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Ambulatory Care–Sensitive Conditions Associated With Potentially Avoidable Hospital Admissions

JAMDA
November 7, 2019
Hospitalized nursing home residents have more chronic conditions, higher levels of care needs, and more unplanned admissions compared to non–nursing home residents.1,2 Unplanned admissions are admissions at out-of-hours care—thus, in the evening and...

The Longitudinal Associations of Handgrip Strength and Cognitive Function in Aging Americans

JAMDA
November 6, 2019
Factors that are responsible for age-related neurologic deterioration of noncognitive and cognitive processes may have a shared cause. We sought to examine the temporal, directional associations of handgrip strength and cognitive function in a...

Effects of a Multicomponent Frailty Prevention Program in Prefrail Community-Dwelling Older Persons: A Randomized Controlled Trial

JAMDA
November 6, 2019
To examine the effects of a multicomponent frailty prevention program in community-dwelling older persons with prefrailty.

Evolution of the Nursing Home Industry in States With Different Certificate of Need Policies

JAMDA
November 5, 2019
One of the earliest efforts to curb needless health care spending in the United States was certificate-of-need (CON) programs, which limit and manage the expansion of different health care institutions. CON programs mainly targeted nursing homes and...

State Variability in Assisted Living Residents’ End-of-Life Care Trajectories

JAMDA
November 5, 2019
A growing and increasingly vulnerable population resides in assisted living. States are responsible for regulating assisted living and vary in their requirements. Little is known about how this variability translates to differences in the dying...

Diagnostic Accuracy of the SLU AMSAD Scale for Depression in Older Adults Without Dementia

JAMDA
November 5, 2019
To evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of a short depression screening tool, the Saint Louis University (SLU) AMSAD depression scale, relative to the Geriatric Depression Scale–15 (GDS-15) and Montgomery-Asberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS), and in...

November 3, 2019

Weekly Roundup
November 3, 2019
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Caring for multimorbid patients comes with significant challenges and requires practitioners to successfully balance many issues and considerations at once. In a new Society webinar, Multimorbidity in Post-Acute...

Directions & Connections

JAMDA
November 1, 2019

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November 1, 2019

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JAMDA
November 1, 2019