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Response to the Letter to the Editor by Simon D. Smith “Recall Tests Can Be Effective to Detect Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Response to Tsoi and Colleagues”

JAMDA
December 1, 2017
In the response letter to our recent article, Smith1 and his colleagues made a constructive suggestion to remind the users of cognitive tests in the aging population. Elderly people may have different levels of physical constrains, such as...

Associations of Clinically Relevant Levels of Depressive Symptoms and Antidepressant Use With Mortality in African American Health

JAMDA
December 1, 2017
The Institute of Medicine has highlighted unequal treatment for African American individuals in health care. We examined the association of underuse of antidepressants in African American individuals with increased mortality.

Utilization of Antibiotics in Long-Term Care Facilities in British Columbia, Canada

JAMDA
December 1, 2017
Antibiotic use is highly prevalent in long-term care facilities (LTCFs); a resident's annual exposure to at least 1 course of antibiotic is approximately 50% to 80%. The objective of this study was to understand the extent of antibiotic use in the...

Determining the Physician-to-Patient Ratio in Post-Acute/Long-Term Care Using an Economic Model

JAMDA
December 1, 2017
There has been significant interest in providing both quality of care and fiscally responsible care with the advent of value-based medicine. Practitioners generally need more time to provide the excellence in care that will equate to improved...

A Decade of JAMDA

JAMDA
December 1, 2017
“The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected”∼Robert Frost

Snoezelen Therapy as an Intervention to Reduce Agitation in Nursing Home Patients With Dementia: A Pilot Study

JAMDA
December 1, 2017
Nonpharmacologic interventions have been shown to be relatively effective in reducing agitation and improving the quality of life of patients with dementia.1,2 Programs/interventions that have been employed in many long-term care facilities include...

Redefining Cut-Points for High Symptom Burden of the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease Classification in 18,577 Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

JAMDA
December 1, 2017
Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) can be classified into groups A/C or B/D based on symptom intensity. Different threshold values for symptom questionnaires can result in misclassification and, in turn, different treatment...

Study Finds Quality of Care Discrepancies in Nursing Homes

Caring for the Ages
December 1, 2017
Results from a study by The Joint Commission found that some facilities had quality measure scores for residents of different races and ethnicities that differed by as much as 30 percentage points, although newer data demonstrated a similar quality...

Early Steps in Patient-Tracking Via GPS

Caring for the Ages
December 1, 2017
Many of us carry around activity trackers in our purses and pockets. Step by step, mile by mile, our smartphones track where we go and how long it takes us to get there. Now researchers are putting global positioning system (GPS) technology to work...

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