(Last Updated 11/21/2022)
This anthology is an attempt to collect scholarly articles on a wide range of topics relating to elder care, elder law and related issues. If you are aware of an article that should be listed here, please contact us at websupport@ezelderlaw.com.
Addiction/Treatment/Side Effects
ALS/Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Cancer/Oncology
- Trends in Medically Integrated Dispensing Among Oncology Practices
- Geriatric nutritional risk index as a prognostic factor in patients with recurrent pancreatic cancer
- DHPW1 attenuation of UVB-induced skin photodamage in human immortalized keratinocytes
- AEDG Peptide Prevents Oxidative Stress in the Model of Induced Aging of Skin Fibroblasts
- Delivering Perioperative Care for Older Patients Undergoing Cancer Surgery
- Effect of comprehensive geriatric assessment for frail elderly patients operated for colorectal cancer—the colorectal cancer frailty study: study protocol for a randomized, controlled, multicentre trial
- The preoperative geriatric nutritional risk index predicts long-term prognosis in elderly locally advanced rectal cancer patients: a two-center retrospective cohort study
Care Planning
- Advance Care Planning, Health Affairs, July 2022
- Municipal healthcare professionals’ interprofessional collaboration during older patients’ transitions in the municipal health and care services: a qualitative study
Caregiving
COVID-19
- Nursing Home Adoption of CDC and ASHRAE COVID-19 Built Environment Recommendations: A Characterization Study of Colorado Nursing Home Facilities
- Health impact of the first and second wave of COVID-19 and related restrictive measures among nursing home residents: a scoping review
- Factors in Relation with in-Hospital Mortality in Geriatric Patients with COVID-19
- Understanding the Experience of Geriatric Care Professionals in Using Telemedicine to Care for Older Patients in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Mixed-Methods Study
- Virtual Hospitalization at Home After the Covid-19 Pandemic: Time to Consider Our Future Community Healthcare Options
- How COVID-19 Put the Spotlight on the EMTALA
- COVID-19-Related Changes in Assistance Networks for U.S. Older Adults with and without Dementia
- Acceptabilty of Tlelmedicine in a Geriaric Outpatient Practice During the Covid-19 Pandemic
- The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the geriatric inpatient unit
Dementia
- In New Orleans, Navigating Dementia With A Guide (Health Affairs)
- The Impact of Multiple Long-Term Care Services Use on Dementia and Nondementia Caregivers’ Health Care Utilization and Costs
- Characteristics of dementia family caregivers who use paid professional in-home respite care
- Motivational Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Dementia Prevention: A Pilot Study to Protect the Brain and Memory
- Assessing Public Opinions of Sexual Advance Directives Among Older Adults With Dementia
- Association between the frailty index and vascular brain damage: The Treviso Dementia (TREDEM) registry
- Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on People Living With Dementia and Caregivers
- Association of depressive disordered and dementia with mortality among older people with hip fractures
- Dementia prevention: The potential long-term cost-effectiveness of the FINGER prevention program
Diabetes
- Care Management For Patients With Type 2 Diabetes: The Roles Of Nurses, Pharmacists, And Social Workers
- Diabetes Self-Management Education in the Urban Low Socioeconomic Status Senior Population
- Metformin use and brain atrophy in nondemented elderly individuals with diabetes
Discharge Planning and Readmissions
- Discharge When Medically Ready
- What Are the Drivers of Readmission for Serious Venous Thromboembolic Events after Primary Total Knee Arthroplasty? An Analysis of 862,915 Patients
- Calibrating Readmission risk prediction models for determining Post-discharge Follow-up timing
- Disposition Decisions in Cases of Medical Complexity and Health Inequity
- Effect of Pharmacist Interventions on Hospital Readmissions for Home-Based Primary Care Veterans
- Assessing Delirium at Hospital Discharge
- Continuity of Care for Adult Offenders with Severe and Persistent Mental Illnesses: An Action Research Study
- Efficacy of acute care pathways for older patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis
- A Decade of Observing the Hospital Readmission Reductions Program—Time to Retire an Ineffective Policy
- When a patient says they’re suicidal – what do I do?
- Mental health care for adults in crisis
Elder Abuse
Elder Care/Chronic Conditions
- Contemporary Geographical Gerontology: Reconciling Space and Place in Population Ageing
- Systems modelling predicts chronic inflammation and genomic instability prevent effective mitochondrial regulation during biological ageing
- Effectiveness of an Integrated Simulation in Teaching Clinical Social Work Skills: Geriatric Mental Health Proficiency
- Improving Patient and Provider Engagement in Hypertension Control
- Nursing care for patients carrying multi-drug resistant organisms: Experiences, intention to use protective equipment and ability to comply with measures
- Modern Approach and Geriatric Aspects of Teaching Gerontostomatology in Training Specialists under the Specialty Program
- Senior Care in Distress: Challenges, Evaluation, Opportunities and Alternatives
- Reimagining Long-Term Care Architecture in Post-Pandemic in Ontario–and Beyond
- Family-oriented interventions in long-term care residential facilities for older people: A scoping review of the characteristics and outcomes
- Section II – Geriatric Syndromes (Cambridge University Press, 6/30/2022)
- Clinical and hematological evaluation of geriatric anemia
- Characterization of regional variation of bone mineral density in the geriatric human cervical spine by quantitative computed tomography
- “Now at least we have something to call it”: Patient and care partner experiences receiving an amyloid PET scan
- Chronic illness and critical care—A qualitative exploration of family experience and need
- Walk the Talk: A Program Model of Community-Oriented Primary Health Care
- Comparative effects of pharmacological interventions for the acute and long-term management of insomnia disorder in adults: a systematic review and network meta-analysis
- Prevalence and Associated Co-morbid Conditions of Urinary Incontinence in Frail Elderly Males
- An evaluation of the knowledge and attitudes that Health Care Services department students have about epilepsy
Falls
Health Economics
- Health Care Spending Effectiveness: Estimates Suggest That Spending Improved US Health From 1996 To 2016, Health Affairs, July 2022
- Coordinating illness and insurance trajectories: Evidence from a post-acute care unit
- Public Insurance Payment Does Not Compensate Hospital Cost for Care of Long-Bone Fractures Requiring Additional Surgery to Promote Union
Healthy Living and Aging
- Toward Healthy Aging: Human Needs and Nursing Response
- Still Mrs. B. – An Ode to Personhood During the Pandemic
- Active aging: reception and appropriation by older people and professionals. A qualitative case study in Spain
- Biomarkers of aging in real life: three questions on aging and the comprehensive geriatric assessment
- A simple algorithm to predict disability in community-dwelling older Japanese adults
- “Always on vacation”: alcohol has become a geriatric problem
Hematology
Home Care
- Evaluating end-of-life care capacity building training for home care nurses
- Changes in home visit utilization during the COVID-19 pandemic: a multicenter cross-sectional web-based survey
- Controlling the Uncontrollable: Patient Safety and Medication Management From the Perspective of Registered Nurses in Municipal Home Health Care
- Better Preparation and Training Determine Home Care Workers’ Self-Efficacy in Contributing to Heart Failure Self-Care
- Smart care spaces: pervasive sensing technologies for at-home care
- Addressing the Gap in Data Communication from Home Health Care to Primary Care during Care Transitions: Completeness of an Interoperability Data Standard
Hospice
- Hospice Improves Care Quality For Older Adults With Dementia In Their Last Month Of Life (Health Affairs)
- The Forgotten and Misdiagnosed Care Transition: Live Discharge From Hospice Care
- The Implementation of Palliative Home Care in Southeast Asian Countries: An Integrative Review
- Prevalence and Factors Associated with Palliative Care Utilization among Hospitalized Patients with Esophageal Cancer in the United States
Hypertention
Infections
Medication
Nursing, Generally
Nursing Homes
- General
- Perceptions of participation: how nursing home staff and managers perceive and strive for participation of older residents
- Profits, Pandemics, and Lockdown Effectiveness in Nursing Home Networks
- Research on Nursing Home Business Model based on Multi-objective Decision Model
- Traumatic Brain Injury and Risk of Long-Term Nursing Home Entry among Older Adults: An Analysis of Medicare Administrative Claims Data
- Implementation, mechanisms of change and contextual factors of a complex intervention to improve interprofessional collaboration and the quality of medical care for nursing home residents (7/8/2022)
- Family care prior to the admission of the elderly in a nursing home and continuity in family care: A comparative study of Colombia and Spain
- Health economic evaluation of a nurse-led care model from the nursing home perspective focusing on residents’ hospitalisations
- General practitioner contacts, hospitalizations, and nursing home transfers in older patients up to three years after new cancer diagnosis: Results from a large data linkage cohort study
- Applying to a nursing home is a way to maintain control of life—Experiences from Swedish nursing home applicants (2022)
- Caregiving
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Chronic Conditions and Treatment
- Preoperative Treatment of Severe Diabetes Mellitus and Hypertension Mitigates Healthcare Disparities and Prevents Adverse Postoperative Discharge to a Nursing Home, Annals of Surgery
- Pain and its associated factors in nursing home residents, Geriatric Nursing (2022)
- Hypotension Under Antihypertensive Treatment and Incident Hospitalizations of Nursing Home Residents
- The Danton Study – Discontinuation of Antihypertensive Treatment in Older Poeple with Dementia Living in a Nursing Home: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial
- Risk factors for vision loss among nursing home residents: a cross-sectional analysis
- New Onset (Incidence) of Epilepsy and Seizures in Nursing Home Residents, J. of American Medical Directors Association (2022)
- Diabetes And The Fragmented State Of US Health Care And Policy, Health Affairs, June 27, 2022
- COVID-19
- ADVANCE-C: A Qualitative Study of Experiences Caring for Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia during the COVID-19 Pandemic (July 2022)
- COVID-19 in Skilled Nursing Homes and Other Long-Term Care Facilities
- Breathing against suicidal ideation: factors of suicidal attempts in nursing home residents under COVID-19
- Ethical dilemmas for nursing home doctors during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Dementia Care/Cognitive Issues
- The design and conduct of a pragmatic cluster randomized trial of an advance care planning program for nursing home residents with dementia
- The Effect of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy-based Social Work Intervention on the Burden of Formal Caregivers Among Alborz City Nursing Home
- Social Connectedness among Long-Stay Nursing Home Residents with Alzheimer’s and Dementia: Exploring Individual and Facility-Level Variation
- Functional and cognitive outcomes after suprapubic catheter placement in nursing home residents: A national cohort study
- The relationship between psychosis symptoms and pain in nursing home residents
- Identifying Quality Indicators for Nursing Home Residents with Dementia: A Modified Delphi Method
- E. Phlys, C. Levy, L. Brenner & A Vranceaanu, Let’s Integrate! The Case for Bringing Behavioral Health to Nursing Home–Based Post-Acute and Subacute Care, J. of American Medical Directors Association (2022)
- A Study on Cognitive Maps about Space Perception by the Elderlies (Case study: Kahrizak Nursing Home)
- Falls
- Frailty
- Infections
- Association between level of care and colonization with resistant gram-negative bacteria among nursing-home residents – CORRIGENDUM
- Quality of Life and Pneumonia in Nursing Home Residents: A 1-Year Observational Study
- Safety, Effectiveness, and Immunogenicity 6 Months After BNT162B2 mRNA Vaccine in Frail Nursing Home Residents
- Beyond Compliance: A More Integrated Public Health Approach To Outbreaks In Nursing Homes And Other Disasters (Health Affairs)
- Medication
- Medication safety in nursing home patients (6/20/2022)
- Relationship Between Polypharmacy and Geriatric Syndromes in Older Nursing Home Residents
- Nursing Home Residents’ Experiences and Perceptions of Antibiotic Use: A Qualitative Descriptive Study
- Hospitalisation and use of medication of Danish nursing home residents at the end of life | PDF
- Nutrition
- Sequential relationships of food intake in nursing home residents with dementia: Behavioural analyses of videotaped mealtime observations
- Weight loss in newly admitted nursing home residents with obesity
- Multidisciplinary nutritional support for undernutrition in nursing home and home-care: A cluster randomized controlled trial
- Quality of Life/Quality of Care
- Psycho-Religious Therapy improving the Quality of Life of the Elderly in Nursing Homes
- Applying Agile Methodology to Reengineer the Delivery of Person-Centered Care in a Nursing Home: A Case Study
- A rise-assisting robot extends life space and improves facial expressions of nursing home residents
- VA nursing home compare metrics as an indicator of skilled nursing facility quality for veterans
- Pain Impacting Quality of Life in Persons with Dementia Dying in the Nursing Home by Alternative Medicare Payment Model
- Why Men Fare Worse: A Mixed Methods Study Examining Gender Differences in Nursing Home Resident Quality of Life
- The relationship between the degree of stressors and the coping strategies of older adults living in nursing home
- The relationship between elderly happiness and self-efficacy in the Elderly with Chronic disease residing in a nursing home, Tabriz, 2020
- Barriers to and facilitators of ethical encounters at the end of life in a nursing home: an ethnographic study
- Home‐ and community‐level predictors of social connection in nursing home residents: A scoping review
- Regulation/Compliance
- Beyond Compliance: A More Integrated Public Health Approach To Outbreaks In Nursing Homes And Other Disasters
- Hospitals serving nursing home residents disproportionately penalized under hospital readmissions reduction program
- Aging – Two Calls for Nursing Home Reforms (2022)
- Patient safety measurement tools used in nursing homes: a systematic literature review
- Staffing
- Training
- Multicomponent or Resistance Training for Nursing Home Residents: A Systematic Review With Meta-Analysis
- The impact of a training intervention on nursing care for people with dementia in long-term care: A quasi-experimental study
- Effect of a culturally sensitive DEmentia Competence Education for Nursing home Taskforce (DECENT) programme in China: A quasi-experimental study
- The Making of Nurse Leaders in the Nursing Home
- Prioritizing nursing home staff and leadership consistency to improve quality, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
- Identifying personal beliefs of nursing staff about encouraging psychogeriatric nursing home residents in daily activities: A qualitative study
Nutrition
- Validity of the Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool for Evaluation of Frailty Status in Older Hospitalised Patients
- Prognostic Value of the Geriatric Nutritional Risk Index in Patients with Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: A Meta-Analysis
- Roles of Nutrition on Sarcopenia
- Study of Geriatric Nutritional Risk Index and Creatinine Index in Elderly Hemodialysis Patients for Nutritional Assessment
- Effects of Food Insecurity on Patients with Type 2 Diabetes and Measure the Effects of High Intensity Exercise on Blood Glucose
Policy and Ethics
- Use of High-Risk Medications in Older Adults
- Policy and Health (In)Equities among Native Elders
- Defining the ethical considerations surrounding kidney transplantation for frail and cognitively impaired patients: a Delphi study of geriatric transplant experts
- Abuse and Neglect of Community-Dwelling Older Adults: Index Generation, an Assessment of Intensity, and Implications for Ageing in Place
Social Issues, Socialization and Mental Health
- Wealth and psychosocial factors among middle-aged and older adults. Findings based on nationally representative data
- Suicidality in the Geriatric Population
- “A Different Way to Survive”: The Experiences of Family Caregivers of Persons Living With Dementia During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Who does not Find Metaphors Funny? Humor Preferences in Geriatric Patients
- Programs for Care System Transitions in Mental Health
- Patient and Provider Perspectives on Emergency Department Care Experiences among People with Mental Health Concerns
- Caring for Patients With Serious Mental Illness: Guide for the Oncology Clinician
- Strategies for managing patients with psychiatric illness in the reopening period of the COVID-19 pandemic in China
Surgical Issues
- Undertriage of Geriatric Trauma Patients in Florida
- Early Outcomes following Implementation of a Multispecialty Geriatric Surgery Pathway
- General anesthesia in Geriatric patients in combination with Epidural anesthesia in the right colectomy
- Cognitive prehabilitation for geriatric patients undergoing elective surgery: a PRISMA-P-compliant protocol for a systematic review
- The Role of Smoking and Body Mass Index in Mortality Risk Assessment for Geriatric Hip Fracture Patients
- Odor Enrichment Attenuates the Anesthesia/Surgery-induced Cognitive Impairment
Wound Care
Elder Law
- General
- Public Benefits
- Medicare
- Evaluation of Prior Authorization in Medicare Nonemergent Ambulance Transport
- Expanssions of Medigap Consumer Protections Are Necessary to Promote Health Equity in the Medicare Program
- Does Age and Medicare Status Affect Clinical Outcomes in Patients Undergoing Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion?
- 2023 Medicare Outpatient Proposal Cuts Fees, Includes New Provision on Access to Audiologists
- Medicare for All or the Status Quo? Simulating Lobbying, Policy Debate, and the Party Line in Congress
- Medicaid
- Social Security/SSI
- Medicare
- Guardianship
- Estate Planning
- Retirement Planning
Other Legal Articles
- Appointed or Elected: How Justices on Elected State Supreme Courts Are Actually Selected, Law & Social Inquiry (2022)
Weekly Updates On Our Blog:
New Article Discussing Medicaid Enrollment and Wealth Transfers
On June 11, 2024, the Gerontologist published an article on Medicaid enrollment and Intergenerational transfers of wealth among older adults. The article was based on a review of data from 2008 through 2018 analyzing estate planning and family wealth transfers of older adults aged 65 and older who became Medicaid recipients. There were 8,347 respondents […]
Elder Law Mishmash June 2023
The following is a mishmash of information on various Elder Law, Special Needs Law, and Estate Planning issues. It also includes anything else we found interesting during the month of June, 2023. We will continue updating from time to time throughout the month. Last updated 6/8/2023. Keep in mind, you are using linked content at […]
Articles – Week of September 30, 2022
We regularly scour the internet looking for information relating to elder care, special needs and elder law. Although we review a number of sources collecting information, many of the articles listed here were found using Google Scholar Alerts. If a link you need has gone missing, try pasting the link into the Wayback Machine (Internet […]
Articles – Week of September 23, 2022
We regularly scour the internet looking for information relating to elder care, special needs and elder law. Although we review a number of sources collecting information, many of the articles listed here were found using Google Scholar Alerts. If a link you need has gone missing, try pasting the link into the Wayback Machine (Internet […]
Articles – Week of September 16, 2022
We regularly scour the internet looking for information relating to elder care, special needs and elder law. Although we review a number of sources collecting information, many of the articles listed here were found using Google Scholar Alerts. If a link you need has gone missing, try pasting the link into the Wayback Machine (Internet […]
Articles – Week of September 9, 2022
We regularly scour the internet looking for information relating to elder care, special needs and elder law. Although we review a number of sources collecting information, many of the articles listed here were found using Google Scholar Alerts. If a link you need has gone missing, try pasting the link into the Wayback Machine (Internet […]
Articles – Week of September 2, 2022
We regularly scour the internet looking for information relating to elder care, special needs and elder law. Although we review a number of sources collecting information, many of the articles listed here were found using Google Scholar Alerts. If a link you need has gone missing, try pasting the link into the Wayback Machine (Internet […]
Articles – Week of August 26, 2022
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Articles – Week of August 19, 2022
We regularly scour the internet looking for information relating to elder care, special needs and elder law. Although we review a number of sources collecting information, many of the articles listed here were found using Google Scholar Alerts. If a link you need has gone missing, try pasting the link into the Wayback Machine (Internet […]
Articles – Week of August 12, 2022, Part 2
We regularly scour the internet looking for information relating to elder care, special needs and elder law. Although we review a number of sources collecting information, many of the articles listed here were found using Google Scholar Alerts. If a link you need has gone missing, try pasting the link into the Wayback Machine (Internet […]
