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Unplanned Hospital Visits and Poor Oral Health With Undernutrition in Nursing Home Residents

JAMDA
August 14, 2023
In 2021, the Japanese government began operating a long-term care (LTC) database called the Long-Term Care Information System for Evidence (LIFE). However, its utility has not been verified. Regarding unplanned hospital visits of nursing home...

Lessons Learned from the Connecticut Response to COVID-19 in Nursing Homes during the First 2 Years of the Pandemic

JAMDA
August 14, 2023
Nearly half of all SARS-CoV-2–related deaths in the United States occurred in long-term care facilities during the early pandemic. In Connecticut, statewide mitigation of this impact involved a collaboration between the Connecticut Department of...

Advance Care Planning in Huntington Disease: The Elderly Care Physician's Perspective

JAMDA
August 13, 2023
Huntington disease (HD) has a poor prognosis. Decision-making capacity and communication ability may become impaired as the disease progresses. Therefore, HD patients are encouraged to engage in advance care planning (ACP). Elderly care physicians (...

Deprescribing Interventions for Older Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

JAMDA
August 12, 2023
Deprescribing reduces polypharmacy in older adults. A thorough study of the effect of deprescribing interventions on clinical outcomes in older adults is presently lacking. As a result, we evaluated the impact of deprescribing on clinical outcomes...

Retention and Resilience of Nursing Home Staff During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Voices from the Frontline

JAMDA
August 12, 2023
The nursing home (NH) industry has experienced a 13% drop in employment over the course of the pandemic1—worse than any other health care sector—and NHs across the country continue to face dire staffing shortages with increased reliance on agency...

Viewing the Current Puzzling Issue of COVID-19 Vaccination Safety in Older Adults

JAMDA
August 12, 2023
Cheung et al1 concluded that short-term post–COVID-19 vaccination serious adverse events (SAEs) were not observed in older patients with dementia, although longer-term related research is warranted to detect remote SAEs.

The Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act Reintroduced

Policy Snapshot
August 11, 2023
Reps. Joe Courtney (D-CT), Glenn ‘GT' Thompson (R-PA), Susan DelBene (D-WA), and Ron Estes (R-KS reintroduced the bipartisan Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 2023 (HR 5138), legislation to fix an arbitrary Medicare policy that excludes...

Associations between Complaints and Organizational Characteristics among Ohio Nursing Homes

JAMDA
August 11, 2023
In recent years, Ohio nursing homes (NHs) have received an increasing number of complaints. The current study aims to gain a better understanding of the relationship between NH organizational characteristics and the number of complaints.

Predictive Capability of 5 Sarcopenia Diagnostic Criteria for Fall Incidents in Older Japanese Women: The Otassha Study

JAMDA
August 11, 2023
The association between sarcopenia diagnosis according to various diagnostic criteria and falls is unclear. We examined the association between sarcopenia defined by 5 different international criteria, and fall and injurious fall numbers among older...

Cross-Lagged Panel Analysis between Physical Frailty, Cognitive Function, and Falls by Sex

JAMDA
August 11, 2023
This study investigated the reciprocal longitudinal relationships between physical frailty (PF), cognitive function (CF), and falls among community-dwelling older adults, according to sex. The study proposed hypotheses that present PF and CF will...