Development and psychometric properties of the age-friendly hospitals scale in older adults.

Age-friendly Primary Health Care by the World Health Organization (WHO) provided a framework to guide countries in developing concrete and appropriate care in the health system, including encouraging the development of an Age-Friendly Hospital (AFH) care network. The study aimed to develop and evaluate the psychometric properties of the AFH scale (AFHS) in older adults. A cross-sectional study collected and analyzed data from 330 older adults between June 2018 and June 2019.

End-of-life care in cancer and dementia: a nationwide population-based study of palliative care policy changes.

Objectives: The National Health Insurance programme started providing coverage for inpatient care in palliative care (PC) units of acute care hospitals in 2000; however, initially, only PC provided to patients with terminal cancer was covered. A PC policy that enabled PC reimbursement for patients with dementia was implemented in 2009. However, the association of this PC policy with end-of-life care remains unclear.

End-of-Life Health Care Utilization Between Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Lung Cancer Patients.

Context: At the end of life, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and lung cancer (LC) patients exhibit similar symptoms; however, a large-scale study comparing end-of-life health care utilization between these two groups has not been conducted in East Asia.

Objectives: To explore and compare end-of-life resource use during the last six months before death between COPD and LC patients.

Methods: Using data from the Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Database, we conducted a nationwide retrospective cohort study in COPD (n = 8640) and LC (n = 3377) patients who died between 1997 and 2013.

Association of Time-Varying Rest-Activity Rhythm With Survival in Older Adults With Lung Cancer.

Background: To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to examine the relationship of rest-activity rhythm with survival in older adults with lung cancer and to consider variations in rest-activity rhythm over time.

Objective: The aim of this study was to explore the relationship between rest-activity rhythm variations and survival in 33 older adults with lung cancer by considering rest-activity rhythm as a time-dependent covariate over time.

Methods: In this prospective study with 5 repeated measurements, patients' rest-activity rhythm over 3 days was measured using actigraphy.