Held virtually this year, the 2021 AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine Shark Tank competition was inspirational and intriguing. After prerecorded presentations by the four finalists and virtual questioning by the judges and...
Two papers published last year in JAMDA — one on sarcopenia and the other on visitors in the nursing home during the COVID-19 crisis — have won JAMDA’s 2021 Morley Award for their relevance and impact on policy and practice in post-acute and long-...
In nursing homes (NHs), 30% to 60% of patients experience daily pain and >80% have dementia. This can lead to neuropsychiatric symptoms, including psychosis symptoms such as delusion. We investigated if there was a relationship between pain and...
To explore the compliance of end-of-life (EOL) care preferences, and the facilitators and barriers of promoting quality of EOL care among older adults.
Hypoglycemia is a potentially life-threatening drug event under antidiabetic treatment. The aim of the study was to examine time trends in severe hypoglycemia in older adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and antidiabetic treatment.
