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Taking Assisted Living to the Next Level of Infection Control, Prevention

Spotlight
May 18, 2022
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Like other care settings, assisted living facilities (ALFs) have struggled mightily during the pandemic. Moving forward, there is much to learn from their challenges, their best practices and successes, and their...

A Profile of Black and Latino Older Adults Receiving Care in Nursing Homes: 2011–2017

JAMDA
May 17, 2022
To identify if disparate trends in the access and use of nursing home (NH) services among Black and Latino older adults compared with White older adults persist. Access was operationalized as the NHs that served Black, Latino, and White residents...

Developing Acute Event Risk Profiles for Older Adults with Dementia in Long-Term Care Using Motor Behavior Clusters Derived from Deep Learning

JAMDA
May 17, 2022
This paper uses deep (machine) learning techniques to develop and test how motor behaviors, derived from location and movement sensor tracking data, may be associated with falls, delirium, and urinary tract infections (UTIs) in long-term care (LTC)...

Management of Chronic Pain in Long-Term Care: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

JAMDA
May 17, 2022
Pain, a complex subjective experience, is common in care home residents. Despite advances in pain management, optimal pain control remains a challenge. In this updated systematic review, we examined effectiveness of interventions for treating...

Centenarians From Long-Term Care Facilities and COVID-19–Relevant Hospital Admissions

JAMDA
May 16, 2022
Although the number of centenarians is increasing rapidly in many countries around the world,1 there is evidence of lower morbidity among centenarians (100+ years of age) and supercentenarians (110+ years)2,3 and more extended stays in long-term...

A Third Dose of mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine Significantly Enhances Anti–SARS-CoV-2 Spike IgG Response in Nursing Home Residents in Italy

JAMDA
May 15, 2022
A rapid development of effective vaccines against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection and their deployment has proved to be a highly successful strategy to reduce the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.1 Several...

Reply to “In-Hospital Mortality Risk of Older Patients With COVID-19 Infection”

JAMDA
May 15, 2022
We are delighted by the interest in our research by Dr Kawada and we welcome the opportunity to better clarify the results of our recent study on COVID-19 patients aged ≥80 years old.1 In the study, we explored the overlapping effect between...

In-Hospital Mortality Risk of Older Patients With COVID-19 Infection

JAMDA
May 15, 2022
I read the recent article published in this journal and written by Covino et al1 with great interest. The authors conducted a prospective study to evaluate the risk factors of mortality in adult COVID-19 patients aged ≥80 years. The adjusted hazard...

CMS to the Society “We Are Unable to Approve PALTC Specialty Code Designation”

Policy Snapshot
May 13, 2022
In August of 2017, the Society submitted a request to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for consideration of a new specialty code for post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) medicine. The Society noted that PALTC physicians have...

Physicians, Physician Assistants, and Advanced Practice Nurses: Open Payments Review and Dispute Ends May 15

Policy Snapshot
May 13, 2022
You have until today (May 15) to review and dispute program year 2021 Open Payments data before CMS publishes it in June. Reviewing your data is voluntary but strongly encouraged. Log into the Open Payments system to review your data. If you have a...