The prevalence, reasons, and risk factors for hospital readmissions among home health care patients: a systematic review

C Ma, J Shang, S Miner, L Lennox… - Home Health Care …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Preventing hospital readmissions is one of the top priorities of the US health care system.
This systematic review examined the current evidence about hospital readmissions from …

Conceptualizing food insecurity among older adults: development of a summary indicator in the National Health and Aging Trends Study

EL Tucher, T Keeney, AJ Cohen… - The Journals of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Objectives Measurement of food insecurity in older adults is focused on financial barriers to
food access. Given that older adults are particularly susceptible to additional access-related …

Residential patterns in older homeless adults: Results of a cluster analysis

CT Lee, D Guzman, C Ponath, L Tieu, E Riley… - Social science & …, 2016 - Elsevier
Adults aged 50 and older make up half of individuals experiencing homelessness and have
high rates of morbidity and mortality. They may have different life trajectories and reside in …

Predictors of falls in older adults with and without dementia

SM Okoye, CD Fabius, L Reider… - Alzheimer's & …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction Persons living with, versus without, dementia (PLWD) have heightened fall‐risk.
Little is known about whether fall‐risk factors differ by dementia status. Methods Using the …

Sociodemographic features associated with the MoCA, SPPB, and GDS scores in a community-dwelling elderly population

P Zhang, N Abudukelimu, A Sali, JX Chen, M Li… - BMC geriatrics, 2023 - Springer
Background An accurate evaluation of cognitive function, physical health, and psychological
health is fundamental for assessing health problems in the elderly population, and it is …

Elucidating factors contributing to disparities in pain-related experiences among adults with or at risk for knee osteoarthritis

AM Mickle, LH Domenico, JJ Tanner… - Frontiers in Pain …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Background and purpose We and others have reported ethnic/race group differences in
clinical pain, physical function, and experimental pain sensitivity. However, recent research …

The influence of the built environment on the quality of life of urban older adults aging in place: a sco** review

A García Sánchez, A Torres Barchino - Journal of Aging and …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The study explored the built environment's relationship with the quality of life of older people
aging in place in urban multifamily housing developments. A search was conducted in …

Getting to the root: examining within and between home health agency inequities in functional improvement

SA Fashaw‐Walters, M Rahman… - Health services …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To quantify racial, ethnic, and income‐based disparities in home health (HH)
patients' functional improvement within and between HH agencies (HHAs). Data Sources …

Home and neighborhood context of falls among Black and White older Americans

SM Okoye, LJ Samuel, C Fabius… - Journal of aging …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Objectives: To examine social and physical environmental fall-risk factors in a nationally
representative sample of community-living older adults overall and by racial group. Methods …

Population‐based estimates of major forms of housing insecurity among community‐living older Americans

LG Paredes, Y Wang, DE Keene… - Journal of the …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives The number of older adults struggling to maintain adequate housing is growing.
Prior studies have used various criteria to measure housing insecurity; however, no …