The term “rehabilitation” comes from the Latin words “Re,” which means to restore, and “habilis,” which means suitable or fit. Rehabilitation is therefore the restoring of the individual to a suitable state and helping them achieve their highest...
To examine whether the prognostic relevance of multimorbidity burden for hospital-associated disability (HAD) varies with baseline frailty in hospitalized older adults.
Infectious diseases, such as respiratory infections, significantly affect older adults, particularly in collective settings, with a high burden of infections peaking in winter (January 2026: 447 COVID-19 cases and 57 flu hospitalizations/100,000...
Nursing homes (NHs) are an important setting of care for individuals with complex mental health conditions, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and other (nonschizophrenia) psychoses [ie, serious mental illness (SMI)]. The federally mandated...
To examine whether dementia is associated with differences in advance directive completion, decision-making needs near death, surrogate involvement, and concordance between expressed preferences for care and care received among older US adults.
