Medicare Advantage (MA) enrollment is steadily growing, but little is known about the quality of nursing home (NH) care provided to MA enrollees compared to enrollees in traditional fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare.
The progressive aging of the population has increased the number of older adults with disabilities. Regular physical activity has shown to improve health among these individuals, but the effects of sedentary behavior are mostly unknown. Thus, this...
Residents in nursing homes with diabetes mellitus have more disability, mobility impairment, infections, wounds, hypoglycemia, and require more hospitalizations than those without this disease.1–3 In addition, improved control failed to protect...
We read with great interest the meta-analytic study by Tsoi et al1 (Combination Therapy Showed Limited Superiority Over Monotherapy for Alzheimer Disease: A Meta-analysis of 14 Randomized Trials. J Am Med Dir Assoc 2016) in which the authors...
To assess the association of the anticholinergic medication burden with hospitalization and mortality in nursing home elderly patients and to investigate the role of coronary artery disease (CAD).
Your Journal continues to grow and be highly successful. We had 690 submissions in 2015, which was more than twice those received in 2011 and published nearly twice as many pages (1104) compared with 2011 (684). A major change has been that we are...
I read the recent article published in this Journal and written by Grün et al1 with interest. The authors conducted principal factor analysis mainly for patients with Parkinson disease (PD) and for their caregivers, respectively. They also used a...
It has been amply reported that nursing home (NH) residents are largely inactive, a condition that may further increase functional decline, behavioral disorders, and risk of death. To date, studies have mainly focused on individual characteristics...
The identification of factors used to predict caregiver burden may help preventive care. This study aimed to assess the relationship between evolution of patients with subjective cognitive decline (SCD) or progressive neurocognitive disorder (NCD)...
“I find that the Advanced program is more focused on what is happening in terms of actual medical direction. I get information I can bring back to my QAPI [Quality Assessment and Performance Improvement] meetings and say, ‘This is where things are...
