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New Hosts Take the Wheel on AMDA On-The-Go Podcasts

Spotlight
January 27, 2022
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join With the start of 2022, AMDA’s popular podcast programs feature two new hosts. Diane Sanders-Cepeda, DO, CMD, is the new host of AMDA On-The-Go; Karl Steinberg, MD, CMD, HMDC, has taken the helm of the Caring On-...

Long-Term Care Facilities (LTCFs) During the COVID-19 Pandemic—Lessons From the Asian Approach: A Narrative Review

JAMDA
January 24, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic put into question the organizational skills of LTCF. The containment measures implemented in several Asian countries avoided heavy death tolls in LTCF in contrast to other countries across the globe. The aim of this review is...

Relationships Between Community Virus Activity and Cardiorespiratory Rehospitalizations From Post-Acute Care

JAMDA
January 24, 2022
Quantify the relationship between increasing influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) community viral activity and cardiorespiratory rehospitalizations among older adults discharged to skilled nursing facilities (SNFs).

CMS Releases Latest Report on Antipsychotic Medication Use

Policy Snapshot
January 21, 2022
The National Partnership to Improve Dementia Care in Nursing Homes has released its Antipsychotic Medicare Use and Data report for the second quarter of 2021. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is tracking the progress of the...

AMA to Host Webinar Addressing Clinician Well-Being in Omicron’s Wake

Policy Snapshot
January 21, 2022
The American Medical Association (AMA) is hosting a webinar this Thursday, January 27, at 12:00 PM ET exploring strategies for addressing clinician well-being in the wake of the coronavirus’ Omicron variant . The webinar, Reconsidering Priorities...

Prevention of Osteoporotic Fractures in Residential Aged Care: Updated Consensus Recommendations

JAMDA
January 21, 2022
Osteoporosis is underdiagnosed and undertreated in people living in Residential Aged Care Facilities (RACFs), even though aged-care residents are at greater risk of experiencing fractures than their community-dwelling counterparts. The first (2009)...

Optimizing Practices, Use, Care, and Services–Antipsychotics (OPUS-AP) in Long-Term Care Centers in Quebec, Canada: A Successful Scale-Up

JAMDA
January 21, 2022
To evaluate the scale-up of the OPUS-AP program to improve the care of residents at long-term care (LTC) centers through the systematic implementation of resident-centered approaches to care, the application of nonpharmacologic interventions for the...

Be Compassionate When Working with Families

Spotlight
January 20, 2022
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join “It’s easy to lose sleep about something that is going on with family members,” said Moderator Richard Juman, PsyD, at the beginning of Self-Compassion and Emotional Resilience for Working with Families. In this...

Interprofessional Collaboration in Long-Term Care and Rehabilitation: A Systematic Review

JAMDA
January 19, 2022
To examine facilitators of and barriers to interprofessional collaboration (IPC) in institutional long-term care (LTC) and geriatric rehabilitation (GR), and to provide an overview of instruments used to assess IPC in LTC and GR.

Home, but Not Homebound: A Prospective Analysis of Persons Living With Dementia

JAMDA
January 18, 2022
Homebound persons living with dementia may have increased difficulty accessing needed care in the community. This study identifies factors associated with becoming homebound among a national sample of Medicare beneficiaries with newly identified...