An Office of Inspector General (OIG) report found that Medicare improperly paid for Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) services when patients didn’t meet the Medicare 3-Day inpatient hospital stay requirement. Review the Skilled Nursing Facility 3-Day...
Heading into the United Nations Decade of Healthy Ageing (2021-2030), health practitioners must respond to the quest to help older people maintain functional ability1 as they age. Functional ability is defined as the capability to be and do what...
Acute medical illness and subsequent hospitalization are associated with several negative health consequences in older adults, even when the acute disease that caused the hospital admission is successfully treated.1,2 Loss of function in activities...
Older people have a higher susceptibility for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and a higher risk of developing severe COVID-19 symptoms and mortality.1 Current studies examining the relation between outcome and frailty in COVID-19 show...
A priority health outcome for patients, families, and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is a patient's ability to return home and remain in the community without adverse events following discharge from post-acute care services...
This study examined the association between intensive rehabilitation for subacute stroke patients and medical costs and readmission ratio during the year after discharge.
Antipsychotics are often prescribed to persons with cognitive impairment in the hospital, but it is not known whether recent hospital care increases the risk of antipsychotic initiation in community dwellers with Alzheimer's disease (AD). We studied...
To systematically review and synthesize the evidence on differential associations between antihypertensive medication (AHM) classes and the risk of incident dementia.
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Late last year the AMDA On-The-Go (AOTG) podcast series, including AOTG, AMDA On-The-Hill, JAMDA On-The-Go, and the Geriatric Journal Club—reached a major milestone: 100,000 downloads. On hearing this news, AOTG...
