Despite Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) efforts, both CDC and nursing homes experienced difficulties during a mass enrollment of more than 12,000 facilities into the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) to begin reporting COVID...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will hold a webinar, CDC and CMS Present Stories from the Field: Immunization Strategies for Long-term Care, on Wednesday, January 31,...
For more than 4 decades, adult day service centers (ADSCs) have provided long-term care services and socialization to hundreds of thousands of people in the United States. An important part of the long-term care continuum, ADSCs serve older adults...
Regular physical activity throughout life is generally recommended to prevent dementia; however, there is little evidence regarding the association between lifetime physical activity and mild cognitive impairment (MCI), which often precedes dementia...
Human-animal interactions (HAI) and animal-assisted services (AAS)—previously known as animal-assisted interventions (AAI)1—in nursing homes are gaining popularity.2 AAS in care settings usually include initiatives with teams of voluntary or...
Overtreatment with glucose-lowering treatment (GLT) is frequent and a source of high morbidity and mortality in older adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). This study aimed to identify and synthesize barriers and enablers for deprescribing...
Please join Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure and her leadership team, who will highlight CMS’ key 2023 accomplishments and look ahead to how CMS’ 2024 priorities will advance the CMS Strategic...
As described in the Calendar Year (CY) 2023 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) Final Rule , the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) broadened the opportunities for the public to provide feedback on MVP candidates from 30 days to 45 days...
