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Spotlight on Policy: CMS to Improve Home Health Services for Older Adults and People with Disabilities

Caring for the Ages
August 1, 2021
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued a proposed rule that accelerates the shift from paying for home health services based on volume, to a system that incentivizes value and quality. The rule also seeks feedback on ways...

Letter to the Editor: Disclosing Race in Case Reports

Caring for the Ages
August 1, 2021
Thank you for the instructive case reports of young people in long-term care in the May, 2021 issue (Caring for the Ages 2021, 22(4): 10-11; https://bit.ly/3hH7kzF ). I noticed that the person’s race was documented at the beginning of the report...

Let’s Heal Together

Caring for the Ages
August 1, 2021
AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care (PALTC) Medicine recently launched the Healing Together Campaign to formally acknowledge the pain we have all endured, and continue to endure, as part of the COVID-19 pandemic. You can read AMDA’s...

COVID-19 Litigation and the Long-Term Care Profession

Caring for the Ages
August 1, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting litigation present an existential threat to the long-term care (LTC) profession in the absence of enforceable immunity statutes and the insertion of COVID-19 exclusions in insurance policies.

The Pandemic and Mental Health in LTC: Assessing the Impact, Searching for a Path Forward

Caring for the Ages
August 1, 2021
The year 2020 brought many changes to assisted living and long-term care communities that staff, residents, and families were not prepared for. In a matter of months, the COVID-19 pandemic infiltrated senior living spaces and brought medical...

Journal Highlights From the August Issue of JAMDA

Caring for the Ages
August 1, 2021
Many long-term care facilities inappropriately use POLST forms to document the cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) preferences for all residents, creating the potential for their inappropriate use in healthy individuals, researchers write in a...

There Is No Place Like Assisted Living: Can the Setting Evolve While Staying True to Itself?

Caring for the Ages
August 1, 2021
Assisted living, also referred to as residential care, is an important part of the long-term care continuum. The proliferation of the assisted living movement in the United States began in the mid-1980s as an alternative to nursing home care for...

Assisted Living Group Tackles Challenges, Embraces Opportunities

Caring for the Ages
August 1, 2021
There are many challenges for the Assisted Living Subcommittee of AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine. Among them, said Chair Sarah Howd, MD, CMD, assistant professor of medicine and geriatrics at the University of...

Stopping Eating and Drinking by Advance Directives Involves Several Ethical Perspectives

Caring for the Ages
August 1, 2021
In 2019, the Ethics Committee of AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine authored a white paper on “Stopping Eating and Drinking by Advance Directives in the ALF and PALTC Setting.” When the paper came before the House of...

(Not) Saying Goodbye to Dr. Jeff

Caring for the Ages
August 1, 2021
For the past 12 years, Caring for the Ages readers have looked forward to the “Dear Dr. Jeff” columns. In his dozens of articles, Jeffrey Nichols, MD, CMD, addressed issues both common and controversial, public and personal, clinical and operational...