(Last Updated 11/21/2022)
This anthology is an attempt to collect scholarly articles on a wide range of topics relating to elder care, elder law and related issues. If you are aware of an article that should be listed here, please contact us at websupport@ezelderlaw.com.
Addiction/Treatment/Side Effects
ALS/Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Cancer/Oncology
- Trends in Medically Integrated Dispensing Among Oncology Practices
- Geriatric nutritional risk index as a prognostic factor in patients with recurrent pancreatic cancer
- DHPW1 attenuation of UVB-induced skin photodamage in human immortalized keratinocytes
- AEDG Peptide Prevents Oxidative Stress in the Model of Induced Aging of Skin Fibroblasts
- Delivering Perioperative Care for Older Patients Undergoing Cancer Surgery
- Effect of comprehensive geriatric assessment for frail elderly patients operated for colorectal cancer—the colorectal cancer frailty study: study protocol for a randomized, controlled, multicentre trial
- The preoperative geriatric nutritional risk index predicts long-term prognosis in elderly locally advanced rectal cancer patients: a two-center retrospective cohort study
Care Planning
- Advance Care Planning, Health Affairs, July 2022
- Municipal healthcare professionals’ interprofessional collaboration during older patients’ transitions in the municipal health and care services: a qualitative study
Caregiving
COVID-19
- Nursing Home Adoption of CDC and ASHRAE COVID-19 Built Environment Recommendations: A Characterization Study of Colorado Nursing Home Facilities
- Health impact of the first and second wave of COVID-19 and related restrictive measures among nursing home residents: a scoping review
- Factors in Relation with in-Hospital Mortality in Geriatric Patients with COVID-19
- Understanding the Experience of Geriatric Care Professionals in Using Telemedicine to Care for Older Patients in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Mixed-Methods Study
- Virtual Hospitalization at Home After the Covid-19 Pandemic: Time to Consider Our Future Community Healthcare Options
- How COVID-19 Put the Spotlight on the EMTALA
- COVID-19-Related Changes in Assistance Networks for U.S. Older Adults with and without Dementia
- Acceptabilty of Tlelmedicine in a Geriaric Outpatient Practice During the Covid-19 Pandemic
- The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the geriatric inpatient unit
Dementia
- In New Orleans, Navigating Dementia With A Guide (Health Affairs)
- The Impact of Multiple Long-Term Care Services Use on Dementia and Nondementia Caregivers’ Health Care Utilization and Costs
- Characteristics of dementia family caregivers who use paid professional in-home respite care
- Motivational Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Dementia Prevention: A Pilot Study to Protect the Brain and Memory
- Assessing Public Opinions of Sexual Advance Directives Among Older Adults With Dementia
- Association between the frailty index and vascular brain damage: The Treviso Dementia (TREDEM) registry
- Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on People Living With Dementia and Caregivers
- Association of depressive disordered and dementia with mortality among older people with hip fractures
- Dementia prevention: The potential long-term cost-effectiveness of the FINGER prevention program
Diabetes
- Care Management For Patients With Type 2 Diabetes: The Roles Of Nurses, Pharmacists, And Social Workers
- Diabetes Self-Management Education in the Urban Low Socioeconomic Status Senior Population
- Metformin use and brain atrophy in nondemented elderly individuals with diabetes
Discharge Planning and Readmissions
- Discharge When Medically Ready
- What Are the Drivers of Readmission for Serious Venous Thromboembolic Events after Primary Total Knee Arthroplasty? An Analysis of 862,915 Patients
- Calibrating Readmission risk prediction models for determining Post-discharge Follow-up timing
- Disposition Decisions in Cases of Medical Complexity and Health Inequity
- Effect of Pharmacist Interventions on Hospital Readmissions for Home-Based Primary Care Veterans
- Assessing Delirium at Hospital Discharge
- Continuity of Care for Adult Offenders with Severe and Persistent Mental Illnesses: An Action Research Study
- Efficacy of acute care pathways for older patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis
- A Decade of Observing the Hospital Readmission Reductions Program—Time to Retire an Ineffective Policy
- When a patient says they’re suicidal – what do I do?
- Mental health care for adults in crisis
Elder Abuse
Elder Care/Chronic Conditions
- Contemporary Geographical Gerontology: Reconciling Space and Place in Population Ageing
- Systems modelling predicts chronic inflammation and genomic instability prevent effective mitochondrial regulation during biological ageing
- Effectiveness of an Integrated Simulation in Teaching Clinical Social Work Skills: Geriatric Mental Health Proficiency
- Improving Patient and Provider Engagement in Hypertension Control
- Nursing care for patients carrying multi-drug resistant organisms: Experiences, intention to use protective equipment and ability to comply with measures
- Modern Approach and Geriatric Aspects of Teaching Gerontostomatology in Training Specialists under the Specialty Program
- Senior Care in Distress: Challenges, Evaluation, Opportunities and Alternatives
- Reimagining Long-Term Care Architecture in Post-Pandemic in Ontario–and Beyond
- Family-oriented interventions in long-term care residential facilities for older people: A scoping review of the characteristics and outcomes
- Section II – Geriatric Syndromes (Cambridge University Press, 6/30/2022)
- Clinical and hematological evaluation of geriatric anemia
- Characterization of regional variation of bone mineral density in the geriatric human cervical spine by quantitative computed tomography
- “Now at least we have something to call it”: Patient and care partner experiences receiving an amyloid PET scan
- Chronic illness and critical care—A qualitative exploration of family experience and need
- Walk the Talk: A Program Model of Community-Oriented Primary Health Care
- Comparative effects of pharmacological interventions for the acute and long-term management of insomnia disorder in adults: a systematic review and network meta-analysis
- Prevalence and Associated Co-morbid Conditions of Urinary Incontinence in Frail Elderly Males
- An evaluation of the knowledge and attitudes that Health Care Services department students have about epilepsy
Falls
Health Economics
- Health Care Spending Effectiveness: Estimates Suggest That Spending Improved US Health From 1996 To 2016, Health Affairs, July 2022
- Coordinating illness and insurance trajectories: Evidence from a post-acute care unit
- Public Insurance Payment Does Not Compensate Hospital Cost for Care of Long-Bone Fractures Requiring Additional Surgery to Promote Union
Healthy Living and Aging
- Toward Healthy Aging: Human Needs and Nursing Response
- Still Mrs. B. – An Ode to Personhood During the Pandemic
- Active aging: reception and appropriation by older people and professionals. A qualitative case study in Spain
- Biomarkers of aging in real life: three questions on aging and the comprehensive geriatric assessment
- A simple algorithm to predict disability in community-dwelling older Japanese adults
- “Always on vacation”: alcohol has become a geriatric problem
Hematology
Home Care
- Evaluating end-of-life care capacity building training for home care nurses
- Changes in home visit utilization during the COVID-19 pandemic: a multicenter cross-sectional web-based survey
- Controlling the Uncontrollable: Patient Safety and Medication Management From the Perspective of Registered Nurses in Municipal Home Health Care
- Better Preparation and Training Determine Home Care Workers’ Self-Efficacy in Contributing to Heart Failure Self-Care
- Smart care spaces: pervasive sensing technologies for at-home care
- Addressing the Gap in Data Communication from Home Health Care to Primary Care during Care Transitions: Completeness of an Interoperability Data Standard
Hospice
- Hospice Improves Care Quality For Older Adults With Dementia In Their Last Month Of Life (Health Affairs)
- The Forgotten and Misdiagnosed Care Transition: Live Discharge From Hospice Care
- The Implementation of Palliative Home Care in Southeast Asian Countries: An Integrative Review
- Prevalence and Factors Associated with Palliative Care Utilization among Hospitalized Patients with Esophageal Cancer in the United States
Hypertention
Infections
Medication
Nursing, Generally
Nursing Homes
- General
- Perceptions of participation: how nursing home staff and managers perceive and strive for participation of older residents
- Profits, Pandemics, and Lockdown Effectiveness in Nursing Home Networks
- Research on Nursing Home Business Model based on Multi-objective Decision Model
- Traumatic Brain Injury and Risk of Long-Term Nursing Home Entry among Older Adults: An Analysis of Medicare Administrative Claims Data
- Implementation, mechanisms of change and contextual factors of a complex intervention to improve interprofessional collaboration and the quality of medical care for nursing home residents (7/8/2022)
- Family care prior to the admission of the elderly in a nursing home and continuity in family care: A comparative study of Colombia and Spain
- Health economic evaluation of a nurse-led care model from the nursing home perspective focusing on residents’ hospitalisations
- General practitioner contacts, hospitalizations, and nursing home transfers in older patients up to three years after new cancer diagnosis: Results from a large data linkage cohort study
- Applying to a nursing home is a way to maintain control of life—Experiences from Swedish nursing home applicants (2022)
- Caregiving
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Chronic Conditions and Treatment
- Preoperative Treatment of Severe Diabetes Mellitus and Hypertension Mitigates Healthcare Disparities and Prevents Adverse Postoperative Discharge to a Nursing Home, Annals of Surgery
- Pain and its associated factors in nursing home residents, Geriatric Nursing (2022)
- Hypotension Under Antihypertensive Treatment and Incident Hospitalizations of Nursing Home Residents
- The Danton Study – Discontinuation of Antihypertensive Treatment in Older Poeple with Dementia Living in a Nursing Home: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial
- Risk factors for vision loss among nursing home residents: a cross-sectional analysis
- New Onset (Incidence) of Epilepsy and Seizures in Nursing Home Residents, J. of American Medical Directors Association (2022)
- Diabetes And The Fragmented State Of US Health Care And Policy, Health Affairs, June 27, 2022
- COVID-19
- ADVANCE-C: A Qualitative Study of Experiences Caring for Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia during the COVID-19 Pandemic (July 2022)
- COVID-19 in Skilled Nursing Homes and Other Long-Term Care Facilities
- Breathing against suicidal ideation: factors of suicidal attempts in nursing home residents under COVID-19
- Ethical dilemmas for nursing home doctors during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Dementia Care/Cognitive Issues
- The design and conduct of a pragmatic cluster randomized trial of an advance care planning program for nursing home residents with dementia
- The Effect of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy-based Social Work Intervention on the Burden of Formal Caregivers Among Alborz City Nursing Home
- Social Connectedness among Long-Stay Nursing Home Residents with Alzheimer’s and Dementia: Exploring Individual and Facility-Level Variation
- Functional and cognitive outcomes after suprapubic catheter placement in nursing home residents: A national cohort study
- The relationship between psychosis symptoms and pain in nursing home residents
- Identifying Quality Indicators for Nursing Home Residents with Dementia: A Modified Delphi Method
- E. Phlys, C. Levy, L. Brenner & A Vranceaanu, Let’s Integrate! The Case for Bringing Behavioral Health to Nursing Home–Based Post-Acute and Subacute Care, J. of American Medical Directors Association (2022)
- A Study on Cognitive Maps about Space Perception by the Elderlies (Case study: Kahrizak Nursing Home)
- Falls
- Frailty
- Infections
- Association between level of care and colonization with resistant gram-negative bacteria among nursing-home residents – CORRIGENDUM
- Quality of Life and Pneumonia in Nursing Home Residents: A 1-Year Observational Study
- Safety, Effectiveness, and Immunogenicity 6 Months After BNT162B2 mRNA Vaccine in Frail Nursing Home Residents
- Beyond Compliance: A More Integrated Public Health Approach To Outbreaks In Nursing Homes And Other Disasters (Health Affairs)
- Medication
- Medication safety in nursing home patients (6/20/2022)
- Relationship Between Polypharmacy and Geriatric Syndromes in Older Nursing Home Residents
- Nursing Home Residents’ Experiences and Perceptions of Antibiotic Use: A Qualitative Descriptive Study
- Hospitalisation and use of medication of Danish nursing home residents at the end of life | PDF
- Nutrition
- Sequential relationships of food intake in nursing home residents with dementia: Behavioural analyses of videotaped mealtime observations
- Weight loss in newly admitted nursing home residents with obesity
- Multidisciplinary nutritional support for undernutrition in nursing home and home-care: A cluster randomized controlled trial
- Quality of Life/Quality of Care
- Psycho-Religious Therapy improving the Quality of Life of the Elderly in Nursing Homes
- Applying Agile Methodology to Reengineer the Delivery of Person-Centered Care in a Nursing Home: A Case Study
- A rise-assisting robot extends life space and improves facial expressions of nursing home residents
- VA nursing home compare metrics as an indicator of skilled nursing facility quality for veterans
- Pain Impacting Quality of Life in Persons with Dementia Dying in the Nursing Home by Alternative Medicare Payment Model
- Why Men Fare Worse: A Mixed Methods Study Examining Gender Differences in Nursing Home Resident Quality of Life
- The relationship between the degree of stressors and the coping strategies of older adults living in nursing home
- The relationship between elderly happiness and self-efficacy in the Elderly with Chronic disease residing in a nursing home, Tabriz, 2020
- Barriers to and facilitators of ethical encounters at the end of life in a nursing home: an ethnographic study
- Home‐ and community‐level predictors of social connection in nursing home residents: A scoping review
- Regulation/Compliance
- Beyond Compliance: A More Integrated Public Health Approach To Outbreaks In Nursing Homes And Other Disasters
- Hospitals serving nursing home residents disproportionately penalized under hospital readmissions reduction program
- Aging – Two Calls for Nursing Home Reforms (2022)
- Patient safety measurement tools used in nursing homes: a systematic literature review
- Staffing
- Training
- Multicomponent or Resistance Training for Nursing Home Residents: A Systematic Review With Meta-Analysis
- The impact of a training intervention on nursing care for people with dementia in long-term care: A quasi-experimental study
- Effect of a culturally sensitive DEmentia Competence Education for Nursing home Taskforce (DECENT) programme in China: A quasi-experimental study
- The Making of Nurse Leaders in the Nursing Home
- Prioritizing nursing home staff and leadership consistency to improve quality, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
- Identifying personal beliefs of nursing staff about encouraging psychogeriatric nursing home residents in daily activities: A qualitative study
Nutrition
- Validity of the Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool for Evaluation of Frailty Status in Older Hospitalised Patients
- Prognostic Value of the Geriatric Nutritional Risk Index in Patients with Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: A Meta-Analysis
- Roles of Nutrition on Sarcopenia
- Study of Geriatric Nutritional Risk Index and Creatinine Index in Elderly Hemodialysis Patients for Nutritional Assessment
- Effects of Food Insecurity on Patients with Type 2 Diabetes and Measure the Effects of High Intensity Exercise on Blood Glucose
Policy and Ethics
- Use of High-Risk Medications in Older Adults
- Policy and Health (In)Equities among Native Elders
- Defining the ethical considerations surrounding kidney transplantation for frail and cognitively impaired patients: a Delphi study of geriatric transplant experts
- Abuse and Neglect of Community-Dwelling Older Adults: Index Generation, an Assessment of Intensity, and Implications for Ageing in Place
Social Issues, Socialization and Mental Health
- Wealth and psychosocial factors among middle-aged and older adults. Findings based on nationally representative data
- Suicidality in the Geriatric Population
- “A Different Way to Survive”: The Experiences of Family Caregivers of Persons Living With Dementia During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Who does not Find Metaphors Funny? Humor Preferences in Geriatric Patients
- Programs for Care System Transitions in Mental Health
- Patient and Provider Perspectives on Emergency Department Care Experiences among People with Mental Health Concerns
- Caring for Patients With Serious Mental Illness: Guide for the Oncology Clinician
- Strategies for managing patients with psychiatric illness in the reopening period of the COVID-19 pandemic in China
Surgical Issues
- Undertriage of Geriatric Trauma Patients in Florida
- Early Outcomes following Implementation of a Multispecialty Geriatric Surgery Pathway
- General anesthesia in Geriatric patients in combination with Epidural anesthesia in the right colectomy
- Cognitive prehabilitation for geriatric patients undergoing elective surgery: a PRISMA-P-compliant protocol for a systematic review
- The Role of Smoking and Body Mass Index in Mortality Risk Assessment for Geriatric Hip Fracture Patients
- Odor Enrichment Attenuates the Anesthesia/Surgery-induced Cognitive Impairment
Wound Care
Elder Law
- General
- Public Benefits
- Medicare
- Evaluation of Prior Authorization in Medicare Nonemergent Ambulance Transport
- Expanssions of Medigap Consumer Protections Are Necessary to Promote Health Equity in the Medicare Program
- Does Age and Medicare Status Affect Clinical Outcomes in Patients Undergoing Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion?
- 2023 Medicare Outpatient Proposal Cuts Fees, Includes New Provision on Access to Audiologists
- Medicare for All or the Status Quo? Simulating Lobbying, Policy Debate, and the Party Line in Congress
- Medicaid
- Social Security/SSI
- Medicare
- Guardianship
- Estate Planning
- Retirement Planning
Other Legal Articles
- Appointed or Elected: How Justices on Elected State Supreme Courts Are Actually Selected, Law & Social Inquiry (2022)
Weekly Updates On Our Blog:
Articles – Week of September 30, 2022
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Articles – Week of September 23, 2022
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Articles – Week of September 16, 2022
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Articles – Week of September 9, 2022
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Articles – Week of September 2, 2022
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Articles – Week of August 26, 2022
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Articles – Week of August 19, 2022
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Articles – Week of August 12, 2022, Part 2
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Articles – Week of August 12, 2022
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Articles – Week of July 29, 2022
The following articles relating to Elder Care, Elder Law and Special Needs were found during the week of July 29, 2022: Health Related Articles: Barriers to and facilitators of ethical encounters at the end of life in a nursing home: an ethnographic study Home‐ and community‐level predictors of social connection in nursing home residents: A […]
