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 Archive). We found the following scholarly articles relating to Elder Care, Elder Law and Special Needs during the week of September 30, 2022:

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Health Related Articles:

• Adoption of the Household Model Improves Nursing Home Quality
• Feasibility of Algorithm-Based Clinical Decision Support for Suspected Urinary Tract Infections in Nursing Home Residents
• Diabetes associated with higher health care utilization and poor outcomes after COPD-related hospitalizations
• Hospital-to-Home Transitional Care Experience of Elderly Patients with Chronic Diseases: Meta Synthesis of Qualitative Study
• Limits of stability and falls during a multicomponent exercise program in faller older adults: A retrospective cohort study
• Falls across Health Care Settings: Findings from a Geriatric Screening Program
• Association of age with emergency department visits and hospital admissions: A nationwide study
• Development and internal validation of predictive models to assess risk of post-acute care facility discharge in adults undergoing multi-level instrumented fusions for lumbar degenerative pathology and spinal deformity
• The Impact of 90-day Physician Follow-up Care on the Risk of Readmission Following a Psychiatric Hospitalization
• Readmission of Patients to Acute Psychiatric Hospitals: Influential Factors and Interventions to Reduce Psychiatric Readmission Rates
• Implementation of a Transitions of Care Nutrition Intervention for Malnourished Patients
• “No One Is Coming out of This Unscathed” The Nursing Home Tragedy in the Pandemic
• Advancing Communication and Decision-making for Older Adults Discharged to Skilled Nursing Facilities—Not Where but Why?
• A Description of Interventions Prompted by Preoperative Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment and Optimization in Older Elective Noncardiac Surgical Patients
• Dysphagia in nursing home residents: a cross-sectional study
• Skilled Nursing Facility Following Hip Fracture Arthroplasty Diminishes Care “Value”
• Why do Older Adults Seek Emergency Care?
• Systems-Based Practice in Chronic Pain Management
• Morbidity and mortality of traumatic cervical spinal cord injuries in a geriatric cohort
• Impact of a Collaboration Revolving Around Virtual Capacity Evaluations
• Determining Appropriateness of Antibiotic Therapy in Nursing Home Residents: A Review
• High blood urea nitrogen to creatinine ratio is associated with increased risk of sarcopenia in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
• Dementia Care in the Last Year of Life: Experiences in a Community Practice and in Skilled Nursing Facilities
• The Course of Depressive Symptoms Over 36 Months in 696 Newly Admitted Nursing Home Residents
• Effectiveness of existential group therapy on interpersonal relationships of elderly residents of nursing homes
• Some But Not Too Much: Multiparticipant Therapy and Positive Patient Outcomes in Skilled Nursing Facilities
• Early Initiation of Physical Therapy after Geriatric Hip Fracture Surgery is Associated with Shorter Hospital Length of Stay and Decreased Thirty-Day Mortality
• Pharmacokinetic considerations in geriatric medication
• Polypharmacy and Depression Among Older Individuals
• Dog ownership and mental health among community-dwelling older adults: A systematic review
• Evaluating Adherence to Concomitant Diabetes, Hypertension, and Hyperlipidemia Treatments and Cardiovascular Outcomes Among Elderly Patients Using Marginal Structural Modeling
• Assessing nutritional status in older adults requiring long-term care: Interchangeability of bioelectrical impedance analysis and manual methods for upper arm anthropometric measurements

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

• Review Identifies “Noteworthy” Differences in Effects on Patients of Traditional Medicare vs Medicare Advantage
• Web-Based Electronic Health Record Program: A Twelve-Month Evaluation on Pharmacist’s Intervention in Medicare Part D Annual Comprehensive Medication Review
• The Need to Go Beyond Medication Adherence in the Medicare Population
• Quality of care in home health agencies with and without accreditation: a cohort study
• A Framework for Evaluating the Adequacy of Disability Benefit Programs and Its Application to U.S. Social Security Disability
• The Challenge of Retirement
• Architecture of Person-Centered Psychiatric Geriatric Hospitals
• Silent suffering: the plague of elder abuse
• Association Between Double Bonuses and Clinical and Administrative Performance in Medicare Advantage
• Developing and Assessing the Validity of Claims-based Indicators of Frailty & Functional Disabilities in Electronic Health Records
• The effect of expressive writing intervention and neutral task writing intervention on positive affect and meaning in life among late middle-aged and older adults
• Subjective Aging Difficulties among Older Adults with Subjective Cognitive Decline
• Using drawing and situated learning to teach transitional care to post-graduate residents
• Development and Validation of New Exercises to Promote Physical Activity in Nursing Home Settings
• “Staying at Home”: A pivotal trial of telemedicine-based internal medicine hospitalization at a nursing home
• Social Factors Contributing to Healthcare Service Requirements during the First COVID-19 Lockdown among Older Adults

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