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Recent Publications

Below are links to various published studies and papers by UNC Division of Geriatric Medicine and the Center for Aging and Health personnel.

Qualitative Analysis of Patient Portal Messages From Older Adults With Type 2 Diabetes (Diabetes, Obesity, and CardioMetabolic CARE, April 2026)

Cog-TiPRO: Iterative Prompt Refinement with LLMs to Detect Cognitive Decline via Longitudinal Voice Assistant Commands (2025 IEEE Global Communications Conference, March 2026)

EffectS of Lifestyle Interventions in Older PEople With Obesity (Effective SLOPE): a Systematic Review With Network Meta-Analyses (Obesity Reviews, February 2026)

Unintended risks of sarcopenic obesity during weight-loss interventions in older people (Nature Science, February 2026)

Comparing the Relationship Between Social Determinants of Health and Frailty Status of Medicare Beneficiaries in Rural and Urban Areas in the United States (Journal of Ageing and Longevity, January 2026)

Deriving sex-specific anthropometric cut-points for obesity and cardiovascular disease risk in Qatari adults (Nature, December 2025)

Assessing the relationship between anthropometric indices and visceral adipose tissue: A cross-sectional study in a Qatari population (Journal of International Medical Research, September 2025)

The Optimal Health Weight and Lifestyle (OHWL) Clinic: Comprehensive, Multidisciplinary and Geriatric-Focused Care for Q9 Multimorbid Older Adults With Obesity (Current Developments in Nutrition, September 2025)

Analyzing Multimodal Features of Spontaneous Voice Assistant Commands for Mild Cognitive Impairment Detection (Interspeech, September 2025)

An Analysis of Institutional Anti-Amyloid Websites (JAGS, August 2025)

Frailty Trajectories and Social Determinants of Health of Older Adults in Rural and Urban Areas in the U.S. (Journal of Aging and Longevity, August 2025)

Advancing Age and Risk From the Elevated Atherogenic Index: Triglyceride (TG) to High-Density Cholesterol (HDL-C) Ratio (JAGS, June 2025)

A Multimodal Fall Prevention Intervention in the Setting of the Emergency Department (JAGS, June 2025)

Obesity and Transition to Assisted Living Services in Older Adults: An Analysis From the National Health and Aging Trends Study (JAGS, June 2025)

Advancing Age and Risk From the Elevated Atherogenic Index: Triglyceride (TG) to High-Density Cholesterol (HDL-C) Ratio (JAGS, May 2025)

Obesity and Transition to Assisted Living Services in Older Adults: An Analysis From the National Health and Aging Trends Study (JAGS, May 2025)

CoCare-CI: A Clinical Innovation to Address Behavioral Symptoms in Hospitalized Older Adults With Cognitive Impairment (JAGS, April 2025)

Older Adults With Obesity: Need for 4Ms Age-Friendly Approach to Care (JAGS, December 2024)

Prognostication in Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (JAGS, August 2024)

Pre-post-evaluation of a dementia-specific advance care planning toolkit for Japanese primary care clinicians (JAGS, June 2024)

Measuring frailty in clinical practice: Overcoming challenges with implementation (JAGS, May 2024)

Initiative to deprescribe high-risk drugs for older adults presenting to the emergency department after falls (JAGS, May 2024)

Nutrition interventions for body composition, physical function, cognition in hospitalized older adults: A systematic review of individuals 75 years and older (JAGS, February 2024)

Patient Perceptions of Opioids and Benzodiazepines and Attitudes Toward Deprescribing (Drugs & Aging, October 2023)

Establishing and sustaining an acute care for elders unit: An incremental journey to success (August 2023)

Baseline Serum Biomarkers Predict Response to a Weight Loss Intervention in Older Adults with Obesity: A Pilot Study (Metabolites, July 2023)

Controversies in Osteoporosis Treatment of Nursing Home Resident (JAMDA, November 2022)

Long-term weight change after a technology-based weight loss intervention (JAGS, October 2022)

Anticholinergic co-prescribing in nursing home residents using cholinesterase inhibitors: potential deprescribing cascade (JAGS, October 2022)

Medicare’s annual wellness visit: 10 years of opportunities gained and lost (JAGS, October 2022)

Association between food insecurity and probable sarcopenia: Data from the 2011–2014 National Health and nutrition examination survey (Clinical Nutrition, September 2022)

Use of geriatric assessment in cancer clinical trials: A systematic review (JGO, September 2022)

Prevalence and clinical correlates of cognitive impairment in adults with plasma cell disorders (JGO, September 2022)

Primary-Care Prescribers’ Perspectives on Deprescribing Opioids and Benzodiazepines in Older Adults (Drugs & Aging, July 2022)

Development and Evaluation of a Faculty Teaching Boot Camp Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic (Cureus, June 2022)

Effect of Deintensifying Diabetes Medications on Negative Events in Older Veteran Nursing Home Residents (Diabetes Care, May 2022)

A deprescribing medication program to evaluate falls in older adults: methods for a randomized pragmatic clinical trial (Trials, April 2022)