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Wish to Die Among Residents of Swiss Long-Term Care Facilities: A Multisite Cross-Sectional Study

JAMDA
October 3, 2022
The wish to die (WTD) in persons near the end of life is a clinically important, ethically and practically complex phenomenon as demonstrated by the intense debates on assisted dying legislation around the world. Despite global aging and increasing...

What Medical Anthropology Teaches Us About Inclusive Health Care

Caring for the Ages
October 1, 2022
In my years as a medical anthropologist with a race and gender studies background, I’ve long considered what it means to create culturally-attuned and inclusive health care environments. As I supported our editorial team in putting together this...

Racial Disparities, Reimbursement for Care, and Quality of Life: Factors That May Influence the Prescribing of Antipsychotics for Minority Nursing Home Residents

Caring for the Ages
October 1, 2022
Recently there has been an upsurge in published studies that have focused on the inequalities existing in the provision of care to minority residents of nursing homes. Analysis of data during COVID-19 has emphasized these disparities, reporting the...

AMDA’s Collaboration with CNAs

Caring for the Ages
October 1, 2022
AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine has long supported collaboration with certified nurse assistants (CNAs) — vital members of the clinical team in nursing homes. We have encouraged clinicians to round with CNAs and to take...

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Caring for the Ages
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Learning From Experience: Examining Implicit Bias in Immigration and Health Care

Caring for the Ages
October 1, 2022
One of us — Ann Datunashvili — is an international medical graduate, or IMG, and thus entered her career in health care as an immigrant worker. Yet despite this status, I had somehow become blind to the larger issues even as I was acutely aware of...

Journal Highlights From the October Issue of JAMDA

Caring for the Ages
October 1, 2022
Handling proficiency and positive results are among the factors that influence hearing aid use by individuals with dementia, researchers found.

Learning to Be an Ally: Promoting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Long-Term Care

Caring for the Ages
October 1, 2022
Irecently attended a regional annual meeting of post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) leaders. As the participants filled the meeting room, I was surprised by how few women and individuals of color I saw. What I saw in the leadership representation...

Ageism in Post-Acute and Long-Term Care: Is That Possible?

Caring for the Ages
October 1, 2022
I have worked in nursing homes since I was 17 years old, and despite many years of loving my work with older adults, I recently began to wonder whether I could be ageist. It is hard to share that thought publicly — not just because I value dignity,...

Taking Pride in Celebrating Diversity With LGBTQ+ Residents, Staff

Caring for the Ages
October 1, 2022
Many LGBTQ+ older adults have had to hide their true selves from friends, family, and colleagues all or most of their lives. Even those who have been free to share this part of themselves have likely had to deal with bigotry, biases, and even hate...