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Clinician of the Year Is the Leader and Colleague Everyone Wants

Spotlight
April 5, 2023
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Vikas Reddy, MD, is a true team leader and epitomizes the type of practitioner the Foundation for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine envisioned when they established the Clinician of the Year Award. Dr. Reddy,...

Post-Acute Care in Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities Between Traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage Plans Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic

JAMDA
April 5, 2023
Compare post-acute care (PAC) utilization and outcomes in inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRF) between beneficiaries covered by Traditional Medicare (TM) and Medicare Advantage (MA) plans during the COVID-19 pandemic relative to the previous...

Reliability and Validity of the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Discharge Mobility and Self-Care Quality Measures

JAMDA
April 5, 2023
To describe the reliability and validity of the publicly reported facility-level quality measures Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility (IRF) Discharge Mobility Score for Medical Rehabilitation Patients (“Discharge mobility score”) and IRF Discharge...

Measuring Nursing Home Quality of Life: Validated Measures Are Poorly Correlated With Proxies From MDS and Quality of Life Deficiency Citationsl

JAMDA
April 5, 2023
Ensuring quality of life (QoL) is an important goal of person-centered nursing home care. The provision of person-centered care relies on information captured in the Minimum Data Set 3.0 (MDS). It is unclear to what extent MDS items or QoL-related...

Identifying Nursing Home Residents with Unmet Palliative Care Needs: A Systematic Review of Screening Tool Measurement Properties

JAMDA
April 5, 2023
Despite common use of palliative care screening tools in other settings, the performance of these tools in the nursing home has not been well established; therefore, the purpose of this review is to (1) identify palliative care screening tools...

Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Anxiety Symptoms in Long-Term Care Residents: A Multilevel Growth Curve Analysis

JAMDA
April 2, 2023
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has negatively impacted the mental health functioning of older adults residing in long-term care (LTC) settings. This study examines the impact of the lockdown on anxiety symptoms over time in LTC...

Hospice Aide Visits among Nursing Home Residents During the Early Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic

JAMDA
April 2, 2023
Hospice aides are vital in delivering care to patients and family members at the end of life. The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in disruptions in hospice care delivery, especially in long-term care settings. We aim to provide a description of hospice...

Racial Disparity in Disruption to Basic Needs Among Medicare Beneficiaries During the COVID-19 Pandemic

JAMDA
April 2, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic had affected older adults and people of color the most, in terms of both health and everyday life.1 The mortality rate of Black Americans from COVID-19 was nearly twice the rate of White Americans,2 and the hospitalization rate...

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