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Evaluation of the Caring Ahead: Preparing for End-of-Life With Dementia Questionnaire

JAMDA
July 21, 2021
Family caregivers of persons with dementia rarely feel prepared for end of life although preparedness predicts outcomes in bereavement. The Caring Ahead: Preparing for End-of-Life With Dementia questionnaire was developed to measure family caregiver...

Medical Decision-Making Practices for Unrepresented Residents in Nursing Homes

JAMDA
July 20, 2021
Unrepresented adults are individuals who lack decision-making capacity and have neither an available surrogate decision maker nor an applicable advance directive. Currently, the prevalence of unrepresented nursing home (NH) residents and how medical...

Nursing Home Antibiotic Stewardship Policy and Antibiotics Use: 2013–2017

JAMDA
July 20, 2021
Reducing inappropriate nursing home (NH) antibiotic usage by implementing stewardship programs is a national priority. Our aim is to evaluate the influence of antibiotic stewardship programs on antibiotic use rates in NHs over time.

Molecular Epidemiology and Risk Factors for Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamase–Producing Enterobacterales in Long-Term Care Residents

JAMDA
July 20, 2021
We aimed to assess the burden of extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Enterobacterales in Swiss long-term care facilities (LTCFs) to describe the molecular epidemiology, describe the intrainstitutional and regional clusters of resistant...

A Proactive Nursing Home Risk Stratification Model for Disaster Response: Lessons Learned from COVID-19 to Optimize Resource Allocation

JAMDA
July 20, 2021
A coordinated emergency management response to disaster management in nursing homes is desperately needed globally.During the most recent COVID-19 pandemic, aside from a few exemplary countries, most countries have struggled to protect their nursing...

Racial Disparities in COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance: Building Trust to Protect Nursing Home Staff and Residents

JAMDA
July 20, 2021
Vaccines are critical to protect both nursing home residents and staff from COVID-19, but some staff have expressed reservations about being vaccinated. In this brief report, we describe interventions that Genesis HealthCare—one of the largest US...

Different Associations of Skeletal Muscle Mass Index and Creatinine-To-Cystatin C Ratio With Muscle Mass and Myosteatosis: The J-SHIPP Study

JAMDA
July 19, 2021
When assessing sarcopenia, physicians usually evaluate muscle mass by the skeletal muscle mass index (SMI), calculated from appendicular lean mass, measured using a bioimpedance device.1 Recently, we proposed creatinine-to-cystatin C ratio (CCR),...

The Association of Service Use and Other Client Factors with the Time to Transition from Home Care to Facility-Based Care

JAMDA
July 19, 2021
People are living longer with complex health needs and wish to remain in their homes as their care needs change. We examined which client factors (sociodemographic, health service use, health, and function) influenced older persons’ (≥65 years) time...

Frailty Assessment in the Emergency Department for Risk Stratification of COVID-19 Patients Aged ≥80 Years

JAMDA
July 19, 2021
To evaluate, in a cohort of adults aged ≥80 years, the overlapping effect of clinical severity, comorbidities, cognitive impairment, and frailty, for the in-hospital death risk stratification of COVID-19 older patients since emergency department (ED...

Clinical Factors Related to COVID-19 Outcomes in Institutionalized Older Adults: Cross-sectional Analysis from a Cohort in Catalonia

JAMDA
July 19, 2021
In its early stages, the COVID-19 pandemic particularly affected older people living in long-term care (LTC) facilities, who were the hardest hit population in terms of mortality, and on clinical and psychological outcomes.1,2