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Medicaid Mechanisms and State Licensure: Pathways to Payment in Assisted Living

JAMDA
October 28, 2025
To document and highlight the variation in the types of assisted living (AL) licensed settings eligible for Medicaid home and community-based services (HCBS) payment.

Two Easy-to-Use Scores to Identify Acute Geriatric Patients With High Rehabilitation Success

JAMDA
October 28, 2025
Many geriatric patients who would benefit from a stay in an acute geriatric ward (AGW) are not identified because of the lack of objective and standardized predictive measures for rehabilitation success. We thus aimed to develop 2 easy-to-use,...

Machine Learning in Sarcopenia Diagnosis: Promising but Requires Caution in Clinical Translation

JAMDA
October 28, 2025
We commend Kara et al1 for their innovative study on developing a machine learning (ML)-based algorithm to screen and diagnose sarcopenia. Given sarcopenia's rising prevalence and health care burden, this study is timely with a large multicenter...

Effectiveness of a Community-Based eHealth Program on Self-Care, Cognition, and Health Outcomes of Older Adults With Chronic Diseases: A Multi-Site Cluster-Controlled Trial

JAMDA
October 27, 2025
The growing prevalence of chronic diseases among the older population has become a global public health concern. This study aimed to examine the effects of a 12-week Community-based eHealth Program (CeHP) in enhancing the self-care, cognition, and...

Mediating Role of Physical Capabilities in the Association Between Perceived Physical Fatigability and Cognitive Frailty in Older Adults

JAMDA
October 26, 2025
To investigate perceived physical fatigability (PPF) as a novel predictor of cognitive frailty (CF) and elucidate mediating roles of physical capability markers in community-dwelling older adults.

Toward a Clearer Framework for Machine Learning–Powered Risk Assessment: Insights From the SARCO X Study

JAMDA
October 25, 2025
We sincerely thank the authors for their careful evaluation and their detailed comments on our recent article entitled “Screening/diagnosing sarcopenia with machine learning–powered risk assessment: The SARCO X study."1 We are grateful for the...

Factors Associated With an Elder Mistreatment Diagnosis Among Medicare Home Health Care Recipients

JAMDA
October 24, 2025
To identify risk factors of elder mistreatment (EM) diagnosis among Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries receiving Medicare Home Health Care (HHC).

An Electronic Health Record Algorithm's Performance to Identify Cognitive Impairment in Primary Care

JAMDA
October 21, 2025
Most people with dementia are diagnosed and cared for in primary care. We examined the performance of an electronic health record (EHR) algorithm to identify older adults with dementia or mild cognitive impairment in primary care.

Frailty Assessment and Outcomes During a COVID-19 Outbreak in a Long-Term Care Facility: The FRAIL-LTCF Scale

JAMDA
October 21, 2025
Frailty is a clinical syndrome characterized by increased vulnerability and decreased physiological reserves, leading to heightened risk of falls, disability, hospitalization, and mortality, especially among older adults in long-term care facilities...

“I'll Take Any Kind of Training Anybody's Willing to Give Me” Long-Term Care Staff Perceptions on Dementia Training and Needs

JAMDA
October 21, 2025
As the US population ages, dementia prevalence is projected to nearly double by 2060, with the number of adults 65 and older affected by Alzheimer's and related dementia rising from 7 million to nearly 14 million.1 However, the dementia workforce is...