As global population aging accelerates, maintaining physical function in older adults has emerged as a core public health challenge. Dance, a multimodal physical activity integrating cognitive challenges and social interaction, has been proven...
To build off what is currently known about community-dwelling older adults and vaccine behavior, we evaluated immunizations rates among older adults living in low-income senior housing. It was hypothesized that age, cardiac and respiratory disease,...
Heart failure (HF) is a chronic condition that causes progressive functional decline affecting 6.7 million individuals in the United States.1 It is associated with substantial morbidity and mortality, often leading to diminished quality of life and...
Sarcopenia and frailty are closely linked geriatric syndromes, but how sarcopenia is associated with frailty's dynamic progression remains unclear. This study examined the association between sarcopenia and multistate frailty transitions in Chinese...
Stroke is a leading cause of mortality and disability, significantly impairing quality of life. In Japan's aging society, premorbid functional decline is often already present at the time of illness or injury, potentially influencing prognosis,...
The Morse Fall Scale is a widely used fall risk assessment tool. However, limited evidence exists on whether this scale reliably differentiates residents at high risk for falls in nursing homes. In a sample of nursing home residents, the purpose of...
The CHemical Restraints avOidance MEthodology (CHROME) was developed to help general physicians with quality prescribing of psychotropics for people with dementia (PwD). A new enhanced version (CHROME 2.0) was implemented and tested for improved...
We thank the authors for acknowledging the value of our study on hybrid community-based eHealth program (CeHP) targeting self-care, cognition, and healthy aging in older adults with chronic disease and the thoughtful advice on sharpening causal...
Nonurgent outings, such as routine medical appointments or nonmedical (eg, recreational) outings, are common occurrences in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) and assisted living communities (ALCs). These outings involve changes in location and...
Advance care planning (ACP) is essential in supporting family caregivers of nursing home residents with dementia, but nursing home (NH) staff often lack training to engage in proactive ACP discussions. An embedded pragmatic clinical trial was...
