The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) updated the Quality Payment Program Participation Status Tool based on the second snapshot of data from Alternative Payment Model (APM) entities. The second snapshot includes data from Medicare...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicare Services (CMS) posted new Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) and Advanced Alternative Payment Model (APM) resources: MIPS 2018 Performance Period Resources: Performance Feedback Beneficiary-Level Data...
More than 10% of people aged 50 years and older report dizziness. Despite available treatments, dizziness remains unresolved for many people due in part to suboptimal assessment. We aimed to identify factors associated with dizziness handicap in...
Moving into a long-term care home can be accompanied by negative psychosocial effects. Loneliness and depression are common,1 and residents complain about superficial social connections in these settings.2 Despite a desire among residents for more...
The study sought to determine whether older people, on discharge from hospital and on referral to a supported discharge team (SDT), will have: (1) reduced length of stay in hospital; (2) reduced risk of hospital readmission; and (3) reduced...
In this age of innovation, data generated in 2 days is as much as all data generated in human history before 2003!1 An explosion of startups aiming to improve senior care is resulting in a flurry of new ideas and products. How does one make the best...
This study aimed to clarify the difference in (1) long-term care (LTC) usage and expenditure and (2) medical care service usage and expenditure before and after the change in the copayment limit for qualifying individuals from 10% to 20%.
China is expected to host almost half of the global dementia population by 2050.1 Such projections demand immediate preventive therapies to delay the progression of cognitive decline in the community. Motoric cognitive risk (MCR) syndrome...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Earlier this year the Foundation for PALTC Medicine asked Society members to participate in a large-scale quality improvement study to evaluate the impact of the annual influenza vaccine choice on LTC facility...
