Opening Panel Mourns a Tragic Year, Looks to a Hopeful Future

“It’s been quite a year,” said Joanne Lynn, MD, a policy analyst at the Center to Improve Eldercare at Altarum, at the start of the Opening General Session at PALTC21: the virtual Annual Conference of AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine. She and a panel of experts took time to reflect on the lessons learned during the pandemic and to share gratitude, pay tributes, and look ahead to a future they all agree — with concerted efforts to make some changes — is full of possibilities.