To identify trajectories of frailty as older men age and to assess the associations between sociodemographic, lifestyle, and health factors with those trajectories.
Ensuring high-quality care in assisted living (AL) is a growing priority, yet little is known about factors shaping resident-reported quality of life (QoL). In the United States, Minnesota recently implemented statewide measurement and public...
A nurse practitioner (NP)–led intervention aimed to safely reduce the total number of medications and potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs) for persons living with dementia using the Shed-MEDS deprescribing protocol.
Whole-body dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) is widely used to assess muscle mass in older adults and serves as a reference method for sarcopenia diagnosis.1 Appendicular skeletal muscle mass, normalized to height squared, plays a central role...
Sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors have become a cornerstone of contemporary type 2 diabetes management because of their established glycemic, cardiovascular, and renal benefits. However, growing evidence has demonstrated an...
Dermatoporosis—a chronic skin fragility syndrome in older adults characterized by skin atrophy, pseudoscar formation, and dissecting hematomas—remains substantially underrecognized in primary care and geriatric practice. First systematically...
We are grateful to the authors of the correspondence for their thoughtful engagement with our systematic review and meta-analysis examining the relationship between the neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and sarcopenia.1 Their comments recognize...
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has demonstrated a longstanding commitment to ensuring that veterans receive high-quality end-of-life care, including hospice services. Despite its growing use, evidence suggests that the quality of end-of-...
In January 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services implemented the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM), the most substantial revision to Medicare's home health (HH) prospective payment system since its introduction in 2000. PDGM...
