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Integrating Principles of Safety Culture and Just Culture Into Nursing Homes: Lessons From the Pandemic

JAMDA
December 24, 2021
Decades of concerns about the quality of care provided by nursing homes have led state and federal agencies to create layers of regulations and penalties. As such, regulatory efforts to improve nursing home care have largely focused on the...

Proactive Geriatric Comanagement of Nursing Home Patients by a New Hospital-Based Liaison Geriatric Unit: A New Model for the Future

JAMDA
December 24, 2021
During the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, hospital-based liaison geriatric units (LGUs) were created in Spanish hospitals with the aim to improve health care coordination between nursing homes (NHs) and hospitals. Our university hospital created a...

Sleep Duration and Disability-Free Life Expectancy Among Japanese Older Adults: The Ohsaki Cohort 2006 Study

JAMDA
December 24, 2021
Healthy life expectancy has been a useful indicator of population health that combines length and quality of life into a single measure,1 which is usually defined as the number of years living in optimal health without diseases and/or disability...

Independence at Home Year Six Evaluation Report

Policy Snapshot
December 23, 2021
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the year six report on the Independence at Home (IAH) demonstration project. Here are the key takeaways: The results of the evaluation of the demonstration’s first six years provide no...

CMS Develops FAQ on Visitation

Policy Snapshot
December 23, 2021
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has developed a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) document to address the questions that it has been receiving regarding visitation in nursing homes. This additional information is helpful to...

High-Quality Nursing Home and Palliative Care—One and the Same

JAMDA
December 23, 2021
Many individuals receiving post-acute and long-term care services in nursing homes have unmet palliative and end-of-life care needs. Hospice has been the predominant approach to meeting these needs, although hospice services generally are available...

Malnutrition in Relation to Muscle Mass, Muscle Quality, and Muscle Strength in Hospitalized Older Adults

JAMDA
December 23, 2021
Muscle quality is an essential muscle metric, which can be assessed by measuring intermuscular adipose tissue (IMAT) and skeletal muscle radiodensity (SMD) via computed tomography (CT) images. We aimed to explore the associations of Global...

Nursing Home Design and COVID-19: Implications for Guidelines and Regulation

JAMDA
December 23, 2021
Nursing homes (NHs) are important health care and residential environments for the growing number of frail older adults. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the vulnerability of NHs as they became COVID-19 hotspots. This study examines the...

Telehealth Management and Risk Stratification of Older Patients With Chronic Heart Failure During COVID-19 Pandemic: Prognostic Evaluation of the TeleHFCovid19-Score

JAMDA
December 23, 2021
To evaluate 6-month risk stratification capacity of the newly developed TeleHFCovid19-Score for remote management of older patients with heart failure (HF) during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.

Cooperative Agreement Is a Roadmap for Lasting Change in Immunization Rates, More

Spotlight
December 22, 2021
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Earlier this year, AMDA was approved for funding through a cooperative agreement with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to develop and implement strategies to increase vaccination rates among...