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As-Needed Prescribing and Administration of Psychotropic Medications in Assisted Living: A 7-State Study

JAMDA
December 15, 2021
Psychotropic medications administered on an as-needed basis, often designated as pro re nata (or PRN, hereafter as-needed), can alleviate acute symptoms and facilitate deprescribing, although as-needed use is associated with negative outcomes such...

Factors Associated With Low and High Social Engagement Among Older Nursing Home Residents in Korea

JAMDA
December 15, 2021
With the increase in older adults receiving long-term care in facilities, the level of social engagement within nursing homes is a growing concern for improving the quality of life of residents. This study seeks to assess the level of social...

Effectiveness of Hearing Rehabilitation for Care Home Residents With Dementia: A Systematic Review

JAMDA
December 15, 2021
To report the effectiveness of, and barriers and facilitators to, hearing rehabilitation for care home residents with dementia.

COVID-19, Vulnerability, and Long-Term Mortality in Hospitalized and Nonhospitalized Older Persons

JAMDA
December 14, 2021
Studies suggesting that vulnerability increased short-term mortality in older patients with COVID-19 enrolled hospitalized patients and lacked COVID-negative comparators. Aim of this study was to examine the relationship between frailty and 1-year...

President Signs Bill That Will Stop Cuts to Medicare Physician Payments

Policy Snapshot
December 11, 2021
Last week, Congress passed, and the president signed into law, S.610—the Protecting Medicare and American Farmers from Sequester Cuts Act—averting 4-5% cuts to Medicare payments for nursing home visits. The bill extends the 2% Medicare sequester...

Society Urges Resolution on Delayed Processing of Employment Authorization Applications

Policy Snapshot
December 9, 2021
Last week, the Society joined other long-term care associations in urging the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to find resolutions for long delays in processing Employment Authorization Document (...

An Electronic Health Record Integrated Decision Tool and Supportive Interventions to Improve Antibiotic Prescribing for Urinary Tract Infections in Nursing Homes: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial

JAMDA
December 9, 2021
To investigate whether an electronic health record (EHR)–integrated decision tool, combined with supportive interventions, results in more appropriate antibiotic prescribing in nursing home (NH) residents with suspected urinary tract infection (UTI...

Healing Together, Creating Connections

Spotlight
December 8, 2021
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join AMDA created Healing Together—including resources and webinars—to address the grief and trauma we’re all feeling in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Richard Juman, MD, opened the most recent webinar in the series...

Reliability and Validity of the Cornell Scale for Depression in Dementia and Invariance Between Black Versus White Residents in Nursing Homes

JAMDA
December 8, 2021
The purpose of this study was to expand on prior work testing invariance on several depression measures in community-based older adults and explore the psychometric properties and evidence of invariance between racial groups based on the Cornell...

Health System Success in Delivering Bamlanivimab Within Post-acute and Long-Term Care Facilities

JAMDA
December 7, 2021
Post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) residents are disproportionately affected by coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19). We describe a health system approach that incorporated PALTC stakeholders to treat residents effectively and efficiently with monoclonal...