There is growing acknowledgement that the proportion of adults with serious mental illness (SMI) in nursing homes (NHs) is increasing. SMI refers to a group of mental health conditions that result in serious functional impairment or limit...
Self-perceived balance confidence (BC) and gait speed influence falls. Whether they modulate each other in fall prediction stays uncertain. This study examined whether and how BC modulated the association between gait speed and falls.
The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly affected the morbidity and mortality of residents in long-term care (LTC) homes. However, not much is known about its impact on staff's perception of their capacity to provide palliative and end-of-life (EOL) care...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join When AMDA launched the Drive to Deprescribe (D2D) – Optimizing Medication Use in PALTC initiative two years ago, they hoped it would make a difference. But members of the D2D workgroup—Arif Nazir, MD, CMD; Sabine...
Sarcopenic obesity is a geriatric syndrome marked by fat excess caused by obesity and muscular failure induced by sarcopenia.1 The pathophysiology includes a vicious cycle between myocytes and adipocytes,2 with gender-specific differences in...
To evaluate associations of Life's Essential 8 (LE8) score, the recently updated metric for promoting cardiovascular health (CVH), with the risk of incident dementia and its subtypes, cognition, and neuroimaging outcomes and to determine whether...
A bipartisan group of 60 senators—led by Sens. Brian Schatz (D-HI), Roger Wicker (R-MS), Ben Cardin (D-MD), John Thune (R-SD), Mark Warner (D-VA), and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS)—has reintroduced the Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and...
A new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) looked at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Care Compare website and concluded that it could be improved. Care Compare was developed to help consumers select a nursing home...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has opened the Final Score Preview period for the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS). Authorized representatives of practices, virtual groups, and Alternative Payment Model (APM)...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join A candle provides one small light, but it can illuminate a room or a path. The same is true of program sessions at the AMDA Annual Conference. One presentation can light the way for many care teams and improve care...
