Chronic multimorbidities and disabilities characterize older inpatients, who are the fastest-increasing group of patients admitted to hospitals.1 Because hospitals are configured for disease-oriented and episodic model rather than chronic...
We read with great interest the article by Alegre et al,1 who reported the prognostic impact of frailty measured by the Fatigue, Resistance, Ambulation, Illnesses, & Loss of Weight (FRAIL) scale in very elderly patients with acute coronary...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Traditional advance directives like the living will and power of attorney express patient choices in general terms for their medical care. More recent directives, such as physician order for life-sustaining...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Spotlight: Meet First NP to Serve on Society Board: Alice Bonner It seems only fitting that Alice Bonner, PhD, APRN, GNP, Secretary of the Executive Office of Elder Affairs in Massachusetts, is the first nurse...
This week, AMDA-The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine joined with the American Medical Association and over 40 national medical specialty societies in urging the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to reduce the 2018...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is conducting the 2018 Burdens Associated with Reporting Quality Measures Study, as outlined in the Quality Payment Program Year 2 final rule (CMS 5522- FC). CMS is conducting this study to:...
