Huntington disease (HD) has a poor prognosis. Decision-making capacity and communication ability may become impaired as the disease progresses. Therefore, HD patients are encouraged to engage in advance care planning (ACP). Elderly care physicians (...
Deprescribing reduces polypharmacy in older adults. A thorough study of the effect of deprescribing interventions on clinical outcomes in older adults is presently lacking. As a result, we evaluated the impact of deprescribing on clinical outcomes...
The nursing home (NH) industry has experienced a 13% drop in employment over the course of the pandemic1—worse than any other health care sector—and NHs across the country continue to face dire staffing shortages with increased reliance on agency...
Cheung et al1 concluded that short-term post–COVID-19 vaccination serious adverse events (SAEs) were not observed in older patients with dementia, although longer-term related research is warranted to detect remote SAEs.
Reps. Joe Courtney (D-CT), Glenn ‘GT' Thompson (R-PA), Susan DelBene (D-WA), and Ron Estes (R-KS reintroduced the bipartisan Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 2023 (HR 5138), legislation to fix an arbitrary Medicare policy that excludes...
In recent years, Ohio nursing homes (NHs) have received an increasing number of complaints. The current study aims to gain a better understanding of the relationship between NH organizational characteristics and the number of complaints.
The association between sarcopenia diagnosis according to various diagnostic criteria and falls is unclear. We examined the association between sarcopenia defined by 5 different international criteria, and fall and injurious fall numbers among older...
This study investigated the reciprocal longitudinal relationships between physical frailty (PF), cognitive function (CF), and falls among community-dwelling older adults, according to sex. The study proposed hypotheses that present PF and CF will...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Infections will always be a concern in post-acute and long-term care (PALTC), but AMDA’s Infection Advisory Subcommittee will provide support, guidance, and resources. As Vice Chair Muhammad Salman Ashraf, MBBS,...
Nursing home (NH) Minimum Data Set (MDS) have frequently been used to measure medication use in epidemiologic studies, but there is little evidence on the accuracy of MDS-based medication records. We compared antipsychotic use estimated using 2 data...
