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A Cross-Sectional Survey of Internal Medicine Residents’ Knowledge, Attitudes, and Current Practices Regarding Patient Transitions to Post-Acute Care

JAMDA
March 19, 2021
Prior studies have found suboptimal knowledge about post-acute care (PAC) among inpatient providers and poor communication at discharge that can lead to unsafe discharge transitions, but little is known about residents and the PAC transition. The...

Dental Care in Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly: Organizational Structures and Protocols

JAMDA
March 17, 2021
This study uses a national model of community-based long-term services and supports, the Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE), to identify organizational structures and protocols that can facilitate the delivery of dental...

Resident-to-Resident Elder Mistreatment in Residential Aged Care Services: A Systematic Review of Event Frequency, Type, Resident Characteristics, and History

JAMDA
March 13, 2021
Resident-to-resident elder mistreatment (R-REM) between residents living in residential aged care (RAC) services is a challenging issue in relation to the care of older people. Evidence suggests that R-REM, such as verbal, physical, and sexual...

State Variation in Long-Term Care Availability, Regulation, and Cost and Suicide Mortality Among Older Adults in the United States: 2010–2015

JAMDA
March 12, 2021
Residential long-term care (LTC) facilities may be key settings for the prevention of suicide among older adults; however, little is known about the relationship between statewide policies determining characteristics of LTC facilities and suicide...

Impact of Isotemporal Substitution of Sedentary Time With Physical Activity on Sarcopenia in Older Japanese Adults

JAMDA
March 12, 2021
Isotemporal substitution modeling estimates the effect of replacing time spent doing one activity type with time spent doing another activity.1 To date, the substitution of sedentary behavior for different physical activity levels and the extent...

The Metrics Matter: Improving Comparisons of COVID-19 Outbreaks in Nursing Homes

JAMDA
March 10, 2021
In the United States, nursing facility residents comprise fewer than 1% of the population but more than 40% of deaths due to Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). Mitigating the enormous risk of COVID-19 to nursing home residents requires adequate...

Brief Aids to Guide Clinical Frailty Scale Scoring at the Front Door of Acute Hospitals

JAMDA
March 10, 2021
Frailty is a clinical syndrome characterized by increased vulnerability to functional dependency and/or mortality attributable to 1 or more stressors.1 Given that the Emergency Department (ED) stands as a portal to multiple health care settings, the...

Providing Hearing Assistance to Low-Income Adults at Risk for Social Isolation: Preliminary Findings

JAMDA
March 9, 2021
Hearing loss is associated with social isolation.1 We explored the acceptability and potential benefit of providing a personal amplifier (PA; Williams Sound PockeTalker 2.0, Eden Prairie, MN) to older people with hearing loss at risk for social...

Measure What Matters Most in Sarcopenia: Regional vs. Appendicular Muscle Mass?

JAMDA
March 8, 2021
Sarcopenia is an important public health problem as it relates to physical frailty, mobility limitation, and even premature death.1 Although the importance of age-related loss of muscle mass and function (ie, sarcopenia) has been known for decades,...

Music Compared with Auditory Books: A Randomized Controlled Study Among Long-Term Care Residents with Alzheimer's Disease or Related Dementia

JAMDA
March 7, 2021
Over 5 million Americans age 65 years and older were diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and/or related dementia (ADRD), a majority of whom exhibit behavioral and psychological symptoms leading to placement in long-term care settings. These...