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 Archive). We found the following scholarly articles relating to Elder Care, Elder Law and Special Needs during the week of September 2, 2022:

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Health Related Articles:

• Changes in Health and Quality of Life in US Skilled Nursing Facilities by COVID-19 Exposure Status in 2020
• Comparing Resident, Proxy, and Staff Respondents for Nursing Home Residents’ Preferences for Everyday Living
• Effect of an Audible Alarm on the Fluid Consumption of Older Adults Living in a Nursing Home: A Randomized Controlled Trial
• Defining Life-Limiting Illness in the Nursing Home Population
• Survival Analysis of Various Dialysis Modalities in Skilled Nursing Home Settings
• Using linked administrative data to evaluate and improve the quality of end-of-life care in nursing homes
• Analysis of Functional Recovery in Older Adults Discharged to Skilled Nursing Facilities and Then Home
• Emergency readmissions following geriatric ground-level falls: How does frailty factor in?
• Too Little Salt Is Harmful for Some Patients With Heart Failure
• An Examination of Clinical Decision Support for Discharge Planning: Systematic Review, Simulation, and Natural Language Processing to Elucidate Referral Decision Making
• Quality Measure Concepts for Inpatient Rehabilitation That Are Best Understood From the Patient’s Perspective
• Clinical Outcomes of Operating an Acute Palliative Care Unit at a Comprehensive Cancer Center
• Nursing home directors of nursing experiences regarding safety among residents with obesity
• Comparing cardiovascular risk of patients with rheumatoid arthritis within the Social Security Disability Insurance with those commercially insured
• Factors associated with emergency readmissions after acute stroke: A retrospective audit of two hospitals
• Patient specific factors associated with inpatient hospital length of stay for solid tumor oncology patients: a retrospective cohort study
• Adoption of Patient-Reported Outcomes by Health Systems and Physician Practices in the USA
• Accuracy of pressure ulcer events in US nursing home ratings
• Emergency department adverse events detected using the emergency department trigger tool
• Factors Associated With Mortality Among Homeless Older Adults in California
• Occupational Therapy’s Role in Home Health
• Effectiveness of Tai Chi on Older Adults: A Systematic Review of Systematic Reviews with Re-meta-analysis
• Too depressed to breathe: the longitudinal association between depressive symptoms and lung function among general middle-aged and older adults
• Use of a Clinical Reasoning Activity to Assist with Interprofessional Communication
• Evaluation of the key geriatric assessment constructs in primary brain tumor population – a descriptive study
• The influence of orthopedic surgery on the incidence of post-operative delirium in geriatric patients: results of a prospective observational study
• Physical exam is not an accurate predictor of injury in geriatric patients with low-energy blunt trauma – A retrospective cohort study
• Association of Baseline Geriatric Nutritional Risk Index and Clinical Outcome of Endovascular Therapy in Patients with Diabetic Foot and Lower Extremity Arterial Disease
• Risk factors and effect of postoperative delirium on adverse surgical outcomes in older adults after elective abdominal cancer surgery in Taiwan
• Chronic pain in elderly people during the COVID-19 pandemic
• Determinants of Resting Energy Expenditure in Very Old Nursing Home Residents
• Ten existing osteoporosis prediction tools for the successful application of National Health Insurance-reimbursed anti-osteoporosis medications in long-term care residents in Taiwan
• Factors Affecting Provision of Oral Health Care for People with Special Health Care Needs: A Systematic Review
• Geriatric Cardiology: Coming of Age
• Chemotherapy Toxicity in Older Adults Optimized by Geriatric Assessment and Intervention: A Non-Comparative Analysis
• Exercise For Geriatric Psychiatry Outpatients: Results from a Clinic Intervention
• Evolution of geriatric Meniere’s disease during the past two decades
• Using neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio to predict discharge among geriatric patients with influenza infection in emergency department
• Determining the Factors that Impede or Facilitate the Utilization of Telemedicine (Video Visits) for Geriatric Patients
• Oral health care practice patterns for geriatric patients: An American Dental Association Clinical Evaluators Panel Survey
• An Aging Nation and the Rise of Geriatric Cardiology
• 7th Public Health Palliative Care International Conference
• Rural and urban disparities in potentially preventable hospitalizations among US patients with Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias: Evidence of hospital-based telehealth and enabling services
• Cognitive Screening via Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment of Older Patients for the Risk Factors of Hospital Revisit/Readmission after Emergency Department Visit at 3-Month Follow-Up
• Older adults and the unique role of the radiation therapist: Future directions for improving geriatric oncology training and education
• Geriatric Mobility Assistive System
• Cecal Diverticulitis in a Geriatric Patient
• The Role of Dietitian Follow-Ups on Nutritional Outcomes Post Bariatric Surgery
• Association between Frailty and Depression among Elderly in Nursing Home

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

• Text mining in long-term care: Exploring the usefulness of artificial intelligence in a nursing home setting
• Greed, Ghosts and Grand Juries: The Formation of Nursing Home Law and Oklahoma’s Health Department Scandal
• Association of Chronic Disease With Patient Financial Outcomes Among Commercially Insured Adults
• Evaluation of Spending Differences Between Beneficiaries in Medicare Advantage and the Medicare Shared Savings Program
• Neuropsychological Performance and Engagement in Estate Planning and Advance Care Planning Preparation of Patients With Neurocognitive
  Disorders and Healthy Older Adults: Is the Situation Alarming or Reassuring in Greece?
• Considerations of Family Functioning and Clinical Interventions
• How Do Newly Diagnosed Chronic Health Conditions Affect Older Workers’ Vitality and Worries About Functional Ability?
• Utilizing the “One Health” Model to Study Human Aging in Urban Environments
• Assessing Older Community Members Using a Social Work Tool: Developing an Organizational Response
• Practitioners’ Views on Enabling People With Dementia to Remain in Their Homes During and After Crisis
• Association of Medicare Advantage Premiums With Measures of Quality and Patient Experience
• Respect Your Elders: An Examination of Elder Care in the United States
• Coordinated Resource Allocation
• The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation: The Case for Reform
• Getting the Most From Payments to Medicare Advantage Health Plans—Thoughts on the Controversy
• Should Long-Term Care Facilities be Considered Cost-Efficient in Future Medicare and Medicaid Financial Policies?
• “Medicare for All”: Reformation toward Universal Affordable Care
• Telehealth for Medicare Beneficiaries With Chronic Conditions: No Panacea for COVID-19 Pandemic Access Challenges
• Social security: a view from beyond the beltway
• Book Review:Aging and Social Policy in the United States
• Subjective Views of Aging at Work and in the Retirement Transition
• A Narrative Approach to Subjective Views of Aging: Building New Narratives of Aging on the Diverse Lived Experience of Growing Old
• Impacts of a medical-legal partnership on clinical capacity to address social determinants of health
• Caring and Dignity
• Association of Chronic Diseases and Functional Limitations with Subjective Age: The Mediating Role of Sense of Control
• Value-Based Payments in Health Care: Evidence from a Nationwide Randomized Experiment in the Home Health Sector
• The Direct Care Workforce Crisis: Factors Affecting Employee Retention and Turnover Amidst a Pandemic
• U.S. Health Care Spending on Respiratory Diseases, 1996-2016
• A Healthcare Paradigm for Deriving Knowledge Using Online Consumers’ Feedback
• Comparing Spending in Medicare Advantage and Accountable Care Organizations—Is Plan–Health Care System Integration the Future?
• Health Equity in Dialysis Facilities: A Requirement or an Afterthought?
• Leading by example: Nursing home staff experiences of what facilitates them to meaningfully engage with residents with advanced dementia

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