We read with great interest the recent study by Chekani et al evaluating the prevalence and diagnostic risk of behavioral symptoms in patients with Alzheimer disease (AD) aged 50 years and older in the IBM MarketScan Multi-State Medicaid Database.1...
Sarcopenia in patients with heart failure (HF) is associated with poor prognosis. Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) decreases the incidence of adverse events in patients with HF. However, the clinical implications of improving sarcopenia status through CR...
The study intends to investigate the association between family support and older adult health as well as the interaction between family support and living arrangements on their health.
Managing the business aspects of a post-acute and long-term care practice isn’t something that is taught in schools, and it doesn’t come with an instruction manual. AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine’s Practice Group...
Fourteen years ago this month, my first “Meditations on Geriatric Medicine” column appeared in Caring for the Ages (January 2010). It was titled, “The Power of Story,” and I wrote then that the personal stories to which we are all privy as we go...
As of January 2023, we have assumed the roles of coeditors in chief of the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. We follow in the footsteps of Sheryl Zimmerman, PhD, and Philip Sloane, MD, CMD, who did an amazing job through the...
As providers in long-term care, we often face challenges at the end of a patient’s life. These challenges include medical care and also psychosocial assessments that can help the team determine what the patient needs. Some needs can be harder to...
I am excited to share an update with Caring for the Ages readers on the work that the board of AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine has been doing over the past six months. In addition to speaking at state/regional chapter...
Anxiety in post-acute and long-term care is experienced by residents and staff alike. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, research has reported evidence of a nationwide surge in anxiety (“Stress in America 2023: A Nation Grappling With Psychological...
“Of all forms of inequity, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhuman.” -Martin Luther King, Jr., National Convention of the Medical Committee for Human Rights, Chicago, 1966
