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Antipsychotics for nursing home residents with dementia: Chemical restraints or essential therapeutic intervention? J. Am. Geriatr. Soc. (IF 4.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-20 Joseph G Ouslander
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Dexmedetomidine for agitation in dementia: Current data and future direction. J. Am. Geriatr. Soc. (IF 4.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Kayla S Murphy,Julia C Golden,Rajesh R Tampi
BACKGROUND The incidence and prevalence of dementia, and thus dementia-related behavioral and psychological symptoms, are increasing significantly. Currently, there are limited safe and efficacious options for treating these symptoms. Dexmedetomidine has been used for agitation related to delirium and showed significant benefit in prior studies. This raises the question whether dexmedetomidine could
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Cardiovascular health, measured using Life's Essential 8, is associated with reduced dementia risk among older men and women J. Am. Geriatr. Soc. (IF 4.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Xin Li, Yichen Jin, Stefania Bandinelli, Luigi Ferrucci, Toshiko Tanaka, Sameera A. Talegawkar
BackgroundDementia poses considerable challenges to healthy aging. Prevention and management of dementia are essential given the lack of effective treatments for this condition.MethodsA secondary data analysis was conducted using data from 928 InCHIANTI study participants (55% female) aged 65 years and older without dementia at baseline. Cardiovascular health (CVH) was assessed by the “Life's Essential
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The quality of home‐based primary care delivered by nurse practitioners: A national Medicare claims analysis J. Am. Geriatr. Soc. (IF 4.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Jennifer Perloff, Alex Hoyt, Meera Srinivasan, Michelle Alvarez, Sam Sobul, Monica O'Reilly‐Jacob
BackgroundAs the US population ages, there is an increasing demand for home‐based primary care (HBPC) by those with Alzheimer's/dementia, multiple chronic conditions, severe physical limitations, or those facing end‐of life. Nurse practitioners (NPs) are increasingly providing HBPC, yet little is known about their quality of care in this unique setting.MethodsThis observational study uses Medicare
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Home alone and high risk: Supporting medication management in older adults living alone with cognitive impairment J. Am. Geriatr. Soc. (IF 4.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-17 Peter M. Hoang, Nathan M. Stall, Paula A. Rochon
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Life‐space mobility and cognition in community‐dwelling late‐life women: A cross‐sectional analysis J. Am. Geriatr. Soc. (IF 4.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-14 Kerry M. Sheets, Allyson M. Kats, Howard A. Fink, Lisa Langsetmo, Kristine Yaffe, Kristine E. Ensrud
BackgroundLife‐space mobility captures the daily, enacted mobility of older adults. We determined cross‐sectional associations between life‐space mobility and cognitive impairment (CI) among community‐dwelling women in the 9th and 10th decades of life.MethodsA total of 1375 (mean age 88 years; 88% White) community‐dwelling women enrolled in a prospective cohort of older women. Life‐space score was
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Association of left atrial function with frailty: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study J. Am. Geriatr. Soc. (IF 4.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-13 Daokun Sun, Romil R. Parikh, Wendy Wang, Anne Eaton, Pamela L. Lutsey, B. Gwen Windham, Riccardo M. Inciardi, Scott D. Solomon, Christie M. Ballantyne, Amil M. Shah, Lin Yee Chen
BackgroundFrailty is common in people with cardiovascular disease. Worse left atrial (LA) function is an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease. However, whether worse LA function is associated with frailty is unclear.MethodsWe included 3292 older adults from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study who were non‐frail at baseline (visit 5, 2011–2013) and had LA function (reservoir
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Effect of hearing intervention on communicative function: A secondary analysis of the ACHIEVE randomized controlled trial. J. Am. Geriatr. Soc. (IF 4.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-12 Victoria A Sanchez,Michelle L Arnold,Emmanuel E Garcia Morales,Nicholas S Reed,Sarah Faucette,Sheila Burgard,Haley N Calloway,Josef Coresh,Jennifer A Deal,Adele M Goman,Lisa Gravens-Mueller,Kathleen M Hayden,Alison R Huang,Christine M Mitchell,Thomas H Mosley,James S Pankow,James R Pike,Jennifer A Schrack,Laura Sherry,Jacqueline M Weycker,Frank R Lin,Theresa H Chisolm,
BACKGROUND The Aging and Cognitive Health Evaluation in Elders (ACHIEVE) Study was designed to determine the effects of a best-practice hearing intervention on cognitive decline among community-dwelling older adults. Here, we conducted a secondary analysis of the ACHIEVE Study to investigate the effect of hearing intervention on self-reported communicative function. METHODS The ACHIEVE Study is a parallel-group
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Implementation of delirium screening in the emergency department: A qualitative study with early adopters J. Am. Geriatr. Soc. (IF 4.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-12 Anita N. Chary, Annika R. Bhananker, Elise Brickhouse, Beatrice Torres, Ilianna Santangelo, Kyler M. Godwin, Aanand D. Naik, Christopher R. Carpenter, Shan W. Liu, Maura Kennedy
IntroductionDelirium affects 15% of older adults presenting to emergency departments (EDs) but is detected in only one‐third of cases. Evidence‐based guidelines for ED delirium screening exist, but are underutilized. Frontline staff perceptions about delirium and time and resource constraints are known barriers to ED delirium screening uptake. Early adopters of ED delirium screening can offer valuable
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Differences in opioid prescriptions by race among U.S. older adults with a hip fracture transitioning to community care J. Am. Geriatr. Soc. (IF 4.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-11 Kaleen N. Hayes, Meghan A. Cupp, Richa Joshi, Melissa R. Riester, Francesca L. Beaudoin, Andrew R. Zullo
BackgroundAppropriate pain management can facilitate rehabilitation after a hip fracture as patients transition back to the community setting. Differences in opioid prescribing by race may exist during this critical transition period.MethodsWe conducted a retrospective cohort study of older adult U.S. Medicare beneficiaries with a hip fracture to examine whether the receipt and dose of opioids differs
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Recurrent pericarditis in older adults: Clinical and laboratory features and outcome J. Am. Geriatr. Soc. (IF 4.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-09 Emanuele Bizzi, Francesco Cavaleri, Ruggiero Mascolo, Edoardo Conte, Stefano Maggiolini, Caterina Chiara Decarlini, Silvia Maestroni, Valentino Collini, Ludovico Luca Sicignano, Elena Verrecchia, Raffaele Manna, Massimo Pancrazi, Lucia Trotta, Giuseppe Lopalco, Danilo Malandrino, Giada Pallini, Sara Catenazzi, Luisa Carrozzo, Giacomo Emmi, George Lazaros, Antonio Brucato, Massimo Imazio
BackgroundCurrent guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of pericarditis refer to the general adult population. Few and fragmentary data regarding recurrent pericarditis in older adults exist.Objective of the StudyGiven the absence of specific data in scientific literature, we hypothesized that there might be clinical, laboratory and outcome differences between young adults and older adults affected
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Association of nursing home antipsychotic reduction policies with antipsychotic use in community dwellers with dementia J. Am. Geriatr. Soc. (IF 4.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-07 Antoinette B. Coe, Tingting Zhang, Andrew R. Zullo, Lauren B. Gerlach, Lori A. Daiello, Hiren Varma, Derrick Lo, Richa Joshi, Julie P. W. Bynum, Theresa I. Shireman
BackgroundAntipsychotic and other psychotropic medication use is prevalent among community‐dwelling older adults with dementia despite the potential for adverse effects. Two Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) initiatives, the National Partnership to Improve Dementia Care (“the Partnership”) and the Five Star Quality Rating System for antipsychotic use reporting, have been successful in
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Comment on: Hyponatremia–associated hospital visits are not reduced by early electrolyte testing in older adults starting antidepressants J. Am. Geriatr. Soc. (IF 4.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-06 Ilyas Akkar, Zeynep Iclal Turgut, Mustafa Hakan Dogan, Muhammet Cemal Kizilarslanoglu
See the related reply by Lane et al.
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Reply to comment on: Hyponatremia‐associated hospital visits are not reduced by early electrolyte testing in older adults starting antidepressants J. Am. Geriatr. Soc. (IF 4.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-06 Natasha E. Lane, Li Bai, Dallas P. Seitz, David N. Juurlink, J. Michael Paterson, Therese A. Stukel
See the related comment by Akkar et al.
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Supporting meaningful participation of older people in core outcome set development J. Am. Geriatr. Soc. (IF 4.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-06 Jacqueline Martin‐Kerry, Sion Scott, Jo Taylor, David Wright, Martyn Patel, Jennie Griffiths, Victoria L. Keevil, Miles D. Witham, Allan Clark, Ian Kellar, David Turner, Debi Bhattacharya
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Virtual reality‐based cognitive exercise games in geriatric surgical patients: A pilot trial J. Am. Geriatr. Soc. (IF 4.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-06 Hina Faisal, Faisal N. Masud, Kim Junhyoung, Kenneth Podell, Jiaqiong Xu, Christina Boncyk, George E. Taffet, Malaz A. Boustani
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Telehealth availability and use among beneficiaries in Traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage J. Am. Geriatr. Soc. (IF 4.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-06 Sungchul Park, Hye‐Young Jung, Jiani Yu
BackgroundMedicare Advantage (MA) plans must cover all telehealth services offered by Traditional Medicare (TM), but have flexibility to provide additional telehealth services. It is not known whether these flexibilities are associated with telehealth availability and use. In this study, we examined differences in telehealth availability and use between TM and MA beneficiaries.MethodsThis cross‐sectional
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Applying difference‐in‐differences design in quality improvement and health systems research J. Am. Geriatr. Soc. (IF 4.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-06 Yucheng Hou, Abdelaziz Alsharawy
See the related reply by Bruke et al.
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Deprescribing is associated with reduced readmission to hospital: An updated meta‐analysis of randomized controlled trials J. Am. Geriatr. Soc. (IF 4.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-06 Todd C. Lee, Émilie Bortolussi‐Courval, Lisa M. McCarthy, Emily G. McDonald
See the related reply by Fontana et al.
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Reply to: Deprescribing is associated with reduced readmission to hospital: An updated meta‐analysis of randomized controlled trials J. Am. Geriatr. Soc. (IF 4.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-06 Andrea Fontana, Massimo Carollo, Salvatore Crisafulli, Gianluca Trifirò
See the related letter by Lee et al.
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The cost of potentially inappropriate medications for older adults in Canada: A comparative cross‐sectional study J. Am. Geriatr. Soc. (IF 4.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-05 Jean‐François Huon, Chiranjeev Sanyal, Camille L. Gagnon, Justin P. Turner, Ninh B. Khuong, Émilie Bortolussi‐Courval, Todd C. Lee, James L. Silvius, Steven G. Morgan, Emily G. McDonald
BackgroundPotentially inappropriate medications (PIMs) are medications whereby the harms may outweigh the benefits for a given individual. Although overprescribed to older adults, their direct costs on the healthcare system are poorly described.MethodsThis was a cross‐sectional study of the cost of PIMs for Canadians aged 65 and older, using adapted criteria from the American Geriatrics Society. We
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Protection against influenza hospitalizations from enhanced influenza vaccines among older adults: A systematic review and network meta‐analysis J. Am. Geriatr. Soc. (IF 4.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-04 J. M. Ferdinands, L. H. Blanton, E. Alyanak, J. R. Chung, L. Trujillo, J. Taliano, R. L. Morgan, A. M. Fry, L. A. Grohskopf
BackgroundInfluenza vaccines are available to help protect persons aged ≥65 years, who experience thousands of influenza hospitalizations annually. Because some influenza vaccines may work better than others, we sought to assess benefit of high‐dose (HD), adjuvanted (ADJ), and recombinant (RIV) influenza vaccines (“enhanced influenza vaccines”) compared with standard‐dose unadjuvanted influenza vaccines
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Population‐based estimates of major forms of housing insecurity among community‐living older Americans J. Am. Geriatr. Soc. (IF 4.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-04 Lucero G. Paredes, Yi Wang, Danya E. Keene, Thomas Gill, Robert D. Becher
ObjectivesThe number of older adults struggling to maintain adequate housing is growing. Prior studies have used various criteria to measure housing insecurity; however, no standardized definition exists to date. Using a multidimensional approach, our study sought to calculate population‐based estimates of various forms of housing insecurity among community‐living older Americans and determine how
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Medical director presence and time in U.S. nursing homes, 2017–2023 J. Am. Geriatr. Soc. (IF 4.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-03 Eric L. Goldwein, Richard J. Mollot, Mary Ellen Dellefield, Michael R. Wasserman, Charlene A. Harrington
BackgroundFederal regulations require all nursing homes to have a medical director, where medical directors oversee resident medical care and develop, implement, and evaluate resident care policies and procedures that reflect current standards of practice.MethodsThis descriptive study examined medical director: (1) presence or absence and the amount of time spent from 2017 to 2023; (2) presence and
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Cover J. Am. Geriatr. Soc. (IF 4.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-02 Kathleen T. Unroe, Debra Saliba, Susan E. Hickman, Sheryl Zimmerman, Cari Levy, Jerry Gurwitz
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Associations between sex, race/ethnicity, and age and the initiation of chronic high‐risk medication in US older adults J. Am. Geriatr. Soc. (IF 4.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-31 Katharina Tabea Jungo, Niteesh K. Choudhry, Alexander Chaitoff, Julie C. Lauffenburger
BackgroundHigh‐risk medication use is associated with an increased risk of adverse events, but little is known about its chronic utilization by key demographic groups. We aimed to study the associations between age, sex, and race/ethnicity with new chronic use of high‐risk medications in older adults.MethodsIn this retrospective cohort study, we analyzed data from older adults aged ≥65 years enrolled
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Identifying priority challenges of older adults with COPD: A multiphase intervention refinement study J. Am. Geriatr. Soc. (IF 4.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-31 Anand S. Iyer, Rachel D. Wells, Avery C. Bechthold, Margaret Armstrong, Ronan O'Beirne, Jun Y. Byun, Jazmine Coffee‐Dunning, J. Nicholas Odom, Russell G. Buhr, Angela O. Suen, Ashwin A. Kotwal, Leah J. Witt, Cynthia J. Brown, Mark T. Dransfield, Marie A. Bakitas
BackgroundIdentifying priority challenges of older adults with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is critical to designing interventions aimed at improving their well‐being and independence.ObjectiveTo prioritize challenges of older adults with COPD and those who care for them to guide refinement of a telephonic nurse coach intervention for patients with COPD and their family caregivers (EPIC:
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More than dollars: Healthcare utilization among spouses of persons with dementia J. Am. Geriatr. Soc. (IF 4.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-30 Molly J. Horstman
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Racial and ethnic differences in unmet needs among older adults receiving publicly‐funded home and community‐based services J. Am. Geriatr. Soc. (IF 4.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-30 Chanee D. Fabius, Romil Parikh, Jack M. Wolf, Stephanie Giordano, Shekinah Fashaw‐Walters, Eric Jutkowitz, Tetyana Shippee
BackgroundUnmet need for home and community‐based services (HCBS) may disparately impact older adults from racial and ethnic minoritized groups. We examined racial and ethnic differences in unmet need for HCBS among consumers ≥65 years using publicly funded HCBS.MethodsWe analyzed the National Core Indicators‐Aging and Disability survey data (2015–2019) from 21,739 community‐dwelling HCBS consumers
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Qualitative evaluation of the SHARING Choices trial of primary care advance care planning for adults with and without dementia J. Am. Geriatr. Soc. (IF 4.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-30 Sydney M. Dy, Daniel L. Scerpella, Valecia Hanna, Kathryn A. Walker, Danetta H. Sloan, Chase Mulholland Green, Valerie Cotter, Jennifer L. Wolff, Erin Rand Giovannetti, Maura McGuire, Naaz Hussain, Kelly M. Smith, Martha Abshire Saylor
BackgroundPrimary care can be an important setting for communication and advance care planning (ACP), including for those with dementia and their families. The study objective was to explore experiences with a pragmatic trial of a communication and ACP intervention, SHARING Choices, in primary care for older adults with and without dementia.MethodsWe conducted qualitative interviews using tailored
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Physician perspectives regarding over‐screening for breast, colorectal, and prostate cancers in older adults J. Am. Geriatr. Soc. (IF 4.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-30 Morgan R. Quinley, Cynthia M. Boyd, Craig E. Pollack, Somnath Saha, Nancy L. Schoenborn
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Many studies, but little certainty about the effects of statin discontinuation on outcomes J. Am. Geriatr. Soc. (IF 4.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-30 Michelle C. Odden, Chintan V. Dave
See related Review by Peixoto et al.
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Anxiety and aging: A marker of brain changes and potential treatment target to promote brain health J. Am. Geriatr. Soc. (IF 4.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-29 Jordan F. Karp, Eric J. Lenze
See related articles by Khaing et al.
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Comment on: Willingness to take less medication for type 2 diabetes among older patients J. Am. Geriatr. Soc. (IF 4.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-29 Petra Denig, Peter J. C. Stuijt
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Multi‐level social determinants of health, inflammation, and postoperative delirium in older adults J. Am. Geriatr. Soc. (IF 4.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-29 Sarinnapha M. Vasunilashorn, Emily Wolfson, Miles Berger, Jacqueline Leung, Erin B. Ware, Andrea Baccarelli, Richard N. Jones, Long H. Ngo, Edward R. Marcantonio, Sharon K. Inouye, Amy J. H. Kind
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Changes in neighborhood disadvantage over the course of 22 years among community‐living older persons J. Am. Geriatr. Soc. (IF 4.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-29 Thomas M. Gill, Robert D. Becher, Linda Leo‐Summers, Evelyne A. Gahbauer
BackgroundAmong older persons, neighborhood disadvantage is a granular and increasingly used social determinant of health and functional well‐being. The frequency of transitions into or out of a disadvantaged neighborhood over time is not known. These transitions may occur when a person moves from one location to another or when the Neighborhood Atlas, the data source for the area deprivation index
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Gait performance in older adults across the cognitive spectrum: Results from the GAIT cohort J. Am. Geriatr. Soc. (IF 4.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-29 Pauline Ali, Pauline Renaud, Manuel Montero‐Odasso, Jennifer Gautier, Mickaël Dinomais, Cédric Annweiler
BackgroundGait performance can provide valuable insights into cognitive functioning in older adult and may be used to screen for cognitive impairment. However, the optimal test condition and spatiotemporal parameter for accuracy have not yet been determined. This study aims to determine the gait measure with the highest accuracy identifying cognitive decline.MethodsA total of 711 participants were
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Documentation of hearing difficulty by providers amidst cognitive concerns: A study of the Medicare Annual Wellness Visit J. Am. Geriatr. Soc. (IF 4.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-28 Danielle S. Powell, M. J. Wu, Stephanie Nothelle, Kelly Gleason, Jamie M. Smith, Danielle Peereboom, Esther S. Oh, Nicholas S. Reed, Jennifer L. Wolff
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Reply to “Comment on: Difference between kidney function by cystatin C versus creatinine and association with muscle mass and frailty” J. Am. Geriatr. Soc. (IF 4.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-27 O. Alison Potok, Dena E. Rifkin
See the related comment by Du and Hou
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Comment on: Difference between kidney function by cystatin C versus creatinine and association with muscle mass and frailty J. Am. Geriatr. Soc. (IF 4.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-27 Jiawei Du, Jinghua Hou
See the related reply by Potok and Rifkin.
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Clinical performance of existing diagnostic criteria for pneumonia in older emergency patients: A prospective cohort study J. Am. Geriatr. Soc. (IF 4.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-24 Katherine M. Hunold, Lorraine C. Mion, Tanya R. Gure, Andrew L. Schwaderer, Matthew Exline, Courtney Hebert, Brent C. Lampert, Lauren T. Southerland, Julie A. Stephens, Edward W. Boyer, Michael Hill, Ching‐Min B. Chu, Carson Reider, Jeffrey M. Caterino
BackgroundPneumonia accounts for over half a million older adult emergency department (ED) visits annually, but ED pneumonia diagnosis is inaccurate. Geriatric‐specific pneumonia diagnostic criteria exist for other settings; no prospective data exist to determine if application in the older adult ED population is feasible. The objective was to prospectively evaluate the utility of four current diagnostic
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Veterans' use of inpatient and outpatient palliative care: The national landscape J. Am. Geriatr. Soc. (IF 4.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-24 Brystana G. Kaufman, Sandra Woolson, Catherine Stanwyck, Madison Burns, Paul Dennis, Jessica Ma, Shelli Feder, Joshua M. Thorpe, S. Nicole Hastings, David B. Bekelman, Courtney H. Van Houtven
BackgroundPalliative care improves the quality of life for people with life‐limiting conditions, which are common among older adults. Despite the Veterans Health Administration (VA) outpatient palliative care expansion, most research has focused on inpatient palliative care. This study aimed to compare veteran characteristics and hospice use for palliative care users across care settings (inpatient
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Development of loneliness and social isolation after spousal loss: A systematic review of longitudinal studies on widowhood J. Am. Geriatr. Soc. (IF 4.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-23 Kerri Niino, Molly A. Patapoff, Brent T. Mausbach, Hui Liu, Alison A. Moore, Benjamin H. Han, Barton W. Palmer, Dylan J. Jester
BackgroundSpousal loss is a stressful life event that is associated with loneliness and social isolation, both of which affect mental and physical health. The primary objective of this paper was to synthesize longitudinal studies that investigated loneliness and social isolation in widowhood.MethodsA systematic search of the literature was conducted using three electronic databases. 26 longitudinal
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Individual socioeconomic status, neighborhood disadvantage, and cognitive aging: A longitudinal analysis of the CLSA J. Am. Geriatr. Soc. (IF 4.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-23 John R. Best
BackgroundThere are likely many contributors to variation in the rate of cognitive decline in middle and late adulthood, including individual and neighborhood socio‐economic factors. This study examines whether individual socio‐economic factors, namely income and wealth, correlate with cognitive decline, in part, through neighborhood‐level social and material disadvantage.MethodsUsing the three waves
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Impact of federal antipsychotic use policy in nursing homes on new diagnoses for approved indications in dementia residents J. Am. Geriatr. Soc. (IF 4.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-23 Theresa I. Shireman, Neto Coulibaly, Tingting Zhang, Andrew R. Zullo, Lauren B. Gerlach, Antoinette B. Coe, Lori A. Daiello, Derrick Lo, Julie P. W. Bynum
BackgroundFederal policies targeting antipsychotic use among nursing home (NH) residents may have increased reporting of diagnoses for approved uses, including schizophrenia, Tourette's syndrome, and Huntington's Disease (called “exclusionary diagnoses” because they exclude residents from the antipsychotic quality metric). We assessed changes in new exclusionary diagnoses among long‐stay NH admissions
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Peptic ulcers with ChEIs, NSAIDs J. Am. Geriatr. Soc. (IF 4.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Jean‐Louis Montastruc
See related reply by Szilcz et al.
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Cognitive and functional change in skilled nursing facilities: Differences by delirium and Alzheimer's disease and related dementias J. Am. Geriatr. Soc. (IF 4.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Jane S. Saczynski, Benjamin Koethe, Donna Marie Fick, Quynh T. Vo, John W. Devlin, Edward R. Marcantonio, Becky A. Briesacher
BackgroundWhether cognitive and functional recovery in skilled nursing facilities (SNF) following hospitalization differs by delirium and Alzheimer's disease related dementias (ADRD) has not been examined.ObjectiveTo compare change in cognition and function among short‐stay SNF patients with delirium, ADRD, or both.DesignRetrospective cohort study using claims data from 2011 to 2013.SettingCenters
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Unleashing frailty from laboratory into real world: A critical step toward frailty‐guided clinical care of older adults J. Am. Geriatr. Soc. (IF 4.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Dae Hyun Kim
Understanding patients' degree of frailty is crucial for tailoring clinical care for older adults based on their physiologic reserve and health needs (“frailty‐guided clinical care”). Two prerequisites for frailty‐guided clinical care are: (1) access to frailty information at the point of care and (2) evidence to inform decisions based on frailty information. Recent advancements include web‐based frailty
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Reply to: Peptic ulcers with ChEIs, NSAIDs J. Am. Geriatr. Soc. (IF 4.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Máté Szilcz, Jonas W. Wastesson, Amaia Calderón‐Larrañaga, Daniel Prieto‐Alhambra, Pierre‐Olivier Blotière, Géric Maura, Kristina Johnell
See related articles by Montastruc.
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Geriatric medicine is advancing, not declining: A proposal for new metrics to assess the health of the profession J. Am. Geriatr. Soc. (IF 4.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Timothy W. Farrell, Amalia Korniyenko, Grace Hu, Terry Fulmer
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The lifetime quality of life effects of untreated and treated hearing loss among US adults J. Am. Geriatr. Soc. (IF 4.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Ethan D. Borre, Julie N. Deleger, Lauren K. Dillard, Judy R. Dubno, Howard W. Francis, Gillian D. Sanders Schmidler, Emily P. Hyle
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Racial and ethnic disparities in potentially inappropriate medication use in patients with dementia J. Am. Geriatr. Soc. (IF 4.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Carolyn W. Zhu, Justin Choi, William Hung, Mary Sano
IntroductionRacial and ethnic disparities in potentially inappropriate medication (PIM) use among older adults with dementia are unclear.MethodsData were drawn from the baseline visits of participants who were ≥60 years old and diagnosed with dementia in the National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center Uniform Data Set (NACCUDS) recruited from National Institute on Aging (NIA)‐funded Alzheimer's Disease
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Hospital at home worldwide: Program and clinician characteristics from the World Hospital at Home Congress survey J. Am. Geriatr. Soc. (IF 4.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-19 David M. Levine, Sarah Findeisen, Meghna P. Desai, Stephanie Blitzer, Linda V. DeCherrie, Daniel Lasserson, Carme Hernandez, Michael Montalto, Bruce Leff
BackgroundHospital at home (HaH) delivers hospital‐level care to acutely ill patients at home as a substitute for brick‐and‐mortar hospital care. The clinician and program characteristics of HaH programs worldwide are relatively unknown. We sought to describe the world's HaH clinicians and their programs' characteristics.MethodsWe analyzed a survey administered to all attendees of the 2023 World Hospital
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Factors associated with transfer from assisted living facilities to a nursing home: National Health Aging Trends Study 2011–2019 J. Am. Geriatr. Soc. (IF 4.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-19 Jung Yoen Son, Deanna J. Marriott, Laura M. Struble, Weiyun Chen, Janet L. Larson
BackgroundResidents of assisted living facilities (ALF) transfer to a nursing home when they require a higher level of care, but limited research has examined risk factors for transfer to a nursing home. The aims of this study were to identify (1) baseline factors associated with transfer to a nursing home and (2) time‐varying factors associated with transfer to a nursing home over 8 years, using a
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Technology use for health‐related purposes among US older adults (65+ years) J. Am. Geriatr. Soc. (IF 4.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-19 Margaret C. Fahey, Siyuan Huang, Jennifer Dahne
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My first clinic patient taught me to be a geriatrician long before I became one J. Am. Geriatr. Soc. (IF 4.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-17 Mfon E. Umoh
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A retrospective cohort study of hospital discharge instructions following delirium episodes J. Am. Geriatr. Soc. (IF 4.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-17 Blair P. Golden, David Sonnentag, Farah A. Kaiksow, Andrea Gilmore‐Bykovskyi, Manish N. Shah, Sharon K. Inouye, Eduard E. Vasilevskis