American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry最新文献

{"title":"Dismantling Ageism and Racism by Interrogating the American Eugenics Movement","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.jagp.2024.06.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jagp.2024.06.006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55534,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2024-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141635954","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Association of Caregiving Receipt With Mental Health Utilization in a National Cohort of Older Adults","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.jagp.2024.06.010","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jagp.2024.06.010","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objective</h3><div>There exist significant age disparities in mental health (MH) utilization, such that older adults, including older veterans, are much less likely to use MH services. In-home caregivers represent a novel, yet understudied, pathway to increase appropriate utilization. We sought to examine the association between receiving caregiving assistance and MH utilization and test moderation effects of cognitive status and depression severity in a sample of older veterans.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>Cross-sectional, mixed effects logistic regression with moderation analyses was used with a unique data resource combining survey data from the 2000–2012 U.S. Health and Retirement Study with Veterans Affairs (VA) healthcare administrative records. The analytic sample included N=1,957 Community-dwelling veterans (mean age 68.2 [9.7]), primarily male (96.5%) and non-Hispanic white (77.0%). Measures included MH utilization extracted from VA records or self-report; CESD-8 for depressive symptoms; and the Langa-Weir cognitive status classification using the modified TICS.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>After accounting for demographics, spousal caregiver availability, health factors, and socioeconomic status, caregiving receipt was associated with two-fold odds of MH utilization, compared to receiving no assistance (8,839 person-year observations; OR = 2.02; 95% CI 1.54–2.65) and remained similar following VA policy changes to enhance MH access. Exploratory analyses revealed that categories of cognition and depressive symptoms may moderate the association.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>Receipt of any in-home caregiving is associated with increased likelihood of MH use by older adults. Caregivers may represent an underutilized resource to reduce age-related mental health access disparities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55534,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2024-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141715763","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Medicare Payments and ACOs for Dementia Patients Across Race and Social Vulnerability","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.jagp.2024.06.011","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jagp.2024.06.011","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objectives</h3><div>This study investigated variations in Medicare payments for Alzheimer's disease and related dementia (ADRD) by race, ethnicity, and neighborhood social vulnerability, together with cost variations by beneficiaries' enrollment in Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs).</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>We used merged datasets of longitudinal Medicare Beneficiary Summary File (2016–2020), the Social Vulnerability Index (SVI), and the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) ACO to measure beneficiary-level ACO enrollment at the diagnosis year of ADRD. We analyzed Medicare payments for patients newly diagnosed with ADRD for the year preceding the diagnosis and for the subsequent 3 years. The dataset included 742,175 Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) beneficiaries aged 65 and older with a new diagnosis of ADRD in 2017 who remained in the Medicare FFS plan from 2016 to 2020.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Among those newly diagnosed, Black and Hispanic patients encountered higher total costs compared to White patients, and ADRD patients living in the most vulnerable areas experienced the highest total costs compared to patients living in other regions. These cost differences persisted over 3 years postdiagnosis. Patients enrolled in ACOs incurred lower costs across all racial and ethnic groups and SVI areas. For ADRD patients living in the areas with the highest vulnerability, the cost differences by ACO enrollment of the total Medicare costs ranged from $4,403.1 to $6,922.7, and beneficiaries’ savings ranged from $114.5 to $726.6 over three years post-ADRD diagnosis by patient's race and ethnicity.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>Black and Hispanic ADRD patients and ADRD patients living in areas with higher social vulnerability would gain more from ACO enrollment compared to their counterparts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55534,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2024-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141635955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Neuropsychiatric Symptom Profile in Alzheimer's Disease and Their Relationship With Functional Decline","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.jagp.2024.06.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jagp.2024.06.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objective</h3><div>Understanding the course of individual neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS) and their relationship with function is important for planning targeted interventions for preventing and delaying functional decline. This study aims to disentangle relative contributions of individual NPS on functional decline.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>Longitudinal study of 9,358 well-characterized participants with baseline diagnoses of Mild Cognitive Impairment or AD in the National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center Uniform Data Set. Function was measured using the Functional Assessment Questionnaire (FAQ). Clinician judgment of seven common behavioral symptoms were examined simultaneously: apathy-withdrawal, depressed mood, visual or auditory hallucinations, delusions, disinhibition, irritability, and agitation.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Apathy was the most common NPS at baseline (33.7%) and throughout follow-up, endorsed by clinicians in 63.7% of visits. Apathy was the most persistent with 36.7% of participants having clinician-endorsed apathy in ≥50% of their visits. Apathy strongly correlated with faster rate of functional decline. Compared to those who never had apathy, baseline FAQ was worse in those with intermittent or persistent/always apathy (intermittent: estimated coefficient ±SE=1.228±0.210, 95% CI=[0.817, 1.639]; persistent/always: 2.354±0.244 (95% CI=[1.876, 2.832], both p &lt;0.001). Over time, rate of functional decline was faster in those with intermittent and persistent/always apathy (intermittent: 0.454±0.091, 95% CI=[0.276, 0.632]; persistent/always: 0.635±0.102, 95% CI=[0.436, 0.835], both p &lt;0.001). Worse agitation, delusions, and hallucinations also correlated with functional decline, but magnitudes of the estimates were smaller.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>Individual NPS may be sensitive targets for tracking longitudinal change in function. The study raises awareness of the need for more comprehensive assessment of functional decline in AD patients with noncognitive symptoms.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55534,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2024-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141629352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Shadows","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.jagp.2024.06.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jagp.2024.06.004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55534,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2024-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141539019","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Scientific Autobiography of a Japanese Psychiatrist Turned Cognitive-Behavioral Therapist, Clinical Epidemiologist and Smartphone App Developer","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.jagp.2024.05.015","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jagp.2024.05.015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55534,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2024-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1064748124003592/pdfft?md5=325566d42c9ab319f84a5489964173cc&pid=1-s2.0-S1064748124003592-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141460948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Response to Letter to the Editor","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.jagp.2024.06.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jagp.2024.06.003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55534,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2024-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141494397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Commentary on Differential Psychological Treatment Effects in Patients With Late-Life Depression and a History of Childhood Maltreatment","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.jagp.2024.06.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jagp.2024.06.002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55534,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2024-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141413192","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Culturally Adapted Perioperative Mental Health Intervention for Older Black Surgical Patients","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.jagp.2024.06.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jagp.2024.06.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objectives</h3><div>Perioperative mental health of older Black surgical patients is associated with poor surgical outcomes; however, evidence-based perioperative interventions are lacking. Our two study objectives included: <em>first</em>, examine factors affecting perioperative care experiences of older Black surgical patients with mental health problems, and <em>second</em>, ascertain design and implementation requirements for a culturally-adapted perioperative mental health intervention.</div></div><div><h3>Design Setting and Participants</h3><div>We conducted six focus groups with older Black patients (n = 15; ≥50 years; surgery within the past 5 years and/or interest in mental health research; history of distress, anxiety, or depression coping with surgery/hospitalization/) from a large academic medical center. We engaged study partners, including interventionists and community members, to gather insights on intervention and implementation needs. We followed a hybrid inductive-deductive thematic approach using open coding and the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Framework.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Patients reported that their psychological well-being and long-term mental health outcomes were not appropriately considered during perioperative care. Perceived stressors included interpersonal and structural barriers to using mental healthcare services, clinician treatment biases and ageism in care, and lack of healthcare professional connections/resources. Patients utilized various coping strategies, including talk therapy, faith/spirituality, and family and friends.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>This study offers valuable insights into the experiences of older Black surgical patients and the critical elements for developing a personalized perioperative mental health intervention to support their well-being before, during, and after surgery. Our findings demonstrated a need for a patient-centered and culturally adapted intervention targeting the individual/behavioral and interpersonal levels. Informed by the cultural adaptation framework, we propose a multi-component intervention that integrates psychological and pharmacological components.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55534,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2024-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141394518","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Information for Subscribers","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/S1064-7481(24)00339-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S1064-7481(24)00339-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55534,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141294395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}