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CMS Releases Request for Information to Help Promote Efficiency, Reduce Burden, and Advance Equity

Policy Snapshot
October 7, 2022
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released the Make Your Voice Heard Request for Information (RFI) to get your input. It wants to: Understand your experience, including factors which affect provider wellness Learn about...

CMS Ends Nursing Home CNA Training Wavier

Policy Snapshot
October 7, 2022
Last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) rejected requests to extend its waiver allowing nursing homes to employ temporary nurse aides (TNA) for more than four months without certified nursing aid training. CMS announced the...

Estimation of Appendicular Skeletal Muscle Mass for Women Aged 60-70 Years Using a Machine Learning Approach

JAMDA
October 7, 2022
This article aimed to develop and validate an anthropometric equation based on the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) regression, a machine learning approach, to predict appendicular skeletal muscle mass (ASM) in 60-70-year-old...

The Long-Term Care Data Cooperative: The Next Generation of Data Integration

JAMDA
October 6, 2022
Despite important advances in the linkage of residents’ Medicare claims and Minimum Data Set (MDS) information, the data infrastructure for long-term care remains inadequate for public health surveillance and clinical research. It is widely known...

The Nursing Home Physician: Supporting a Threatened Resource

JAMDA
October 3, 2022
In 2003, medical leaders in Continuing Care in Calgary, Alberta, conducted a satisfaction survey of the 150 attending physicians working in the medium-sized Canadian city’s Long-Term Care (LTC) centers. Of the 43% responses, a sobering 69% expressed...

Wish to Die Among Residents of Swiss Long-Term Care Facilities: A Multisite Cross-Sectional Study

JAMDA
October 3, 2022
The wish to die (WTD) in persons near the end of life is a clinically important, ethically and practically complex phenomenon as demonstrated by the intense debates on assisted dying legislation around the world. Despite global aging and increasing...

What Medical Anthropology Teaches Us About Inclusive Health Care

Caring for the Ages
October 1, 2022
In my years as a medical anthropologist with a race and gender studies background, I’ve long considered what it means to create culturally-attuned and inclusive health care environments. As I supported our editorial team in putting together this...

Racial Disparities, Reimbursement for Care, and Quality of Life: Factors That May Influence the Prescribing of Antipsychotics for Minority Nursing Home Residents

Caring for the Ages
October 1, 2022
Recently there has been an upsurge in published studies that have focused on the inequalities existing in the provision of care to minority residents of nursing homes. Analysis of data during COVID-19 has emphasized these disparities, reporting the...

AMDA’s Collaboration with CNAs

Caring for the Ages
October 1, 2022
AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine has long supported collaboration with certified nurse assistants (CNAs) — vital members of the clinical team in nursing homes. We have encouraged clinicians to round with CNAs and to take...

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