Annals of Long Term Care

BRIEF METHODOLOGICAL REPORTS
Mild Cognitive Impairment and Objective Instrumental Everyday Functioning: The Everyday Cognition Battery Memory Test
Jason C. Allaire, PhD, Alyssa Gamaldo, MS, Brian J. Ayotte, PhD, Regina Sims, PhD, and Keith Whitfield, PhD

OBJECTIVES: To examine the performance subjects with and without mild cognitive impairment (MCI) on an objective measure of everyday or real-world memory and subjective items assessing competency within the same instrumental domains; to determine whether the Everyday Cognition Battery (ECB) can uniquely predi

Training Nursing Staff to Recognize Depression in Home Healthcare
Ellen L. Brown, EdD, RN, Patrick J. Raue, PhD, Bernard A. Roos, MD, Thomas Sheeran, PhD, ME, and Martha L. Bruce, PhD, MPH

OBJECTIVES: To describe the implementation and acceptability of the TRaining In the Assessment of Depression (TRIAD) intervention, which has been tested in a randomized trial. The primary aim of TRIAD is to improve the ability of homecare nurses to detect depression in medically ill, older adult homecare patients.

DESIGN: Description of the important components of TRIAD,

The Effect of Age on Functional and Mortality Outcomes After Acute Myocardial Infarction

Suzanne V. Arnold, MD, MHA, Karen P. Alexander, MD, Frederick A. Masoudi, MD, MSPH, P. Michael Ho, MD, PhD, Lan Xiao, PhD, and John A. Spertus, MD, MPH

OBJECTIVES: To determine the prevalence of post-myocardial infarction (MI) functional decline and to describe its association with chronological age in survivors of MI.

DESIGN: Prospective observational registry.

SETTING: Nineteen U.S. hospitals.

PARTICIPANTS: Two thousand four hundred eighty-one patients with acute MI.

Serum Parathyroid Hormone Levels Predict Falls in Older Adults with Diabetes Mellitus

Denise K. Houston, PhD, Ann V. Schwartz, PhD, Jane A. Cauley, DrPH, Frances A. Tylavsky, DrPH, Eleanor M. Simonsick, PhD, Tamara B. Harris, MD, Nathalie de Rekeneire MD, Gary G. Schwartz, PhD, and Stephen B. Kritchevsky, PhD, for the Health, Aging and Body Composition Study

OBJECTIVES: To examine the association between serum parathyroid hormone (PTH) levels and incident falls in older adults with diabetes mellitus.

DESIGN: Longitudinal analysis of incident falls over 1 year in a s

Identification of Older Patients with Heart Failure Who May Be Candidates for Hospice Care: Development of a Simple Four-Item Risk Score

Bao C. Huynh, MD, PharmD, Aleksandr Rovner, MD, and Michael W. Rich, MD

OBJECTIVES: To identify predictors of 6-month mortality in older patients with heart failure (HF) and to develop a risk score for identifying potential candidates for hospice care.

DESIGN: Secondary data analysis of a previously conducted randomized, clinical trial.

SETTING: Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri.

PARTICIPANTS: Two hundred eighty-