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JAMDA
November 16, 2022
Residents of nursing homes (NHs) are susceptible to infection, and these facilities, particularly those that provide post-acute care services, are high-risk settings for the rapid spread of communicable respiratory and gastrointestinal illnesses, as well as antibiotic-resistant bacteria. The complexity of ...
JAMDA
February 1, 2022
JAMDA
January 2, 2022
Poor food and fluid intake and subsequent malnutrition and dehydration of residents are common, longstanding challenges in long-term care (LTC; eg, nursing homes, care homes, skilled nursing facilities). Institutional factors like inadequate nutrition care processes, food quality, eating assistance, and me...
JAMDA
December 21, 2021
Although dementia has a profound impact in general, young-onset dementia causes additional problems and challenges as people are affected in their prime years. Awareness has increased that people with young-onset dementia and their families have specific care needs and dedicated services are necessary to a...
JAMDA
April 30, 2021
To test relationships among background factors, interpersonal triggers, rejection of care, and aggression among veterans living with dementia in residential long-term care settings, based on the need-driven dementia-compromised behavior model.
JAMDA
May 8, 2019
Frailty is a geriatric syndrome that identifies individuals at higher risk of disability, institutionalization, and death. We previously reported that frailty is related to oxidative stress and cognitive impairment-related biomarkers. The aim of this study was to determine whether frailty is associated wit...
JAMDA
October 27, 2020
Although older inpatients are known to develop various conditions, whether aging affects intramuscular adipose tissue in older inpatients remains unclear. In particular, an increase in intramuscular adipose tissue in persons aged ≥85 years has previously not been revealed in either older inpatients or comm...
JAMDA
September 1, 2023
To synthesize the pooled mortality risk estimate and determine whether cognitive frailty is a predictor of mortality.
JAMDA
November 24, 2015
Informal caregivers of patients with a cognitive impairment may face exhaustion while taking care of their relatives, and are themselves at higher risk of disease. The objective was to assess the relationship between patients' comorbidities evaluated with the Charlson index, and the caregiver burden, ...
JAMDA
August 31, 2022
Diabetes mellitus (DM) is associated with risk of sarcopenia. However, whether glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) levels are associated with sarcopenia has not reached a consensus. The purpose of this study was to examine the association between diabetes status based on HbA1c levels and sarcopenia indices in comm...