The IRF Provider Preview Reports have been updated and are now available in support of the December 2020 refresh. Please note that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) postponed the September 2020 IRF refresh to December 2020 due...
In a blog post in the Sun Sentinel , CMS Administrator Seema Verma indicated that nursing facilities could face fines for not allowing visitation without good health care reasons. Verma indicated that the agency “expects all nursing homes to provide...
To explore the association between both self-reported quality and quantity sleep characteristics and frailty status in a large non–sex-specific population of older individuals in Greece.
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Every September, members of the AMDA leadership head to Washington, DC, for Hill Day. This year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, they took their trip virtually. While they had to depend on conference calls and Zoom...
Alcohol is one of the most widely available psychoactive substances globally. Many accept the risks associated with alcohol consumption for reasons such as social engagement and feelings of pleasure. Alcohol consumption in a nursing home (NH)...
To develop a fracture risk Clinical Assessment Protocol (CAP) based on long-term care (LTC) fracture prevention recommendations and an embedded fracture risk assessment tool.
Both cognitive reserve and subjective cognitive decline are closely related to the risk of dementia. We investigated whether cognitive reserve can modify the risk of dementia developing from subjective cognitive decline.
Immigrants often face many unique cultural and logistical challenges in their health care that differ from nonimmigrants. We sought to describe and compare characteristics and the time to placement between recent immigrants and long-standing...
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a disproportionate impact on long-term care facility (LTCF) residents worldwide, with 19% to 72% of COVID-19-–related deaths occurring in LTCFs.1 While facing this critical situation, LTCF personnel have to cope with an...
