MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG) isn’t a new concept. It’s actually been around for hundreds of years, says T.S. Dharmarajan, MD, CMD. However, PEGs are used excessively in the elderly at the terminal...
Drug safety, polypharmacy, and deprescribing are important issues in post-acute and long-term care medicine and therefore also of great interest to JAMDA's editors and readers. This issue of JAMDA features a number of articles that advance the...
We thank the authors for their comments regarding our recent study on antihypertensive regimen intensity and incident dementia in an older Swedish population.1
In the article “Antihypertensive Medication Regimen Intensity and Incident Dementia in an Older Population” by Tan et al, the authors reported that in a prospective observational population-based cohort of 1208 older persons (mean age: 84.1 ± 5.6),...
One cross-sectional study conducted by Anrys and colleagues1 published in JAMDA has reported that the prevalence of potentially inappropriate medications was 88.3% among nursing home residents aged ≥65 years. The definition of potentially...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the first release of Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Quality Reporting Program (QRP) quality data on Nursing Home (NH) Compare . NH Compare allows you to find and compare SNFs that are...
