Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

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• Decision Making for Older Adults With Multiple Chronic Conditions
  The AGS presents a framework of actions and accompanying action steps for decision making for clinicians who provide both primary and specialty care to older people with multiple chronic conditions.

  May 16, 2019

• Using Wisely: A Reminder on the Proper Use of the American Geriatrics Society Beers Criteria
  The Beers Criteria provides recommendations for drugs that should often be avoided for older adults. How should it be applied in a way that maximizes benefits while minimizing unintended harms?

  May 09, 2019

• CPAP Adherence May Slow 1-Year Cognitive Decline in Older Adults With Mild Cognitive Impairment and Apnea
  This study demonstrated a beneficial effect of CPAP adherence on multiple domains of cognitive function in persons with mild cognitive impairment and obstructive sleep apnea.

  May 02, 2019

• Relevance of Polypharmacy for Clinical Outcome in Patients Receiving Vitamin K Antagonists
  What impact does polypharmacy have on the quality and outcome of anticoagulation therapy with Vitamin K antagonists?

  April 25, 2019

• How Chronic Is Polypharmacy in Old Age?
  How prevalent is polypharmacy among older adults, and what factors are associated with chronic rather than transient polypharmacy?

  April 18, 2019

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• Indications for β-Blocker Prescriptions in Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction. 

  May 16, 2019

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• Frailty Is Related to Subjective Cognitive Decline in Older Women without Dementia. 

  May 16, 2019

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• Health and Daily Functioning of Older Women Religious. 

  May 14, 2019

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• Coordinated-Transitional Care for Veterans with Heart Failure and Chronic Lung Disease. 

  May 13, 2019

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• Use of Functional Assessment to Define Therapeutic Goals and Treatment. 

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• Integrated Home- and Community-Based Services Improve Community Survival Among Independence at Home Medicare Beneficiaries Without Increasing Medicaid Costs. 

  May 10, 2019

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• Transitional Care Outcomes in Veterans Receiving Post-Acute Care in a Skilled Nursing Facility. 

  May 10, 2019

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• A Trip to Remember: Perspectives of a Medical Learner as a Caregiver. 

  May 10, 2019

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• Can Home-Based Primary Care Drive Integration of Medical and Social Care for Complex Older Adults? 

  May 10, 2019

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• Time Is of the Essence: Solving Office Visit Coding Problems. 

  May 09, 2019

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• Effectiveness of Ambulatory Telemedicine Care in Older Adults: A Systematic Review. 

  May 08, 2019

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• Racial Disparities in Readmission Rates among Patients Discharged to Skilled Nursing Facilities. 

  May 08, 2019

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• Nursing Home Residents by Human Immunodeficiency Virus Status: Characteristics, Dementia Diagnoses, and Antipsychotic Use. 

  May 07, 2019

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• What Does Aging with HIV Mean for Nursing Homes? 

  May 07, 2019

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• Response to "Potentially Inappropriate Medication Prescriptions for Older Adults with Painful Conditions and Association with Return Emergency Department Visits". 

  May 07, 2019

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• Reply to Comment on Potentially Inappropriate Medication Prescriptions for Older Adults With Painful Conditions and Association With Return Emergency Department Visits. 

  May 07, 2019

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• Measuring Quality in Home Healthcare. 

  May 07, 2019

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• Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants: An Underestimated Workforce for Older Adults with Cancer. 

  May 06, 2019

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• Ethical Challenges in Caring for Unrepresented Adults: A Qualitative Study of Key Stakeholders. 

  May 06, 2019

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• Fractures and Subsequent Graft Loss and Mortality among Older Kidney Transplant Recipients. 

  May 06, 2019

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• Evidence-Based Community Fall Prevention Programs at Senior Centers Near 10 US Academic Centers. 

  May 03, 2019

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• Predicting 1-Year Mortality in Older Hospitalized Patients: External Validation of the HOMR Model. 

  May 03, 2019

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• Opioid Misuse in Older Women. 

  May 03, 2019

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• Moving Frailty Toward Clinical Practice: NIA Intramural Frailty Science Symposium Summary. 

  May 02, 2019

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• Mitral Regurgitation and Prognosis After Non-ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction in Very Old Patients. 

  May 02, 2019

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• Feasibility of an Intervention to Support Hearing and Vision in Dementia: The SENSE-Cog Field Trial. 

  April 29, 2019

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• REPLY TO: QIGONG AS A PROMISING MIND-BODY EXERCISE FOR COGNITIVE FUNCTIONING. 

  April 26, 2019

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• Qigong as a promising mind-body exercise for cognitive functioning: Letter to Editor. 

  April 26, 2019

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• Daily Use of Bilateral Custom-Made Ankle-Foot Orthoses for Fall Prevention in Older Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial. 

  April 24, 2019

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• The Montreal Cognitive Assessment After Omission of Hearing-Dependent Subtests: Psychometrics and Clinical Recommendations. 

  April 24, 2019

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• Home as a Place for Care of the Oldest Stroke Patients: A Pilot from the Catalan Stroke Program. 

  April 24, 2019

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• Systematic Advance Care Planning and Potentially Avoidable Hospitalizations of Nursing Facility Residents. 

  April 23, 2019

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• Hyponatremia and In-Hospital Falls and Fractures in Older Adults. 

  April 23, 2019

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• Effects of Interval Training on Visceral Adipose Tissue in Centrally Obese 70-Year-Old Individuals: A Randomized Controlled Trial. 

  April 23, 2019

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• Using Team Training to Transform Practice within a Geriatrics-Focused Patient-Centered Medical Home. 

  April 22, 2019

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• Taking Care of the Dyad: Frequency of Caregiver Assessment Among Veterans with Dementia. 

  April 19, 2019

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• Exploring Disparities in Influenza Immunization for Older Women. 

  April 16, 2019

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• To the Future of Ethnogeriatric Research and Publication. 

  April 15, 2019

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• Cumulative Prognostic Score Predicting Mortality in Patients Older Than 80 Years Admitted to the ICU. 

  April 12, 2019

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• Effect of Subjective and Objective Sleep Quality on Subsequent Peptic Ulcer Recurrence in Older Adults. 

  April 11, 2019

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• Functional Outcomes After Hip Fracture in Independent Community-Dwelling Patients. 

  April 09, 2019

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• Multimorbidity Frameworks Impact Prevalence and Relationships with Patient-Important Outcomes. 

  April 07, 2019

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• A Problem-Solving Intervention for Hospice Family Caregivers: A Randomized Clinical Trial. 

  April 04, 2019

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• Compelling Results That a Problem-Solving Intervention Improves Hospice Family Caregiver Outcomes. 

  April 04, 2019

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• Difficulty Hearing Is Associated With Low Levels of Patient Activation. 

  April 02, 2019

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• A Team Disclosure of Error Educational Activity: Objective Outcomes. 

  April 02, 2019

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• Brain Aging in Midlife: The Beaver Dam Offspring Study. 

  April 01, 2019

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• Association of Sensory and Cognitive Impairment With Healthcare Utilization and Cost in Older Adults. 

  March 29, 2019

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• Older Patients with Low-Energy Falls Presenting to the Emergency Department: Characteristics and Outcomes. 

  March 28, 2019

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• Acetaminophen Safety: Risk of Mortality and Cardiovascular Events in Nursing Home Residents, a Prospective Study. 

  March 26, 2019

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• Dying With Dementia: Underrecognized and Stigmatized. 

  March 25, 2019

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• Comment on Comparing Vitamin D Supplementation Versus Placebo for Urgency Urinary Incontinence: A Pilot Study. 

  March 25, 2019

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• Reply to: "Suggestions for Vitamin D Supplementation for Urgency Urinary Incontinence Study". 

  March 24, 2019

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• Depressive Symptoms and Total Healthcare Costs: Roles of Functional Limitations and Multimorbidity. 

  March 23, 2019

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• Review of Programs to Combat Elder Mistreatment: Focus on Hospitals and Level of Resources Needed. 

  March 22, 2019

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• Combating Elder Mistreatment: Still Muddling-Not Yet Transformed. 

  March 22, 2019

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• Reply to: Comment on: Serum Cholesterol and Incident Alzheimer's Disease: Findings From the Adult Changes in Thought Study. 

  March 20, 2019

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• Comment on: Serum Cholesterol and Incident Alzheimer Disease: Findings From the Adult Changes in Thought Study. 

  March 20, 2019

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• Influence of Multimorbidity on Burden and Appropriateness of Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Therapies. 

  March 20, 2019

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• Effects of Multicomponent Exercise on Frailty in Long-Term Nursing Homes: A Randomized Controlled Trial. 

  March 19, 2019

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• Paid Family Leave: An Emerging Benefit for Employed Family Caregivers of Older Adults. 

  March 18, 2019

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• Beyond Parental Leave: Paid Family Leave for an Aging America. 

  March 18, 2019

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• Healthcare and Financial Decision Making and Incident Adverse Cognitive Outcomes among Older Adults. 

  March 18, 2019

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• Delirium Incidence and Functional Outcomes After Transcatheter and Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement. 

  March 18, 2019

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• Putting Goal-Oriented Patient Care Into Practice. 

  March 18, 2019

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• Visual Abstracts to Disseminate Geriatrics Research Through Social Media. 

  March 15, 2019

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• Emergency Department Interventions for Older Adults: A Systematic Review. 

  March 15, 2019

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• Fall Ascertainment and Development of a Risk Prediction Model Using Electronic Medical Records. 

  March 15, 2019

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• Making and Measuring an Impact in a Digital World: The Role of Social Media and the Medical Journal. 

  March 15, 2019

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• Association of Chronic Periodontitis on Alzheimer's Disease or Vascular Dementia. 

  March 15, 2019

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• Metabolic Syndrome and Cognitive Impairment among High Socioeconomic, Nondemented Older US Adults. 

  March 10, 2019

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• Implementing Advance Care Planning in Acute Hospitals: Leading the Transformation of Norms. 

  March 10, 2019

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• Frequency and Documentation of Medication Decisions on Discharge from the Hospital to Hospice Care. 

  March 10, 2019

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• Self-Reported Hearing Loss and Nonfatal Fall-Related Injury in a Nationally Representative Sample. 

  March 08, 2019

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• Comparing Three Methods for Reducing Psychotropic Use in Older Demented Spanish Care Home Residents. 

  March 08, 2019

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• Perspectives of Patients in Identifying Their Values-Based Health Priorities. 

  March 07, 2019

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• Medicare Shared Savings ACOs and Hospice Care for Ischemic Stroke Patients. 

  March 05, 2019

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• Factors Considered by Interprofessional Team for Treatment Decision in Hip Fracture with Dementia. 

  March 04, 2019

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• End-of-Life Care in Patients Exposed to Home-Based Palliative Care vs Hospice Only. 

  March 04, 2019

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• "Yes! We Have a Home-Based Palliative Care Program!" 

  March 04, 2019

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• "Taking to Bed": A Simple, and Important, Clinical Indicator. 

  March 04, 2019

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• Taking to Bed at the End of Life. 

  March 04, 2019

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• Lessons from Mrs. Rose. 

  March 01, 2019

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• Incidence of Lower-Extremity Fractures in US Nursing Homes. 

  February 27, 2019

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• The Effect of Multidomain Lifestyle Intervention on Daily Functioning in Older People. 

  February 26, 2019

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• Prevalence of Benzodiazepine and Benzodiazepine-Receptor Agonist Use in a Geriatric Emergency Department Population. 

  February 25, 2019

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• Quality of Life with Late-Stage Dementia: Exploring Opportunities to Intervene. 

  February 25, 2019

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• Inhaler Review in Older Adults with Asthma or COPD: A Cost-Effectiveness Study and a Perspective in Portugal. 

  February 23, 2019

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• Outpatient Antibiotic Prescribing for Older Adults in the United States: 2011 to 2014. 

  February 23, 2019

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• Colonoscopy in Nonagenarians Is Safe and May Be Associated with Clinical Benefit. 

  February 22, 2019

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• Impact of an Intensive Dementia Caregiver Training Model on Knowledge and Self-Competence: The Improving Caregiving for Dementia Program. 

  February 22, 2019

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• Attitudes of Older Adults and Caregivers in Australia toward Deprescribing. 

  February 13, 2019

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• Navigating the Minefield of QTc Interval-Prolonging Therapy in Nursing Facility Residents. 

  February 12, 2019

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• "Don Died Peacefully": Perception Is Reality. 

  February 08, 2019

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• Educational Differences in Cognitive Life Expectancy Among Older Adults in Brazil. 

  February 04, 2019

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• Effect of Monthly High-Dose Vitamin D on Mental Health in Older Adults: Secondary Analysis of a RCT. 

  February 01, 2019

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• The Social Vulnerability Index: Assessing Replicability in Predicting Mortality Over 27 Years. 

  February 01, 2019

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• Prevalence of Retinal Signs and Association With Cognitive Status: The ARIC Neurocognitive Study. 

  February 01, 2019

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• Changes in Older Adults' Oral Health and Disparities: 1999 to 2004 and 2011 to 2016. 

  January 30, 2019

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• Polypharmacy, Gait Performance, and Falls in Community-Dwelling Older Adults. Results from the Gait and Brain Study. 

  January 30, 2019

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• Effects of Hormone Replacement Therapy on Sarcopenia: Is It Real? 

  January 30, 2019

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• Medication Appropriateness in Vulnerable Older Adults: Healthy Skepticism of Appropriate Polypharmacy. 

  January 30, 2019

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• Reply to Effects of Hormone Replacement Therapy on Sarcopenia: Is It Real? 

  January 30, 2019

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• Tricyclic Antidepressant and/or γ-Aminobutyric Acid-Analog Use Is Associated With Fall Risk in Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy. 

  January 29, 2019

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• The Association of Resident Communication Abilities and Antibiotic Use in Long-Term Care. 

  January 28, 2019

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