To describe and validate the Post-acute Delayed Discharge Risk Scale (PADDRS), which classifies patients by risk of delayed discharge on admission to post-acute care settings using information collected with the interRAI Minimum Data Set (MDS) 2.0...
To map out the total use of long-term care (LTC; ie, home care or institutional care) during the last 2 years of life and to investigate to what extent gender differences in LTC use were explained by cohabitation status and age at death.
Although policy, research, and media coverage predominantly focus on opioid addiction and overdoses in younger people, older adults are also susceptible to opioid-related morbidity and mortality.1 Data suggest that all-cause opioid-related...
We summarized and compared meta-analyses of pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic interventions targeting physical health outcomes among people with dementia.
To determine the prevalence, rate of underdiagnosis and undertreatment, and association with activities of daily living dependency of spasticity in a nursing home setting.
Improving the quality of care delivered throughout the long-term care continuum is a core mission of AMDA–The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine. Four articles in this month's Journal report on how different forms of “communication”...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has required a working antibiotic stewardship program (ASP) in nursing homes for nearly two years. AMDA members and their facilities have long embraced efforts...
Last week the president released his 2021 fiscal year budget . The proposal would cut almost a trillion dollars from Medicaid over 10 years, give the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) more power to collect improper payments, impose...
