During the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency, CMS is relaxing billing requirements for laboratory tests (PDF) required for a COVID-19 diagnosis. Any health care professional authorized under state law may order tests. Medicare will pay for tests...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join The COVID-19 pandemic has been a worldwide tragedy and has exposed many gaps in policy and resources. However, it also has put a new focus on some issues that AMDA has championed for years. Among these is advance...
Social isolation (the objective state of having few social relationships or infrequent social contact with others) and loneliness (a subjective feeling of being isolated) are serious yet underappreciated public health risks that affect a significant...
The articles “COVID-19 in Italy: Ageism and decision making in a pandemic” by Cesari and Proietti1 and “The geriatrician: The frontline specialist in the treatment of COVID-19 patients - Gemelli against COVID-19 Geriatrics Team” by Landi et al.2...
To assess the internal consistency, convergent and divergent validity, and concurrent validity of the Tilburg Frailty Indicator (TFI) within community-dwelling older people in Spain, Greece, Croatia, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom.
To estimate the prevalence of understated cognitive impairment by administering the Clock-Drawing Test (CDT) to community-dwelling individuals aged ≥50 years and to investigate the associated clinical phenotype.
To describe the prevalence of sarcopenia in a large group of community-dwelling older adults using the Asian Working Group for Sarcopenia (AWGS) 2019 definition and algorithm.
Oropharyngeal dysphagia is a geriatric syndrome that is usually underdiagnosed in older patients. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence and identify the main risk factors of dysphagia in the oldest old patients admitted to an acute...
It is unknown whether muscle mass measured by the D3-creatine dilution method is a superior predictor of incident mobility disability than traditional components of sarcopenia definitions (including grip strength, walking speed, appendicular lean...
At least a third of the individuals with a noncommunicable disease (NCD), such as diabetes, chronic lung disease, or heart disease, are diagnosed with another NCD in their lifetime.1 This high burden of co-occurring chronic diseases (“multimorbidity...
