JAMDA
August 8, 2023
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JAMDA
August 5, 2023
Social Risk Factors are Associated with Risk for Hospitalization in Home Health Care: A Natural Language Processing Study
This study aimed to develop a natural language processing (NLP) system that identified social risk factors in home health care (HHC) clinical notes and to examine the association between social risk factors and hospitalization or an emergency department (ED) visit.
JAMDA
August 5, 2023
Use of Diabetes Medications before and after a Heart Failure–Related Hospitalization among Nursing Home Residents
Sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT-2is) and glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RAs) offer cardiovascular benefits, whereas thiazolidinediones (TZDs) and sulfonylureas (SUs) increase cardiovascular risk. The objective of this study was to describe the use of SGLT-2is, GLP-1RAs, TZD...
Policy Snapshot
August 4, 2023
CMS Releases SNF Final Rule; Increases 2024 Payments By 4%
On July 31, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule that updates Medicare payment policies and rates for skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) under the Skilled Nursing Facility Prospective Payment System (SNF PPS) for fiscal year (FY) 2024.
JAMDA
August 4, 2023
Long-Term Opioid Use and Dementia Risk in Patients With Chronic Pain
This study aimed to investigate the association between long-term opioid use and the risk of dementia in patients with chronic pain.
JAMDA
August 4, 2023
Rates of Hospital-Based Care among Older Adults in the Community and Residential Care Facilities: A Repeated Cross-Sectional Study
We examine annual rates of emergency department (ED) visits, hospital admissions, and alternate levels of care (ALC) days (ie, the number of days that an older adult remained in hospital when they could not be safely discharged to an appropriate setting in their community) among older adults.
JAMDA
August 3, 2023
The Macro Impact of Microtransitions in Post-acute and Long-Term Care
The care transitions concept emerged in medical literature more than 40 years ago, with an exponential rise in publications dedicated to its exploration since that time. It is generally accepted that older patients are particularly vulnerable during care transitions because of complex medical comorbidity, ...
JAMDA
August 2, 2023
Differential Associations of 6 Adiposity Indices With Dementia in Older Adults: The MIND-China Study
The cross-sectional association between late-life obesity and dementia is often explained by the obesity paradox. We assessed the potential differential associations of various adiposity indices with dementia and subtypes of dementia in rural Chinese older adults.
Spotlight
August 2, 2023
JAMDA Podcast Spotlights Professional Passion
During the program, Naushira Pandya, MD, CMD, talked about her study, Medication Prescribing for Type 2 Diabetes in the US Long-Term Care Setting: Observational Study. “One reason I wanted to do this study was the high prevalence of diabetes in long-term care,” where, she said, up to 44% of patients have t...
JAMDA
August 1, 2023
