Dementia Care Practice.

Background: Annual cognitive screening in older adults is essential for early detection of cognitive impairment, yet less than half of cases are detected in primary care. We introduce two innovative app-based screeners that help overcome barriers to routine cognitive screening. MyCog is a tablet app that is self-administered in person during the rooming process for a primary care visit (Figure 1).

Technology and Dementia Preconference.

Background: Annual cognitive screening in older adults is essential for early detection of cognitive impairment, yet less than half of cases are detected in primary care. We introduce two innovative app-based screeners that help overcome barriers to routine cognitive screening. MyCog is a tablet app that is self-administered in person during the rooming process for a primary care visit (Figure 1).

A park-based group mobility program for older adults with difficulty walking outdoors: a qualitative process evaluation of the Getting Older Adults Outdoors (GO-OUT) randomized controlled trial.

Background: The Getting Older Adults Outdoors (GO-OUT) randomized controlled trial showed that a workshop and 10-week park-based outdoor walk group (OWG) was superior to the workshop and 10 weekly reminders (WR) with increasing walking capacity, but not outdoor walking activity, health-promoting behavior, or successful aging, among older adults with difficulty walking outdoors. The objective of this planned process evaluation was to explore participants' perceptions of mechanisms of impact of and contextual factors influencing experiences with the interventions to help explain the observed intervention effects on study outcomes.

Methods: A qualitative descriptive study involving semi-structured interviews conducted at 6-months post-baseline was conducted.

Association Between Chronic Pain and Fatigue Severity with Weather and Air Pollution Among Females with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS).

Weather and air quality conditions have been anecdotally reported to be related to symptom fluctuations in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS), but this has never been empirically investigated. This exploratory study aims to examine the effects of weather and air quality on daily fluctuations of chronic pain and fatigue in women with ME/CFS. In an intensive longitudinal design, 58 participants with ME/CFS provided daily pain and fatigue ratings for an average of 61 days.

Trends in Payments for Ambulatory Surgery Center Facility Fees and Surgeon Professional Fees for Hip and Knee Arthroplasty.

Background: Ambulatory Surgery Centers (ASCs) have been shown to deliver high-quality care to patients at major cost savings to the healthcare system. The objective of this investigation was to examine trends in the Medicare facility and surgeon professional fee payments for hip and knee arthroplasty.

Methods: Publicly available Medicare data was analyzed to determine professional and facility fee payments for unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA), total knee arthroplasty (TKA), and total hip arthroplasty (THA) to ASCs and hospitals between 2018 and 2024.