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JAMDA
October 24, 2019
Older women are more likely than men to enter residential aged care (RAC) and generally stay longer. We aimed to identify and examine their trajectories of care needs over time in RAC across 3 fundamental care needs domains, including activities of...
JAMDA
October 23, 2019
Up to 80% of nursing home residents are affected by pain. Pain assessment aims to determine pain intensity, quality, and course of pain to underpin diagnostic decision making. In the nursing home population, pain assessment is frequently compromised...
JAMDA
October 23, 2019
To examine the use of residential respite care and determine associations between respite care and total days spent in residential care (respite days plus long-term care days).
Weekly Roundup
October 22, 2019
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Earlier this year the Foundation for PALTC Medicine asked Society members to participate in a large-scale quality improvement study to evaluate the impact of the annual influenza vaccine choice on LTC facility...
JAMDA
October 22, 2019
To examine the association between benzodiazepine use and the risk of dementia.
JAMDA
October 19, 2019
Residents of long-term care facilities (LCTFs) have high morbidity and mortality associated with acute respiratory infections (ARIs). Limited information exists on the virology of ARI in LTCFs, where virological testing is reactive. We report on...
JAMDA
October 19, 2019
To assess the short- and long-term association of 6 healthy behaviors (not smoking, vigorous to moderate physical activity, healthy diet, adequate sleeping duration, not being sedentary, and daily social interaction) with incident frailty and...
Spotlight
October 17, 2019
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join It’s nearly flu season, and everyone in post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) is preparing to keep their residents and staff safe and healthy. They are on high alert for good reason. Statistics from last year’s flu...
Policy Snapshot
October 17, 2019
On October 10, the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) published a new Guide for Clinicians on the Appropriate Dosage Reduction or Discontinuation of Long-Term Opioid Analgesics , which provides advice to clinicians who are contemplating...
Policy Snapshot
October 17, 2019
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) updated the Quality Payment Program Participation Status Tool based on the second snapshot of data from Alternative Payment Model (APM) entities. The second snapshot includes data from Medicare...