JAMDA Article on Falls Wins National Award

March 1, 2019
Caring for the Ages

A study of falls, published in the February 2018 issue of JAMDA, won the 2018 Mather LifeWays Innovative Research on Aging Gold Award (2018; 19:130–135, https://bit.ly/2TmfqyX). The award is given to the article that is felt to have the greatest potential to improve aging services. A runner-up article, “Use of a Robotic Seal as a Therapeutic Tool to Improve Dementia Symptoms: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial,” was from the September 2017 issue of JAMDA (2017;18:766–773).