MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join If you could take just 30 minutes from your busy work week, close your office door, exhale, and think about something you could do easily to engage your teams, would you do it? A series of virtual sessions on...
Increasing demand for long-term care facilities (LTCFs) and increasingly complex medical needs of LTCF residents necessitate recruiting new physician graduates and developing programs which provide them with experience and specific skills in...
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has caused more than 6.5 million deaths worldwide.1 Infection with SARS-CoV-2 disproportionately affects older patients.2 We...
To compare the longitudinal rates of change in cognition and depressive symptoms between 2019 (pre–COVID-19 pandemic) and 2020 (COVID-19 pandemic) among long-term care facility (LTCF) residents in Iowa, which ranked among the top 10 US states that...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has opened data submission for Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS)-eligible clinicians who participated in the 2023 performance year of the Quality Payment Program (QPP). Data can be...
As women age, hormonal changes set the stage for a variety of vulvovaginal pathologies. Health care providers in long-term care facilities should be able to recognize and treat these conditions, especially because residents may be unable to...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join During a recent JAMDA On-The-Go podcast, Jonathan L. Temte, MD, PhD—lead author of an insightful study on the rapid detection of influenza outbreaks in the December issue of JAMDA—talked about the power of prompt...
Many adults cycle between the hospital and skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) near the end of life. However, palliative care services, which can provide specialized support for patients with serious illness, are often limited at SNFs. The “3C's...
Stroke is a leading cause of mortality and disability worldwide. Although studies have primarily focused on health and functioning among stroke survivors, there is limited research on longitudinal patterns of long-term care use among older adults...
We extend our sincere gratitude to Dr Yamamoto et al for reading our article titled “Prevalence and risk of Behavioral Symptoms among Patients with Insomnia and Alzheimer's Disease: A Retrospective Database Analysis” with great interest. We are...
