There is a high rate of functional dependency and “dramatic” one-year functional decline among nursing home residents, a new study finds. A strong nursing workforce and the onsite presence of clinical ...

Annalisa Na directs the Functional Aging and Mobility Research Laboratory to explore the interactions of multimorbidity diseases on functional outcomes in older adults. Her work attempts to understand ...

Many older patients with advanced lung cancer have functional limitations and require skilled nursing home care. Function, assessed using activities of daily living (ADL) scores, may help ...