Long-term care facilities, particularly skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), have felt the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, with high mortality rates observed in residents. SNF residents comprise less than 1% of the US population,1 however, this...
There are often disconnects between what management and workers think are key to attracting and keeping good employees. For Instance, in a recent report, Texas Assisted Living Workforce Retention: A Tale of Two Perspectives , the authors found that...
Isometric grip strength is a good indicator for performance of the upper body.1 Furthermore, it is highly correlated with general health, particularly among older adults.2 Therefore, knowledge about the correlates of grip strength is of great...
Delirium is commonly seen in older adults with multimorbidity, during a hospitalization, resulting from the interplay between predisposing factors such as advanced age, frailty, and dementia, and a series of precipitating factors. The association...
The tragic deaths of residents and staff during the COVID-19 pandemic called attention to the longstanding need for transformational change and redesign in nursing homes.1,2 Stressors on the nursing home staff from increased workloads, to staffing...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) continues to provide relief where possible to clinicians responding to the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE). CMS is applying the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) automatic...
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact all clinicians across the United States and territories, and CMS recognizes that not everyone may have been able to submit an Extreme and Uncontrollable Circumstances (EUC) Exception Application for...
Little empirical research exists on how key stakeholders involved in the provision of care for chronic conditions and policy planning perceive the indirect or “spillover” effects of the COVID-19 on non-COVID patients. This study aims to explore...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join An article in The New York Times (NYT) from September contained some alarming reports about antipsychotic medication use in nursing homes. A recent AMDA On-The-Go podcast, Another Reflection on Antipsychotic Use in...
