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JAMDA

October 24, 2025

Vaccination Rates Among Long-Term Care Staff During the COVID-19 Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic had a profound impact on long-term care facilities, particularly nursing homes and assisted living communities (ALCs), leading to high mortality rates among residents. Vaccination of residents and staff in long-term care mitigated virus spread. However, we know little about vaccine up...
JAMDA

August 8, 2023

Validated Tools for Screening Sarcopenia: A Scoping Review

Choosing the optimal sarcopenia screening tool for a specific clinical scenario is challenging. We aimed to summarize all validated sarcopenia screening tools with diagnostic accuracy tested in one or more study populations.
JAMDA

June 15, 2014

Validating the SARC-F: A Suitable Community Screening Tool for Sarcopenia?

Using data from the Hong Kong Mr and Ms Os study, we validated the SARC-F against 3 consensus definitions of sarcopenia from Europe, Asia, and an international group, and compared the ability of all 4 measures to predict 4-year physical limitation, walking speed, and repeated chair stands.