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Regional Supply of Nursing Home and Hospital Beds Determine Discharge Destination of Nursing Home Residents in Japan

JAMDA
July 1, 2016
Japanese special nursing homes provide permanent residence to elderly people under the public long-term care insurance program. However, a quarter of discharges occur via death in hospital, and a fifth occur via admission to hospital. The objective...

Effects of a Home-Based and Volunteer-Administered Physical Training, Nutritional, and Social Support Program on Malnutrition and Frailty in Older Persons: A Randomized Controlled Trial

JAMDA
July 1, 2016
The aim of this study was to examine the effects of a home-based and volunteer-administered physical training and nutritional intervention program compared with social support intervention on nutritional and frailty status in prefrail and frail...

News From the Society

Caring for the Ages
July 1, 2016
E ach issue of Caring for the next several months will feature a profile of a different Society committee. As a volunteer-driven organization, we depend on and are indebted to those individuals who devote their time, talents, and energies to Society...

Journal Highlights from the July Issue of JAMDA

Caring for the Ages
July 1, 2016
Nearly one in four hospital transfers from nursing homes may have been preventable, according to results from a randomized controlled clinical trial that implemented the INTERACT quality improvement program.

Interpreting Medical Information Requires a Skeptic’s Eye

Caring for the Ages
July 1, 2016
ORLANDO, FL — The “commercialization of medical knowledge” is pervasive, according to John Abramson, MD: An estimated 85% of clinical trials are commercially funded, for instance, and 59% of the authors of expert guidelines have financial ties to an...

The Facts About Fractures: Moving From Pain to Gain

Caring for the Ages
July 1, 2016
Daniel Haimowitz, MD, CMD, talks about hip fractures — how to prevent them and how to promote recovery and quality of life when they happen.

A Single-Payer System Can Save Primary Care

Caring for the Ages
July 1, 2016
The Republicans want to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, while the Democrats want either to build on its strengths, or — ideally — institute a single-payer system.

Pearls for Hypotension Treatment, With a Grain of Salt

Caring for the Ages
July 1, 2016
Hypertension gets all the attention. But hypotension is an important and common clinical problem that deserves more careful evaluation and significantly more attention in older patients, said John Morley, MD, BCh, of the division of geriatric...

Diabetic Foot Ulcers Linked to Cognitive Decline

Caring for the Ages
July 1, 2016
Among patients with type 2 diabetes, those with foot ulcers show cognitive impairment across all domains when compared with those without, according to a report published in Diabetes Care.

The Changing Ethics of Health Care

Caring for the Ages
July 1, 2016
Health care delivery is changing, and the ethics of health care are changing along with it. Much has been written about how and why health care delivery is changing, driven largely by concerns about escalating health care costs. But far less...