Studies suggesting that vulnerability increased short-term mortality in older patients with COVID-19 enrolled hospitalized patients and lacked COVID-negative comparators. Aim of this study was to examine the relationship between frailty and 1-year...
Last week, Congress passed, and the president signed into law, S.610—the Protecting Medicare and American Farmers from Sequester Cuts Act—averting 4-5% cuts to Medicare payments for nursing home visits. The bill extends the 2% Medicare sequester...
Last week, the Society joined other long-term care associations in urging the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to find resolutions for long delays in processing Employment Authorization Document (...
To investigate whether an electronic health record (EHR)–integrated decision tool, combined with supportive interventions, results in more appropriate antibiotic prescribing in nursing home (NH) residents with suspected urinary tract infection (UTI...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join AMDA created Healing Together—including resources and webinars—to address the grief and trauma we’re all feeling in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Richard Juman, MD, opened the most recent webinar in the series...
The purpose of this study was to expand on prior work testing invariance on several depression measures in community-based older adults and explore the psychometric properties and evidence of invariance between racial groups based on the Cornell...
Post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) residents are disproportionately affected by coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19). We describe a health system approach that incorporated PALTC stakeholders to treat residents effectively and efficiently with monoclonal...
To identify the optimal cutoff points for poor physical function [measured by a 5-times sit-to-stand (5-STS) test] associated with slowness in community-dwelling older adults and to validate the 5-STS cut points by determining whether they predicted...
Total hip arthroplasty (THA) reduces pain and improves physical function1; however, walking independence after surgery is often delayed. Several factors have been reported as reasons for delayed physical function recovery2–4; nevertheless, few...
As a medical director for nursing homes in rural South Carolina, I wanted to give my perspective “from the trenches” regarding the recent editorial in JAMDA “Mandating COVID-19 Vaccine for Nursing Home Staff: An Ethical Obligation” by Dumyati et al...
