In written comments to the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Hearing, After the Hospital: Ensuring Access to Quality Post-Acute Care, PALTmed President Sabine von Preyss-Friedman, MD, FACP, CMD, highlighted key challenges in post-acute and long-term care (PALTC). These include workforce shortages, o...
Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medical Association (PALTmed) has elected its 2025-2026 Board of Directors. Sabine von Preyss-Friedman, MD, FACP, CMD, is president; Leslie Beth Eber, MD, CMD, is president-elect; and Diane Sanders-Cepeda, DO, CMD, is vice president.
William Mercer, MD, CMD, the 2025 Medical Director of the Year, vividly remembers how he got involved with post-acute and long-term care and with PALTmed (then known as AMDA). The local hospital, which had a long-term care skilled unit, approached him and asked if he’d like to be the medical director. He w...
This meta-analysis aimed to assess the effect of exercise interventions on functional mobility among older adults with cognitive impairments such as dementia or mild cognitive impairment, followed by further investigation on the possible moderators of exercise-induced effects on this outcome.
To develop the crosswalk between the Montreal Cognitive Assessment-Basic (MoCA-B) and Mini-Mental Status Examination (MMSE) based on a community-dwelling older population to facilitate data synthesis and comparison.
Updates to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services nursing home surveyor guidance will enable medical directors to lead the charge in preparing facilities to comply with key competencies. Several speakers discussed the new guidance at the PALTC25 conference for post-acute and long-term care medical pr...