Our partnership, The Live Oak Partnership, is committed to transforming all aspects of long-term care from public policy implementation to the quality of care and life of each resident and short-term patient. Founded in May 2020, we were motivated...
To identify and describe caregiver profiles based on their psychosocial health characteristics over a 12-month period and transitions among these profiles, to determine if stroke rehabilitation use at 12 months post-stroke differed by caregiver...
The loss of muscle mass, strength, and function associated with aging, known as sarcopenia, is one of the leading causes of falls and fractures in older persons.1 Due to the growing aging population, it is estimated that the number of people who...
While the complexity of sarcopenia pathogenesis has been universally accepted, gender-specific aspects have only received little attention. A recent study on microscopic characteristics of muscle composition in patients with hip fracture and...
This issue of the Journal includes 5 articles and a research letter with the theme of exercise and aging.1–6 The focus of 4 of the articles is older people with multimorbidity in a nursing home or hospital setting, and the other 2 include older...
In the United States (US), residential long-term care is provided in nursing homes and assisted living (AL) communities. Regardless of the type of care setting, long-term care residents are at increased risk of transfer to the emergency department (...
