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April 11, 2021

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April 11, 2021
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Hypotension in Nursing Home Residents on Antihypertensive Treatment: Is it Associated with Mortality?

JAMDA
April 10, 2021
To assess whether low systolic blood pressure (SBP) or diastolic blood pressure (DBP) due to antihypertensive medications might be related to mortality among nursing home (NH) residents.

CMS Releases SNF PPS Proposed Rule for FY 2022

Policy Snapshot
April 9, 2021
Last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the fiscal year 2022 Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Prospective Payment System (PPS) Proposed Rule (CMS-1746-P). In addition to the SNF PPS updates, the proposed rule also...

CMS Issues Updates to Long-Term Care Emergency Regulatory Waivers

Policy Snapshot
April 9, 2021
Last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service (CMS) announced the ending of the following emergency regulatory waivers issued in response to COVID-19: The emergency blanket waivers related to notification of resident room or roommate...

AMA Analysis Shows Highest Prevalence of Medical Liability Premium Increases in 15 Years

Policy Snapshot
April 9, 2021
Medical liability insurance premiums have begun an upward trend after holding more or less steady during the past decade, according to a new analysis from the American Medical Association (AMA). In 2020, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic,...

The Rights of Persons With Dementia and Their Meanings

JAMDA
April 9, 2021
Concern about the lack of human rights afforded to persons living with dementia has emerged in recent years. Although the literature addresses certain rights, it does not include a holistic framework of rights in terms of the lived experience of...

Factors Associated with Timing of the Start-of-Care Nursing Visits in Home Health Care

JAMDA
April 9, 2021
Home health care patients have critical needs requiring timely care following hospital discharge. Although Medicare requires timely start-of-care nursing visits, a significant portion of home health care patients wait longer than 2 days for the...

Keeping Advance Care Planning in the Spotlight Post-Pandemic

Spotlight
April 8, 2021
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join During the pandemic, patients and families alike gained a new appreciation for the value of advance care planning. How to continue the focus on this important intervention will be part of the discussion at the...

Proceedings from an International Virtual Townhall: Reflecting on the COVID-19 Pandemic: Themes from Long-Term Care

JAMDA
April 8, 2021
Residents of long-term care (LTC) homes have suffered disproportionately during the COVID-19 pandemic, from the virus itself and often from the imposition of lockdown measures. Provincial Geriatrics Leadership Ontario, in collaboration with interRAI...

Frailty and All-Cause Mortality in Older Adults: A Risk Assessment

JAMDA
April 8, 2021
I read the recent article published in this journal written by Fan et al1 with great interest. The authors conducted a meta-analysis on the association between frailty and all-cause mortality in older adults. The pooled risk ratios (RRs) of frail...