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Ask Your Representatives to Support the Nursing Home Disclosure Act

Policy Snapshot
September 16, 2022
Last week, Reps. Mike Levin (D-CA) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) worked with the Society to introduce H.R. 8832, The Nursing Home Disclosure Act . The bipartisan bill would require nursing homes to report their medical directors to the Centers for...

Combined Effects of Cognitive Impairment and Nutritional Trajectories on Functional Recovery for Older Patients after Hip-Fracture Surgery

JAMDA
September 16, 2022
Malnutrition and cognitive impairment are associated with poor functional recovery in older adults following hip-fracture surgery. This study examined the combined effects of cognitive impairment and nutritional trajectories on postoperative...

Comment on “Multicomponent or Resistance Training for Nursing Home Residents: A Systematic Review With Meta-Analysis”

JAMDA
September 16, 2022
We read a recent article published in the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association by Pinheiro et al.1 The results of this meta-analysis suggest that multicomponent exercise and resistance training can improve physical performance in...

Foundation Grant Funds Innovative Project on Indoor Air Quality

Spotlight
September 15, 2022
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Before the pandemic, air quality and the possibility of infrastructure changes to improve it were low on the list of priorities for nursing home leaders. However, after COVID hit, it garnered more interest and...

The Course of Depressive Symptoms Over 36 Months in 696 Newly Admitted Nursing Home Residents

JAMDA
September 15, 2022
To investigate the course of depressive symptoms in newly admitted nursing home (NH) residents and how resident characteristics were associated with the symptoms. To identify groups of residents following the same symptom trajectory.

The New COVID-19 Bivalent Vaccine

September 13, 2022
What is it? The new COVID-19 bivalent vaccine is a combination of ½ of the original vaccine and ½ of a new vaccine that is specific for the Omicron BA5/BA4 subvariants. Why do we need it? The COVID-19 virus continues to change and mutate. The good...

Reply to Letter to the Editor: “Multicomponent or Resistance Training for Nursing Home Residents: A Systematic Review With Meta-Analysis”

JAMDA
September 13, 2022
Thank you for the opportunity to answer the questions raised by the authors.

Systematic Review of Rural and Urban Differences in Care Provided by Home Health Agencies in the United States

JAMDA
September 12, 2022
Home health care agencies (HHAs) are skilled care providers for Medicare home health beneficiaries in the United States. Rural HHAs face different challenges from their urban counterparts in delivering care (eg, longer distances to travel to patient...

Post-Acute Care Use Associated with Medicare Shared Savings Program and Disparities

JAMDA
September 12, 2022
Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) was implemented in 2012, but the impact of the MSSP on institutional post-acute care (PAC) use, and by race/ethnicity and payer status is less studied. We studied the impact of hospital participation in the...

Come to the EDGE and Leap into the Future

Spotlight
September 11, 2022
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join AMDA’s EDGE22 Virtual Symposium, set for October 28, is a day when practitioners and others in post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) become superheroes. They take on the controversial, challenging, and cutting-edge...