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Social Frailty Has a Stronger Impact on the Onset of Depressive Symptoms than Physical Frailty or Cognitive Impairment: A 4-Year Follow-up Longitudinal Cohort Study

JAMDA
April 24, 2018
To examine the association between each type of frailty status and the incidence rate of depressive symptoms among community-dwelling older adults.

Social Frailty Has a Stronger Impact on the Onset of Depressive Symptoms than Physical Frailty or Cognitive Impairment: A 4-Year Follow-up Longitudinal Cohort Study

JAMDA
April 24, 2018
To examine the association between each type of frailty status and the incidence rate of depressive symptoms among community-dwelling older adults.

Readmission Patterns Over 90-Day Episodes of Care Among Medicare Fee-for-Service Beneficiaries Discharged to Post-acute Care

JAMDA
April 21, 2018
Examine readmission patterns over 90-day episodes of care in persons discharged from hospitals to post-acute settings.

Readmission Patterns Over 90-Day Episodes of Care Among Medicare Fee-for-Service Beneficiaries Discharged to Post-acute Care

JAMDA
April 21, 2018
Examine readmission patterns over 90-day episodes of care in persons discharged from hospitals to post-acute settings.

April 20, 2018

Weekly Roundup
April 20, 2018
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Spotlight: Meet First NP to Serve on Society Board: Alice Bonner It seems only fitting that Alice Bonner, PhD, APRN, GNP, Secretary of the Executive Office of Elder Affairs in Massachusetts, is the first nurse...

The Society Joins Others in Urging CMS to Reduce 2018 MIPs Reporting Period

Policy Snapshot
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Payment, Medicare Access and CHIP Re-authorization Act (MACRA), Merit-Based Incentive Program Payment System (MIPS), Quality Payment Program (QPP), Practitioners
April 19, 2018
This week, AMDA-The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine joined with the American Medical Association and over 40 national medical specialty societies in urging the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to reduce the 2018...

Apply to Participate in the 2018 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Study on Burdens Associated with Reporting Quality Measures to Receive Improvement Activity Credit for 2018

Policy Snapshot
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Payment, Medicare Access and CHIP Re-authorization Act (MACRA), Merit-Based Incentive Program Payment System (MIPS), Practitioners
April 19, 2018
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is conducting the 2018 Burdens Associated with Reporting Quality Measures Study, as outlined in the Quality Payment Program Year 2 final rule (CMS 5522- FC). CMS is conducting this study to:...

Erratum

JAMDA
April 18, 2018
The Authors wish to make a correction to their article published in JAMDA ( https://doi.org/10/1016/j.jamda.2017.09.014 ) "Relationship Between Sarcopenia and Frailty in the Toledo Study of Healthy Aging: A Population Based Cross-Sectional Study".

Consolidated Medication Review Algorithm to Improve Medications Use in Older Adults: Components, Scoring Scheme, and Implementation

JAMDA
April 18, 2018
Medication review algorithms and minimization frameworks are known to aid reviewers in identifying and discontinuing potentially inappropriate medications, which may otherwise lead older population to harmful events.1 There have been many algorithms...

Cognitive-Based Interventions to Improve Mobility: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

JAMDA
April 18, 2018
A strong relation between cognition and mobility has been identified in aging, supporting a role for enhancement mobility through cognitive-based interventions. However, a critical evaluation of the consistency of treatment effects of cognitive-...