Whether health care professionals should respect a properly executed advance directive (AD) refusing life support in late-stage dementia even if the patient seems contented, is an ethically contested issue. We undertook a nationwide survey to assess...
This week the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), as part of a broad Core Quality Measures Collaborative of health care system participants, released seven sets of clinical quality measures...
This study aimed to explore the concordance between definitions of sarcopenia and frailty in a clinically relevant population of geriatric outpatients.
Findings from several experimental studies in animals have suggested a protective action of testosterone on kidney function, but hard evidence for such an association in humans is scarce. We examined the association between testosterone levels and...
Both respiratory and nonrespiratory hospitalizations are common and costly events in older individuals with obstructive lung disease. Prevention of any hospitalization in these individuals is essential. We aimed to construct a prediction model for...
We refer to the study by Lu et al1 on the diagnostic utility of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) in differentiating DSM-5 mild neurocognitive disorder (NCD) from healthy controls in the Hong Kong population. The diagnostic performance of...
AMDA is proud to announce that it has joined the The Family Caregiver Platform Project. The project is a nonpartisan effort to include caregiving issues in the state party political platforms across the country. The group works to educate and...
At AMDA’s upcoming Annual Conference in Orlando, Florida, a number of AMDA policy leaders will spotlight how health care reform changes will impact the post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) sector. At an all-day intensive session on Thursday, March...
On February 3, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the annual report summarizing impacts from the Initiative to Reduce Avoidable Hospitalizations among Nursing Facility Residents in 2014. The project is designed to test...
Tochukwu C. Iloabuchi, MD, MS, CMD, was planning a career in post-acute care medicine before he attended the AMDA Foundation Futures Program. But it was at that AMDA Annual Conference in San Antonio that he learned about the Certified Medical...
