JAMDA
November 28, 2018
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JAMDA
November 2, 2021
The Hospital Frailty Risk Score Identifies Fewer Cases of Frailty in a Community-Based Cohort of Older Men Than the FRAIL Scale and Frailty Index
The recently developed Hospital Frailty Risk Score (HFRS) allows ascertainment of frailty from administrative data. We aimed to compare the HFRS against the widely used FRAIL Scale and Frailty Index.
JAMDA
January 11, 2022
Factors and Outcomes Associated With Dysphagia in Hospitalized Persons With Dementia
Dysphagia is prevalent in older adults with dementia, particularly in the acute care setting. The objective of this study was to use an innovative approach to extract a more representative sample of patients with dysphagia from the electronic health record (EHR) to determine patient characteristics, hospit...
JAMDA
December 1, 2021
Comparing Virtual to In-Person Delivery of Continuing Medical Education in Dementia Care: Which Is Preferred?
There is limited understanding of learners’ perceptions of virtual learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the use of virtual modalities for interprofessional education (IPE) in primary care. Four of 7 in-person annual “Booster Day” IPE sessions for health professionals working in primary care–ba...
JAMDA
November 27, 2023
Implementing Dementia Caregiver Programs in Real-World Settings: Fidelity Considerations
Testing interventions in real-world settings requires fidelity monitoring to ensure implementation integrity. However, strategies to enhance, monitor, and measure fidelity deployed in efficacy trials may not be feasible in pragmatic trials or sustainable in practice. This paper reviews published translatio...
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
August 1, 2019
The Rising Frequency of Continuous Deep Sedation in the Netherlands, a Repeated Cross-Sectional Survey in 2005, 2010, and 2015
In the Netherlands, the use of continuous deep sedation at the end of life has sharply increased from 8.2% of all deaths in 2005 to 12.3% in 2010 to 18.3 % in 2015. We describe its clinical characteristics in 2015 and compare it with 2010 and 2005.
JAMDA
June 12, 2023
Clinicians’ Perceptions of a Modified Hospital Elder Life Program for Delirium Prevention During COVID-19
The Hospital Elder Life Program (HELP) is a multicomponent delirium prevention program targeting delirium risk factors of cognitive impairment, vision and hearing impairment, malnutrition and dehydration, immobility, sleep deprivation, and medications. We created a odified and xtended version of the progra...
JAMDA
June 7, 2023
Sleep Duration and Sarcopenia: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
In adults, short and long sleep duration has been associated with sarcopenia risk. Studies have shown that various factors, including biological and psychological factors, could be the underlying cause of the association between aberrant sleep duration and sarcopenia risk. In this study, we have qualitativ...
JAMDA
July 27, 2023
Promoting Resident Autonomy to Maintain Quality of Life
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Canadian governments and healthcare organizations implemented restrictions on continuing care residents. From an ethical lens, governments and healthcare organizations were focused on preventing harm through promoting beneficence and non-maleficence; however, this was ...
