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Moving Needles on Vaccination Rates Doesn’t Have to Be a Heavy Lift

Spotlight
August 17, 2022
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Staff and resident vaccinations were around long before the pandemic. AMDA is working on promoting vaccinations, not just for COVID but for the flu and other conditions, through Moving Needles, its new Centers for...

Response to “The Surprise Question in Older Hospitalized Patients”

JAMDA
August 17, 2022
The recent research letter on the use of the Surprise Question1 asserted that the research reported was intended to “establish the predictive validity of the Surprise Question in older hospitalized patients.” The findings reported may be useful in...

Low Bone Mineral Density With Risk of Dementia: A Prospective Cohort Study

JAMDA
August 17, 2022
Osteoporosis and dementia often coexist, but the association between the 2 diseases remains unclear. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between bone mineral density (BMD) and the risk of incident dementia.

Getting Your Team and Your Practice On Board with Behavioral Health

August 16, 2022
Isolation and quarantines during the pandemic have led to a growing need for behavioral health care. As the pandemic woes ease, now is the time to look at incorporating or updating behavioral health services in your practice. Among the benefits are...

Changes in the Severity of Frailty Among Older Adults After 12 Months of Supervised Home-Based Physical Exercise: A Randomized Clinical Trial

JAMDA
August 16, 2022
To investigate the effects of 12 months of physiotherapist-supervised, home-based physical exercise on the severity of frailty and on the prevalence of the 5 frailty phenotype criteria, using secondary analyses.

Nutritional Management in Adult Patients With Dysphagia: Position Paper From Japanese Working Group on Integrated Nutrition for Dysphagic People

JAMDA
August 16, 2022
This position paper prepared by the Japanese Working Group on Integrated Nutrition for Dysphagic People (JWIND) aims to summarize the need for nutritional management in adult patients with dysphagia, the issues that nutrition professionals should...

Response to the Letter to the Editor

JAMDA
August 14, 2022
We totally agree with colleague Lynn that, as she states: “the ‘no surprise’ question was developed to identify persons who were sufficiently sick or disabled that their care team should certainly know about their preferences about treatment and...

National Monitoring of Medication-Related Quality of Care in Residential Aged Care: Is Australia Making Progress?

JAMDA
August 13, 2022
In 2018, the Australian Government established a Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety.1 Recommendations from the final report in 2021 included national monitoring of quality of care in residential aged care facilities (RACFs) and the...

Addressing the Home Care Shortage: Predictors of Willingness to Provide Paid Home Care in New York

JAMDA
August 12, 2022
To determine the prevalence and predictors of willingness to consider becoming a paid home care worker.

Society Calls for Policymakers to Reform the Medicare Physician Payment System

Policy Snapshot
August 11, 2022
Diverting the Medicare physician payment system away from its current unsustainable path and steering it instead toward physician practice sustainability will protect patient access to quality, evidence-based care while easing administrative burdens...