JAMDA
November 23, 2023
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JAMDA
November 23, 2023
The Impact of State Dementia Training Requirements for Nursing Homes on Antipsychotic Medication Use
Nursing home (NH) staff often report not having adequate dementia-specific knowledge to effectively care for these residents. Between 2011 and 2019, 9 states in the United States implemented dementia training requirements for NH staff. This study evaluated whether the state-mandated dementia training for N...
JAMDA
November 21, 2023
The Impact of a Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) Program to Diagnose and Manage Ascites in Home-based Palliative Care
The objective of this study was to examine the impact of a point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) program among people with ascites receiving home-based palliative care by measuring the association of POCUS with ascites-related days spent out of the home, compared with outcomes before POCUS implementation. ...
JAMDA
November 21, 2023
We're Not Keeping Him Alive. We’re Keeping Him Comfortable
PALTmed In The News
November 21, 2023
AMDA ‘thrilled’ by medical directors’ inclusion in new CMS transparency rule
McKnights Long-Term Care News Nursing homes will have to publicly disclose information about their medical directors, along with other managing employees, under a new transparency rule from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
JAMDA
November 18, 2023
A Novel Home-Based Medication Management Program and Its Influence on Hospitalization Rates among Home Health Care Recipients
Patients do not take their medicine as prescribed 50% of the time, and of medication-related hospital admissions in the United States, 33% to 69% are due to poor medication adherence, at a cost of approximately $100 billion a year. Continue CareRx (CCRx) is a novel home-based medication management program ...
JAMDA
November 18, 2023
Nursing Home Organization Mealtimes and Staff Attitude Toward Nutritional Care: A Multicenter Observational Study
The aims of this study were to investigate the practices of registered nurses and nurse aides at mealtimes in nursing homes (NHs) and to evaluate the attitudes of health care staff toward the nutritional care of older people.
JAMDA
November 17, 2023
Social Services Post-discharge and Their Association With Readmission in a 2016 Swedish Geriatric Cohort
To describe the social services received by a 2016 Swedish cohort after discharge from inpatient geriatric care and to analyze the association between level of social services post-discharge and 30-day readmission.
News Release
November 17, 2023
New CMS Rules is a Victory for Medical Director Transparency
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released a final rule calling for nursing homes to disclose specific ownership and managerial information—including skilled nursing facility medical directors. AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine has been advocating for...
Policy Snapshot
November 17, 2023
BIG NEWS: CMS to Report SNF Medical Directors Publicly
Last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its final rule that will implement portions of section 6101 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Affordable Care Act), which requires the disclosure of certain ownership, managerial, and other information regarding Med...
