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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Mark S. Lachs is an American physician, scientist, and popular author specializing in the field of aging. He is the Irene and Roy Psaty Distinguished Professor of Medicine at Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York City, and Director of Geriatric Medicine for the NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System. An internationally recognized authority on the field of elder abuse, he has authored over 100 articles on the subject and other areas of gerontology, and conducted important research on the topic. He is also a founder of the New York City Elder Abuse Center, and the not for profit charity www.elderabuse.org.
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- Predicting chemotherapy toxicity in older adults with cancer: a prospective multicenter study. (2011) (1336)
- Caregiver burden: a clinical review. (2014) (1293)
- Use of methodological standards in diagnostic test research. Getting better but still not good. (1995) (736)
- The mortality of elder mistreatment. (1998) (589)
- Elder Abuse: Global Situation, Risk Factors, and Prevention Strategies. (2016) (406)
- Risk factors for reported elder abuse and neglect: a nine-year observational cohort study. (1997) (395)
- A simple procedure for general screening for functional disability in elderly patients. (1990) (393)
- Abuse and neglect of elderly persons. (1995) (300)
- Spectrum bias in the evaluation of diagnostic tests: lessons from the rapid dipstick test for urinary tract infection. (1992) (282)
- Cognitive Function of Older Patients Receiving Adjuvant Chemotherapy for Breast Cancer: A Pilot Prospective Longitudinal Study (2006) (245)
- Adult protective service use and nursing home placement. (2002) (195)
- Diagnostic and treatment guidelines on elder abuse and neglect. (1993) (183)
- Predictors of self-neglect in community-dwelling elders. (2002) (177)
- Falls and physical performance deficits in older patients with prostate cancer undergoing androgen deprivation therapy. (2008) (152)
- Prevalence of and Risk Factors for Elder Abuse and Neglect in the Community: A Population‐Based Study (2015) (151)
- Should patients with Alzheimer's disease be told their diagnosis? (1992) (140)
- Identifying Vulnerable Older Adults with Cancer: Integrating Geriatric Assessment into Oncology Practice (2007) (131)
- A Prospective Community‐Based Pilot Study of Risk Factors for the Investigation of Elder Mistreatment (1994) (128)
- Distress in older patients with cancer. (2009) (123)
- Financial Exploitation of Older Adults: A Population-Based Prevalence Study (2014) (108)
- Resident‐to‐Resident Aggression in Long‐Term Care Facilities: Insights from Focus Groups of Nursing Home Residents and Staff (2008) (107)
- Under the Radar: New York State Elder Abuse Prevalence Study, Self-Reported Relevance and Documented Case Surveys (2011) (106)
- Not for Doctors Only: Ageism in Healthcare (2015) (105)
- Effect of adjuvant breast cancer chemotherapy on cognitive function from the older patient’s perspective (2006) (98)
- A Prospective, Longitudinal Study of the Functional Status and Quality of Life of Older Patients with Breast Cancer Receiving Adjuvant Chemotherapy (2006) (97)
- Elder abuse (2004) (93)
- ED use by older victims of family violence. (1997) (91)
- Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator deactivation at the end of life: a physician survey. (2009) (90)
- Geriatric assessment for oncologists: rationale and future directions. (2006) (88)
- Resident‐to‐Resident Elder Mistreatment and Police Contact in Nursing Homes: Findings from a Population‐Based Cohort (2007) (84)
- Resident-to-Resident Aggression in Long-Term Care Facilities: An Understudied Problem. (2008) (84)
- Recognition of Late‐Life Depression in Home Care: Accuracy of the Outcome and Assessment Information Set (2004) (82)
- Elder Abuse. (2015) (81)
- Sexual Aggression Between Residents in Nursing Homes: Literature Synthesis of an Underrecognized Problem (2010) (79)
- Verbal and Physical Aggression Directed at Nursing Home Staff by Residents (2013) (71)
- Resident-to-resident aggression in nursing homes: results from a qualitative event reconstruction study. (2012) (70)
- Elder mistreatment: priorities for consideration by the white house conference on aging. (2015) (66)
- Older adults. An 11-year longitudinal study of adult protective service use. (1996) (64)
- Polypharmacy in Older Adults Hospitalized for Heart Failure (2020) (62)
- Failure To Thrive in Older Adults (1996) (60)
- The Prevalence of Resident-to-Resident Elder Mistreatment in Nursing Homes (2016) (57)
- A staff intervention targeting resident-to-resident elder mistreatment (R-REM) in long-term care increased staff knowledge, recognition and reporting: results from a cluster randomized trial. (2013) (57)
- Predictive Value of Nonspecific Symptoms for Acute Illness in Nursing Home Residents (2003) (53)
- Durable responses with the metronomic rituximab and thalidomide plus prednisone, etoposide, procarbazine, and cyclophosphamide regimen in elderly patients with recurrent mantle cell lymphoma (2010) (53)
- Delusions and Behavioral Disturbances in Cognitively Impaired Elderly Persons (1992) (51)
- Self-neglect in Older Adults: a Primer for Clinicians (2008) (50)
- Effects of the COVID-19 Outbreak on Elder Mistreatment and Response in New York City: Initial Lessons (2020) (49)
- Prevalence of Financial Fraud and Scams Among Older Adults in the United States: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (2017) (49)
- Elder abuse and neglect: what physicians can and should do. (2002) (49)
- Screening for Family Violence: What's an Evidence-Based Doctor To Do? (2004) (48)
- Prevalence and Correlates of Exercise Among Older Adults (1999) (46)
- Practitioners' Views on Elder Mistreatment Research Priorities: Recommendations From a Research-to-Practice Consensus Conference (2011) (44)
- Emergency Department Presentations for Injuries in Older Adults Independently Known to be Victims of Elder Abuse. (2016) (43)
- Age-Associated Financial Vulnerability: An Emerging Public Health Issue (2015) (39)
- Could Self‐Neglect in Older Adults Be a Geriatric Syndrome? (2006) (38)
- Prevalence of Financial Fraud and Scams Among Older Adults in the United States: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. (2017) (38)
- A Cost‐Benefit Analysis of External Hip Protectors in the Nursing Home Setting (2005) (37)
- Violence Against the Elderly (1998) (36)
- Is cognitive dysfunction a complication of adjuvant chemotherapy in the older patient with breast cancer? (2007) (35)
- Older Adults: An 11-Year Longitudinal Study of Adult Protective Service Use (1996) (35)
- Elder Abuse Severity: A Critical but Understudied Dimension of Victimization for Clinicians and Researchers (2016) (35)
- State of the science on prevention of elder abuse and lessons learned from child abuse and domestic violence prevention: Toward a conceptual framework for research (2016) (34)
- Lighting Levels in the Dwellings of Homebound Older Adults (2004) (33)
- Assessment and Management of Delirium in Older Adults in the Emergency Department: Literature Review to Inform Development of a Novel Clinical Protocol (2015) (33)
- Effects of Electronic Health Information Technology Implementation on Nursing Home Resident Outcomes (2012) (32)
- Developing a Research Agenda on Resident-to-Resident Aggression: Recommendations From a Consensus Conference (2015) (32)
- The risk of comorbidity (2012) (31)
- Can Hip Protector Use Cost‐Effectively Prevent Fractures in Community‐Dwelling Geriatric Populations? (2006) (30)
- Emergency Medical Services Perspectives on Identifying and Reporting Victims of Elder Abuse, Neglect, and Self-Neglect. (2017) (30)
- Imaging Findings in Elder Abuse: A Role for Radiologists in Detection (2017) (29)
- Posttraumatic stress symptoms in older adults hospitalized for fall injury. (2014) (28)
- Understanding Service Utilization in Cases of Elder Abuse to Inform Best Practices (2016) (27)
- Review of Programs to Combat Elder Mistreatment: Focus on Hospitals and Level of Resources Needed (2019) (26)
- Staff-reported strategies for prevention and management of resident-to-resident elder mistreatment in long-term care facilities (2016) (26)
- Older Adults as Crime Victims, Perpetrators, Witnesses, and Complainants: A Population-Based Study of Police Interactions (2004) (25)
- Interventions to Prevent Elder Mistreatment (2008) (25)
- Violent crime victimization increases the risk of nursing home placement in older adults. (2006) (24)
- When Helping Hurts: Nonabusing Family, Friends, and Neighbors in the Lives of Elder Mistreatment Victims (2018) (23)
- Violence: Recognition, Management and Prevention (2006) (23)
- Preaching to the Unconverted (1996) (22)
- Patient-Reported Barriers and Facilitators to Deprescribing Cardiovascular Medications (2019) (22)
- Photographing Injuries in the Acute Care Setting: Development and Evaluation of a Standardized Protocol for Research, Forensics, and Clinical Practice. (2016) (22)
- Radiologists' Training, Experience, and Attitudes About Elder Abuse Detection. (2016) (21)
- Lymphoma in elderly patients: novel functional assessment techniques provide better discrimination among patients than traditional performance status measures. (2006) (21)
- Prevalence and determinants of Hyperpolypharmacy in adults with heart failure: an observational study from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) (2019) (21)
- Association Between Functional Impairment and Medication Burden in Adults with Heart Failure (2018) (21)
- Improving Quality of Care in Hospitals for Victims of Elder Mistreatment: Development of the Vulnerable Elder Protection Team. (2018) (20)
- Managing resident-to-resident elder mistreatment in nursing homes: the SEARCH approach. (2014) (19)
- Emergency department provider perspectives on elder abuse and development of a novel ED-based multidisciplinary intervention team (2018) (19)
- Prescribing Patterns of Heart Failure-Exacerbating Medications Following a Heart Failure Hospitalization. (2019) (19)
- Narratives of Self‐Neglect: Patterns of Traumatic Personal Experiences and Maladaptive Behaviors in Cognitively Intact Older Adults (2016) (18)
- Development of an instrument to measure staff-reported resident-to-resident elder mistreatment (R-REM) using item response theory and other latent variable models. (2014) (18)
- The Sexual Revolution's Last Frontier: How Silence About Sex Undermines Health, Well-Being, and Safety in Old Age Our ageist attitudes toward sex in old age impede quality of life and the detection and prevention of elder sexual abuse. (2012) (18)
- Assessment of cognition in primary care: neuropsychological evaluation of the geriatric patient. (2004) (18)
- Surgical oncology outcomes in the aging US population. (2016) (18)
- The CITRA pilot studies program: mentoring translational research. (2007) (17)
- Reducing Injury Through Self-Protection by Elderly Victims of Violence: The Interaction Effects of Gender of Victim and the Victim/Offender Relationship (2004) (16)
- GERIATRICS IN MANAGED CARE: Is Managed Care Good or Bad for Geriatric Medicine? * (1997) (16)
- Exposure-Based CBT for Older Adults After Fall Injury: Description of a Manualized, Time-Limited Intervention for Anxiety. (2014) (16)
- Using qualitative methods to develop a measure of resident-to-resident elder mistreatment in nursing homes (2013) (16)
- Development of a Nonparametric Predictive Model for Readmission Risk in Elderly Adults After Colon and Rectal Cancer Surgery (2016) (16)
- Geriatric assault victims treated at U.S. trauma centers: Five-year analysis of the national trauma data bank. (2016) (15)
- Can Hip Protector Use in the Nursing Home Be Predicted? (2007) (14)
- Hospitalization risk following admission to an academic nursing home. (2002) (14)
- Identifying Injury Patterns Associated With Physical Elder Abuse: Analysis of Legally Adjudicated Cases. (2020) (13)
- A scoping review of outcomes in elder abuse intervention research: The current landscape and where to go next (2020) (13)
- Design features to enhance external hip protector adherence in the nursing home setting. (2006) (13)
- The feasibility of goal attainment scaling to measure case resolution in elder abuse and neglect adult protective services intervention (2018) (13)
- Varying Appraisals of Elder Mistreatment Among Victims: Findings from a Population-Based Study. (2019) (13)
- Emergency Department Placement and Management of Indwelling Urinary Catheters in Older Adults: Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practice. (2015) (12)
- Acute Precipitants of Physical Elder Abuse: Qualitative Analysis of Legal Records From Highly Adjudicated Cases (2019) (12)
- The Case for Individualized Goal Attainment Scaling Measurement in Elder Abuse Interventions (2017) (11)
- Utilization of Formal Support Services for Elder Abuse: Do Informal Supporters Make a Difference? (2018) (10)
- Addressing the measurement challenge in elder abuse interventions: need for a severity framework (2018) (10)
- The Clinical Epidemiology of Crime Victimization in Older Adults: A Multidisciplinary Pilot Study (2001) (9)
- Hyperactive Delirium Requires More Aggressive Management in Patients With COVID-19: Temporarily Rethinking “Low and Slow” (2020) (9)
- Can artificial intelligence help identify elder abuse and neglect? (2019) (8)
- Management of myelodysplastic syndromes in the geriatric patient (2009) (8)
- Exploring Risk of Elder Abuse Revictimization: Development of a Model to Inform Community Response Interventions (2020) (8)
- Attitudes toward deprescribing among adults with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (2021) (8)
- Indications for β‐Blocker Prescriptions in Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (2019) (7)
- Resident-to-Resident Mistreatment: Evaluation of a Staff Training Program in the Reduction of Falls and Injuries. (2018) (7)
- Mild cognitive dysfunction of caregivers and its association with care recipients’ end-of-life plans and preferences (2018) (7)
- Patterns of scheduled follow-up appointments following hospitalization for heart failure: insights from an urban medical center in the United States (2016) (6)
- Management of prostate cancer in the older man. (2008) (6)
- Managing Anxiety from Cancer (MAC): A pilot randomized controlled trial of an anxiety intervention for older adults with cancer and their caregivers (2021) (6)
- The Interview for Decisional Abilities (IDA): a tool to assess the decisional capacity of abused and neglected older adults (2019) (5)
- Estimated Incidence and Factors Associated With Risk of Elder Mistreatment in New York State (2021) (5)
- Development of definitions for acute illness in nursing home residents based on chart-recorded physical exam findings. (2001) (5)
- Describing visible acute injuries: development of a comprehensive taxonomy for research and practice (2016) (4)
- Reply to J. Lagro et al (2012) (4)
- N‐of‐1 trials to facilitate evidence‐based deprescribing: Rationale and case study (2022) (3)
- Prescriptions for Potentially Inappropriate Medications from the Beers Criteria Among Older Adults Hospitalized for Heart Failure (2021) (3)
- Identifying patterns of health care utilisation among physical elder abuse victims using Medicare data and legally adjudicated cases: protocol for case–control study using data linkage and machine learning (2021) (3)
- The Crisis in the Long-Term Care Workforce (2001) (3)
- Eliminating Medical School Debt: A Dean and Geriatrician's View From Opposite Ends of the Training Pipeline (2019) (3)
- Developing standard data for elder abuse multidisciplinary teams: A critical objective (2020) (3)
- Vulnerable Elder Protection Team: Initial experience of an emergency department‐based interdisciplinary elder abuse program (2022) (3)
- Improving Emergency Department Identification and Management of Agitated Delirium in Older Adults: Implementation and Impact Assessment of a Comprehensive Clinical Protocol Using an A-B-C-D-E-F Mnemonic (2013) (2)
- Developing a rigorous, systematic methodology to identify and categorize elder mistreatment in criminal justice data (2020) (2)
- Bringing Advances in Elder Abuse Research Methodology and Theory to Evaluation of Interventions (2021) (2)
- A Case Report of Corticobasal Degeneration (2004) (2)
- What Does “Self‐Neglect” in Older Adults Really Cost? (2008) (2)
- Reply: Toward Improved Understanding of Potential Harm in Heart Failure. (2020) (2)
- Abstract 15323: Patients With Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction Contend With Deficits Across Multiple Domains of Health (2020) (2)
- PROTOCOL: Global elder abuse: A mega‐map of systematic reviews on prevalence, consequences, risk and protective factors and interventions (2022) (2)
- Development of the Verbal Autopsy Instrument for COVID-19 (VAIC) (2021) (2)
- Lack of Association of Elder Mistreatment With Mortality. (2021) (1)
- Factors associated with resident‐to‐resident elder mistreatment in nursing homes (2021) (1)
- COVID-19 and aging, a tale of two pandemics (2021) (1)
- Elder abuse prevalence and risk factors: findings from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (2022) (1)
- THE NATIONAL COLLABORATORY TO ADDRESS ELDER MISTREATMENT: A COLLECTIVE IMPACT APPROACH (2019) (1)
- PRESIDENTIAL SYMPOSIUM: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON THE FINANCIAL EXPLOITATION OF OLDER ADULTS (2017) (1)
- Global Perspectives on Elder Abuse (1996) (1)
- Professional courtesy then and now. (1994) (1)
- Resident-to-resident elder mistreatment (R-REM) intervention for direct care staff in assisted living residences: study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial (2020) (1)
- POLYPHARMACY INCREASES IN PREVALENCE AND SEVERITY FOLLOWING A HEART FAILURE HOSPITALIZATION (2019) (1)
- Changes in Cough Airflow and Acoustics After Injection Laryngoplasty (2022) (1)
- Response by Unlu et al to Letter Regarding Article, "Polypharmacy in Older Adults Hospitalized for Heart Failure". (2021) (1)
- Correction: Letter on Screening for Disability (1990) (0)
- RESPONSE TO COMMENTARY BY DR. OLIVER AND COLLEAGUES ON HIP PROTECTORS (2006) (0)
- HEART FAILURE-EXACERBATING MEDICATION USE IS COMMON BOTH BEFORE AND AFTER A HEART FAILURE HOSPITALIZATION (2019) (0)
- AN ELDER MISTREATMENT CARE MODEL: PATHWAYS FOR DISSEMINATION (2018) (0)
- PROVIDER PERSPECTIVES ON A MULTI-DISCIPLINARY EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT INTERVENTION FOR ELDER ABUSE (2017) (0)
- PSYCHOMETRIC PROPERTIES OF A NOVEL MEASURE OF FINANCIAL ABUSE OF OLDER ADULTS (2022) (0)
- Emergency Department and Hospital Utilization Among Older Adults Before and After Identification of Elder Mistreatment (2023) (0)
- Elder abuse. (2004) (0)
- Resident-to-resident aggression in long-term care facilities: Prevalence and risk factors. (2022) (0)
- Patient Experiences with a Technology-Facilitated N-of-1 Clinical Trial for Shared Decision-Making about Beta-Blocker Medication Usage (2022) (0)
- Physician performance and recommendation interface (2014) (0)
- lder Patients With Prostate Cancer ndergoing Androgen Deprivation Therapy (2008) (0)
- Developing a tool to assess and monitor institutional readiness to address elder mistreatment in hospital emergency departments (2021) (0)
- ELDER ABUSE RESEARCH: THE INTEGRATION OF BIOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES IN AGING (2017) (0)
- What Are the Most Distressing Aspects of Experiencing Elder Abuse? Findings From a Qualitative Study With Victims (2020) (0)
- Abstract 12668: Geriatric Patients Admitted for Heart Failure are Less Likely to Have Follow-up Appointments Scheduled Prior to Discharge (2015) (0)
- "Failure to thrive" in older adults. (1996) (0)
- INITIAL EXPERIENCE OF THE FIRST HELPLINE DEVOTED TO SUPPORTING CONCERNED PERSONS IN THE LIVES OF ELDER ABUSE VICTIMS (2022) (0)
- Incidence and Risk Factors of Elder Mistreatment in the Community: A Longitudinal Population-Based Study (2021) (0)
- PATTERN OF β-BLOCKER USE FOLLOWING HOSPITALIZATION OF OLDER ADULTS WITH HEART FAILURE WITH PRESERVED EJECTION FRACTION (HFPEF) FROM THE REGARDS STUDY (2019) (0)
- INFORMAL NETWORK SUPPORTERS MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN FACILITATING USE OF FORMAL SUPPORT SERVICES FOR ELDER ABUSE VICTIMS (2018) (0)
- The history and epidemiology of elder abuse (2018) (0)
- Qualitative development of a resident-to-resident elder mistreatment measure (2013) (0)
- What nursing home residents value in their doctors. (2000) (0)
- EMF3 Mechanisms of Injury and Implements Used in Physical Elder Abuse: Preliminary Findings from a Pilot Study of Highly Adjudicated Cases (2015) (0)
- GOAL ATTAINMENT SCALING: MEASURING CHANGE IN APS ELDER ABUSE INTERVENTION (2017) (0)
- Participation of elderly patients with lymphoma and myeloma in clinical trials of novel agents. (2010) (0)
- 225 Geriatric Burn Injuries Presenting to the Emergency Department of a Major Burn Center: Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes (2014) (0)
- PROSECUTING ELDER ABUSE, NEGLECT, AND EXPLOITATION: EXAMINATION OF A LARGE, URBAN U.S. COUNTY, 2008–2011 (2018) (0)
- Barriers to timely care of acute infection. (2003) (0)
- Novel functional assessment techniques for geriatric lymphoma patients. (2004) (0)
- Feasibility of a self-administered geriatric assessment tool for older patients with cancer. (2006) (0)
- Psychometric Properties of The Five-Item Victimization of Exploitation (FIVE) Scale: A Measure of Financial Abuse of Older Adults. (2022) (0)
- GUIDELINE-DIRECTED MEDICAL THERAPY INITIATION FOR HEART FAILURE WITH REDUCED EJECTION FRACTION DOES NOT VARY ACCORDING TO GERIATRIC CONDITIONS (2020) (0)
- Interview for Decisional Abilities (2019) (0)
- THE VALUE OF A SOCIAL WORKER WITHIN A MULTI-DISCIPLINARY EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT TEAM TO COMBAT ELDER MISTREATMENT (2018) (0)
- A STREAMLINED ELDER MISTREATMENT CARE MODEL FOR HOSPITAL EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS (2018) (0)
- RESPONSE LETTER TO DRS. REYES‐ORTIZ AND ESPOSITO ET AL. (2006) (0)
- EXISTING STRATEGIES FOR ELECTRONIC DATA COLLECTION BY ELDER ABUSE MULTI-DISCIPLINARY TEAMS (2019) (0)
- Tacrine in Alzheimer's disease. (1993) (0)
- Age associated financial vulnerability: the neuroscience and epidemiology of a clinical and public health crisis (2018) (0)
- Suffering in Silence : The Caregiver as Invisible Patient (2014) (0)
- LEUKOCYTE ESTERASE TESTS DETECT PYURIA, NOT BACTERIURIA. AUTHOR'S REPLY (1993) (0)
- Acoustic Screening of the "Wet voice": Proof of Concept in an ex vivo Canine Laryngeal Model. (2022) (0)
- RESPONSE LETTER TO DR. DRINKA (2007) (0)
- Identifying forensic injuries of elder abuse (2018) (0)
- Diagnostic Coding of Elder Mistreatment: Results From a National Database of Medicare Advantage and Private Insurance Patients, 2011–2017 (2021) (0)
- RESIDENT-TO-RESIDENT AGGRESSION: PREVALENCE AND RISK FACTORS (2022) (0)
- BUILT-IN ASSESSMENT TOOLS TO MOTIVATE IMPROVEMENTS IN CARE (2018) (0)
- Reply (2020) (0)
- WHAT DOES SUCCESS MEAN IN THE CONTEXT OF ELDER ABUSE INTERVENTION FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF VICTIMS? (2019) (0)
- Risk Factors for Amputation in Diabetics (1993) (0)
- Barriers to Timely Care of Acute Infections (2003) (0)
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