At AMDA’s upcoming Annual Conference in Orlando, Florida, a number of AMDA policy leaders will spotlight how health care reform changes will impact the post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) sector. At an all-day intensive session on Thursday, March...
On February 3, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the annual report summarizing impacts from the Initiative to Reduce Avoidable Hospitalizations among Nursing Facility Residents in 2014. The project is designed to test...
Tochukwu C. Iloabuchi, MD, MS, CMD, was planning a career in post-acute care medicine before he attended the AMDA Foundation Futures Program. But it was at that AMDA Annual Conference in San Antonio that he learned about the Certified Medical...
Caspi's editorial1 provides a succinct description of the core issues facing clinicians, researchers, and policy makers surrounding the important but neglected subject of resident-to-resident aggression (RRA). Caspi1 highlighted that a major gap in...
The purpose of this 1-year prospective study was to determine whether sarcopenia is an independent risk factor of cognitive deterioration in community-dwelling older adults.
The useful analysis of Burke et al1 prompts us to describe how we are using such insights to develop a next-generation model of readmission reduction. The broader domain of long-term care continues to pose stubborn challenges,2 but post-acute...
We read with great interest of the study investigating the clinical utility of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) in DSM-5 major and mild neurocognitive disorders (NCD).1 Through receiver operating (ROC) characteristic curve analysis, the...
Mrs A and Mrs B are both in their late 70s. Their families share similar stories: a few months ago, they both started to talk to famous people from the front pages of magazines laid nearby their chairs and consider them their co-tenants. Cognitive...
Frailty is a condition resulting from age-related decline in multiple physiological domains, clinically typified by physical weakness, in which individuals have increased the risk of adverse health outcomes and mortality when exposed to a stressor.1...
