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Physician Health Counseling for Older Adults With Obesity in the United States, 2015-2019: An Analysis of Repeated Cross-Sectional Data

JAMDA
May 13, 2025
Obesity affects one-third of American adults aged ≥65 years. Despite the increasing uptake of prescription weight loss medications, physician provision of diet and exercise weight loss counseling and referrals benefits patients and improves health...

Assessing Facility, Resident, and Financial Characteristics Associated With HUD 232–Sponsored Loan Participation in Nursing Homes

JAMDA
May 12, 2025
Many nursing homes require significant modernization to enhance resident quality of life, yet access to capital remains a critical barrier, especially for those dependent on Medicaid funding. The Housing and Urban Development (HUD) 232–sponsored...

Which Enhanced Influenza Vaccine Has the Greatest Immunogenicity in Long-Term Care Residents: The Adjuvanted or the High-Dose Formulation?

JAMDA
May 12, 2025
This study compares enhanced influenza vaccines recommended for older adults, adjuvanted flu vaccine (aTIV, FLUAD) vs high-dose flu vaccine (HD-IIV3, FLUZONE HD) to determine if they met noninferiority standards for older long-term care facility (...

Dementia Care Training Interventions for Residential Aged Care Workers: An Umbrella Review

JAMDA
May 10, 2025
Staff working in residential aged care (RAC) play a vital role in delivering quality care to residents with dementia. This umbrella review aimed to summarize reviews that examined dementia training interventions for RAC staff and their effects, to...

Factors Influencing Change in Frailty Status in Retirement Village Residents

JAMDA
May 10, 2025
Older people residing in retirement villages (RVs) (elsewhere called continuing care retirement communities) are thought to live in a relatively age-friendly environment. Many RVs have facilities and resources for health care and home-based supports...

Are the Recommended Levels of Moderate-to-Vigorous Aerobic Activity and Resistance Training Inversely Associated With Frailty and Mortality?

JAMDA
May 9, 2025
To examine the association of meeting the moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) and resistance training (RT) components of the physical activity guidelines with frailty and mortality and to determine if these associations vary by age and sex.

Pre-death Grief Increases Post-death Grief Among Dementia Caregivers

JAMDA
May 8, 2025
Dementia caregivers frequently experience pre-death grief, affecting about 17% of the caregivers,1 yet it often goes unacknowledged. This pre-death grief arises as caregivers witness the progressive cognitive and functional decline of their care-...

Impact of Polypharmacy on Self-Rated Health in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: A 3-Year SONIC Study

JAMDA
May 8, 2025
Previous studies have reported that polypharmacy (PP) is associated with objective health indicators, such as falls or a decline in physical function. However, few studies have examined the relationship between PP and subjective health indicators,...

Preserving the Practice of Post-Acute and Long-Term Care

Caring for the Ages
May 1, 2025
Competent clinicians in post-acute and long-term care are desperately needed. Recent situations in which clinicians were displaced from facilities where they had a long-standing relationship have brought attention to these unfortunate marketplace...

Long-Term Care Is Stuck in Silos: We Need an EINSTEIN to Fix That

Caring for the Ages
May 1, 2025
If the U.S. government had ever been tasked with developing a comprehensive care system for older Americans, there is very little chance it would look anything like the landscape we have -today.