The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued a proposed rule that accelerates the shift from paying for home health services based on volume, to a system that incentivizes value and quality. The rule also seeks feedback on ways...
Thank you for the instructive case reports of young people in long-term care in the May, 2021 issue (Caring for the Ages 2021, 22(4): 10-11; https://bit.ly/3hH7kzF ). I noticed that the person’s race was documented at the beginning of the report...
AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care (PALTC) Medicine recently launched the Healing Together Campaign to formally acknowledge the pain we have all endured, and continue to endure, as part of the COVID-19 pandemic. You can read AMDA’s...
The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting litigation present an existential threat to the long-term care (LTC) profession in the absence of enforceable immunity statutes and the insertion of COVID-19 exclusions in insurance policies.
The year 2020 brought many changes to assisted living and long-term care communities that staff, residents, and families were not prepared for. In a matter of months, the COVID-19 pandemic infiltrated senior living spaces and brought medical...
Many long-term care facilities inappropriately use POLST forms to document the cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) preferences for all residents, creating the potential for their inappropriate use in healthy individuals, researchers write in a...
Assisted living, also referred to as residential care, is an important part of the long-term care continuum. The proliferation of the assisted living movement in the United States began in the mid-1980s as an alternative to nursing home care for...
There are many challenges for the Assisted Living Subcommittee of AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine. Among them, said Chair Sarah Howd, MD, CMD, assistant professor of medicine and geriatrics at the University of...
In 2019, the Ethics Committee of AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine authored a white paper on “Stopping Eating and Drinking by Advance Directives in the ALF and PALTC Setting.” When the paper came before the House of...