Although outcomes for older adults undergoing elective surgery are generally comparable to younger patients, outcomes associated with emergency surgery are poor. These adverse outcomes are in part because of the physiologic changes associated with...
Risk of mortality and major comorbidity remains high following hepatic resection. Given recent advancements in nonsurgical techniques to control hepatic malignancy, accurate assessment of surgical candidates, especially those considered frail, has...
The aim was to investigate the association of cognitive trajectories and overnight surgical hospitalization in older adults, while controlling for and comparing to the association with acute medical hospitalizations.
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join From the moment COVID-19 came into post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) facilities, Swati Gaur, MD, MBA, CMD, stepped into action. She rallied her teams, worked shoulder to shoulder with her AMDA colleagues and...
The Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation Act of 2014 mandates using standardized patient functional data across post-acute settings. This study characterized similarities and differences in clinician-observed scores of self-care and...
Estimate mortality, cost, and health care resource utilization for Medicare beneficiaries aged ≥65 years who suffered a primary Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) episode only or any recurrent CDI, and understand how outcomes covary with death.
Describe the epidemiology of a large cohort of older adults with isolated traumatic brain injury (TBI) and identify predictors of mortality, palliative interventions, and discharge to preinjury residence in those presenting with moderate/severe TBI.
To investigate the prevalence of frailty in older adults living with dementia and explore the differences in medication use according to frailty status.
Long-term care (LTC) settings have implemented family visitor restrictions amidst the COVID-19 pandemic that may exacerbate isolation and loneliness among residents,1,2 which have been linked to worse health outcomes such as increased risk for...
The aims of this systematic review were to identify the prevalence and risk factors associated with drug-related problems (DRPs) in people living with dementia in the community.
