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Policy Snapshot
June 30, 2017
AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine strongly opposes the Better Care Reconciliation Act, H. R. 1628 (BCRA of 2017). The Society believes this legislation does not address and only worsens concerns expressed in response to...
Policy Snapshot
June 30, 2017
This week, the House of Representatives passed the Protecting Access to Care Act of 2017 (H.R. 1215) a bill supported by the Society through our work in The Health Coalition on Liability and Access (HCLA). The bill was introduced by Representative...
Policy Snapshot
June 30, 2017
Wednesday July 5 from 2 to 3:30 pm ET Register for Medicare Learning Network events. The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) ended the Sustainable Growth Rate formula and established the Quality Payment Program, improving...
JAMDA
June 29, 2017
To investigate the affective, social, behavioral, and physiological effects of the companion robot Paro for people with dementia in both a day care center and a home setting.
JAMDA
June 29, 2017
Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) need to be complete and consistent to allow health care personnel to honor patient preferences in a time of emergency. The purpose of our study was to evaluate the quality of POLST completion to...
JAMDA
June 29, 2017
Dutch health care for the elderly is rapidly changing. The Dutch government implemented a major reform in January 2015 with a long-term care act (WLZ). One of the aims of this act is that elderly stay as long as possible in their own homes and the...
JAMDA
June 29, 2017
Poor food intake is known to lead to malnutrition in long-term care homes (LTCH), yet multilevel determinants of food intake are not fully understood, hampering development of interventions that can maintain the nutritional status of residents. This...
Spotlight
June 23, 2017
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Helping patients make wise choices about their care has always been a passion for Society members such as David Smith, MD, CMD, ( at left ) and Anuj Bhatnagar, MD, CMD. Recently, their efforts regarding this...
JAMDA
June 21, 2017
This study aimed to give an international perspective of health service gaps for caring for elderly individuals and explore the role of primary care for caring for elderly individuals with chronic conditions in Hong Kong.
JAMDA
June 21, 2017
Although the biological rationale for the association between folate, vitamin B12, and homocysteine with cognitive function seems plausible, conflicting results have been reported. This study aimed to determine the associations between 1-carbon (1-C...