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Perspectives of Nursing Home Staff in Advance Care Planning Conversations: Experiences from the APPROACHES Project

JAMDA
September 14, 2024
Advance care planning (ACP) is considered a best practice in the nursing home setting; however, there is a lack of consistency in the training of nursing home staff and implementation of structured ACP programs. A qualitative study interviewing ACP...

Conception of a Recognized Accreditation for a Senior-Friendly Hospital: The Accreditation “Hospital Attentive to the Elder”

JAMDA
September 14, 2024
Consideration of the need to strengthen the commitment of professionals to the good care of the older population in hospitals has been emerging over the last several years. The steering committee of the geriatric sector of the hospitals of our...

Ten-Year Incidence of Sarcopenia in a Population-Based Cohort: Results from the Research on Osteoarthritis/Osteoporosis Against Disability Study

JAMDA
September 13, 2024
To investigate the prevalence and incidence rates of sarcopenia in Japanese community-dwelling people according to the criteria of the Asian Working Group for Sarcopenia 2019 recommendations, using a large-scale population-based cohort over a 10-...

Communication Technology Improves Staff, Resident, and Family Interactions in Skilled Nursing Homes Post COVID-19 Restrictions

JAMDA
September 11, 2024
Infection control measures taken by long-term care facilities (LTCs) during COVID-19, such as restricting outside visitors, exacerbated experiences of social isolation among residents.1 Family caregivers played a crucial role in supporting residents...

Quality of Advance Care Planning in Long-Term Care and Transfers to Hospital at the End Of Life

JAMDA
September 11, 2024
Our primary objective was to determine if more comprehensive advance care planning (ACP) documentation was associated with fewer transfers to hospital in the last year of life. Our secondary objective was to determine the impact of ACP processes and...

Number of Teeth and Dementia-free Life Expectancy: A 10-Year Follow-Up Study from the Japan Gerontological Evaluation Study

JAMDA
September 11, 2024
Previous studies have reported that tooth loss is associated with an increased risk of dementia; however, few have explored the association between number of teeth and dementia-free and total life expectancies. We investigated whether having more...

Differentiating Between Home Care Types to Identify Older Adults at Risk of Adverse Health Outcomes in the Community

JAMDA
September 11, 2024
Acute hospitalization, recurrent admissions, institutionalization, and death are important adverse health outcomes. Older adults receiving home care are especially at risk of these outcomes, yet it remains unclear if this risk differs between older...

A Longitudinal Treatment Effect Analysis of Antipsychotics on Behavior of Residents in Long-Term Care

JAMDA
September 11, 2024
The proportion of long-term care (LTC) residents being treated with antipsychotic medication is high, and these medications may exacerbate behavioral symptoms. We used propensity scores to investigate the effect of antipsychotic use on the worsening...

The Association between Frailty, Quality of Life and Resilience in Community-dwelling Retirement Village Residents

JAMDA
September 10, 2024
Housing quality has significant impact on the wider determinants of health and quality of life (QoL). Retirement villages are considered age-friendly accommodation for community-dwelling older people, offering a variable range of services and...

Health Literacy and Health-Related Quality of Life in Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment

JAMDA
September 9, 2024
Health literacy is considered crucial in health status outcomes, but little is known about the association among cognitively impaired persons. This study investigated the association between health literacy and health-related quality of life (HRQoL...