in clinical services outside of specialized memory clinics as case-finding tools to reduce the diagnostic gap of dementia. Although the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) is among the most widely used brief tests in specialized memory clinics, its length precludes ro...
