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End-of-Life Advice: More Than 500,000 Chat on Medicare’s Dime

August 14, 2017
AMDA in the News
USA Today
Advance Care Planning, Advance Directives, End-of-Life Care, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Medicare, Practitioners, Resident, Right’s
The 90-year-old woman in the San Diego-area nursing home was quite clear, said Dr. Karl Steinberg. She didn’t want aggressive measures to prolong her life. If her heart stopped, she didn’t want CPR. But when Steinberg, a palliative care physician,...

Senior Living Team Can Help Clarify Older Adults' End-of-Life Wishes

October 4, 2016
AMDA in the News
McKnight's Senior Living
Advance Care Planning, Advance Directives, End-of-Life Care, Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST), Patient Centered, Resident, Right’s
Physicians' Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatments, or POLST, forms often are seen as a way to honor the end-of-life wishes of frail elderly individuals when they no longer can speak for themselves. A study published last week in the Journal of the...

Sex at the Nursing Home—Why Not?

July 15, 2016
AMDA in the News
Alternet
Dementia, Patient Centered, Resident, Right’s
According to a survey conducted by the AMDA - the Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine, only about a quarter of assisted-living facilities have policies on intimacy and sexual behavior in place.

AMDA Suggests White House Conference on Aging Topics

January 27, 2015
AMDA in the News
Long-Term Living
Advance Care Planning, Long-Term Care, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Medicare, Observation Status, Dementia, Medication, Patient Centered, Payment, Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR), Practice Management, Health Information Technology (HIT), Quality, Resident, Right’s
AMDA–The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine (AMDA) has recommended sub-topics within three of the four previously identified areas of focus for the upcoming White House Conference on Aging

Can A Person With Dementia Consent To Sex?

April 27, 2015
AMDA in the News
NPR
Long-Term Care, Dementia, Alzheimer’s Disease, Ethics, Resident, Right’s
Sexual relationships in long-term care facilities are not uncommon. But the long-term care industry is still grappling with the issue.

Sex in the Nursing Home

June 4, 2015
AMDA in the News
AARP
Dementia, Alzheimer’s Disease, Ethics, Patient Centered, Resident, Right’s
So far only about a quarter of facilities have policies on intimacy and sexual behavior, according to a 2013 survey by AMDA — the Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine. Almost half said that developing a policy was "planned" or "...

Position on Ethics Committees in Long Term Care

Resolution and Position Statements
Advance Directives, End-of-Life Care, Care Settings/Types, Ethics, Resident, Right’s
Allied Health Professional, NP/PA, Physician
Resolution E98 Becomes Policy March 1998 Ethical issues are part of everyday life in long term care settings. They include respecting individual rights and privacy in an institutional setting, issues of autonomy in states of dependency,...

Smoking in Nursing Facilities

Resolution and Position Statements
Care Settings/Types, Resident, Right’s
Patients & Families
Resolution E02 Becomes Policy March 2002 AMDA resolves to support, as policy, that nursing facility residents be free from second-hand smoke.

Video Surveillance In The Long Term Care Continuum

Resolution and Position Statements
Resident, Right’s
Allied Health Professional, NP/PA, Patients & Families, Physician
Position Statement E05 Becomes Policy March 2005 For the purposes of this statement, AMDA defines video surveillance as direct electronic visualization of a person or persons and/or events, either real time or for future review by any type...