The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly affected the morbidity and mortality of residents in long-term care (LTC) homes. However, not much is known about its impact on staff's perception of their capacity to provide palliative and end-of-life (EOL) care...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join When AMDA launched the Drive to Deprescribe (D2D) – Optimizing Medication Use in PALTC initiative two years ago, they hoped it would make a difference. But members of the D2D workgroup—Arif Nazir, MD, CMD; Sabine...
Sarcopenic obesity is a geriatric syndrome marked by fat excess caused by obesity and muscular failure induced by sarcopenia.1 The pathophysiology includes a vicious cycle between myocytes and adipocytes,2 with gender-specific differences in...
To evaluate associations of Life's Essential 8 (LE8) score, the recently updated metric for promoting cardiovascular health (CVH), with the risk of incident dementia and its subtypes, cognition, and neuroimaging outcomes and to determine whether...
A bipartisan group of 60 senators—led by Sens. Brian Schatz (D-HI), Roger Wicker (R-MS), Ben Cardin (D-MD), John Thune (R-SD), Mark Warner (D-VA), and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS)—has reintroduced the Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and...
A new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) looked at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Care Compare website and concluded that it could be improved. Care Compare was developed to help consumers select a nursing home...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has opened the Final Score Preview period for the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS). Authorized representatives of practices, virtual groups, and Alternative Payment Model (APM)...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join A candle provides one small light, but it can illuminate a room or a path. The same is true of program sessions at the AMDA Annual Conference. One presentation can light the way for many care teams and improve care...
To assess whether a measure of leadership support for worker safety, health, and well-being predicts staff turnover in nursing homes after controlling for other factors.
Polypharmacy and frailty are 2 prevalent geriatric syndromes in the older population, and medication review and deprescription may be beneficial. The Screening Tool of Older Persons Prescriptions in Frail adults with limited life expectancy (...
