JAMDA
May 30, 2025
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JAMDA
May 12, 2025
Protective Effects of Social Activity on the Disability Incidence among Community-Dwelling Older Adults with Chronic Pain
Identifying the factors that contribute to the incidence of disability in older adults and the activities that can be engaged in to reduce the risk of disability is critical to the health of older adults. This study aimed to assess the impact of social activities on the incidence of disability during follo...
JAMDA
April 2, 2025
End-of-Life Acute Care Use and Pain-Related Outcomes in Chinese-speaking Residents in Canadian Long-Term Care Homes
Patients from ethnically minoritized communities often face disparities in health care due to language and cultural barriers. This study aimed to compare health care use and end-of-life outcomes between Chinese-speaking residents living in language-concordant and language-discordant long-term care (LTC) ho...
Podcast
September 11, 2024
PALTtalk | Pain Management for Patients with Substance Use Disorder | A Collaboration with the Center of Excellence for Behavioral Health in Nursing Facilities
JAMDA
October 17, 2023
Psychotropic, Anticonvulsant, and Opioid Use in Assisted Living Residents Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic
To examine the associations between COVID-19 pandemic waves (1–4) and prevalent antipsychotic, antidepressant, benzodiazepine, anticonvulsant, and opioid use among assisted living (AL) residents, by setting (dementia care vs other).
Podcast
August 16, 2023
AMDA On-The-Go | August 2023 | Buprenorphine and Substance Use Disorder...
JAMDA
August 4, 2023
Long-Term Opioid Use and Dementia Risk in Patients With Chronic Pain
This study aimed to investigate the association between long-term opioid use and the risk of dementia in patients with chronic pain.
JAMDA
April 17, 2023
Post-Acute Care Setting After Hip Fracture Hospitalization and Subsequent Opioid Use in Older Adults
Pain management in post-acute care (PAC) requires careful balance, with both opioid use and inadequate pain treatment linked to poor outcomes. We describe opioid use among older adults following discharge from PAC for hip fracture in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) and inpatient rehabilitation facilities...
Spotlight
March 31, 2023
Optimizing the Use of Gabapentin: A Special Drive to Deprescribe Podcast
Medication optimization is a hot topic in post-acute and long-term care and a focus of AMDA’s very popular Drive to Deprescribe (D2D) initiative. Now practitioners have yet another opportunity to address their deprescribing challenges with a new quarterly D2D podcast. The first program addresses Optimizing...
JAMDA
March 21, 2023
Trends in Risk-Adjusted Initiation and Reduction of Opioid Use among Veterans With Dementia in US Department of Veterans Affairs Community Living Centers
Proper initiation and reduction of opioids is important in providing effective and safe pain relief to Veterans with dementia, including in Community Living Centers (CLCs). We examined the trends in aggregated monthly risk-adjusted opioid administration days and dosage over 3 opioid safety regulatory perio...
