Press Release
November 14, 2022
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JAMDA
November 4, 2022
Essential but Excluded: Building Disaster Preparedness Capacity for Home Health Care Workers and Home Care Agencies
COVID-19 has demonstrated the essential role of home care services in supporting community-dwelling older and disabled individuals through a public health emergency. As the pandemic overwhelmed hospitals and nursing homes, home care helped individuals remain in the community and recover from COVID-19 at ho...
Press Release
October 24, 2022
Society Board President Participates in Important White House COVID Response Meeting
JAMDA
September 19, 2022
A Description of Interventions Prompted by Preoperative Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment and Optimization in Older Elective Noncardiac Surgical Patients
Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA), a multicomponent, complex intervention, can be used to improve perioperative outcomes. This study aimed to describe the actions and interventions prompted by preoperative CGA and optimization in elective noncardiac, older, surgical patients.
Podcast
August 31, 2022
Caring On-The-Go | August-September 2022
JAMDA
August 26, 2022
Risk of Death in Nursing Home Residents After COVID-19 Vaccination
In the first months of 2021, the Dutch COVID-19 vaccination campaign was disturbed by reports of death in Norwegian nursing homes (NHs) after vaccination. Reports predominantly concerned persons >65 years of age with 1 or more comorbidities. Also, in the Netherlands adverse events were reported after CO...
Podcast
July 21, 2022
AMDA ON-THE-GO | Boosters, Vaccines, & More – COVID Update
JAMDA
July 18, 2022
The Role of the Medical Director in Ontario Long-Term Care Homes: Impact of COVID-19
The pandemic has uncovered a broad lack of understanding of the role of the Medical Director in Canadian Long-Term Care (LTC) Homes. Our objectives were to identify the current demographics and practices of LTC Medical Directors, discover how the pandemic affected their practice habits, and inform the cont...
JAMDA
July 13, 2022
The Effects of the 2020 COVID-19 Lockdown on Mood, Behavior, and Social and Cognitive Functioning in Older Long-Term Care Residents
We aimed to explore the effects of the Dutch COVID-19 lockdown (March 20–May 25, 2020) on mood, behavior, and social and cognitive functioning of older residents of long-term care facilities (LTCFs) prospectively.
JAMDA
July 4, 2022
Managing the Impact of COVID-19 in Nursing Homes and Long-Term Care Facilities: An Update
Older adults in nursing homes are at greatest risk of morbidity and mortality from SARS-CoV-2 infection. Nursing home residents constituted one-third to more than half of all deaths during the early waves of the COVID-19 pandemic. Following this, widespread adaptation of infection prevention and control me...
Tools, knowledge, and recognition to improve vaccination rates and protect residents and staff.
