MADRID — In a surprising finding, antidepressant use during the 3 years preceding diagnosis of dementia was linked with a significantly reduced mortality risk, Daniela Enache, MD, reported at the European Congress of Psychiatry.
What a great annual meeting we had in Orlando! Caring’s print coverage of the meeting will start in earnest next month, but I couldn’t wait to share my excitement about this year’s meeting. Like many of us, I find the best part of the meeting is...
ORLANDO, FL — Outgoing AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine President Naushira Pandya, MD, CMD, gave her final presentation in that role at the Society’s annual conference on Friday, March 18, during the General Session.
Late last year, staff at the Hebrew Rehabilitation Center in Boston admitted a 95-year-old man in a wheelchair onto one of their long-term care floors. The resident had heart disease, dysphagia, and other comorbidities. “He was very frail, very weak...
To estimate prevalence of sarcopenia and dynapenia in outpatients with Parkinson disease (PD) and to investigate their association with the features of the disease.
John Morley, MB,BCh, Editor-in-Chief of JAMDA , is one of those larger than life figures who lives each day to the fullest and makes every moment count. At the helm of the Society’s journal, he has attracted many prestigious international authors...
This week the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued their proposed rule for implementing certain provisions of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA). MACRA ended more than a decade of last-minute fixes...
This week the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) added six new quality measures to the Nursing Home Compare website . Three of these six new quality measures are based on Medicare-claims data submitted by hospitals, which is...
