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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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.
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...
The COVID-19 pandemic highlights broken systemic processes within our country’s nursing homes (NHs) with tragic outcomes. Staff are responsible for preventing, identifying, investigating, and controlling infections without the proper training and...
An effective clinical research effort in nursing homes to address prevention and treatment of COVID-19 faced overwhelming challenges. Under the Health Care Systems Research Network-Older Americans Independence Centers AGING Initiative, a...
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is highly prevalent and contributes to disease burden and mortality in older adults.1 The American Heart Association concluded that CVD is the leading cause of death in octogenarians, followed by cancer and Alzheimer’s...
