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Deprescribing in Geriatric Medicine: Challenges and Opportunities

JAMDA
November 1, 2018
Drug safety, polypharmacy, and deprescribing are important issues in post-acute and long-term care medicine and therefore also of great interest to JAMDA's editors and readers. This issue of JAMDA features a number of articles that advance the...

Response to the Letter to the Editor: “Antihypertensive Medication Regimen Intensity and Incident Dementia in an Older Population”

JAMDA
November 1, 2018
We thank the authors for their comments regarding our recent study on antihypertensive regimen intensity and incident dementia in an older Swedish population.1

Antihypertensive Drugs, Incident Dementia, and the Competing Risk of Death

JAMDA
November 1, 2018
In the article “Antihypertensive Medication Regimen Intensity and Incident Dementia in an Older Population” by Tan et al, the authors reported that in a prospective observational population-based cohort of 1208 older persons (mean age: 84.1 ± 5.6),...

Potentially Inappropriate Medications and Polypharmacy

JAMDA
November 1, 2018
One cross-sectional study conducted by Anrys and colleagues1 published in JAMDA has reported that the prevalence of potentially inappropriate medications was 88.3% among nursing home residents aged ≥65 years. The definition of potentially...

SNF Quality Reporting Program Data on Nursing Home Compare

Policy Snapshot
Care Settings/Types, Falls, Practitioners, Quality
November 1, 2018
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the first release of Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Quality Reporting Program (QRP) quality data on Nursing Home (NH) Compare . NH Compare allows you to find and compare SNFs that are...

HHS Advances Payment Model to Lower Drug Costs for Patients

Policy Snapshot
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Practice Management, Practitioners
November 1, 2018
On October 25, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced and sought input on a new International Pricing Index (IPI) payment model to reduce what Americans pay for prescription drugs. Under the IPI model, described in an...

Letter by Fung et al Regarding Article, “Frailty and Clinical Outcomes in Heart Failure: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis”

JAMDA
November 1, 2018
The following two letters consist of a critique and author's reply related to an article in this month's journal, which was published online early enough to obtain both the letter and reply in time to publish all three simultaneously. The letter by...

Taking the Dread Out of Parkinson’s Diagnosis

Caring for the Ages
November 1, 2018
David Smith, MD, CMD, a past president of AMDA — The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine and a Texas-based medical director and physician, takes the fear out of Parkinson’s diagnosis.

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Caring for the Ages
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News from the Society

Caring for the Ages
November 1, 2018
Society member Christopher Joncas, MD, CMD, has only missed one annual conference in the past 20 years. “I sign up right away as soon as registration opens. I’m always excited about the program.” Last year, he was the first registrant for the 2018...