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Surgery and Geriatric Medicine: Toward Greater Integration and Collaboration

JAMDA
April 1, 2022
Geriatrics is a strong common bond linking the medical and surgical specialties, because much of surgical practice involves older persons. Indeed, many of the largest surgical specialties primarily serve patients aged 65 and older, including...

President’s Budget Includes Funding for Nursing Home Reform Agenda

Policy Snapshot
April 1, 2022
Last week, President Biden released his fiscal year (FY) 2023 budget for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Here are the highlights: $641 million in FY 2023 for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) contracts with...

Society Urges CMS to Allow Split/Shared Visits based on Time/Medical Decision-Making

Policy Snapshot
April 1, 2022
Last week, the Society joined the American Medical Association and other national specialty societies in urging the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to propose an alternate policy in the calendar year 2023 Medicare Physician...

Societies Ask HRSA to Reopen Reporting Period for Provider Relief Fund

Policy Snapshot
April 1, 2022
The Society joined the American Medical Association and other national medical specialty societies in asking the Health Resources and Service Administration (HRSA) to reopen the reporting period for at least 60 days to applicable Provider Relief...

Response to the Comments on “Malnutrition in Relation to Muscle Mass, Muscle Quality, and Muscle Strength in Hospitalized Older Adults”

JAMDA
April 1, 2022
We thank Drs Tasci and Naharci for their interest in our recent manuscript.1 First, according to the Global Leadership Initiative on Malnutrition (GLIM) consensus, the diagnosis of malnutrition should include at least 1 phenotypic criterion (either...

Comment on “Malnutrition in Relation to Muscle Mass, Muscle Quality, and Muscle Strength in Hospitalized Older Adults”

JAMDA
April 1, 2022
In a recent JAMDA article, Xie et al1 reported that patients with a malnutrition diagnosis assessed by the Global Leadership Initiative on Malnutrition (GLIM) had significantly lower skeletal muscle radiodensity, an indicator of muscle quality, and...

Prevalence of Pharmacologic Treatments for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in Relation of Diagnosis of Dementia Among Nursing Homes Residents

JAMDA
March 31, 2022
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a chronic disease affecting millions of older adults. We investigated the prevalence of nursing home (NH) residents with COPD and their pharmacologic treatment in relation to the diagnosis of dementia...

AMDA Vice President Looks to Build on Experience, Vision, Leadership for Innovative Future

Spotlight
March 30, 2022
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Rajeev Kumar, MD, FACP, CMD, AMDA’s new vice president, remembers when he first realized that the Society was his professional home and the place where he could make a real difference. “I was at my first House of...

The National Home-Based Primary Care Learning Network: A Practice-Based Quality Improvement and Research Network

JAMDA
March 26, 2022
Home-based primary care (HBPC) provides interdisciplinary, comprehensive care at home for homebound older adults and has been largely excluded from the national conversation on care quality and quality improvement. In this Pragmatic Innovations...

A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Digital Adaptation of the WHELD Person-Centered Nursing Home Training Program

JAMDA
March 26, 2022
Digital approaches to delivering person-centered care training to nursing home staff have the potential to enable widespread affordable implementation, but there is very limited evidence and no randomized controlled trials (RCTs) evaluating digital...