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Development of an Applied Framework for Understanding Health Information Technology in Nursing Homes

JAMDA
March 11, 2016
There is growing evidence that Health Information Technology (HIT) can play a role in improving quality of care and increasing efficiency in the nursing home setting. Most research in this area, however, has examined whether nursing homes have or...

Effects of Geriatric Interdisciplinary Home Rehabilitation on Walking Ability and Length of Hospital Stay After Hip Fracture: A Randomized Controlled Trial

JAMDA
March 11, 2016
To evaluate if Geriatric Interdisciplinary Home Rehabilitation could improve walking ability for older people with hip fracture compared with conventional geriatric care and rehabilitation. A secondary aim was to investigate the postoperative length...

Do Not Harm Older Persons in Primary Care by Case Finding of Cognitive Decline, Instead Assess Cognition Only Following Loss of Well-being

JAMDA
March 10, 2016
The technical possibilities of mass online cognitive testing1 and identification of brain amyloidosis by positron emission tomography (PET) scanning and cerebrospinal fluid analysis,2 which allow early detection of cognitive decline and preclinical...

High-Quality Exercise Programs Are an Essential Component of Nursing Home Care

JAMDA
March 10, 2016
“I have to exercise early in the morning before my brain figures out what I am doing.”∼Author unknown

Brain Health: A Japanese Viewpoint

JAMDA
March 10, 2016
A recent survey revealed that there are more than 4 million older persons with dementia in Japan, which is equal to a prevalence of approximately 15% of older adults, and close to 4 million older persons have mild cognitive impairment.1 This result...

Next Generation Brain Health Depends on Early Alzheimer Disease Diagnosis: From a Timely Diagnosis to Future Population Screening

JAMDA
March 10, 2016
Recent advances in neuroimaging, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) assays, and other biomarkers now provide the ability to detect evidence of Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathophysiological process in vivo.1 This stirs the debate about how and when AD is best...

Neglected Categorical Differences of Hypertension of the Elderly vs. the Young: A Case of Institutional Amnesia?

JAMDA
March 10, 2016
In the early 20th century, hypertension became a topic of major interest and by approximately the mid-century a number of investigators had identified a syndrome/condition in adults younger than 50 to 55 termed “essential hypertension” (sometimes “...

Recognizing the Spectrum of Cognitive Impairment to Advance Drug Discovery

JAMDA
March 9, 2016
The International Association of Geriatrics and Gerontology (IAGG) Consensus Conference report1 brings a welcome voice to the importance of early detection of cognitive impairment and repeated measures of cognitive function. Early detection has...

Letter to the Editor on the Maastricht Sarcopenia Study

JAMDA
March 9, 2016
We read the recent article published in your journal and written by Ter Borg et al1 with great interest. The study is well designed and its findings are important and remarkable. Ter Borg et al1 found in this cross-sectional study that daily intake...

Lack of Energy and Negative Health-Related Outcomes in Nursing Home Residents: Results From the INCUR Study

JAMDA
March 9, 2016
“Lack of energy” or anergia is a common complaint associated with adverse outcomes in older people. There is a lack of knowledge on this symptom in the nursing home (NH) setting. The aim of this study was to investigate whether lack of energy was...