Preemptive anticoagulation for post-acute and long-term care residents infected with SARS-CoV-2 is worth consideration, given that venous thromboembolism (VTE) is not uncommon in COVID-19 and most PALTC residents have a higher risk for VTE to begin...
Already 2023 is looking to be a great year for AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine. Our Annual Conference, PALTC23, held in Tampa, FL, was a huge success. We welcomed over 1,300 people, including 87 Futures Program...
Little did I know that the Foundation Futures Program would become the architect of my career in geriatrics. By the time I was three quarters of the way into my geriatrics fellowship, I was beginning to feel the isolating effects of tackling the...
The numbers are alarming. The United States will need at least 30,000 geriatricians and 2.5 million more nurses, nursing assistants, and other team members to care for older adults. Addressing workforce issues is a top priority for AMDA — The...
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Assisted living (AL) has now surpassed nursing homes in terms of the number of long-term care residents who reside there (J Am Med Dir Assoc 2022;23:225–234). Yet as this has happened — and as the comorbidities, frailty, and need for activities of...
For almost 40 years I practiced internal and geriatric medicine in my own office and in emergency departments, hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, rehabilitation units, and long-term care communities. This means that I have had thousands of face-...
Describe patient characteristics, health care resource utilization, costs, and humanistic burden of women with Medicare insurance with incident fragility fracture who were admitted to post-acute-care (PAC).
