Advance Care Planning: including Persons with Dementia and their Caregivers (GP105)
1. Learners will identify one best practice for advance care planning among persons with dementia.2. Learners will contrast experiences of advance care planning by level of cognitive impairment. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Martha Abshire Saylor, Valecia Hanna, Glory Thai, Peiyuan Zhang, John Cagle, Jennifer Wolff Source Type: research
Trends in Use of the Cognitive Assessment and Care Planning Services (CAACPS) Visit: A Primary Palliative Care Tool (RP303)
1. Learners will be able to identify gaps in primary palliative care resources for community-living persons with dementia and their caregivers.2. Learners will be able to describe the Cognitive Assessment and Care Planning Services (CAACPS) visit, what it includes, and how it can serve as a primar y palliative care tool in the ambulatory care setting. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Jennifer B. Seaman, Yurun Cai, Danxu Ren Source Type: research
A National Study of Psychosocial Well-being of Spouses of Persons Living with Dementia in the Last Years of Life
1. To compare the psychosocial needs of spouses of persons living with dementia in the last years of life to spouses of persons with no cognitive impairment in the last years of life.2. To understand clinical and policy-level strategies that can address the unique psychosocial needs of spouses of persons living with dementia prior to the death of their partners. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Ashwin Kotwal, Irena Cenzer, Jacqueline Torres, Melissa Aldridge, Claire K. Ankuda, Lauren Hunt, Alexander Smith, Krista L. Harrison Source Type: research
Hospice Use Patterns of Medicare Beneficiaries with Parkinson Disease and Dementia with Lewy Bodies
1. Understand the differences in hospice use patterns for people with Parkinson's disease or Lewy body dementia compared to Alzheimer's disease.2. Understand the differences in hospice characteristics for agencies caring for people with Parkinson's disease or Lewy body dementia compared to those caring for people with Alzheimer's disease. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Meredith Bock, Siqi Gan, Melissa Aldridge, Krista L. Harrison, Kristine Yaffe, Alexander Smith, John Boscardin, Lauren Hunt Source Type: research
“I Just Feel So Unloved”: Grieving Unresponsiveness from Mothers with Dementia - Introducing Coping Profiles (RP204)
1. Participants will be able to 1) understand relational loss with a parent with late-stage dementia, 2) understand behaviors that contribute to assessments of unresponsiveness from a mother with dementia.2. Participants will be able to 1) understand patterns of coping and meaning-making regarding a mother with dementia's unresponsiveness, and 2) understand how to assess and respond to grief due to a parent with dementia's unresponsiveness. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Kristie Wood, Marie-Anne Suizzo, Hillary D. Lum Source Type: research
Characterizing Opportunities in Diagnostic Disclosure Communication in Dementia Care: A Qualitative Study (RP105)
1. Describe the unique challenges of diagnostic disclosure communication in dementia care2. Identify person-centered communication strategies that can improve the quality, experience, and reliability of diagnostic disclosure communication in dementia care (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Joanna Paladino, Vicki Jackson, Deborah Blacker, Christine S. Ritchie Source Type: research
Death with and without Dementia: Impact on Family Antidepressant Prescriptions (RP220)
1. Participants will be able to identify differences in antidepressant prescriptions in family members of patients with and without dementia before and after death.2. Participants will be able to identify additional caregiver and patient factors associated with antidepressant prescriptions includi ng demographics, caregiver-patient relationship, nursing home status, and family size. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Eli Iacob, Mike Hollingshaus, Rebecca L. Utz, Djin L. Tay, Katherine Ornstein, Pamela L. Barrientos, Michael Newman, Tom Belnap, Caroline E. Stephens Source Type: research
Mortality and function following widowhood among older adults with dementia, cancer, and organ failure (RP222)
1. Determine the impact of widowhood on function and mortality among older adults with dementia.2. Determine the impact of widowhood on function and mortality among older adults with cancer and organ failure. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Rebecca Rodin, Alexander Smith, Edie Espejo, John Boscardin, Lauren Hunt, Katherine Ornstein, R. Sean Morrison Source Type: research
Patterns of Psychoactive Drug Administration to Nursing Home Residents with Distress Behavior in Dementia (RP116)
1. Understand patterns of psychoactive medication use in nursing home residents with distress behavior in dementia.2. Apply knowledge of factors associated with psychoactive medication use to the care of nursing home residents with distress behavior in dementia. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Kenneth S. Boockvar, Tianwen Huan, Kimberly Curyto, Sei Lee, Orna Intrator Source Type: research
A Financially Viable Palliative Care Model Supporting Persons with Dementia Living Alone or With Caregivers
1. Participants will gain the knowledge to develop a cost-effective palliative care for dementia program with cultural adaptations that will reduce neurobehavioral symptoms of patients, reduce caregiver stress, reduce hospitalizations, and increase hospice admissions.2. Participants will learn how to gather data to obtain insurance reimbursement for a low-cost and highly effective palliative care for dementia program. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Gillian Hamilton, Kristen Pierson, Kylee Volk, Tamiko Azuma Source Type: research
Unintended Consequences of Opioid Policy on Disparities in Pain Management for Older Adults with Serious Illness
1. Characterize opioid and anticonvulsant (gabapentin, pregabalin) prescribing trends from 2010-2020 among older adults with dementia (PWD) and older adults with cancer (PWC).2. Identify the association of the 2016 CDC opioid guideline with racial/ethnic disparities in opioid prescribing among PWD and PWC. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Rebecca Rodin, Lihua Li, Duzhi Zhao, Karen McKendrick, Melissa Aldridge, R. Sean Morrison Source Type: research
“From Stigma to Solution” – Using THC Edibles for the Palliative Treatment of Aggression and Agitation in Dementia
1. Explain the detrimental effects of under-treated behavioral symptoms of dementia on patients and caregivers, and list the pros and cons of the current standard treatment of behavioral symptoms of dementia.2. Understand current research supporting THC use for behavioral symptoms of dementia. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Cristian Hernandez, Erin Zahradnik Source Type: research
Study: Roughly 1 in 8 Patients Wrongly Diagnosed With Pneumonia
About 12% of patients were inappropriately diagnosed with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), according to results from more than 17 000 hospitalized patients across 48 hospitals in Michigan. Older people as well as those with dementia or altered mental status were at particularly high risk of being inappropriately diagnosed, which the researchers defined as patients receiving antibiotics when they had fewer than 2 symptoms of pneumonia or negative chest x-ray results. (Source: JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association)
Source: JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association - April 19, 2024 Category: General Medicine Source Type: research
A longitudinal cohort study on the use of health and care services by older adults living at home with/without dementia before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: the HUNT study
Older adults and people with dementia were anticipated to be particularly unable to use health and care services during the lockdown period following the COVID-19 pandemic. To better prepare for future pandemi... (Source: BMC Health Services Research)
Source: BMC Health Services Research - April 19, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tanja Louise Ibsen, Bj ørn Heine Strand, Sverre Bergh, Gill Livingston, Hilde Lurås, Svenn-Erik Mamelund, Richard Oude Voshaar, Anne Marie Mork Rokstad, Pernille Thingstad, Debby Gerritsen and Geir Selbæk Tags: Research Source Type: research
Art therapies and cognitive function in elderly with subjective cognitive decline: a protocol for a network meta-analysis
Introduction
Subjective cognitive decline means a decline in the subjective perception of self-cognitive function, which is likely to evolve into mild cognitive impairment and dementia. The number of elderly with subjective cognitive decline has increased, bringing huge burdens and challenges to caregivers and society. With the increase in research on art therapies, some of them have gradually been proven to be effective for cognitive function. Therefore, this study aims to summarise the evidence and identify the best art therapy for elderly with subjective cognitive decline.
Methods and analysis
We will include published...
Source: BMJ Open - April 19, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Liu, Q., Wang, F., Tan, L., Liu, L., Hu, X. Tags: Open access, Nursing Source Type: research
