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Learning Together About Racism

Caring for the Ages
June 1, 2021
“We’ll all be learning together,” said Mamata Yanamadala, MBBS, chair of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Workgroup of AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine at the beginning of “A Culture of Nursing Home Racism: The...

Opening Panel Mourns a Tragic Year, Looks to a Hopeful Future

Caring for the Ages
June 1, 2021
“It’s been quite a year,” said Joanne Lynn, MD, a policy analyst at the Center to Improve Eldercare at Altarum, at the start of the Opening General Session at PALTC21: the virtual Annual Conference of AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term...

The Evolution of Innovation in Long-Term Care: Including Practitioners in the Process

Caring for the Ages
June 1, 2021
Post-acute and long-term care isn’t generally known as the area of health care marked by innovation. However, while our sector may be behind in the race, we are catching up fast — partly due to the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. “When we are...

Pitfalls, Policy and Practice for a Mandatory Vaccination Plan

Caring for the Ages
June 1, 2021
As vaccines become more readily available and an increasing percentage of the population becomes vaccinated, employers in the post-acute and long-term care field are grappling with whether they can, or should, mandate COVID-19 vaccinations for their...

Venous Thromboembolism Prophylaxis in Post-Acute and Long-Term Care

Caring for the Ages
June 1, 2021
Given that at least 60% of all venous thromboembolism (VTE) events in medically ill hospitalized patients occur in the weeks after hospital discharge, it seems time to support extended VTE prophylaxis in high-risk medical patients with a low...

Evaluating Dyspnea in Heart Failure Patients Takes an Open Mind

Caring for the Ages
June 1, 2021
Dyspnea has a “very broad differential,” and even in patients with heart failure the symptom may have other cardiac and noncardiac causes, said geriatric cardiologist Nicole M. Orr, MD, FACC, during a session on heart failure and dyspnea at the...

What is Person-Centered Care?

Caring for the Ages
June 1, 2021
Dear Dr. Jeff: Our mission statement asserts a commitment to “person-centered care,” as have those of every long-term care facility and chain for which I have worked. I have never really understood what this means, particularly in an era of...

Journal Highlights From the June/July Issue of JAMDA

Caring for the Ages
June 1, 2021
Chronic pain can decrease quality of life, impair daily functioning, and worsen symptoms of depression and anxiety, and concerns about undertreating or overtreating pain make this both a clinical and public health challenge, researchers said.

AMDA and ASCP Join Forces for Guidance on Monoclonal Antibody Treatments for COVID-19 in Long-Term Care

Caring for the Ages
June 1, 2021
Several monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) received emergency use authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of mild to moderate COVID-19 infection in adults who have had positive results in direct SARS-CoV-2 viral testing...

Mandating COVID-19 Vaccines for PALTC Staff: The Ethical Argument

Caring for the Ages
June 1, 2021
Vaccine mandates have been a prickly issue in this country since the smallpox vaccine initiatives in the early 20th century. That’s not surprising, of course. America, a country that generally holds individual freedoms to be mainly inviolable, has a...