Podcast
November 14, 2024
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JAMDA
November 6, 2024
Transfers among Vulnerable Long-Term Nursing Home Residents
To determine whether the risk of nursing home-to-nursing home transfer is higher among long-term nursing home residents with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), or serious mental illness (SMI), and/or Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD), relative to residents without these ...
JAMDA
April 1, 2024
Serious Mental Illness in Assisted Living Communities: Association with Nursing Home Placement
Assess prevalence of serious mental illness (SMI) alone, and co-occurring with Alzheimer disease and related dementias (ADRD), among Medicare beneficiaries in assisted living (AL). Examine the association between permanent nursing home (NH) placement and SMI, among residents with and without ADRD.
JAMDA
November 16, 2023
Assessment of Bidirectional Relationships between Frailty and Mental Disorders: A Bidirectional Mendelian Randomization Study
Although observational studies have reported the association between frailty and mental disorders, the causality remains unclear. We aimed to evaluate the bidirectional causal association between frailty levels and mental disorders using a 2-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis.
Policy Snapshot
January 20, 2023
CMS to Increase Oversight of Antipsychotics Use
Last week, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), announced new actions to reduce the inappropriate use of antipsychotic medications and to bring greater transparency about nursing home citations to families.
Podcast
January 20, 2023
JAMDA On-The-Go | January 2023 | Primary care-based telepsychiatry intervention...
Policy Snapshot
November 18, 2022
OIG Releases Report on Long-Term Trends of Psychotropic Drug Use in Nursing Homes
Last week, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) released a report, “Long-Term Trends of Psychotropic Drug Use in Nursing Homes.” The OIG found that from 2011 through 2019, about 80 percent of Medicare's long-stay nursing home residents were prescribed a psychotropic drug.
JAMDA
December 14, 2021
Characteristics of Working-Age Adults With Schizophrenia Newly Admitted to Nursing Homes
Persons aged <65 years account for a considerable proportion of US nursing home residents with schizophrenia. Because they are often excluded from psychiatric and long-term care studies, a contemporary understanding of the characteristics and management of working-age adults (22-64 years old) with schiz...
JAMDA
April 19, 2020
Risk of Hospitalized Falls and Hip Fractures in 22,103 Older Adults Receiving Mental Health Care vs 161,603 Controls: A Large Cohort Study
To investigate the risk of hospitalized fall or hip fracture among older adults using mental health services.
JAMDA
May 2, 2019
Preparing Long-Term Care Staff to Meet the Needs of Aging Persons With Serious Mental Illness
Individuals with serious mental illness (SMI; schizophrenia spectrum disorders and affective psychoses) are increasingly aging into older adulthood and are overrepresented in residential long-term care settings. The present study aimed to examine the preparedness of staff in these settings to care for indi...
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