“It sounds lofty, but it’s doable if we start one step at a time,” says JoAnne Reifsnyder, PhD, MSN, MBA, FAAN, of a new effort by AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine aimed at developing action plans PALTC facilities can...
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, we have witnessed the deleterious effects of social isolation on older adults in home settings and in post-acute and long-term care. Although the use of technology and telephone calls has helped buffer the impact of...
By the time many patients with severe dementia require long-term nursing care, medications such as cholinesterase inhibitors may be safely deprescribed to minimize the potential adverse events that outweigh the limited long-term benefits.
I first stepped into a nursing home when I was six years old. My mother was a certified nursing assistant who always worked 12-hour shifts. Since my father was also working, sometimes she had no choice but to have the bus drop me off at the long-...
At the request of a coalition of physicians and other health care professionals who care for vulnerable North Dakotans residing in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), the North Dakota Department of Health (DOH) has added a list of SNF medical...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join If you have an idea for a program session at AMDA’s PALTC23 Annual Conference—which is being held March 9-12 in Tampa, FL—Verna Sellers, MD, CMD, and her colleagues want to hear it by the July 19 deadline. “We want...
Globally, the number of older adults aged ≥60 years is projected to grow by 56% between 2015 and 2030; by 2050, the global population of older adults is projected to be more than twice its size in 2015.1 Japan is the world's most aged country, with...
One fifth of Medicare patients discharged from a hospital are readmitted within 30 days. Roughly 75% of patients with a hip fracture and 20% of patients without a hip fracture are transferred to a nursing facility (NF) after hospitalization.1...
