Articles – Week of August 12, 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 Archive). We found the following scholarly articles relating to Elder Care, Elder Law and Special Needs during the week of August 12, 2022:

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Health Related Articles:

• Fingerstick glucose monitoring by cognitive impairment status in Veterans Affairs nursing home residents with diabetes (8/4/2022)
• Use of smartphone photos to document the oral care status of nursing home residents (7/24/2022)
• Can we use temperature measurements to identify pre-symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection in nursing home residents? (8/4/2022)
• Treatment Patterns and Characteristics of Dialysis Facilities Randomly Assigned to the Medicare End-Stage Renal Disease Treatment Choices Model (JAMA 8/5/2022)
• Evolution of Clinical Complexity, Treatment Burden, Health Care Use, and Diabetes-Related Outcomes Among Commercial and Medicare Advantage Plan Beneficiaries With Diabetes in the U.S., 2006–2018 (8/4/2022)
• Predictors of Receiving Keratoplasty for Fuchs’ Endothelial Corneal Dystrophy among Medicare Beneficiaries
• Emergency Surgery Rates Among Medicare Beneficiaries With Access Sensitive Surgical Conditions
• Trends of single-level anterior cervical discectomy and fusion documentation after the 2015 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services coding audit
• Adapting Emergency Care for Persons Living With Dementia: Results of the Geriatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network Scoping Review and Consensus Conference
• Specific Challenges in Geriatric Cirrhosis and Hepatic Encephalopathy
• The Geriatric-Focused Emergency Department: Opportunities and Challenges
• Geriatric risk and protective factors for serious COVID-19 outcomes among older adults in Shanghai Omicron wave
• Comprehensive geriatric assessment for older orthopedic patients and analysis of risk factors for postoperative complications
• The Association of Gender and Mortality in Geriatric Trauma Patients (downloadable pdf)
• Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (Book chapter from The Very Old Critially Ill Patients)
• Geriatric Syndromes: Frailty (Book chapter from The Very Old Critially Ill Patients)
• Future Challenges for Geriatric Intensive Care (Book chapter from The Very Old Critially Ill Patients)
• Improving Medication Side Effects Documentation and Clinician Understanding in Home Health
• The effectiveness of a mHealth-based integrated hospital-community-home program for people with type 2 diabetes in transitional care: a protocol for a multicenter pragmatic randomized controlled trial
• Contextual forces shaping home-based healthcare services between 2010 and 2020: Insights from the social-ecological model and organizational theory
• Neighborhood matters for transitional care and heart failure hospital readmission in older adults
• Examining dietitians’ knowledge, skills and attitudes regarding working with older adults in residential aged care facilities and home care services: An integrative review
• Palliative care models for patients living with advanced cancer: a narrative review for the emergency department clinician
• The Art of Discharge Planning: Teaching Nursing Students to Address Disparities Through Simulation
• Stroke Prognostication for Discharge Planning with Machine Learning: A Derivation Study
• Deep Learning in the Prediction of Clinically Significant Outcomes in Stroke and General Medicine Patients
• Understanding Dyadic and Polyadic Heart Failure Self-Care from Informal Caregivers’ Perspective (Dissertation published 2022)
• Measuring Nursing Home Performance Using Administrative Data
• Effect of Implementing Discharge Plan on Patient’s Outcomes Post Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery
• The Association of Changes in Physical Performance During Geriatric Inpatient Rehabilitation With Short-Term Hospital Readmission, Institutionalization, and Mortality
• Clinical geriatric assessment in older patients with lymphoma: a narrative review
• Careful hand feeding in a geriatric step-down hospital: a retrospective study
• Hypertension in the elderly: why one size does not fit all
• Comparing health outcomes between coronary interventions in frail patients aged 75 years or older with acute coronary syndrome: a systematic review
• County-level variation in cardioprotective antihyperglycemic prescribing among medicare beneficiaries
• Pressure Injury on Poststroke Admission Assessment to Skilled Nursing Facilities: Risk Factors, Management, and Impact on Rehabilitation
• Association Between Vaccination and Acute Myocardial Infarction and Ischemic Stroke After COVID-19 Infection

Other Articles (e.g., policy, law, ethics):

• Beyond Employment Rates: Social Security Disability Benefit Receipt and Work Among People With Visual Impairments (8/6/2022)
• Going for Broke: Inclusion of Social Security Benefits in a Bad Faith Bankruptcy Analysis
• Reforming Patient Cost Sharing for Cancer Medications in Medicare Part D
• Expanded Medicare telehealth services
• Hospital-Level Racial and Ethnic Segregation Among Medicare Beneficiaries Undergoing Common Surgical Procedures
• Burden of Hospitalization, Costs and Co-Morbidities in Medicare Patients with Chronic Graft Versus Host Disease: Analysis of National In-Patient Hospital Database
• Reforming the Medicare Part D Benefit Design: Financial Implications for Beneficiaries, Private Plans, Drug Manufacturers, and the Federal Government
• Building More Intersectional Disability Activist Coalitions: A Community-Engaged (Dissertation published 2022)
• Complaints Matter: Seriousness of Elder Mistreatment Citations in Nursing Homes Nationwide
• Interventions to Reduce Hospital Readmissions in Older African Americans: A Systematic Review of Studies Including African American Patients
• Patient Perspectives on Care Transitions From Hospital to Home
• Veteran community engagement and social connection needs following inpatient psychiatric hospitalization
• Unique Care Needs of People with Dementia and their Caregivers during Transitions from Skilled Nursing Facilities to Home and Assisted Living: A Qualitative Study
• Essays in Applied Economics and Public Policy (Dissertation, 2022) (Chapter 1 represents my own unpublished research conducted to answer the question of how child Supplemental Security Income impacts education and earnings of those children themselves who receive the benefit and the other siblings in the family)
• Workplace Violence Prevalence and Reporting in Home Health Care: A Cross Sectional Survey
• Expanded Federal Investment in Home and Community-Based Services: State Approaches to Serve Children and Youth
• ACO Participation Associated With Decreased Spending For Medicare Beneficiaries With Serious Mental Illness
• Passive Remote Monitoring and Aging in Place
• State of the Art Physiotherapist-Led Approaches to Safe Aging in Place
• RESIDING STATUS, GENDER AND SPOUSE SURVIVAL STATUS AS THE DETERMINANTS OF GERIATRIC DEPRESSIONAMONG AGED
• Mealtime interventions and their outcomes in care homes for older people considering the five aspects meal model: An integrative review
• Trends in Remote Patient Monitoring Use in Traditional Medicare
• Medicare Advantage Plans Pay Large Markups To Consolidated Dialysis Organizations
• End-of-life costs of cancer patients with Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias in the U.S.
• Spending, Payment, And More (Health Affairs)
• Estimating the health value added by nursing homes
• Personal and Social Environmental Factors Related to Well-Being and Self Care Behavior Among Elderly Poeple in Nursing Homes
• Reducing Hospitalizations Among Nursing Facility Residents: Policy Environment and Suggestions for the Future in Seven States
• Trends In Medicaid Home And Community-Based Services Waivers For Older Adults
• Association Between Long-Term Care Facility Staffing Levels and Antipsychotic Use in US Long-Term Care Facilities
• Sustainable Long-term Care Models: Rebuilding Senior Living Environment
• Promulgating Poverty: How AI Technology Exacerbates Poverty Issues in Public Programs

Scholarly Articles, Week of August 12, 2022, Part 2