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The Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly: An Update after 25 Years of Permanent Provider Status

JAMDA
October 8, 2022
PACE is the gold standard for community-based integrated care. Over the 25 years as permanent provider status by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, it has evolved in design and grown in numbers served. We review the evidence base, history,...

PALTC23 Revives the Live!

Spotlight
October 7, 2022
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join The safety and well-being of our PALTC community are AMDA’s highest priority. We are thinking of all those impacted by Hurricane Ian. After three years of virtual and hybrid programs PALTC23, set for March 9-12 in...

CMS Asks for Public Input on Establishing First, National Directory of Health Care Providers and Services

Policy Snapshot
October 7, 2022
As part of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS’) ongoing work to improve access to care, reduce clinician burden, and support interoperability throughout the health sector, the agency has released a Request for Information (RFI)...

CMS Releases Request for Information to Help Promote Efficiency, Reduce Burden, and Advance Equity

Policy Snapshot
October 7, 2022
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released the Make Your Voice Heard Request for Information (RFI) to get your input. It wants to: Understand your experience, including factors which affect provider wellness Learn about...

CMS Ends Nursing Home CNA Training Wavier

Policy Snapshot
October 7, 2022
Last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) rejected requests to extend its waiver allowing nursing homes to employ temporary nurse aides (TNA) for more than four months without certified nursing aid training. CMS announced the...

Estimation of Appendicular Skeletal Muscle Mass for Women Aged 60-70 Years Using a Machine Learning Approach

JAMDA
October 7, 2022
This article aimed to develop and validate an anthropometric equation based on the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) regression, a machine learning approach, to predict appendicular skeletal muscle mass (ASM) in 60-70-year-old...

The Long-Term Care Data Cooperative: The Next Generation of Data Integration

JAMDA
October 6, 2022
Despite important advances in the linkage of residents’ Medicare claims and Minimum Data Set (MDS) information, the data infrastructure for long-term care remains inadequate for public health surveillance and clinical research. It is widely known...

The Nursing Home Physician: Supporting a Threatened Resource

JAMDA
October 3, 2022
In 2003, medical leaders in Continuing Care in Calgary, Alberta, conducted a satisfaction survey of the 150 attending physicians working in the medium-sized Canadian city’s Long-Term Care (LTC) centers. Of the 43% responses, a sobering 69% expressed...

Wish to Die Among Residents of Swiss Long-Term Care Facilities: A Multisite Cross-Sectional Study

JAMDA
October 3, 2022
The wish to die (WTD) in persons near the end of life is a clinically important, ethically and practically complex phenomenon as demonstrated by the intense debates on assisted dying legislation around the world. Despite global aging and increasing...

What Medical Anthropology Teaches Us About Inclusive Health Care

Caring for the Ages
October 1, 2022
In my years as a medical anthropologist with a race and gender studies background, I’ve long considered what it means to create culturally-attuned and inclusive health care environments. As I supported our editorial team in putting together this...