Factors Affecting Discharge to Home of Geriatric Intermediate Care Facility Residents in Japan.

abstract：:A cohort of 3,595 white women aged 40-77 years was followed for an average of 10 years during which 84 new cases of hip fracture were identified. Triceps skinfold thickness and arm muscle area measured at baseline were examined as possible risk factors for hip fracture controlling for physical activity, height, menopa...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Farmer ME,Harris T,Madans JH,Wallace RB,Cornoni-Huntley J,White LR

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Validation of a new instrument for screening dementia, the Cross Cultural Cognitive Examination (CCCE), is described. DESIGN:Criterion and concurrent validation and cross-cultural comparison of a new instrument. PARTICIPANTS:All individuals over the age of 40 in a village in southern Guam participated in a ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Glosser G,Wolfe N,Albert ML,Lavine L,Steele JC,Calne DB,Schoenberg BS

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To estimate the number of caregivers providing assistance to community-dwelling older persons with and without dementia and with or without substantial disability; to describe the characteristics of caregivers and care recipients in these groups; to characterize the health-related tasks that caregivers provi...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Riffin C,Van Ness PH,Wolff JL,Fried T

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To examine the association between hospitalization, critical illness, and infection occurring during middle- and late-life and structural brain abnormalities in older adults. DESIGN:Prospective cohort study. SETTING:Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study. PARTICIPANTS:A community sample of adult...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Walker KA,Gottesman RF,Wu A,Knopman DS,Mosley TH Jr,Alonso A,Kucharska-Newton A,Brown CH 4th

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To describe the time to first acute care use (e.g., emergency department (ED) use without hospitalization or rehospitalization) for older adults discharged to home after receiving postacute care in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs); to identify predictors of first acute care use. DESIGN:Retrospective cohort...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Toles M,Anderson RA,Massing M,Naylor MD,Jackson E,Peacock-Hinton S,Colón-Emeric C

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To examine prevalence and resident- and site-level factors associated with potential underuse, overuse, and inappropriate use of antidepressants in older Veterans Affairs (VA) Community Living Center (CLC) residents. DESIGN:Longitudinal study. SETTING:One hundred thirty-three VA CLCs. PARTICIPANTS:Three t...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Hanlon JT,Wang X,Castle NG,Stone RA,Handler SM,Semla TP,Pugh MJ,Berlowitz DR,Dysken MW

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Medicare value-based payment programs evaluate physicians' performance on their patients' annual Medicare costs and clinical outcomes. However, little is known about how geriatricians, who disproportionately provide care for medically complex older adults, perform on these measures. DESIGN:A retrospective s...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Johnston KJ,Wen H,Joynt Maddox KE

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the association between insulin resistance (IR) and executive dysfunction in a large, population-based study of older persons without diabetes mellitus (DM) or dementia. DESIGN:Cross-sectional study. SETTING:Outpatient clinic in Greve in Chianti and Bagno a Ripoli, Italy. PARTICIPANTS:A total ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Abbatecola AM,Paolisso G,Lamponi M,Bandinelli S,Lauretani F,Launer L,Ferrucci L

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To improve screening for Alzheimer's disease (AD) with the Memory Impairment Screen (MIS), a 4-minute, four-item delayed free and cued recall memory test with controlled learning and high discriminative validity. To assess the discriminative validity of the MIS for AD and to compare it with the conventional ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Kuslansky G,Buschke H,Katz M,Sliwinski M,Lipton RB

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine whether there is racial variation in hospice enrollees in rates of hospitalization and hospice disenrollment and, if so, whether systematic differences in hospice provider patterns explain the variation. DESIGN:Longitudinal cohort study. SETTING:Hospice. PARTICIPANTS:Medicare beneficiaries (N...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Rizzuto J,Aldridge MD

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess the frequency of diagnostic errors in older adults presenting to the emergency department (ED) with symptoms suggestive of Chikungunya virus infection (CVI) and to compare the rates of misdiagnosis of older and younger adults. DESIGN:Cross-sectional study performed in the University Hospitals of M...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Godaert L,Bartholet S,Gazeuse Y,Brouste Y,Najioullah F,Kanagaratnam L,Césaire R,Fanon JL,Dramé M

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Recent studies have suggested that vascular dementia in older persons is more common than previously hypothesized. A substantial proportion of dementia in old age may be an early manifestation of cerebrovascular disease (CVD), that eventually becomes clinically evident as an acute cerebrovascular accident. Th...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Ferrucci L,Guralnik JM,Salive ME,Pahor M,Corti MC,Baroni A,Havlik RJ

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nursing homes have become "ground zero" for the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic in North America, with homes experiencing widespread outbreaks, resulting in severe morbidity and mortality among their residents. This article describes a 371-bed acute-care hospital's emergency response to a 126-bed nursing ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Stall NM,Farquharson C,Fan-Lun C,Wiesenfeld L,Loftus CA,Kain D,Johnstone J,McCreight L,Goldman RD,Mahtani R

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To estimate the independent effect of hospitalization for ischemic stroke on change in functional status, subsequent hospitalization, and mortality. DESIGN:Secondary analysis of the nationally representative Longitudinal Study on Aging. Baseline (1984) interview data were linked to Medicare hospitalization ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Wolinsky FD,Gurney JG,Wan GJ,Bentley DW

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine the prevalence of depression in a cohort of elderly men as assessed using a 30-item Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) score and to describe the association between this score and sex steroids, androgen receptor (AR) polymorphism, and general health status. DESIGN:Observational study on the relat...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： T'Sjoen GG,De Vos S,Goemaere S,Van Pottelbergh I,Dierick M,Van Heeringen C,Kaufman JM

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The literature suggests that Medicare health maintenance organization (HMO) patients may have poorer outcomes with formal home-health care than do fee-for-service (FFS) patients, but it is unclear whether this is related to case-mix or quality. Our objective was to compare the home-health care outcomes for HM...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Holtzman J,Chen Q,Kane R

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To examine the associations between typology of family relationship and risk of elder mistreatment (EM). DESIGN:Population-based epidemiological cross-sectional study. SETTING:Community-dwelling older adults in the greater Chicago area. PARTICIPANTS:A total of 3157 US older Chinese immigrants. MEASUREMEN...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Li M,Guo M,Stensland M,Silverstein M,Dong X

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To compare falls and fall-related injuries that a fall evaluator or hospital incident report identified with injuries identified according to discharge International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) codes for the same set of inpatient episodes of care. DESIGN:Pros...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Waters TM,Chandler AM,Mion LC,Daniels MJ,Kessler LA,Miller ST,Shorr RI

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine reference values for laboratory tests in individuals aged 85 and older. DESIGN:Cross-sectional cohort study. SETTING:International. PARTICIPANTS:Long Life Family Study (LLFS) participants (N~5,000, age: range 25-110, median 67, 45% male). MEASUREMENTS:Serum biomarkers were selected based on ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Sebastiani P,Thyagarajan B,Sun F,Honig LS,Schupf N,Cosentino S,Feitosa MF,Wojczynski M,Newman AB,Montano M,Perls TT

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To ascertain whether a safe-transportation program can change driving exposure while maintaining community participation of older drivers. DESIGN:Randomized controlled trial. SETTING:Northwest Sydney. PARTICIPANTS:Drivers aged 75 and older (mean 80 ± 4) (n = 380). INTERVENTION:Intervention group particip...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Coxon K,Chevalier A,Brown J,Clarke E,Billot L,Boufous S,Ivers R,Keay L

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many physicians report that Internet health information can affect their clinical decisions. Much of Internet geriatric health information (IGHI) is not controlled for quality, and there is no available process to assess the quality of IGHI used in clinical practice or in medical education. The objective of this proje...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Hajjar I,Gable SA,Jenkinson VP,Kane LT,Riley RA

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All living beings are at risk for experiencing infections; humans are no exception. The prestige and credibility of modern medicine is built in large part on achievements in preventing and treating infectious diseases. For most of human history, there was little that could be done to prevent and treat infections. Mill...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Coll PP,Costello VW,Kuchel GA,Bartley J,McElhaney JE

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A history of systolic (greater than or equal to 160 mm Hg) or diastolic (greater than or equal to 90 mm Hg) hypertension, diabetes mellitus (fasting venous plasma glucose greater than or equal to 140 mg/dl), a history of cigarette smoking, fasting serum total cholesterol greater than or equal to 200 mg/dl and greater ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Aronow WS,Starling L,Etienne F,D'Alba P,Edwards M,Lee NH,Parungao RF,Sales FF

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To examine current utilization patterns of cholinesterase inhibitor (ChEI) therapy for dementia to determine treatment duration, use in long-term care, how often patients receive these drugs until death, and frequency of switching between the available ChEIs. DESIGN:A population-based healthcare administrat...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Herrmann N,Gill SS,Bell CM,Anderson GM,Bronskill SE,Shulman KI,Fischer HD,Sykora K,Shi HS,Rochon PA

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine whether hospital costs are higher in patients with lower functional status at admission, defined as dependence in one or more activities of daily living (ADLs), after adjustment for Medicare Diagnosis-Related Group (DRG) payments. DESIGN:Prospective study. SETTING:General medical service at a ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Chuang KH,Covinsky KE,Sands LP,Fortinsky RH,Palmer RM,Landefeld CS

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate whether proton pump inhibitor (PPI) therapy reduces the frequency of common colds and exacerbations in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). DESIGN:Twelve-month, randomized, observer-blind, controlled trial. SETTING:A university hospital and three city hospitals in Miya...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Sasaki T,Nakayama K,Yasuda H,Yoshida M,Asamura T,Ohrui T,Arai H,Araya J,Kuwano K,Yamaya M

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES:Depression screening and treatment for older adults are recommended in Age-Friendly Health Systems. Few studies have evaluated the association between depressive symptoms and postoperative functioning. We aimed to determine the association between varying levels of depressive symptoms in the preop...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Tang VL,Cenzer I,McCulloch CE,Finlayson E,Cooper Z,Silvestrini M,Ngo S,Schmitt EM,Inouye SK

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To improve delirium recognition and care, numerous serum biomarkers have been investigated as potential tools for risk stratification, diagnosis, monitoring, and prognostication of delirium. The literature was reviewed, and no evidence was found to support the clinical use of any delirium biomarker, although certain b...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Khan BA,Zawahiri M,Campbell NL,Boustani MA

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite recent gains in establishing academic sections, divisions, and departments of geriatrics in medical schools, much remains to be done to meet the medical needs of an aging population. To better understand how medical schools are educating students in geriatric-related topics, all U.S. allopathic and osteopathic...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Eleazer GP,Doshi R,Wieland D,Boland R,Hirth VA

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the use of newer psychotropic agents in nursing home residents in the era of new Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) guidelines. DESIGN:Retrospective chart review of referrals to an on-site geriatric psychiatry service in seven Eastern Massachusetts facilities during 1995-1996. SUBJECTS:...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Lasser RA,Sunderland T

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00