The evening meal and atherosclerosis.

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To develop and validate a comprehensive quality assessment tool for emergency department (ED) geriatric care. DESIGN:Four-step study: (1) Content development of tool by a multidisciplinary panel, (2) survey of ED lead physicians and nurses, (3) development of subscales using principal component analysis and...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： McCusker J,Minh Vu TT,Veillette N,Cossette S,Vadeboncoeur A,Ciampi A,Cetin-Sahin D,Belzile E

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To identify the practical problems that older people experience with the daily use of their medicines and their management strategies to address these problems and to determine the potential clinical relevance thereof. DESIGN:Qualitative study with semistructured face-to-face interviews. SETTING:A communit...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Notenboom K,Beers E,van Riet-Nales DA,Egberts TC,Leufkens HG,Jansen PA,Bouvy ML

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a series of 934 elderly patients admitted to the geriatric department of a general hospital, several admission laboratory tests were found to provide prognostic information. When tests were combined as a discriminant function, the matter of death or survival at six weeks after admission was predicted with 84 percen...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Hodkinson HM

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To understand the range of symptoms that present to family caregivers of community-dwelling persons with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD). DESIGN:Six-month longitudinal prospective study to identify the incidence of new or worsening symptoms and their association with acute care medical serv...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Sloane PD,Schifeling CH,Beeber AS,Ward KT,Reed D,Gwyther LP,Matchar B,Zimmerman S

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As life expectancy increases, so do the problems of the elderly population. One major problem is that of protein calorie malnutrition; another is the susceptibility of this population to pressure sores. The purpose of this study was to determine if a correlation exists between deteriorating nutritional status and the ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Pinchcofsky-Devin GD,Kaminski MV Jr

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various biological aspects of the aging process are reviewed. Aging has multiple causes. First, there is the initial genetic variability in the organism. Second, there is the destructive effect of the environment. Third, there is an accumulation in the somatic cells of changes, mutations or local chemical damage. Thes...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Reichel W

更新日期：1966-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salivary gland function is generally well-preserved in healthy older persons. Similar results are observed in the laboratory rat. Older people are, however, more likely to experience salivary disorders due to disease or its treatment. For many patients with remaining salivary gland parenchymal tissue, improved functio...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Baum BJ

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the effects of prompted voiding on fecal continence in nursing home residents. DESIGN:Prospective, uncontrolled trial of prompted voiding for urinary incontinence. PARTICIPANTS:One hundred sixty-five nursing home residents who completed a 9 to 10-week trial. MEASUREMENTS:Trained research aides...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Ouslander JG,Simmons S,Schnelle J,Uman G,Fingold S

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine the effect of age on patterns of infection and on outcomes in individuals with infection. DESIGN:Analysis of data from an international, observational, point-prevalence study: Extended Prevalence of Infection in Intensive Care (EPIC II). SETTING:Intensive care units (ICUs; N=1,265) in 75 count...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Dimopoulos G,Koulenti D,Blot S,Sakr Y,Anzueto A,Spies C,Violán JS,Kett D,Armaganidis A,Martin C,Vincent JL,Extended Prevalence of Infection in Intensive Care Study Investigators.

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Poor diet due to poor oral health was proposed as a potential mediator of the association between poor oral health and frailty. This study explores the cross-sectional associations between poor oral health, poor diet, and frailty in Canadian adults, aged 45 to 85 years, and then tests whether the expected or...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Bassim C,Mayhew AJ,Ma J,Kanters D,Verschoor CP,Griffith LE,Raina P

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate effects of older age, comorbidities, and physiological measures on outcomes of elderly adults requiring prolonged mechanical ventilation (PMV). DESIGN:Retrospective cohort study. SETTING:Public long-term acute care hospital (LTACH) with an active program for ventilator weaning from PMV. PAR...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Dermot Frengley J,Sansone GR,Shakya K,Kaner RJ

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To report on the efficacy, safety, and tolerability of sertraline in the treatment of elderly depres-sed patients with and without comorbid medical illness. SETTING:Multicenter. DESIGN:Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study. PARTICIPANTS:A total of 752 patients aged 60 and older with diagnosis...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Sheikh JI,Cassidy EL,Doraiswamy PM,Salomon RM,Hornig M,Holland PJ,Mandel FS,Clary CM,Burt T

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether serum thyrotropin (TSH) levels are altered in euthyroid older persons compared with middle-aged adults. DESIGN:Serum TSH and thyroid hormone levels were measured in a large group of older persons (> 70 years old, n = 216) and their middle-aged offspring (40-60 years old, n = 211) after e...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Hershman JM,Pekary AE,Berg L,Solomon DH,Sawin CT

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In response to the needs and demands of an aging population, geriatric medicine has grown rapidly during the past 3 decades. The discipline has defined its core values as well as the knowledge base and clinical skills needed to improve the health, functioning, and well-being of older persons and to provide appropriate...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Besdine R,Boult C,Brangman S,Coleman EA,Fried LP,Gerety M,Johnson JC,Katz PR,Potter JF,Reuben DB,Sloane PD,Studenski S,Warshaw G,American Geriatrics Society Task Force on the Future of Geriatric Medicine.

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At the American Geriatrics Society 2008 Annual Meeting, representatives of two geriatric societies, the European Union Geriatric Medicine Societies and the American Geriatrics Society, and two regulatory agencies, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the European Medicine Agency, conducted a roundtable discussion...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Cherubini A,Del Signore S,Ouslander J,Semla T,Michel JP

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Older black patients are at risk for underutilization of preventive services. Our objectives were to assess the delivery of five preventive services in Title 330-funded health centers in low income neighborhoods in Cleveland, Ohio, and to determine the association of health system factors and health status w...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Wright PJ,Fortinsky RH,Covinsky KE,Anderson PA,Landefeld CS

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Mini-Mental State Examination and the WAIS-R were administered to 105 patients in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease. MMSE scores correlated 0.83 with full scale IQ, which indicates that the MMSE may be a reasonable alternative measure of overall intellectual functioning in Alzheimer patients, for whom more e...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Farber JF,Schmitt FA,Logue PE

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An operational definition of frailty is important for clinical care, research, and policy planning. The literature on the clinical definitions, screening tools, and severity measures of frailty were systematically reviewed as part of the Canadian Initiative on Frailty and Aging. Searches of MEDLINE from 1997 to 2009 w...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Sternberg SA,Wershof Schwartz A,Karunananthan S,Bergman H,Mark Clarfield A

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As the complexity, prevalence and visibility of ethical dilemmas in medical care of the elderly have grown, hospitals and nursing homes have attempted to develop mechanisms for responding to these difficult ethical issues. While it is known that many hospitals rely on education and advice provided by an ethics committ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Glasser G,Zweibel NR,Cassel CK

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Older adults with advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD) experience functional impairment that can complicate CKD management. Failure to recognize functional impairment may put these individuals at risk of further functional decline, nursing home placement, and missed opportunities for timely goals-of-care conversation...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Hall RK,Haines C,Gorbatkin SM,Schlanger L,Shaban H,Schell JO,Gurley SB,Colón-Emeric CS,Bowling CB

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prescription drugs are not always taken as directed. When there is a discrepancy between the use of a drug and the prescription directions, the drug-taking behavior is considered "nonadherent." To determine the extent of prescription non adherence by old persons and the reasons for nonadherence, an in-home survey was ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Cooper JK,Love DW,Raffoul PR

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To describe the circumstances of falls resulting in hip fractures among older people and to determine whether the circumstances differ by gender, age, and residential status. DESIGN:Cross-sectional study. SETTING:Two hospitals in Auckland, New Zealand, in which all individuals aged 60 years or older with a...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Norton R,Campbell AJ,Lee-Joe T,Robinson E,Butler M

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Measurements of health-related quality of life (HRQL) are an essential component in overall assessment of health status, particularly in older patients. Nevertheless, how measures of HRQL relate to measures of disease severity is largely unexplored. This study was carried out to explore the relationship betw...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Ferrucci L,Baldasseroni S,Bandinelli S,de Alfieri W,Cartei A,Calvani D,Baldini A,Masotti G,Marchionni N

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To compare self-reporting of pain by cognitively impaired (CI) older adults living in the community with reports of their caregivers; to identify the factors associated with differences in agreement; and to identify those pain assessment tools that are most useful to nonprofessional caregivers. DESIGN:Prosp...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Krulewitch H,London MR,Skakel VJ,Lundstedt GJ,Thomason H,Brummel-Smith K

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To estimate prescribing tends of and correlates independently associated with high-risk anticholinergic prescriptions in adults aged 65 and older in office-based outpatient visits. DESIGN:Repeated cross-sectional analysis. SETTING:National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS). PARTICIPANTS:A national sa...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Rhee TG,Choi YC,Ouellet GM,Ross JS

更新日期：2018-07-01 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

abstract：:Differing concepts of aging, i.e., a normative versus a pathologic process, are presented in historical perspective and are traced through selected writings from ancient China, India, Egypt, and Greece into more modern times. These is no consistent shift across epochs from one to the other perspective, and mixed persp...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Peterson M,Rose CL

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare the diagnoses, psychiatric and medical comorbidities, and prior and current treatment received by late-middle-aged and older affective disorder patients in mental health and medical service settings and to identify predictors of these patients' length of inpatient care. DESIGN:Department of Vetera...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Moos RH,Mertens JR

更新日期：1996-06-01 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：BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES:Elevated low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) in early adulthood is associated with increased risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD). The strength of the association between LDL-C and ASCVD among older adults, however, is less understood. DESIGN:We examined individual-level...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Nanna MG,Navar AM,Wojdyla D,Peterson ED

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00