Housing Adaptations and Long-Term Care Facility Admissions among Older Adults with Care Needs in Japan.

Objectives: Housing adaptations may contribute to aging in place for older adults with care needs by reducing the risk of long-term care facility (LTCF) admissions, but this association remains unclear. We examined the association between housing adaptations and LTCF admissions among older adults with care needs.

Design: Retrospective cohort study using data from a Japanese municipality.

Characteristics to consider for home pharmaceutical care for older adults who initiate visiting pharmacist services in Japan.

This study aimed to clarify patient characteristics regarding medication-taking behaviors, their understanding of medication instructions and specific medication management for older adults who initiated visiting pharmacist services. By analyzing long-term care certification data, participants using visiting pharmacist services required more medication-taking support and had a poorer understanding of daily schedules.

Factors associated with the introduction of visiting-pharmacist services in older adults in Japan: A nested case-control study.

Aim: To investigate the factors associated with introducing visiting-pharmacist services for community-dwelling older adults in Japan.

Methods: We conducted a nested case-control study using claims data in a cohort from a city in Tokyo. Patients aged ≥65 years who received visiting-pharmacist services for the first time between April 2014 and March 2020 were considered case patients.

Association of coexistence of frailty and depressive symptoms with mortality in community-dwelling older adults: Kashiwa Cohort Study.

Objectives: This study aimed to determine the longitudinal associations of the coexistence of frailty and depressive symptoms with mortality among older adults.

Methods: The study participants were community-dwelling older adults aged ≥65 years who participated in the baseline survey of the Kashiwa Cohort Study in Japan in 2012. We used Fried's frailty phenotype criteria to classify participants as non-frail (score = 0), pre-frail (1 or 2), or frail (≥3).

Toward developing care outcome quality indicators for home care for older people: A prospective cohort study in Japan.

Introduction: Care quality in Japan's long-term care (LTC) agencies, including home care, is the responsibility primarily of individual agencies, and the evaluation of service processes and outcomes is minimal.

Objectives: To describe the development of quality indicators for LTC (QIs-LTC) in Japan.

Methods: QIs-LTC were developed through literature review and expert panel discussions and then were piloted and used in a 2-year longitudinal survey.

[The pulmonary rehabilitation utilization rate among older people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in Japan: A retrospective study using medical and long-term care insurance claims data].

Aim: This study aimed to improve the understanding of the utilization rates and the characteristics of users of pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) among people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Methods: We used medical and long-term care claims data from between April 2012 and March 2013 from Kashiwa city in Chiba prefecture, Japan. The study participants included patients of ≥63 years of age, who had received outpatient treatment for COPD (ICD-10 codes: J41-J44) two or more times during the study period, and who had been prescribed two or more COPD-related drugs.

Self-management activities of older people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease by types of healthcare services utilised: A cross-sectional questionnaire study.

Aims And Design: Various healthcare services in Japan provide self-management interventions for older people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). To examine the influence of healthcare service utilisation on self-management activities, we conducted a cross-sectional survey of older people with COPD who received care through outpatient clinics (OC), outpatient rehabilitation centres (OR) or home care (HC) services.

Methods: The survey consisted of 34 originally developed self-report questions about three types of self-management activities: (a) strategies to minimise dyspnoea, (b) appropriate activities to maintain physical and mental health status and (c) communication with healthcare professionals or family members.

N(2)O induces mitotic polyploidization in anther somatic cells and restores fertility in sterile interspecific hybrid lilies.

Fertile plants undergoing male gametogenesis can be treated with nitrous oxide (N(2)O) gas to obtain 2n male gametes. N(2)O treatment is also expected to restore the fertility of interspecific hybrids through meiotic restitution or mitotic amphidiploidization. However, this technique has few applications to date, and it is un-known how N(2)O treatment restores fertility in sterile hybrids.

Mechanism of action of nitrous oxide gas applied as a polyploidizing agent during meiosis in lilies.

Nitrous oxide gas (N(2)O) can be used to produce polyploid plants, but the mechanism of action is unknown. The actin and microtubule cytoskeleton was observed in N(2)O-treated microsporocytes of Lilium spp 'Asiatic hybrid lilies' using fluorescence microscopy after staining with DAPI, FITC-conjugated tubulin antibody, and phalloidin-conjugated Alexa Fluor 546. Additionally, microsporocytes of L.