Caring for the Ages
March 29, 2016
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JAMDA
July 24, 2021
Decision-Making in People With Dementia or Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Narrative Review of Decision-Making Tools
This review summarized the applicability of various decision-making tools for helping people with dementia or mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and their families make decisions.
Caring for the Ages
December 27, 2022
Decisional Capacity — When and How to Determine
JAMDA
September 28, 2016
Decisions by Default: Incomplete and Contradictory MOLST in Emergency Care
What patients intend when they make health care choices and whether they understand the meaning of orders for life-sustaining treatment forms is not well understood. The purpose of this study was to analyze the directives from a sample of emergency department (ED) patients' MOLST forms.
JAMDA
June 24, 2016
Decisions to Transfer Nursing Home Residents to Emergency Departments: A Scoping Review of Contributing Factors and Staff Perspectives
Nursing home (NH) residents are a frail and vulnerable population often faced with iatrogenic effects of hospital stays when transferred to emergency departments for acute changes in health status. Avoidable or unnecessary transfers of care need to be identified and defined to prevent unintended harm. The ...
JAMDA
January 5, 2023
Decline in Veterans’ Admissions to Nursing Homes during COVID-19: Fewer Beds, More Fear, and Finding Alternative Care Settings
Examine the decline in admission to community nursing homes among Veterans that occurred following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Caring for the Ages
November 29, 2017
Decoding and Treating Neuropsychiatric Symptoms in Dementia
JAMDA
June 16, 2025
Decoding the Enigmatic Link Between Sensory Impairment and Organic Mental Disorders: Insights From Biological Aging and Social Support in a Population Cohort Study
The objective of this study was to investigate the association between sensory impairments and organic mental disorders. We also examined biological age acceleration as a potential mediator and social support as a potential moderator of this association.
JAMDA
December 15, 2021
Decomposing Differences in Risk-Adjusted Rates of Emergency Department Visits Between Micropolitan and Urban Nursing Homes
Nursing homes (NHs) in micropolitan areas are reported to have different facility and market factors than urban NHs, but how these factors contribute to differences in emergency department (ED) visits remains unknown. This study examined and quantified sources of micropolitan-urban differences in NH risk-a...
JAMDA
April 7, 2021
Decomposing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Nursing Home Influenza Vaccination
Quantify how observable characteristics contribute to influenza vaccination disparities among White, Black, and Hispanic nursing home (NH) residents.
