The built environment is a key determinant of successful aging.1 One essential feature is neighborhood walkability, which is a measure of street connectivity and access to amenities within walking distance.2 Living in highly walkable neighborhoods...
To determine the effect of vitamin D supplementation and maintaining sufficient serum vitamin D on depressive symptoms in patients with knee osteoarthritis (OA) and vitamin D deficiency.
With advancing age, the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency and musculoskeletal pain increases. However, published data on the effectiveness of vitamin D supplementation in reducing chronic pain are inconclusive. The purpose of this study was to test...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG) isn’t a new concept. It’s actually been around for hundreds of years, says T.S. Dharmarajan, MD, CMD. However, PEGs are used excessively in the elderly at the terminal...
Drug safety, polypharmacy, and deprescribing are important issues in post-acute and long-term care medicine and therefore also of great interest to JAMDA's editors and readers. This issue of JAMDA features a number of articles that advance the...
We thank the authors for their comments regarding our recent study on antihypertensive regimen intensity and incident dementia in an older Swedish population.1
