Sarcopenia and frailty are closely linked geriatric syndromes, but how sarcopenia is associated with frailty's dynamic progression remains unclear. This study examined the association between sarcopenia and multistate frailty transitions in Chinese...
Stroke is a leading cause of mortality and disability, significantly impairing quality of life. In Japan's aging society, premorbid functional decline is often already present at the time of illness or injury, potentially influencing prognosis,...
The Morse Fall Scale is a widely used fall risk assessment tool. However, limited evidence exists on whether this scale reliably differentiates residents at high risk for falls in nursing homes. In a sample of nursing home residents, the purpose of...
The CHemical Restraints avOidance MEthodology (CHROME) was developed to help general physicians with quality prescribing of psychotropics for people with dementia (PwD). A new enhanced version (CHROME 2.0) was implemented and tested for improved...
We thank the authors for acknowledging the value of our study on hybrid community-based eHealth program (CeHP) targeting self-care, cognition, and healthy aging in older adults with chronic disease and the thoughtful advice on sharpening causal...
Nonurgent outings, such as routine medical appointments or nonmedical (eg, recreational) outings, are common occurrences in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) and assisted living communities (ALCs). These outings involve changes in location and...
Advance care planning (ACP) is essential in supporting family caregivers of nursing home residents with dementia, but nursing home (NH) staff often lack training to engage in proactive ACP discussions. An embedded pragmatic clinical trial was...
Wu et al1 evaluate a pragmatic, hybrid community-based eHealth program (CeHP) targeting self-care, cognition, and healthy aging in older adults with chronic disease. The trial's community grounding and multimodal delivery are timely and the positive...
To investigate sex-specific associations of sarcopenia and its diagnostic components with the 2-year incidence of depression in community-dwelling older adults.
The Global Leadership Initiative on Sarcopenia has proposed muscle-specific strength, defined as muscle strength relative to muscle mass. Evidence in patients with heart failure (HF) is scarce; therefore, we compared the associations of muscle-...
