Telemedicine Utilization Among Residents With Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementia: Association With Nursing Home Characteristics.

Objective: To examine telemedicine use among nursing home (NH) residents with Alzheimer disease and related dementias (ADRD) and the associations with NH characteristics.

Design: Observational study.

Setting And Participants: 2020-2021 Minimum Data Set 3.

Home Health Quality among Hospitalized Older Adults with Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementia: Association with Race/Ethnicity and Dual Eligibility before and during the COVID Pandemic.

Objectives: During the COVID-19 pandemic, home health agencies (HHAs) discharges following acute hospitalizations increased. This study examined whether racial and ethnic minoritized and socioeconomically disadvantaged patients (ie, Medicare-Medicaid dual-eligible) were differentially discharged to below-average quality HHAs before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. We focused on post-acute patients with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD), who are generally frail and have high care needs.

The Populations of Two Differently Medicine-Used Plants of Hedyotis diffusa and Hedyotis corymbosa Shoot-Assembling Rich Bacterial and Fungal Communities with Varied Compositions but Conserved Structures.

The plant-colonized microbial communities have closely micro-ecological effects on host plant growth and health. There are many medicinal plants in the genus Hedyotis, but it is yet unclear about the shoot-assembled bacterial and fungal communities (SBFC) of Hedyotis plants. Hence, eight plant populations of Hedyotis diffusa (HD) and H.

Advancing climate-resilient flood mitigation: Utilizing transformer-LSTM for water level forecasting at pumping stations.

Proactive management of pumping stations using artificial intelligence (AI) technology is vital for effectively mitigating the impacts of flood events caused by climate change. Accurate water level forecasts are pivotal in advancing the intelligent operation of pumping stations. This study proposed a novel Transformer-LSTM model to offer accurate multi-step-ahead forecasts of the flood storage pond (FSP) and river water levels for the Zhongshan pumping station in Taipei, Taiwan.

Post-acute care transitions during COVID-19: Racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic differences in older adults with Alzheimer's disease and related dementia.

Background: Differences in the post-acute care (PAC) destinations among racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups have been documented before the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, the pandemic's impact on these differences remains unknown. We examined the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on PAC destinations and its variation by individual race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status among community-dwelling older adults with Alzheimer's disease and related dementia (ADRD).

The relationship between atrial fibrillation and frailty in community-dwelling older adults.

Objectives: (1) To compare the frailty status between community-dwelling older adults with and without atrial fibrillation (AF) in Taiwan and (2) to test the hypothesis that AF is associated with frailty in community-dwelling older adults.

Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study in several communities in Taipei. AF was confirmed by electrocardiogram recordings or medical diagnosis.

[Effects of MT1-MMP on the in vitro invasiveness of breast cancer cells].

Objective: To investigate the effect of membrane type-1 matrix metalloproteinase (MTI-MMP) on the invasive potential of breast cancer cell and analyze its mechanisms.

Methods: After treatment of breast cancer MDA-MB-453 cell line with concanavalin A ( ConA, 20 microg/ml) for 24 h, MT1-MMP protein was detected in cancer cells by Western analysis and immunocytochemistry. MDA-MB-453 cells were cultured with exogenous latent proMMP-2 and MMP-2 activity was analyzed by gelatin zymography.