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Improving the Quality of Care in Care Homes Using the Quality Improvement Collaborative Approach: Lessons Learnt from Six Projects Conducted in the UK and The Netherlands (2020)
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Devi, R., Martin, G., Banerjee, J., Butler, L., Pattison, T., Cruickshank, L., …Gordon, A. L. (2020). Improving the Quality of Care in Care Homes Using the Quality Improvement Collaborative Approach: Lessons Learnt from Six Projects Conducted in the UK and The Netherlands. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(20), Article 7601. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17207601

The Breakthrough Series Quality Improvement Collaborative (QIC) initiative is a well-developed and widely used approach, but most of what we know about it has come from healthcare settings. In this article, those leading QICs to improve care in care... Read More about Improving the Quality of Care in Care Homes Using the Quality Improvement Collaborative Approach: Lessons Learnt from Six Projects Conducted in the UK and The Netherlands.

Seeking Answers for Care Homes during the COVID-19 pandemic (COVID SEARCH) (2020)
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Spilsbury, K., Devi, R., Griffiths, A., Akrill, C., Astle, A., Goodman, C., …Thompson, C. (2021). Seeking Answers for Care Homes during the COVID-19 pandemic (COVID SEARCH). Age and Ageing, 50(2), 335–340. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afaa201

The care and support of older people residing in long-term care facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic has created new and unanticipated uncertainties for staff. In this short report, we present our analyses of the uncertainties of care home manager... Read More about Seeking Answers for Care Homes during the COVID-19 pandemic (COVID SEARCH).

Quality improvement in long-term care settings: a scoping review of effective strategies used in care homes (2020)
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Chadborn, N. H., Devi, R., Hinsliff-Smith, K., Banerjee, J., & Gordon, A. L. (2021). Quality improvement in long-term care settings: a scoping review of effective strategies used in care homes. European Geriatric Medicine, 12, 17-26. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41999-020-00389-w

Purpose We conducted a scoping review of quality improvement in care homes. We aimed to identify participating occupational groups and methods for evaluation. Secondly, we aimed to describe resident-level interventions and which outcomes were measur... Read More about Quality improvement in long-term care settings: a scoping review of effective strategies used in care homes.

Development of a Malaysian Undergraduate Geriatric Medicine Curriculum (2020)
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Sallehuddin, H., Tan, M. P., Blundell, A., Gordon, A. L., & Masud, T. (2020). Development of a Malaysian Undergraduate Geriatric Medicine Curriculum. Aging Medicine and Healthcare, 11(3), 82-88. https://doi.org/10.33879/AMH.113.2020.05015

Objective: Malaysia is only beginning to age in 2020, but is expected to do this at an unprecedented rate in the next two decades. We aim to develop a national curriculum for undergraduate geriatric medicine in Malaysia to ensure future doctors are a... Read More about Development of a Malaysian Undergraduate Geriatric Medicine Curriculum.

Polypharmacy, benzodiazepines, and antidepressants, but not antipsychotics, are associated with increased falls risk in UK care home residents: a prospective multi-centre study (2020)
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Izza, M. A. D., Lunt, E., Gordon, A. L., Gladman, J. R. F., Armstrong, S., & Logan, P. A. (2020). Polypharmacy, benzodiazepines, and antidepressants, but not antipsychotics, are associated with increased falls risk in UK care home residents: a prospective multi-centre study. European Geriatric Medicine, 11, 1043-1050. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41999-020-00376-1

Purpose: Falls and polypharmacy are both common in care home residents. Deprescribing of medications in residents with increased falls risk is encouraged. Psychotropic medications are known to increase falls risk in older adults. These drugs are ofte... Read More about Polypharmacy, benzodiazepines, and antidepressants, but not antipsychotics, are associated with increased falls risk in UK care home residents: a prospective multi-centre study.

The clinical usefulness of muscle mass and strength measures in older people: a systematic review (2020)
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Lunt, E., Ong, T., Gordon, A. L., Greenhaff, P. L., & Gladman, J. R. F. (2021). The clinical usefulness of muscle mass and strength measures in older people: a systematic review. Age and Ageing, 50(1), 88-95. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afaa123

Background: Sarcopenia is the loss of muscle mass and quality and is diagnosed using measures of muscle strength, size and mass. We evaluated the literature on whether sarcopenia measures are predictive of motor outcomes in older people in clinical... Read More about The clinical usefulness of muscle mass and strength measures in older people: a systematic review.

Research with older people in a world with COVID-19: identification of current and future priorities, challenges and opportunities (2020)
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Richardson, S. J., Carroll, C. B., Close, J., Gordon, A. L., O’Brien, J., Quinn, T. J., …Witham, M. D. (2020). Research with older people in a world with COVID-19: identification of current and future priorities, challenges and opportunities. Age and Ageing, 49(6), 901–906. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afaa149

Older people are disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has had a profound impact on research as well as clinical service delivery. This commentary identifies key challenges and opportunities in continuing to conduct research wit... Read More about Research with older people in a world with COVID-19: identification of current and future priorities, challenges and opportunities.

COVID-19 highlights the need for universal adoption of standards of medical care for physicians in nursing homes in Europe (2020)
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O’Neill, D., Briggs, R., Holmerová, I., Samuelsson, O., Gordon, A. L., Martin, F. C., & The Special Interest Group in Long Term Care of the European Geriatric Medicine Society. (2020). COVID-19 highlights the need for universal adoption of standards of medical care for physicians in nursing homes in Europe. European Geriatric Medicine, 11(4), 645–650. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41999-020-00347-6

The nursing home sector has seen a disproportionately high number of deaths as part of the COVID-19 pandemic. This reflects, in part, the frailty and vulnerability of older people living in care homes but has also, in part, been a consequence of the... Read More about COVID-19 highlights the need for universal adoption of standards of medical care for physicians in nursing homes in Europe.

Protocol for a realist review of General Practitioners’ Role in Advancing Practice in Care Homes (GRAPE study) (2020)
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Gordon, A. L., Devi, R., Williams, C., Goodman, C., Sartain, K., & Chadborn, N. H. (2020). Protocol for a realist review of General Practitioners’ Role in Advancing Practice in Care Homes (GRAPE study). BMJ Open, 10(6), Article e036221. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-036221

Introduction Older people who live in care homes have a high level of need with complex health conditions. In addition to providing medical care to residents, general practitioners (GPs) play a role as gatekeeper for access to services, as well as l... Read More about Protocol for a realist review of General Practitioners’ Role in Advancing Practice in Care Homes (GRAPE study).

The modified functional comorbidity index performed better than the Charlson index and original functional comorbidity index in predicting functional outcome in geriatric rehabilitation: a prospective observational study (2020)
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Kabboord, A. D., Godfrey, D., Gordon, A. L., Gladman, J. R. F., Van Eijk, M., van Balen, R., & Achterberg, W. P. (2020). The modified functional comorbidity index performed better than the Charlson index and original functional comorbidity index in predicting functional outcome in geriatric rehabilitation: a prospective observational study. BMC Geriatrics, 20(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-020-1498-z

Setting Priorities to Inform Assessment of Care Homes’ Readiness to Participate in Healthcare Innovation: A Systematic Mapping Review and Consensus Process (2020)
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Bunn, F., Goodman, C., Corazzini, K., Sharpe, R., Handley, M., Lynch, J., …Gordon, A. L. (2020). Setting Priorities to Inform Assessment of Care Homes’ Readiness to Participate in Healthcare Innovation: A Systematic Mapping Review and Consensus Process. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(3), Article 987. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17030987

Organisational context is known to impact on the successful implementation of healthcare initiatives in care homes. We undertook a systematic mapping review to examine whether researchers have considered organisational context when planning, conducti... Read More about Setting Priorities to Inform Assessment of Care Homes’ Readiness to Participate in Healthcare Innovation: A Systematic Mapping Review and Consensus Process.

Ethnic disparity in access to the memory assessment service between South Asian and white British older adults in the United Kingdom: A cohort study (2020)
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Ogliari, G., Turner, Z., Khalique, J., Gordon, A. L., Gladman, J. R. F., & Chadborn, N. H. (2020). Ethnic disparity in access to the memory assessment service between South Asian and white British older adults in the United Kingdom: A cohort study. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 35(5), 507-515. https://doi.org/10.1002/gps.5263

Background: Equality of access to memory assessment services by older adults from ethnic minorities is both an ethical imperative and a public health priority. Objective: To investigate whether timeliness of access to memory assessment service diffe... Read More about Ethnic disparity in access to the memory assessment service between South Asian and white British older adults in the United Kingdom: A cohort study.

What is geriatric rehabilitation and how should it be organized? A Delphi study aimed at reaching European consensus (2019)
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van Balen, R., Gordon, A. L., Schols, J. M. G. A., Drewes, Y. M., & Achterberg, W. P. (2019). What is geriatric rehabilitation and how should it be organized? A Delphi study aimed at reaching European consensus. European Geriatric Medicine, 10(6), 977–987. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41999-019-00244-7

© 2019, The Author(s). Purpose: Many European countries have developed services to rehabilitate the increasing number of older people who experience an acute or subacute decrease in function after a medical event such as a hip fracture or stroke. How... Read More about What is geriatric rehabilitation and how should it be organized? A Delphi study aimed at reaching European consensus.

Effectiveness of exercise interventions for adults over 65 with moderate-to-severe dementia in community settings: a systematic review (2019)
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Long, A., Robinson, K., Goldberg, S., & Gordon, A. L. (2019). Effectiveness of exercise interventions for adults over 65 with moderate-to-severe dementia in community settings: a systematic review. European Geriatric Medicine, 10(6), 843–852. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41999-019-00236-7

Purpose To conduct a systematic review of the literature to evaluate the effectiveness of exercise interventions for people with moderate-to-severe dementia in community settings. Methods Eight electronic databases (MEDLINE, Embase, CINAHL, AMED... Read More about Effectiveness of exercise interventions for adults over 65 with moderate-to-severe dementia in community settings: a systematic review.

The treatment of hypertension in people with dementia: a multi-centre prospective observational cohort study (2019)
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Welsh, T., Gladman, J., & Gordon, A. (2019). The treatment of hypertension in people with dementia: a multi-centre prospective observational cohort study. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 20(9), 1111-1115. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2019.03.036

Objectives To describe the treatment of hypertension in people with dementia and collate evidence on adverse health events whilst on treatment. Design A multicenter prospective observational cohort study. Setting and participants People with... Read More about The treatment of hypertension in people with dementia: a multi-centre prospective observational cohort study.

Role of comprehensive geriatric assessment in healthcare of older people in UK care homes: realist review (2019)
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Sousa, L., Chadborn, N. H., Goodman, C., Zubair, M., Sousa, L., Gladman, J. R. F., …Gordon, A. L. (2019). Role of comprehensive geriatric assessment in healthcare of older people in UK care homes: realist review. BMJ Open, 9(4), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-026921

Objectives Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) may be a way to deliver optimal care for care home residents. We used realist review to develop a theory-driven account of how CGA works in care homes. Design Realist review Setting Care ho... Read More about Role of comprehensive geriatric assessment in healthcare of older people in UK care homes: realist review.

Toward common data elements for international research in long-term care homes: advancing person-centered care (2019)
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Corazzini, K. N., Anderson, R. A., Bowers, B. J., Chu, C. H., Edvardsson, D., Fagertun, A., …Lepore, M. J. (2019). Toward common data elements for international research in long-term care homes: advancing person-centered care. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 20(5), 598-603. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2019.01.123

To support person-centered, residential long-term care internationally, a consortium of researchers in medicine, nursing, behavioral, and social sciences from 21 geographically and economically diverse countries have launched the WE-THRIVE consortium... Read More about Toward common data elements for international research in long-term care homes: advancing person-centered care.