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National Trends in Treatment Initiation for Nursing Home Residents With Diabetes Mellitus, 2008 to 2010

JAMDA
March 24, 2016
Diabetes mellitus is common in the nursing home (NH) population, yet little is known about prescribing of glucose-lowering medications in the NH setting. We describe trends in initiation of glucose-lowering medications in a national cohort of NH...

Should All Elderly Persons Undergo a Cognitive Function Evaluation? Where Is the Patient's Perspective?

JAMDA
March 24, 2016
Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a condition in which an individual has minor problems with cognition that are worse than would normally be expected for a healthy person of the same age, but not severe enough to interfere with daily life. MCI has...

Lessons Learned From Root Cause Analyses of Transfers of Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Patients to Acute Hospitals: Transfers Rated as Preventable Versus Nonpreventable by SNF Staff

JAMDA
March 24, 2016
Determining if a transfer of a skilled nursing facility (SNF) patient/resident to an acute hospital is potentially avoidable or preventable is challenging. Most previous research on potentially avoidable or preventable hospitalizations is based on...

Japan's Challenge of Early Detection of Persons With Cognitive Decline

JAMDA
March 24, 2016
As the size of the old-elderly population increases, the prevalence of dementia is rapidly increasing in Japan. The prevalence of dementia is assumed to be approximately 15% and that of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is approximately 17% in...

Patterns of Emergency Department Use Among Long-Stay Nursing Home Residents With Differing Levels of Dementia Severity

JAMDA
March 24, 2016
To describe emergency department (ED) utilization among long-stay nursing home residents with different levels of dementia severity.

Load-Specific Inflammation Mediating Effects of Resistance Training in Older Persons

JAMDA
March 24, 2016
Little is known about the effects of resistance training (RT) on circulating cytokines in older adults. Also, dose-response relationships remain unclear. This study investigated the impact of RT at different external loads on circulating...

Central Nervous System-Acting Medicines and Risk of Hospital Admission for Confusion, Delirium, or Dementia

JAMDA
March 24, 2016
Most studies assessing the effect of central nervous system (CNS)-acting medicines on cognitive disturbances have focused on the use of individual medicines. The impact on cognitive function when another CNS-acting medicine is added to a patient's...

Brain Health: A Chinese Geriatrician's Viewpoint

JAMDA
March 22, 2016
The number of elderly people with cognitive impairment is expected to increase dramatically due to aging of the population. It is expected that by 2050, 115 million people worldwide will have some form of cognitive impairment, including mild...

Recommendations on Physical Activity and Exercise for Older Adults Living in Long-Term Care Facilities: A Taskforce Report

JAMDA
March 21, 2016
A taskforce, under the auspices of The International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics–Global Aging Research Network (IAGG-GARN) and the IAGG European Region Clinical Section, composed of experts from the fields of exercise science and...

Greater Fall Risk in Elderly Women Than in Men Is Associated With Increased Gait Variability During Multitasking

JAMDA
March 19, 2016
As 90% of fractures are caused by falls, and as fractures are more common in elderly women than in elderly men, a better understanding of potential sex differences in fall rates and underlying mechanisms is needed. The purpose of this study was to...