| Can a Healthy Lifestyle Compress the Disabled Period in Older Adults? |
| ● | @AGSJournal: Walking greater distances and having a better diet is associated with a compression of the period spent disabled | |
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| Mediation of Cognitive Function Improvements by Strength Gains After Resistance Training in Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment: Outcomes of the Study of Mental and Resistance Training |
| ● | @AGSJournal: Strength training has clinically relevant benefits for cognitive function, muscle strength, and aerobic capacity | |
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| Driving Cessation and Health Outcomes in Older Adults |
| ● | @AGSJournal: Stopping driving for older adults may contribute to a variety of health problems, particularly depression | |
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| Providing Acute Care at Home: Community Paramedics Enhance an Advanced Illness Management Program-Preliminary Data |
| ● | @AGSJournal: The Community Paramedicine model may enhance care for homebound individuals with advanced illness | |
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| High Dose Monthly Vitamin D for Prevention of Acute Respiratory Infection in Older Long-Term Care Residents: A Randomized Clinical Trial |
| ● | @AGSJournal: High-dose vitamin D3 reduced acute respiratory infections in older long-term care residents but also increased falls | |
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| Compression of Morbidity Is Observed Across Cohorts with Exceptional Longevity |
| ● | @AGSJournal: There is a compression of morbidity at oldest ages that is generalizable to longevity in ethnically diverse groups | |
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| Willingness and Ability of Older Adults in the Emergency Department to Provide Clinical Information Using a Tablet Computer |
| ● | @AGSJournal: Half of older adults in the ED are willing to give health info via tablets, but most can’t enter the info correctly | |
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| Effect of Reproductive History and Exogenous Hormone Use on Cognitive Function in Mid- and Late Life |
| ● | @AGSJournal: Reproductive life events related to sex hormones are positively related to aspects of cognition in later life | |
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| Antipsychotic Medication for Prevention and Treatment of Delirium in Hospitalized Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis |
| ● | @AGSJournal: Use of antipsychotic meds are not associated with delirium duration, severity, or hospital/ICU length-of-stay | |
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| Global Sensory Impairment in Older Adults in the United States |
| ● | @AGSJournal:Two-thirds of community-dwelling U.S. adults aged 57 to 85 have two or more sensory deficits | |
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| High-Risk Medications in Hospitalized Elderly Adults: Are We Making It Easy to Do the Wrong Thing? |
| ● | @AGSJournal: Default doses in electronic medical records are often greater than what is recommended for high-risk medications | |
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| Effects of Home Based Tai Chi and Lower Extremity Training and Self Practice on Falls and Functional Outcomes in Older Fallers from the Emergency Department Randomized Controlled Trial |
| ● | @AGSJournal: Tai chi reduces falls more than conventional lower extremity training, with effects lasting for at least 1 year | |
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| Potentially Unsafe Activities and Living Conditions of Older Adults with Dementia |
| ● | @AGSJournal: Older adults with dementia who are not aware of the diagnosis are more likely to engage in unsafe behaviors | |
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| How U.S. Doctors Die: A Cohort Study of Healthcare Use at the End of Life |
| ● | @AGSJournal: Despite what we might think, doctors don’t die that differently than the rest of the U.S. population | |
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| Prevalence and Predictors of Fatigue in Middle-aged and Older Adults: Evidence From the Health and Retirement Study |
| ● | @AGSJournal: The prevalence of fatigue in men and women was much higher than that reported in literature | |
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