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Associations Between Intrinsic Capacity and Adverse Events Among Nursing Home Residents: The INCUR Study

JAMDA
October 1, 2021
The predictive ability of the novel intrinsic capacity (IC) construct has been scarcely investigated in the nursing home setting. The objective of this study was to investigate the associations of IC and its individual domains with mortality,...

Emergency Department Staff Perceptions of Emergency Department Interventions for Frailty (EDIFY)

JAMDA
October 1, 2021
We refer to our article entitled “Emergency Department Interventions for Frailty (EDIFY): Front-Door Geriatric Care Can Reduce Acute Admissions.”1 Although we have described clinical effectiveness of the EDIFY program, a deeper appreciation of...

Webinar Offers an “Auxiliary Brain” to Help Clinicians Diagnose and Manage Parkinson’s

Spotlight
September 29, 2021
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Since one in four people with Parkinson’s Disease lives in long-term care facilities, practitioners working in post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) need to know all they can to best manage this complex disease...

Quantifying Barriers to Medications for Opioid Use Disorder in Skilled Nursing Facilities in a Southwestern Metropolitan Area

JAMDA
September 29, 2021
As the country endures an opioid epidemic in patients of all ages, chronic opioid use is increasingly common and patients may be frequently admitted to skilled nursing facilities for management of complications from opioid use.1 Patients with opioid...

Absence of COVID-19 Disease Among Chronically Ventilated Nursing Home Patients

JAMDA
September 28, 2021
To describe the experience of COVID-19 disease among chronically ventilated and nonventilated nursing home patients living in 3 separate nursing homes.

Increasing Anticholinergic Burden is Associated With Social Vulnerability in the Oldest Old

JAMDA
September 27, 2021
Anticholinergic agents are frequently administered to older people with dementia, who are more likely to receive multiple drugs, including psychotropic agents, thus increasing their anticholinergic burden (AB).1 The unfavorable cognitive, behavioral...

Hip Fracture Rates in Nursing Home Residents With and Without HIV

JAMDA
September 25, 2021
Persons with HIV have near-normal life expectancy with antiretroviral treatment,1 and so more individuals will develop chronic conditions and require nursing home (NH) care. The number of NH residents with HIV increased by 71% from 2000 to 2010.2...

Frailty Phenotype and Mortality: A Prospective Cohort Study

JAMDA
September 25, 2021
Frailty has been associated with increased risks of various health conditions, disability, and death, which is a particular challenge to both health care providers and affected older persons.1 As an important predictor of disability,...

Urge Your Representative to Avert Looming Cuts in Medicare Payments

Policy Snapshot
September 24, 2021
Tell your representative to join their colleagues in stopping a confluence of payment cuts to Medicare. In what amounts to a “perfect storm” of payment reductions going into effect in 2022, several Medicare spending cuts will result in a combined 9...

Urge Your Representative to Avert Looming Cuts in Medicare Payments

Policy Snapshot
September 24, 2021
Tell your representative to join their colleagues in stopping a confluence of payment cuts to Medicare. In what amounts to a “perfect storm” of payment reductions going into effect in 2022, several Medicare spending cuts will result in a combined 9...