The December 2019 issue of JAMDA includes 11 articles related to cognitive impairment, Alzheimer's disease, and other dementias—no surprise, given that 50 million people across the globe have dementia. In 10 years, this number will grow to 82...
Antibiotics are among the most widely prescribed drugs in long-term care facilities, which highlights the importance of antibiotic stewardship (ABS) in this setting. In this article, we describe the experiences with ABS in nursing homes (NHs) from...
Virus infection is underevaluated in older adults with severe acute respiratory infections (SARIs). We aimed to evaluate the clinical impact of combining point-of-care molecular viral test and serum procalcitonin (PCT) level for antibiotic...
The objective of the article is to analyze the effects of the end-effector technology for gait rehabilitation on acute, subacute, and chronic stroke in order to verify the efficacy of the treatment in older people, based on evidence from randomized...
Quantifying the association between muscle weakness and mortality with carefully matched cohorts will help to better establish the impact of weakness on premature death. We used a matched cohort analysis in a national sample of older Americans to...
We thank Drs Soysal and colleagues for their important comment that proton pump inhibitors (PPIs), often given in combination with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), may have added to the decrease in kidney function observed with NSAID...
We read with interest the study by Rahel Ernst et al in which they aimed to investigate whether there was a relationship between the total intake of drugs or nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and kidney function. The authors found that...
Assisted living (AL) is an expanding site of end-of-life (EOL) care in the United States. Understanding determinants of quality of life (QoL) for AL residents near EOL is vital to optimize care for this growing population, most of whom have some...
