Frailty state progression is common among older adults, so it is necessary to identify predictors to implement individualized interventions. We aimed to develop and validate a nomogram to predict frailty progression in community-living older adults.
The study by Doyle et al1 corroborates earlier findings in The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) cohort2 that a delayed recovery of blood pressure (BP) in the first 60 seconds after active standing up is associated with injurious falls in...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Arif Nazir, MD, CMD, doesn’t just want to work. He doesn’t even just want to make a contribution. He wants to move the needle on key challenges facing post-acute and long-term care (PALTC). He’s long suspected...
Each year in March, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) reports to Congress on fee-for-service payment, Medicare Part D, and the Medicare Advantage program (Medicare Part C). The 2021 MedPAC Report discusses consequences of the...
Last week congressional leaders held hearings on the President’s Budget for Fiscal Year 2022 . The House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee held hearings to discuss the budget with Xavier Becerra, the secretary of Health and...
Do you have a patient with a cognitive impairment? Medicare covers a separate visit for a cognitive assessment so you can more thoroughly evaluate cognitive function and help with care planning. Any clinician eligible to report evaluation and...
As part of the American Rescue Plan, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has been awarded $80 million for training, certification, and degree programs in public health informatics and data science at...
We read with great interest the article by Marques-Sule et al who reported the results of a randomized controlled trial to determine whether adding the Nintendo Wii program to conventional physical therapy would be better than only conventional...
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a major impact on nursing homes (NHs), which were not prepared to manage infections among their at-risk patient populations. In order to comply with the French government's guidelines, we rapidly set up a local support...
Regarding the January 2021 article, Vu M, et al. Antihypertensive Deprescribing in Older Adult Veterans at End of Life Admitted to Veteran Affairs Nursing Homes. J Am Med Dir Assoc 2021 Jan;22(1):132-140.e5.
