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Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Home Care Services Among Community-Dwelling Adults With Dementia

JAMDA
September 5, 2021
To examine how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted use of home care services for individuals with dementia across service types and sociodemographic strata.

Cognition Influences the Effects of Physical Exercise on Pain in Acute Hospitalized Older Adults

JAMDA
September 4, 2021
Pain is a common and disabling condition in older adults and is associated with numerous adverse effects, such as functional or cognitive impairment, malnutrition, or depression.1 Although pain usually has negative effects leading to prolonged...

Prognostic Features of Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease: An Analysis of Taiwan's Nationwide Surveillance

JAMDA
September 4, 2021
To study the prognostic features of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and shed light on its future therapy.

Society Joins Long-Term Care Providers in Urging Foreign Trained Healthcare Workers Into United States

Policy Snapshot
September 3, 2021
Last week, the Society joined other post-acute and long-term care providers in writing a letter to the U.S. Department of State regarding the Immigrant Visa Prioritization update that was issued on April 30, 2021. The guidance issued places for...

CMS Updates Provider Payment and Utilization Public Use Files with 2019 Data

Policy Snapshot
September 3, 2021
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released an update to the Medicare Provider Payment and Utilization Public Use Files with data from 2019. These data files summarize the utilization and payments for procedures, services, and...

CMS Updates Provider Payment and Utilization Public Use Files with 2019 Data

Policy Snapshot
September 3, 2021
CMS Updates Provider Payment and Utilization Public Use Files with 2019 Data The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released an update to the Medicare Provider Payment and Utilization Public Use Files with data from 2019. These data...

Reduction in Fear of Physical Activity Among Older Persons With Coronary Artery Disease by Physical Therapist–Assisted Exercise: A Randomized Trial

JAMDA
September 3, 2021
Cardiovascular diseases remain the number one global concern for morbidity and mortality. Experience of angina with activity or at rest in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) can induce kinesiophobia (fear of movement).1 In this group of...

When Safety Measures Do Harm: Retraumatization of Trauma Survivors Living in Long-Term Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic

JAMDA
September 3, 2021
There is a pressing need to uncover the untold stories of retraumatization experienced by trauma survivors residing in congregate living settings in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic. Beyond disproportionate death tolls, we know that safety...

SARS-CoV-2 B 1.1.7 Variant Outbreak in a Fully Vaccinated Nursing Home—Madrid, June 2021

JAMDA
September 3, 2021
After mass vaccination against SARS-CoV-2, starting in December 2020, of residents in nursing homes (NHs), a sharp decrease in the number of outbreaks and mortality was observed.1,2 Current evidence seems to support that the clinical benefits found...

Futures Opens Doors, Changes Lives

Spotlight
September 2, 2021
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Participation in the Foundation for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care (PALTC) Medicine’s Futures Program does more than just enlighten and inform. It changes lives and careers. It is the start of lifelong friendships...