Journal Highlights From the July Issue of JAMDA
August 1, 2020
Caring for the Ages
Post-acute and long-term care facilities have learned more about how to respond to outbreaks of COVID-19, as well as the consequences of ineffective responses or none at all. COVID-19 also “has exposed how fundamentally broken our approach to providing care and support to our nation’s older adults has become,” writes Christopher E. Laxton, CAE, the executive director of AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine, along with his coauthors David A. Nace, MD, MPH, CMD, and Arif Nazir, MD, FACP, CMD, AGSF, in a recent special article.