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Getting to Complete and Accurate Medication Lists During the Transition to Home Health Care

JAMDA
July 25, 2020
Characterize the work that home health care (HHC) admission nurses complete as part of the medication reconciliation tasks, explore the impact of shared electronic medication data (interoperability) from the referral source on medication...

Direct Admission from the Emergency Department to a Subacute Care Ward: An Alternative to Acute Hospitalization

JAMDA
July 25, 2020
In recent years, subacute care units (SCUs) have emerged as alternatives to acute hospitalization for selected emergency department (ED) patients who might benefit from a short period of inpatient stay within a less acute setting. We developed a new...

Clustering of Behavioral Changes and Their Associations With Cognitive Decline in Older Adults

JAMDA
July 25, 2020
To examine (1) the clustering of reduced falls-efficacy, social withdrawal, and physical activity withdrawal in Irish adults aged 50 years and older, and (2) the concurrent and prospective associations of these clustered behaviors with cognitive...

Home First! Identification of Hospitalized Patients for Home-Based Models of Care

JAMDA
July 25, 2020
To determine the proportion of hospitalized inpatients suitable for an acute and subacute home-based inpatient bed substitutive service, to examine the ability of treating teams to identify suitable patients for this service, and to examine...

Antihypertensive Deprescribing in Older Adult Veterans at End of Life Admitted to Veteran Affairs Nursing Homes

JAMDA
July 25, 2020
Geriatric palliative care approaches support deprescribing of antihypertensives in older nursing home (NH) residents with limited life expectancy and/or advanced dementia (LLE/AD) who are intensely treated for hypertension (HTN), but information on...

Incorporating Comprehensive Assessment Parameters to Better Characterize and Plan Rehabilitation for Persons with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

JAMDA
July 25, 2020
The current management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) largely ignores its heterogeneous pulmonary and extrapulmonary manifestations in the individual patient. This study aimed to identify clusters of patients with COPD based on a...

What Is Really Needed to Provide Effective, Person-Centered Care for Behavioral Expressions of Dementia? Guidance from The Alzheimer's Association Dementia Care Provider Roundtable

JAMDA
July 25, 2020
In April, 2019, the Alzheimer's Association Dementia Care Provider Roundtable convened to discuss common challenges faced when implementing person-centered, non-pharmacological practices in long-term care and other settings that provide care and...

Effects of Nutritional Interventions on Nutritional and Functional Outcomes in Geriatric Rehabilitation Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

JAMDA
July 25, 2020
It has been recognized that nutritional interventions play a role in improving the nutritional and functional status of older persons. This systematic review summarizes the evidence on nutritional and functional outcomes of nutritional interventions...

AMDA/ADVault Partnership Supports Advance Care Planning “Awakening”

Spotlight
July 23, 2020
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join “There has been an awakening,” says Maria D. Moen, director of platform innovation at ADVault, Inc., a company specializing in digital advance care planning (ACP). “People used to think that advance care planning...

Provider Relief Fund Update

Policy Snapshot
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Practitioners
July 23, 2020
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) extended the deadline for eligible Medicaid and CHIP physicians and organizations to submit information and apply for funding from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act...