JAMDA
April 2, 2025
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JAMDA
March 31, 2025
Treatment of Restless Legs Syndrome Improves Agitation and Sleep in Persons with Dementia: A Randomized Trial
Restless legs syndrome (RLS), a common, treatable, sensorimotor disorder of nighttime uncomfortable leg sensations that interfere with sleep, may prompt nighttime agitation in persons with dementia.
Policy Snapshot
March 31, 2025
CMS Issues Guidance on Improving Payment Accuracy for Physician Services in SNFs
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released a new MLN Matters aimed at enhancing payment accuracy for physician services provided in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs). Effective July 1, 2025, these measures will address common misclassifications of Place of Service (POS) codes that ...
Policy Snapshot
March 31, 2025
PALTmed Submits Statement for House Ways & Means Health Subcommittee Hearing on Post-Acute Care
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...
News Release
March 31, 2025
PALTmed Announces 2025-2026 Board of Directors
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.
Spotlight
March 31, 2025
Medical Director of the Year: Remembering the Past, Looking to the Future
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...
JAMDA
March 31, 2025
Trends in End-of-Life Hospitalizations of Nursing Home Residents between 2011 and 2020: Analyses of German Health Insurance Data
To investigate trends in end-of-life hospitalizations among nursing home residents between 2011 and 2020.
JAMDA
March 28, 2025
Expanding PACE Benefits/Services to Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities and More
JAMDA
March 28, 2025
Effects of Exercise Intervention on Functional Mobility among Older Adults with Cognitive Impairment: A Quantitative Evidence
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.
JAMDA
March 27, 2025
Workforce Dementia Training Needs and Preferences for Residential Aged Care
To explore residential aged care (RAC) staff and volunteers' needs and preferences for dementia training.
