Policy Snapshot
September 30, 2025
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JAMDA
September 30, 2025
Quality Indicators to Monitor Home Care Services for the Older Population: A Scoping Review
To identify and synthesize publicly available quality indicators (QIs) routinely used to monitor and assess the quality and safety of home care services for the older population.
Spotlight
September 29, 2025
Help Shape the Future of PALTC Policy
Next month, PALTmed members and other PALTC professionals will travel to Washington, DC, for the inaugural Advocacy Summit to help shape the future of post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) policy. Two of them—Sorah Levy, PhD(c), RN, RAC-CTA, RAC-CT, and Michele Brogunier, MD—are attending thanks to a Dr. R...
JAMDA
September 26, 2025
The Effect of Community-based Group Activities on Psychological Well-Being in People Living With Dementia: A Systematic Review
Approximately two-thirds of people living with dementia live in community settings. Community-based group activities can play an important role in postdiagnostic support and have a range of benefits for people living with dementia. Less is known about the effect these activities can have on psychological w...
JAMDA
September 25, 2025
Frequent Emergency Medical Services Utilization Among Older Patients: Exploration and Automatic Identification Using Natural Language Processing
An ageing population is associated with increased health care utilization and higher likelihood of older adults becoming frequent users of emergency medical services (EMS). This study aims to explore a natural language processing (NLP) approach using textual notes from EMS to facilitate the identification ...
JAMDA
September 25, 2025
Utilization of Occupational and Physical Therapy Home Health Visits Among People Living With Dementia With Varying Social Determinants of Health
We sought to identify patterns in occupational therapy (OT) and physical therapy (PT) home health care visits among people living with dementia (PLWD) by (1) level of function care partner report compared with administrative data, (2) race and ethnicity, and (3) level of socioeconomic resources.
JAMDA
September 25, 2025
Impact of Physical Resilience, Prefracture Characteristics, and Functional Status on Mortality After Hip Fracture
Physical resilience after a hip fracture is key to independent, high-quality living after the fracture. We have previously shown that physical resilience can be achieved with different combinations of resilience characteristics, but it is unknown how physical resilience is associated with longer-term morta...
JAMDA
September 25, 2025
Recommendations for NP/Physician Collaborative Relationships in Long-Term Care Homes
Residents of long-term care (LTC) homes have complex medical and psychosocial care needs. Nurse practitioners (NPs) and physicians possess the complementary skills required for responding to residents’ needs. Therefore, collaboration between NPs and physicians is crucial for achieving optimal resident outc...
JAMDA
September 24, 2025
Adverse Social Determinants of Health and Urinary Incontinence Among Older Adult Women in Home Health Care
To leverage secondary data extracted using a natural language processing algorithm to examine relationships between adverse social determinants of health and urinary incontinence (UI) among older adult women in home health care.
JAMDA
September 23, 2025
Beyond Somatic Multimorbidity: Longitudinal Effects of Edentulism and Mental Health on Cognition in Older Adults
Multiple chronic conditions (multimorbidity)—somatic, mental, and oral—are prevalent among old adults. However, it remains unclear how mental and oral health conditions, alongside somatic conditions, jointly contribute to cognitive trajectories. This study investigates how clinically informed multimorbidit...
