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 Archive). We found the following scholarly articles relating to Elder Care, Elder Law and Special Needs during the week of September 16, 2022:

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Health Related Articles:

• Fall prevention with the Smart Socks System reduces hospital fall rates
• The Key to Wanting to Live in a Nursing Home
• Quality of dying among elderly people diagnosed with dementia in nursing homes: a mixed methods study
• Emergency department visits by nursing home residents: analysis of routine data from an urban hospital
• Using linked administrative data to evaluate and improve the quality of end-of-life care in nursing homes
• Trends in the incidence of Clostridioides difficile infection in adults and the elderly insured by Medicaid compared to commercial insurance or Medicare only
• Much Anticipated Alzheimer Disease Prevention Trial Finds No Clinical Benefit From Drug Targeting Amyloid; Highlights Need to Consider Other Approaches
• Home-Based Primary Care: Adaptability
• Association between thyroid function, nursing home admission and mortality in community-dwelling adults over 80 years
• Geriatric Assessment Predictors of 1-Year Mortality in Older Adults With GI Malignancies: A Survival Tree Analysis
• Can He ever be cared for at Home: Discharge Planning for a New Bedbound Elderly
• Influence of cognitive and physical performance on gait parameters in demented persons with and without walking aids
• Cognition is a Critical Vital Sign for Older Adults: The Need for Early Detection of Cognitive Impairment is Now
• Cognitive, physical, and mental profiles of older adults with misplaced self-evaluation of hearing loss
• Comprehensive geriatric assessment and antiaging
• Cognitive Impairment and Cirrhosis in Older Patients: A Systematic Review

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

• Comparison of Low-Value Services Among Medicare Advantage and Traditional Medicare Beneficiaries
• Report: Offsets would mostly cover Medicare service expansion cost
• Longitudinal Patters of Population and Individual-Level Health-Related Social Needs
• Assessment of Accommodation Requests Reported by a National Sample of US MD Students by Category of Disability
• Stratification Among In-Home Care Workers in the United States
• Explaining health care providers’ perceptions about the integration of palliative care with primary health care; a qualitative study
• Lagging coverage for mental health services among children and adolescents through home and community‐based Medicaid waivers
• Frequently Overlooked Trust Planning Considerations
• The Role of Life Settlements in Estate Planning: Capturing Unrecognized Value in Insurance Policies
• The Divisible Pot Trust: A Reimagining of the Traditional Dynasty Structure
• How about an Educational Framework for Nursing Staff in Long-Term Care Facilities to Improve the Care of Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia?
• Management of Financial Assets by Older Adults With and Without Dementia or Other Cognitive Impairments
• The Harms Privatization of Social Security Poses to the Poor in the United States
• Family Nursing Conversations in Home Health Care
• The prevalence of Abuse and risk factors associated with elder abuse

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