Nursing homes (NHs) are important health care and residential environments for the growing number of frail older adults. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the vulnerability of NHs as they became COVID-19 hotspots. This study examines the...
To evaluate 6-month risk stratification capacity of the newly developed TeleHFCovid19-Score for remote management of older patients with heart failure (HF) during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Earlier this year, AMDA was approved for funding through a cooperative agreement with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to develop and implement strategies to increase vaccination rates among...
The COVID-19 pandemic highlights broken systemic processes within our country’s nursing homes (NHs) with tragic outcomes. Staff are responsible for preventing, identifying, investigating, and controlling infections without the proper training and...
An effective clinical research effort in nursing homes to address prevention and treatment of COVID-19 faced overwhelming challenges. Under the Health Care Systems Research Network-Older Americans Independence Centers AGING Initiative, a...
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is highly prevalent and contributes to disease burden and mortality in older adults.1 The American Heart Association concluded that CVD is the leading cause of death in octogenarians, followed by cancer and Alzheimer’s...
Although dementia has a profound impact in general, young-onset dementia causes additional problems and challenges as people are affected in their prime years. Awareness has increased that people with young-onset dementia and their families have...
The COVID-19 pandemic revealed fundamental problems with the structure of long-term care financing and payment in the United States. The piecemeal system that exists suffers from several key problems, including underfunding, fragmentation across...
To compare and rank the effectiveness of group cognitive stimulation therapy (group CST), maintenance cognitive stimulation therapy (MCST), and individual cognitive stimulation therapy (iCST) on cognition and quality of life (QoL) in people with...
