Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
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Randomized Controlled Trial Comparative Study
A tool to strengthen the older patient-companion partnership in primary care: results from a pilot study.
To determine the acceptability of a pre-consultation checklist for older adults who attend medical visits with an unpaid companion and to evaluate its effects on visit communication. ⋯ A checklist to elicit and align perspectives of older adults and their companions resulted in enhanced patient-centered medical visit communication.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Comparative Study
Executive function processes predict mobility outcomes in older adults.
To examine the relationship between performance on executive function measures and subsequent mobility outcomes in community-dwelling older adults. ⋯ Executive functions of inhibitory control, mental set shifting, and attentional flexibility were predictive of functional mobility. Given the literature associating mobility limitations with disability, morbidity, and mortality, these results are important for understanding the antecedents to poor mobility function that well-designed interventions to improve cognitive performance can attenuate.