JAMDA
March 13, 2025
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Policy Snapshot
March 12, 2025
Statement from PALTmed: Medicaid is Vital for Vulnerable Seniors in Post-Acute and Long-Term Care
Nearly everyone in America has someone they care about who has needed the services and care provided in a skilled nursing facility, nursing home, or assisted living facility. The impact that decreased Medicaid funding can have on the quality of care provided to frail older adults residing in post-acute car...
JAMDA
March 12, 2025
Impacts of Skilled Nursing Facility Change of Ownership on Staffing: A Staggered Difference-in-Difference Analysis
Skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) are experiencing significant regulatory scrutiny. Recent federal rules established guidelines for increased transparency in reporting of changes in SNF ownership and controversial minimum staffing levels for nurse occupations. This study examined whether SNF changes in own...
JAMDA
March 11, 2025
Nursing Home Staffing Variability and Quality: Assessing Alternative Measures of Daily Staffing Level Variation
Variability in daily nursing staffing levels is an important factor associated with nursing home quality and has led to calls to incorporate it in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid’s staffing star rating calculation. This study assessed 6 distinct daily staffing level variation measures for their valid...
Podcast
March 11, 2025
PALTtalk with Dr. Diane Sanders-Cepeda | Beyond Fee-for-Service: The Clinician’s Role in Value-Based Care
JAMDA
March 11, 2025
Association of Reversible Frailty with All-Cause Mortality Risk in Community-Dwelling Older Adults and Analysis of Factors Affecting Frailty Reversal in Older Adults
Although frailty can increase the risk of premature death, whether reversal of frailty reduces the risk of premature death and what factors contribute to the reversal of frailty have not been thoroughly investigated. This study aimed to investigate the link between frailty reversal and all-cause mortality ...
JAMDA
March 10, 2025
Factors Associated with Receiving Therapy in Long-Term Care Homes for Residents: A Cross-Sectional Study
JAMDA
March 10, 2025
Discharge Disposition in Veterans with Heart Failure: Impact of Dementia and Severe Mental Illness
Post-acute heart failure (HF) care presents significant management challenges, particularly among veterans with cognitive and behavioral impairments due to Alzheimer disease and related dementias (AD/ADRD) or severe mental illness (SMI). We hypothesized that comorbid AD/ADRD and SMI would reduce the likeli...
Policy Snapshot
March 10, 2025
CMS Extends Implementation Deadline for Revised Surveyor Guidance to April 2025
On March 10, 2025, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced an additional extension for the implementation of all revised surveyor guidance, now set for April 28, 2025, as detailed in QSO-25-14-NH. Initially released in November 2024, the guidance has seen multiple extensions from i...
JAMDA
March 6, 2025
Outcomes of Discontinuing Long-Term Opioid Therapy among Older Cancer Survivors in Long-Term Care Settings
Clinical decisions to continue or discontinue long-term opioid therapy (LTOT; ≥3 months) for older cancer survivors remain challenging due to limited evidence on the risks and benefits of this treatment practice. This study aims to examine the associations of discontinuing LTOT with clinical and opioid-rel...
