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CMS Webinar Reviews the APM Performance Pathway

Policy Snapshot
October 1, 2021
On Monday, September 27, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) hosted a webinar discussing an overview of the APM Performance Pathway (APP) policies, which are part of the Quality Payment Program (QPP). According to CMS, this is a...

Society Expresses Concern to FDA on Labeling of Aducanumab

Policy Snapshot
October 1, 2021
Last week, the Society joined the American Geriatrics Society, the Society of General Internal Medicine, and the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, in writing a letter to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) expressing concern for...

Society Supports Good Samaritan Health Professional Act of 2021

Policy Snapshot
October 1, 2021
Last week, the Society, through our membership in the Health Coalition on Liability and Access (HCLA), supported the Good Samaritan Health Professional Act of 2021, championed by Sens. Bill Cassidy, MD (R) and Angus King (I) and Reps. Raul Ruiz, MD...

Society Supports Good Samaritan Health Professional Act of 2021

Policy Snapshot
October 1, 2021
Last week, the Society, through our membership in the Health Coalition on Liability and Access (HCLA), supported the Good Samaritan Health Professional Act of 2021, championed by Sens. Bill Cassidy, MD (R) and Angus King (I) and Reps. Raul Ruiz, MD...

Associations Between Intrinsic Capacity and Adverse Events Among Nursing Home Residents: The INCUR Study

JAMDA
October 1, 2021
The predictive ability of the novel intrinsic capacity (IC) construct has been scarcely investigated in the nursing home setting. The objective of this study was to investigate the associations of IC and its individual domains with mortality,...

Emergency Department Staff Perceptions of Emergency Department Interventions for Frailty (EDIFY)

JAMDA
October 1, 2021
We refer to our article entitled “Emergency Department Interventions for Frailty (EDIFY): Front-Door Geriatric Care Can Reduce Acute Admissions.”1 Although we have described clinical effectiveness of the EDIFY program, a deeper appreciation of...

Webinar Offers an “Auxiliary Brain” to Help Clinicians Diagnose and Manage Parkinson’s

Spotlight
September 29, 2021
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Since one in four people with Parkinson’s Disease lives in long-term care facilities, practitioners working in post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) need to know all they can to best manage this complex disease...

Quantifying Barriers to Medications for Opioid Use Disorder in Skilled Nursing Facilities in a Southwestern Metropolitan Area

JAMDA
September 29, 2021
As the country endures an opioid epidemic in patients of all ages, chronic opioid use is increasingly common and patients may be frequently admitted to skilled nursing facilities for management of complications from opioid use.1 Patients with opioid...

Absence of COVID-19 Disease Among Chronically Ventilated Nursing Home Patients

JAMDA
September 28, 2021
To describe the experience of COVID-19 disease among chronically ventilated and nonventilated nursing home patients living in 3 separate nursing homes.

Increasing Anticholinergic Burden is Associated With Social Vulnerability in the Oldest Old

JAMDA
September 27, 2021
Anticholinergic agents are frequently administered to older people with dementia, who are more likely to receive multiple drugs, including psychotropic agents, thus increasing their anticholinergic burden (AB).1 The unfavorable cognitive, behavioral...