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Bigger Patients, Bigger Challenges: For Patients of Size, Proper Care Can Be Elusive

Caring for the Ages
May 1, 2019
When you’re big, numbers matter. Like the 76 inches of my 83-year-old father’s height versus the 80-inch length of a standard hospital bed. We became well acquainted with these numbers after my dad fell 2 years ago and entered a long cycle of stays...

Person-Centered Care: Are We Really Doing It?

Caring for the Ages
May 1, 2019
Jim Collins makes the case that “good” is the enemy of “great” in his book Good to Great (New York: Random House Business, 2001). Similarly, in looking at the progress that has been made in bringing person-centered practices to elder care and in...

PALTC Practitioners Step Up to Address Opioid Crisis

Caring for the Ages
May 1, 2019
The United States is in the throes of an opioid crisis. Since 1999, deaths from prescription opioids have more than quadrupled. National organizations such as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Centers for Disease Control...

POLICY UPDATE: Volume IV

AMDA On-The-Hill
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Alternative Payment Models (APM), Medicare Access and CHIP Re-authorization Act (MACRA), Merit-Based Incentive Program Payment System (MIPS), Practitioners
May 1, 2019
POLICY UPDATE: Volume IV Follow AMDA On-The-Hill Podcast Questions? Email Alex at abardakh@paltc.org Related Resources: April 18 and May 1 PDPM webinars Health Policy Advisor article on new payment models SNF Medical Directors and Clinicians in PDPM...

Podcast Shines Fresh Light on Advance Care Planning

Spotlight
April 30, 2019
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join During a recent AMDA On-The-Go podcast on Advance Care Planning (ACP), host Wayne Saltsman, MD, PhD, CMD, noted that this “is by no means a new concept in medicine.” Yet guest Karl Steinberg, MD, CMD, HMDC, brought...

Impact of Glycemic Control on Daily Living Activities Over 1-Year Follow-up in Memory Clinic Patients With Diabetes

JAMDA
April 28, 2019
Ample evidence suggests that type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) increases the risk of impairment of activities of daily living (ADL).1 Although the association between poor glycemic control and ADL decline has already been described,2 the impact of...

Preventable Hospitalizations Among Nursing Home Residents With Dementia and Behavioral Health Disorders

JAMDA
April 28, 2019
Nursing home (NH) residents with Alzheimer's disease/related dementias (ADRD) and/or behavioral health disorders (BHD) are at high risk of hospitalizations, many of which are potentially avoidable. Empirical evidence regarding potentially avoidable...

Hospital Readmission From Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs): Perspectives of Hospital and SNF Providers

JAMDA
April 28, 2019
Following an acute hospital stay, 1 in 4 Medicare patients is transferred to a skilled nursing facility (SNF).1 Meanwhile, 25% of these patients are readmitted to the hospital within 30 days.2 In addition to the increasing costs, repeated...

Repeated Cerebrospinal Fluid Removal Procedure in Older Patients With Idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus Ineligible for Surgical Treatment?

JAMDA
April 28, 2019
I read with great interest the article by Rossi et al in which they illustrate the positive responses obtained with repeated cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) tap procedures in patients with normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) who were ineligible for...

Sundown Syndrome in Older Persons: A Scoping Review

JAMDA
April 28, 2019
To map comprehensive investigations of the sundown syndrome (SS), highlighting its key definition and associated characteristics.