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JAMDA
February 1, 2016

Improving the Quality of End-of-Life Care

JAMDA
February 1, 2016
“Let it be a great day to die.”∼Sioux Warrior Greeting

The Burden of Overmedication: What Are the Real Issues?

JAMDA
February 1, 2016
In the specialties of geriatric medicine and long-term care, medication reduction is a large focus of daily clinical work and research due to the significant morbidity and mortality burden of polypharmacy on older adults.1–6 Many drug-specific tools...

Algorithms Promoting Antimicrobial Stewardship in Long-Term Care

JAMDA
February 1, 2016
Antimicrobial stewardship is becoming an increasingly important focus in long-term care settings. The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, Medicare and Medicaid Programs: Reform of Requirements for Long-Term Care Facilities proposes that facilities must...

Meet the AMDA Medical Director of the Year Nominees

Caring for the Ages
February 1, 2016
The facility team members who nominate their physician leaders for AMDA Medical Director of the Year always speak about their nominee with passion and pride. They share stories of how their medical directors have implemented programs and initiatives...

News From the SOCIETY

Caring for the Ages
February 1, 2016
AMDA annual conference program chair Suzanne Gillespie, MD, RD, CMD, has many reasons that practitioners and other PALTC stakeholders should attend the conference in Orlando next month. She spotlighted five reasons and urged AMDA members and others...

From the February issue of JAMDA

Caring for the Ages
February 1, 2016
Elderly individuals who have dementia and develop pneumonia suffer more during the 10 days following the pneumonia diagnosis and in the days before death. This is according to a prospective observational study of patients from 32 nursing homes in...

Take the Wheel: Controlling Peripheral Arterial Disease

Caring for the Ages
February 1, 2016
David Smith, MD, CMD, a Texas-based medical director and physician, talks about managing PAD and keeping the disease from destroying quality of life.

One in Three Black Americans Will Experience PAD

Caring for the Ages
February 1, 2016
ORLANDO — One in three black Americans and one in five whites and Hispanics will develop lower extremity peripheral arterial disease during their lifetime, according to the first-ever lifetime risk estimate calculated for this important...

Society for Vascular Surgery Calls for Caution in PAD Care

Caring for the Ages
February 1, 2016
In response to a recent address by the American Heart Association president suggesting that peripheral arterial disease is a largely unnoticed health crisis that needs more public awareness, the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) released a...