MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join As chair of the Annual Conference Program Planning Subcommittee, Michele Bellantoni, MD, CMD, is always talking and listening to Society members about what issues and kinds of education they want and need. For...
For several years, leaders in home-based medical care (HBMC) have endeavored to develop standards for primary care and palliative care in the home setting. The recent paper by Christine Ritchie et al1 is yet another contribution to this multifaceted...
While the number of prescribing clinicians (physicians and nurse practitioners) who provide any nursing home care remained stable over the past decade, the number of clinicians who focus their practice exclusively on nursing home care has increased...
The existing literature has shown that different factors related to nutrition can affect frailty.1 In our previous work, we had observed a beneficial effect of Mediterranean Diet on the prevalence of frailty. In the current study, we opted to...
The Authors wish to make a correction to their article published in JAMDA ( https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2018.05.019 ) “Gait Speed Assessment in Older Adults: A Comparison Among Walk Tests, a Portable Gait Analysis Device and Self-Report”.
The Authors wish to make a correction to their article published in JAMDA ( https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2014.10.014 ) “The Vegetative State: Prevalence, Misdiagnosis, and Treatment Limitations”.
To identify home care clients with substantial functional deficits who had capacity to improve and, thus, for whom recovery goals should be articulated.
To determine whether or not and to what extent the association between sedentary time and frailty was moderated by moderate-to-vigorous physical activity in older adults.
To evaluate whether discontinuation of antihypertensive medication in community-dwelling older people is associated with a reduction in memory complaints and/or incident dementia.
